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Last Updated: March 02, 2024, 00:30 IST
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Lionel Messi and Inter Miami will not compete on this 12 months’s U.S. Open Cup and simply eight of Major League Soccer’s 26 American groups will enter the competitors.
CHICAGO: Lionel Messi and Inter Miami received’t compete on this 12 months’s U.S. Open Cup and simply eight of Major League Soccer’s 26 American groups will enter the competitors.
Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles FC, Salt Lake, San Jose and Seattle will enter the 96-team competitors, the U.S. Soccer Federation mentioned Friday.
Houston is the defending match champion and the others had been among the many prime seven groups from final 12 months’s regular-season Supporters’ Shield standings.
MLS groups will enter within the fourth spherical and face solely decrease tier squads till a head-to-head MLS matchup is unavoidable. Last 12 months, 18 MLS groups entered within the third spherical and eight within the fourth.
Houston beat Miami 2-1 in final 12 months’s ultimate. Messi missed the sport due to an damage.
MLS introduced Dec. 15 it was pulling all its groups from the nation’s oldest soccer competitors, which began in 1914, and was changing them with third-tier developmental sides from MLS Next Pro.
The USSF mentioned 5 days later it was treating MLS’s determination as a request that it was turning down.
In its announcement, the us mentioned it improved monetary incentives, elevated journey reimbursement and added new business companions.
MLS mentioned it’s going to enter 11 groups from its third tier: Austin, Carolina, Chattanooga, Chicago. Colorado, Crown Legacy, Minnesota, LA Galaxy, New York City, New York Red Bulls and Portland.
The second tier United Soccer League Championship is getting into all 24 groups.
First-round matches shall be scheduled for March 19-21, adopted by the second spherical on April 2 and three, the third spherical on April 16 and 17, the fourth spherical on May 7 and 8 and the fifth spherical on May 21 and 22. Quarterfinals shall be July 9 and 10, semifinals on Aug. 27 and 28 and the championship on Sept. 25.
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