{"id":78154,"date":"2026-09-01T13:56:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/mls-reportedly-will-return-all-27-us-based-teams-to-the-us-open-cup\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T13:56:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:56:03","slug":"mls-reportedly-will-return-all-27-us-based-teams-to-the-us-open-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/mls-reportedly-will-return-all-27-us-based-teams-to-the-us-open-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"MLS reportedly will return all 27 US-based teams to the US Open Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>MLS had limited participation since 2024 Open Cup<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>League decision to withdraw teams was controversial<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Major League Soccer will allow all of its 27 US-based teams to participate in the US Open Cup next year, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backheeled.com\/sources-mls-teams-return-to-us-open-cup-new-format-details\/\">report from Backheeled<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The move would bring to an end a three-year period in which MLS withheld teams from the United States\u2019 oldest soccer competition, a single-elimination cup that has been running continuously since 1914, with only two editions skipped (2020 and 2021, due to the Covid-19 pandemic). Like England\u2019s FA Cup and other similar competitions, the US Open Cup involves teams at all levels of the soccer system, including amateur and semi-pro teams. MLS teams traditionally enter at the later stages, with an MLS team winning all but one edition of the Open Cup since the league started play in 1996.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/sep\/01\/mls-us-open-cup-participation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MLS had limited participation since 2024 Open Cup League decision to withdraw teams was controversial Major League Soccer will allow all of its 27 US-based teams to participate in the US Open Cup next year, according to a report from Backheeled. The move would bring to an end a three-year period in which MLS withheld &#8230; <a title=\"MLS reportedly will return all 27 US-based teams to the US Open Cup\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/01\/mls-reportedly-will-return-all-27-us-based-teams-to-the-us-open-cup\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about MLS reportedly will return all 27 US-based teams to the US Open Cup\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}