The 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final was played on October 5, 2010, at Qwest Field in Seattle, Washington, United States. Seattle Sounders FC won the match, defeating the Columbus Crew 2–1 in front of a sellout crowd of 31,311. The Crew received the runner-up prize of USD 50,000, while Sounders FC earned a berth in the preliminary round of the 2011–12 CONCACAF Champions League.
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The 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final was played on October 5, 2010, at Qwest Field in Seattle, Washington, United States. The match determined the winner of the 2010 U. S. Open Cup, a tournament open to amateur and professional soccer teams affiliated with the United States Soccer Federation. This was the 97th edition of the oldest competition in United States soccer. Seattle Sounders FC won the match, defeating the Columbus Crew 2–1 in front of a sellout crowd of 31,311. The Crew received the runner-up prize of USD 50,000, while Sounders FC earned a berth in the preliminary round of the 2011–12 CONCACAF Champions League. Both clubs qualified automatically for the third round by finishing among the top six in the 2009 Major League Soccer season standings. Both teams won three matches in the tournament to advance to the final. The Sounders FC became the first team since 1983 to win two consecutive U. S. Open Cup championships. The Columbus Crew won the cup in 1998 and again in 2002, winning the latter appearance. The 2010 tournament was the first in which MLS teams were allowed to enter eight teams in the competition. The top six MLS teams from the previous season’s league table qualified automatically, while the remaining two spots were determined by preliminary qualification matches. In 2010, MLS, which has teams that play in both the United.
States and Canada, was allowed to entry eight of its U. s. -based teams. The eight MLS entries began play in the thirdround of the tournament on June 29, 2010. On September 1, the Crew visited Washington D.C. C. United to face the MLS club in the semifinal match at RFK Stadium in the 17th minute on a penalty kick. Washington C. U. won 3–0, earning its first U. S. Cup semifinal appearance since 2002. In the final, Columbus’ Steven Lenhart scored with a volley over the onrushing goalkeeper in the fourth minute of stoppage time to give Columbus the victory. The game ended in extra time, sending the score to 1-1 and sending the match into extra time. The final was won 2-1 by the Sounders FC, with Kevin Burns and Sanna Nyassi scoring for Seattle. Columbus’ Andy Iro scored in the 30th minute by heading in a corner kick from teammate Eddie Gaven. Columbus extended its lead in the 70th minute through a goal from Lenhart, and again in the 87th minute when Gaven scored from a pass from Emmanuel Ekpo. However, in the 89th minute C. D. United’s Marc Burch deflected a shot by Columbus’s Marc D. Carey into the net for an own goal, sending it into the tying score and sending it to extra-time. Columbus won the final 3-1, the first time the Crew had been to the Cup final twice, in 1998 and again in 2002.
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