{"id":253116,"date":"2026-04-30T22:48:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253116\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T22:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T22:48:15","slug":"atlanta-united-to-renew-rivalry-with-orlando-city-in-us-open-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253116\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta United to renew rivalry with Orlando City in US Open Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) \u2014 Atlanta United will renew its rivalry with Orlando City in the U.S. Open Cup quarterfinals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Five Stripes will play Orlando in the Open Cup on either May 16 or 20, just a few days after their league match on May 16. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Atlanta and Orlando have established a fierce rivalry since Atlanta\u2019s arrival to MLS in 2017. The tensions began immediately after Atlanta put up a billboard in the Orlando area claiming \u201cwe\u2019re coming to conquer.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The billboard was called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/news\/atlanta-uniteds-incredibly-dumb-orlando-billboard-is-already-gone-5681925\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.orlandoweekly.com\/news\/atlanta-uniteds-incredibly-dumb-orlando-billboard-is-already-gone-5681925\/\">incredibly dumb<\/a>\u201d by some Orlando media and graffiti-tagged with the words \u201cILF, we are here.\u201d ILF referred to Iron Lions Firm, one of Orlando\u2019s recognized supporter groups. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The rivalry has even resulted in arrests and thefts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Even as closer teams have emerged in Nashville and Miami, the rivalry between Atlanta and Orlando remains. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If Atlanta United wins, it would be unable to host an Open Cup semifinal at Mercedes-Benz Stadium due to the World Cup. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WANF. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) \u2014 Atlanta United will renew its rivalry with Orlando City in the U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[51185,51852,51183,15268,110390,110388,110387,110391,139,4786,4788,141,140,6236,110389,110392,51184],"class_list":["post-253116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-anf","tag-atlanta-news","tag-atlanta-news-first","tag-atlanta-united","tag-atlanta-united-orlando-city-rivalry","tag-atlanta-united-schedule","tag-atlanta-united-us-open-cup","tag-atlanta-united-vs-orlando-city","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-city","tag-orlando-city-sc","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-us-open-cup","tag-us-open-cup-draw","tag-us-open-cup-quarterfinals","tag-wanf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253116","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=253116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}