ORLANDO, Fla. (April 2, 2026) \u2013 Orlando City SC is set to take on FC Naples in the Round of 32 of the 2026 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, the 111th edition of the cup competition. The match will take place on Wednesday, April 15, at the Paradise Coast Sports Complex in Naples, Florida, with kickoff set for 7 p.m. ET on CBS Sports Network and Paramount+. All Round of 32 matches are scheduled to take place from April 14-15 and will be streamed live on Paramount+.\u00a0Additionally, hosting priorities for the Round of 16 were\u00a0determined\u00a0as a part of Thursday morning\u2019s draw live on CBS Sports\u00a0Golazo\u00a0Network\u2019s\u00a0Morning Footy.\u00a0The Lions\u00a0do not\u00a0hold\u00a0hosting priorities in the Round of 16,\u00a0and\u00a0should they advance past\u00a0FC Naples, would\u00a0travel to face\u00a0the winner of the matchup between\u00a0Rhode Island\u00a0FC\u00a0and\u00a0New England Revolution.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
FC Naples\u00a0currently ranks first\u00a0in\u00a0USL\u00a0League One\u00a0through the first four\u00a0matches of the 2026\u00a0campaign, posting a\u00a02-1-1\u00a0record.\u00a0Naples\u00a0comes into the Round of 32 after starting its 2026\u00a0U.S. Open Cup run\u00a0with a\u00a03-0\u00a0win\u00a0against\u00a0National Premier Soccer League\u00a0side\u00a0Red Forge FC\u00a0in the First Round\u00a0and a 3-0 win over\u00a0UPSL team\u00a0FC America CFL Spurs in the Second\u00a0Round.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Open Cup is the oldest ongoing soccer competition in the United States and had been played 106 consecutive years since 1913 until the cancellation of the 2020 edition.\u00a0City enters the Round of 32 as one of 16 Major League Soccer sides entering the competition at this stage,\u00a0following a restructuring of\u00a0MLS club qualification criteria for official North American cup competitions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
City holds\u00a0a\u00a019-11-5 record in the competition dating back to the 2011 campaign\u00a0during the Club\u2019s USL era. The Lions have a storied history in the competition, including winning the Club\u2019s first trophy in its MLS era by claiming the 2022 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup with a 3-1 win over Sacramento Republic FC in the final,\u00a0as well as the legendary \u201cRunning of the Wall\u201d game against New York City FC at Inter&Co Stadium in 2019.<\/p>\n
\n 2026\u00a0Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, Round of 32:\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n Orlando City SC at\u00a0FC Naples\u00a0<\/p>\n
Weds.,\u00a0April\u00a015\u00a0|\u00a07 p.m. ET |\u00a0CBS Sports Network and Paramount+\u00a0<\/p>\n
Paradise Coast Sports Complex,\u00a0Naples, Fla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (April 2, 2026) \u2013 Orlando City SC is set to take on FC Naples in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[115,541,139,4786,4788,141,140,98708],"class_list":{"0":"post-216672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-news-release","10":"tag-orlando","11":"tag-orlando-city","12":"tag-orlando-city-sc","13":"tag-orlando-headlines","14":"tag-orlando-news","15":"tag-u-s-open-cup"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}