The\u00a0Colorado Rapids will continue their 2026 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup campaign on Wednesday, May 20, when they host the San Jose Earthquakes in the Quarterfinal Round at DICK\u2019S Sporting Goods Park. Kickoff is set for\u00a08\u00a0p.m. MT, with coverage available on Paramount+,\u00a0CBS Sports Network, Altitude Sports Radio 950 AM,\u00a0ColoradoRapids.com, and the Colorado Rapids app.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wednesday\u2019s match marks Colorado\u2019s first U.S. Open Cup Quarterfinal appearance since 2007 and places the Rapids one win away from their first semifinal appearance in the competition since reaching the\u00a0club\u2019s run to\u00a0the\u00a01999\u00a0U.S. Open Cup Final.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Colorado advanced to the Quarterfinal Round after opening the tournament with a\u00a01-0 victory over USL League One side Union Omaha<\/a>\u00a0at DICK\u2019S Sporting Goods Park in the Round of 32 behind a first-half goal from Dante Sealy. The Rapids then claimed the I-25 Derby in the Round of 16,\u00a0advancing 5-4 in penalties over Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC<\/a>\u00a0after\u00a0battling to\u00a0a 2-2 draw through extra time. Alexis Manyoma and Georgi Minoungou each found the back of the net in the victory, while Colorado secured advancement despite playing down a man following a second-half red card to Kosi Thompson. Goalkeeper Nico Hansen also played a key role in the victory, helping secure advancement during the penalty shootout against the Switchbacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n San Jose enters Wednesday after advancing through its first two tournament matches at PayPal Park. The Earthquakes opened their campaign with a 2-0 victory over Phoenix Rising FC in the Round of 32 despite playing more than 50 minutes down a man following a first-half red card. San Jose then followed that performance with a 4-2 victory over fellow MLS side Minnesota United FC in the Round of 16 behind a brace from Beau Leroux.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Quarterfinal clash will feature two\u00a0MLS\u00a0Western Conference sides battling for a place in the semifinal round of the nation\u2019s oldest ongoing soccer competition.\u00a0The winner of Wednesday\u2019s match will advance to the Semifinal Round of the 2026 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup and move one step closer toward lifting one of American soccer\u2019s most historic trophies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Colorado Rapids will continue their 2026 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup campaign on Wednesday, May 20, when they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[43956,134608,104233,88,90,89,75017],"class_list":["post-323446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-colorado-rapids","tag-colvssj-05-20-2026","tag-match-day","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-u-s-open-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}