March 15, 2022 – United Soccer League Championship (USL) – New Mexico United News Release
Tickets to New Mexico United’s Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup second round match are on sale now! The match is slated for Tuesday, April 5th at 7:30 PM at the UNM Soccer Complex. United will take on the winner of USL League 2’s Park City Red Wolves SC, and the NPSL’s Las Vegas Legends in the second round.
The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup – the oldest ongoing national soccer tournament in the United States – is a knockout tournament in which teams from across divisions compete to be named the best club in the nation. In 2021, a record 103 teams from professional, semi-pro, and amateur levels will participate in the tournament.
In 2019 (the last time they played in the tournament,) New Mexico United defeated USL Championship clubs Phoenix Rising and Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC in the first two rounds, and then topped MLS sides Colorado Rapids and FC Dallas in the following two before ultimately bowing out to tournament finalist Minnesota United in the quarterfinal. That quarterfinal match saw hundreds of the Black & Yellow faithful travel aboard a chartered airplane to St. Paul, Minnesota for the match.
United – and all eligible USL Championship clubs – enter in the second round of the tournament, while USL League 1, NISA, and amateur teams enter in round one. MLS clubs will enter the tournament in rounds three and four.
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