The 2025 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup is the 110th edition of the U.S. Open Cup, the knockout domestic cup competition of American soccer, organized by the United States Soccer Federation. It involved 96 teams, including 64 teams from all three professional tiers of the United States soccer league system, and 32 amateur teams in the "Open Division". The competition began on March 18 and will culminate in the final on October 1. The defending 2024 champions, Los Angeles FC, were represented by their reserve team, and were eliminated in the second round by extension side AV Alta of USL League One.[1]
The full format was announced on January 28, 2025.[1] U.S. Soccer adopted new rules for the competition that restricted the use of alternative venues, and had random draws for hosting beginning in the Round of 16.[2]
Of the 27 American clubs in Major League Soccer, 24 participated, with teams that were playing in the 2025 CONCACAF Champions Cup being represented by their reserve teams.[3] The first teams entered in the round of 32 (the fourth round), while the eight affiliated reserve teams and the two independent teams from MLS Next Pro participated beginning in the first round.[4]Atlanta United FC, Colorado Rapids, and expansion San Diego FC did not have any representation from their clubs in the 2025 U.S. Open Cup.[5][6] Half of the MLS first team entrants hosted their first matches, while the rest began with an away game. The MLS Next Pro teams were able to field players from their senior MLS team's supplemental roster via loans. The USL Championship sent all 24 of its teams, with the highest sixteen rated teams of the 2024 regular season entering in the Third Round, and the eight lower-seeded teams entering in the first round alongside all 14 teams from USL League One. The 32 Open Division teams entered in the first round.[1]
Local: CD Faialense, Harbour City FC, Laguna United FC, New Jersey Alliance FC, NY Renegades FC, Soda City FC, Southern Indiana FC, Virginia Dream FC, Washington Athletic Club[1]
Early rounds
Bracket
The first three rounds of the tournament bracket are shown below, with bold denoting the winners of each match.[13]
The draw for the round of 32 and round of 16 took place live on CBS Sports Golazo Network on April 17, 2025, performed by CBS Sports Golazo Network presenter Aly Trost Martin and U.S. Open Cup commissioner David Applegate. The teams were divided into eight broadly geographical groups named for the eight most-capped United States men's national team players who had also won a U.S. Open Cup: Cobi Jones, Landon Donovan, Clint Dempsey, Jeff Agoos, DaMarcus Beasley, Carlos Bocanegra, Paul Caligiuri and Kasey Keller. The winners of the four-team mini-bracket will advance to the quarterfinals. The order in which teams were drawn for the round of 32 determined the priority order for home field advantage in the round of 16.[17][18]
Stadium: Q2 Stadium Attendance: 18,532 Referee: Timothy Ford
Quarterfinals and beyond
The draw for the quarterfinals, semifinals and final took place live on CBS Sports Golazo Network on May 22, 2025, performed by CBS Sports Golazo Network presenter Claudia Pagán and U.S. Open Cup commissioner David Applegate. The teams were divided into eastern and western brackets. Home field advantage in the semifinals was determined by a draw to place the four teams in each bracket in priority order, with the highest remaining team in the competition at the semifinal stage playing their match at home.[21][22]
TNT Sports holds the rights to broadcast the Open Cup from 2023 to 2030, as part of a larger media rights agreement with U.S. Soccer.[24][25] The U.S. Soccer YouTube channel will broadcast all games from the first two rounds. On March 26, 2025, CBS Sports announced an agreement to exclusively broadcast all games beginning with the third round. All games will stream on Paramount+, with select games on the CBS Sports Golazo Network and CBS Sports Network.[26]
