U.S. Soccer conducted the official draw on Wednesday to determine the below hosting priorities for the 2015 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final among the four teams remaining in the competition:
- Chicago Fire - Hosts with win over Philadelphia on Aug. 12
- Real Salt Lake - Hosts with win over Sporting KC on Aug. 12 AND Philadelphia win
- Philadelphia Union - Hosts with win over Chicago on Aug. 12 AND Sporting KC win
- Sporting Kansas City - Will not host 2015 U.S. Open Cup Final
The 2015 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final will be played on Wednesday, September 30 with a $250,000 grand prize and a 2016-17 Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League berth at stake. The Dewar Challenge Trophy has been competed for annually since 1912 and symbolic of the U.S. Open Cup champion since 1914, making it one of the oldest nationally contested trophies in American team sports.
U.S. OPEN CUP FINALS (2011-2015)
2011: CenturyLink Field (Seattle, WA)
2012: Sporting Park (Kansas City, KS)
2013: Rio Tinto Stadium (Sandy, UT)
2014: PPL Park (Chester, PA)
2015: Toyota Park (Bridgeview, IL) OR...
Rio Tinto Stadium (Sandy, UT) OR...
PPL Park (Chester, PA)
Sporting Kansas City will host Real Salt Lake at 7:30 p.m. CT on Wednesday, Aug. 12 at Sporting Park in the 2015 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup semifinals. Tickets, which start at $29 for general admission seating in the South Stand, are available via Ticketmaster.com or by calling 888-4KC-GOAL.
SPORTING KC IN 2015 U.S. OPEN CUP
4th Round (June 16): Sporting KC 1, St. Louis FC 0 - RECAP
Round of 16 (July 1): Sporting KC 6, FC Dallas 2 - RECAP
Quarterfinal (July 21): Sporting KC 3, Houston Dynamo 1 - RECAP
Semifinal (Aug. 12): Sporting KC vs. Real Salt Lake - TICKETS
Sporting Park has attracted the largest crowds in each of the three previous rounds of this year's tournament with a total of 56,000 fans in attendance. The record crowd for a semifinal match in the U.S. Open Cup's modern era (1995-present) is 14,742 set by Real Salt Lake in 2013.
The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, recognized as U.S. Soccer's National Club Championship, is an annual competition open to all amateur and professional soccer teams affiliated with U.S. Soccer. The 2015 edition is headlined by the largest field in the modern era with 89 teams in contention when the first round began.
Sporting Kansas City has twice lifted the Dewar Challenge Trophy as champions of the competition, winning the tournament title in 2004 at Arrowhead Stadium and again in 2012 at Sporting Park. Dom Dwyer currently leads all players as the 2015 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup's top scorer and his five goals are tied for the most by a KC player in U.S. Open Cup history.
