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unusual facts about US Open Cup



Cristian da Silva

He helped lead the club to the 1999 playoff quarterfinals, as well as helping the Vipers eliminate his former club Metrostars in the 1999 US Open Cup.

Starfire Sports

Starfire features fields for indoor and outdoor soccer, and occasionally rugby union games, as well as a 4,500-seat soccer stadium previously used by the USL Seattle Sounders and now used by the MLS Seattle Sounders FC for US Open Cup matches, the Seattle Reign FC of the NWSL, and the Seattle Sounders Women of the W-League.

Virginia Beach Piranhas

The Submariners' excellent early form also took them to the US Open Cup for the first time, but they lost first time out, 3-1 to USL Second Division side Wilmington Hammerheads.


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Michigan Bucks

In 2000 the Bucks became the first PDL team to defeat an MLS team in the US Open Cup when they beat the New England Revolution at Foxboro Stadium.