here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\nBased on the\u00a0tournament\u2019s\u00a0Final\u00a0Draw, this year\u2019s Final would be in Columbus on Wednesday, Oct.\u00a021 against the winner of the Colorado Rapids-St. Louis CITY SC semifinal, Oct. 21\u00a0if the Club reaches the championship match.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Crew hold a 25-14-13\u00a0all-time record\u00a0in the U.S. Open Cup, dating back to\u00a01998.\u00a0The Black & Gold won their first trophy in Club history on Oct. 24, 2002, defeating the LA Galaxy 1-0 at Historic Crew Stadium to\u00a0claim\u00a0the\u00a0championship.\u00a0In 2025, Crew 2 reached the Third Round after earning a 4-1 victory over NY Renegades in the First Round on March 19 and a 3-0 win against Lexington SC on April 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup is U.S. Soccer’s\u00a0club\u00a0championship and has crowned a\u00a0champion annually since 1914 (with the exception of\u00a02020 and 2021 due to COVID-19).\u00a0The prestigious tournament\u00a0is conducted on a single-game, knockout basis and open to all professional and amateur teams affiliated with U.S. Soccer.\u00a0It is the longest running national soccer competition in the United States and the world’s third-longest continuously run national cup tournament. It is the only\u00a0tournament in\u00a0USA-based team sports where amateurs have the chance to play professionals in direct competition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 2026\u00a0U.S. Open Cup winner will earn $600,000 in prize money, a berth in the 2027\u00a0Concacaf Champions\u00a0Cup\u00a0and have its name engraved on the Dewar Challenge Trophy \u2013 one of the oldest nationally-contested trophies in American team sports \u2013 now on permanent display at the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Frisco, Texas. The runner-up will earn $250,000, while the team that advances the furthest from each lower division will take home a $50,000 cash prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS \u2013\u00a0U.S. Soccer announced today\u00a0that\u00a0the Columbus Crew\u00a0will host\u00a0their\u00a0Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup\u00a0semifinals\u00a0match against\u00a0Orlando City\u00a0SC\u00a0at\u00a0ScottsMiracle-Gro Field on\u00a0Wednesday,\u00a0Sept.\u00a016\u00a0at\u00a07 p.m.\u00a0The\u00a0game\u00a0will\u00a0be broadcast\u00a0on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-286636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286636","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=286636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}