World Cup schedule forces US Soccer to scale back Open Cup
December 7 – The 2026 World Cup is already reshaping American soccer in multiple ways, and no competition is safe, as evidenced by next year’s US Open Cup. With Major League Soccer shutting down for two months during the tournament, US Soccer has had to be creative to avoid a fixture pile-up and has taken the decision to compress the Open Cup into seven rounds instead of the usual eight.
Fewer dates mean fewer teams,
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