MLS Columbus Crew SC

Crew faces winner of FC Dallas-Wilmington match-up

July 1, 2005 - Major League Soccer (MLS)
Columbus Crew SC News Release


COLUMBUS, Ohio (Friday, July 1) - U.S. Soccer announced that The Crew will face the winner of the FC Dallas-Wilmington Hammerheads game on Wednesday, August 3, in the 2005 U.S. Open Cup Round of 16.

If Dallas wins, The Crew will host the Round of 16 game at 7:30 p.m. at Ohio State's Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. If Wilmington upsets Dallas, Columbus will travel to North Carolina to take on Wilmington of the United Soccer Leagues Second Division (USL2) at 7:30 p.m. at Legion Field in Wilmington, N.C. The Round of 32 game between Dallas and Wilmington will be played on July 13, with ticketing details being announced on July 14 if Dallas wins and The Crew hosts.

The full schedule of Round of 32 games and potential Round of 16 games is listed below. The second round of the 2005 Open Cup was completed Wednesday, June 29. Geographical pairings and host proposals received from each club determined match-ups, as they will through the quarterfinals of the tournament. Possible pairings for the quarterfinals will be announced after the completion of Round of 32.

At stake in the tournament is $180,000 in prize money broken down as follows: $100,000 to the champion, $50,000 to the runner up and $10,000 to the team which advances deepest in the tournament from each of the Division II, Division III and amateur levels. The Des Moines Menace and Ocean City Barons of the PDL have their sights set on the amateur prize as the only amateur teams remaining in contention.

The U.S. Open Cup, the U.S. Soccer Federation's National Championship, is an annual competition open to all amateur and professional soccer teams affiliated with U.S. Soccer. It is the oldest annual team tournament in U.S. sports history and among the oldest soccer tournaments of its type in the world. In 1999, the competition was renamed to honor long-time soccer pioneer Lamar Hunt.

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