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The US Open Cup is a knockout cup competition open to American soccer teams. Over 90 teams qualify from MLS, USL Championship, USL1, and USL2 based on their previous season's standings. Reserve and affiliate teams are ineligible, but players can represent their parent MLS club. The tournament starts in May and ends in September, with prize money for the winner and furthest advancing lower division teams. The winner also qualifies for the CONCACAF Champions League. The CONCACAF Champions League begins in February and ends in April. Teams qualify from MLS, USL, Canada, Mexico, and other Central American countries based on their domestic league and cup results from the previous season.

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New Usoc Rules

The US Open Cup is a knockout cup competition open to American soccer teams. Over 90 teams qualify from MLS, USL Championship, USL1, and USL2 based on their previous season's standings. Reserve and affiliate teams are ineligible, but players can represent their parent MLS club. The tournament starts in May and ends in September, with prize money for the winner and furthest advancing lower division teams. The winner also qualifies for the CONCACAF Champions League. The CONCACAF Champions League begins in February and ends in April. Teams qualify from MLS, USL, Canada, Mexico, and other Central American countries based on their domestic league and cup results from the previous season.

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1. All American-based MLS & USL teams compete in the U.S.

Open Cup (USOC):


a. The number of teams that qualify for the USOC are the following:
i. Major League Soccer (MLS) = 20 Enter in 4th Round.
ii. United Soccer League Championship = 22 Enter in 2nd Round.
iii. United Soccer League 1 = 18 Enter in 1st Round.
iv. United Soccer League 2 = 31 Enter in 1st Round (+6 Enter in in Play-in Round).
v. All teams qualify based on their final standings in their respective leagues from the prior season.
b. All players are only allowed to play for only 1 club in any US Open Cup season:
i. The lower-division professional clubs that are directly owned by higher-division professional clubs (i.e. reserve clubs) are no longer
eligible to participate in the U.S. Open Cup:
1. List of ineligible clubs = Atlanta United FC II, Bethlehem Steel FC, Loudoun United FC, New York Red Bulls 2, North Texas SC, Orlando
City B, Toronto FC 2, & FC Tucson.

2. However, the players on these clubs are eligible to play for their MLS Parent club in the US Open Cup.

ii. The "hybrid affiliate" clubs (i.e. lower-division professional clubs that are affiliated and/or staffed but not owned by higher-division
clubs) remain eligible.
c. The timeline for the tournament is as follows:
i. Play-in Round = Early May
ii. 1st Round = 2 days after play-in Round ends.
iii. 2nd Round = 1 week after the 1st round ends.
iv. 3rd Round = 1 week after the 2nd round ends.
v. 4th Round = 12 days after the 3rd round ends.
vi. 5th Round (Round of 16) = 10 days after the 4th round ends.
vii. 6th Round (Quarter-finals) = 1 month after the 5th round ends.
viii. 7th Round (Semi-finals) = 3 weeks after the 6th round ends.
ix. 8th Round (The Finals) = 6 weeks after the 7th round ends.
x. U.S. Soccer uses a simple coin toss to decide which team hosts each match for most rounds.
d. The overall champion earns a total of $300,000 in prize money, while the runner-up receives $100,000 and the furthest-
advancing team from each lower division league receives $25,000.
e. In addition, the tournament winner qualifies for the group stage of the CONCACAF Champions League.
f. Other rules for all leagues:
i. All coaches are given one unsuccessful challenge, or limitless successful challenges:
1. All goals will be automatically reviewed, without a coach’s challenge.
2. All other issues would require a team challenge.

ii. The player who draws the foul in the box is the player who must take the penalty shot.

2. The CONCACAF Champions League:


a. The timeline for the tournament is as follows:
i. Round of 16 = Mid-February.
ii. Quarter-finals = Early March.
iii. Semi-finals = Early April.
iv. Finals = Late April.
b. Teams that qualify:
i. The previous CONCACAF League champion.
ii. US (3 total):
1. MLS Cup champion.
2. USL Championship Cup Winner.
3. U.S. Open Cup champion.

iii. Canada (3 total):


1. CPL Cup champion
2. CPL Supporters' Shield winner or CPL Cup runner up
3. Canadian Championship Winner.
iv. Mexico (4 total):
1. The winners and runners-up of the Liga MX Apertura and Clausura tournaments.

v. 1 berth each for Costa Rica, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama and El Salvador:
1. the champion of the highest level of professional domestic soccer.

vi. If one or more clubs is precluded, it is supplanted by a club from another Central American association. The reallocation is based on
results from previous Champions League tournaments.

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