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. These five levels, namely

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, the

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( First Division, Second Division, and

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), and the

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, each have their own separate qualification process to trim their ranks down to their final eight team delegations in the months leading up to the start of the tournament proper. The eight MLS clubs receive byes into the third round, while the remaining 32 teams play in the first two round with brackets influenced by geography.

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defeated defending-champion D.C. United 2–1 in the

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in Washington, D.C. Both clubs had started in the MLS qualification tourney, and ended up playing 6 matches each.

Matchdays

Match pairings were announced on May 27.

Teams

As in the previous tournament, forty teams qualified to the tournament. The qualifying process for MLS took the form of an eight-team play-off tournament. The top six finishers, regardless of conference, in

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were given six of the berths into the Third Round. The eight remaining U.S.-based clubs competed for the final two berths via a playoff. Continuing the format of recent seasons, no qualification process was needed for USL-1 and USL-2 as each level has exactly eight U.S.-based clubs for the 2009 season. The PDL announced that four selected early season games will again double as qualifying matches, as they had in recent years. Each division received a berth, since there are eight divisions instead of the ten that existed in 2008. The qualifying process for the USASA took the form of four regional tournaments, with the two finalists in each region being awarded berths. ;Major League Soccer (8 teams) * Chicago Fire *

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* D.C. United *

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;USL First Division (8 teams) *

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* Carolina RailHawks FC *

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Miami FC Miami FC is an American professional association football, soccer team based in Miami, Florida that competes in the USL Championship, the second tier of the American soccer pyramid. The club began play in the North American Soccer League (201 ...

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* Rochester Rhinos ;USL Second Division (8 teams) *

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* Crystal Palace Baltimore *

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* Pittsburgh Riverhounds * Real Maryland Monarchs *

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* Western Mass Pioneers *

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;USL PDL (8 teams) * Chicago Fire Premier * El Paso Patriots * Kitsap Pumas * Mississippi Brilla * Ocean City Barons *

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* Reading Rage * St. Louis Lions ;USASA (8 teams) *Region I: Aegean Hawks, Emigrantes das Ilhas *Region II: 402 FC,

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*Region III: Atlanta FC (NPSL), Lynch's Irish Pub F.C. *Region IV: Sonoma County Sol, Arizona Sahuaros

Open Cup bracket

Second Round winners advance to play one of 8 clubs in 16-team knockout tournament
''Home teams listed on top of bracket''

Schedule

Note: Scorelines use the standard U.S. convention of placing the home team on the right-hand side of box scores.

First round

Second round

Third round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Goal scorers

;3 goals * Taiwo Atieno ( ROC) * Brian Cvilikas ( MIN) * Keita Mandjou ( POR) * Sébastien Le Toux (

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) *

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(

) * Randi Patterson ( CHA) * Melvin Tarley ( MIN) ;2 goals * Kenny Bundy ( WIL) * Geoff Cameron ( HOU) * Byron Carmichael ( OCC) * Hamed Diallo (

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) * Nate Jaqua (

) * Roger Levesque (

) * J.T. Noone ( OCC) * Dominic Oduro ( HOU) * Nicki Paterson ( HAR) * Shawn Percell ( SON) * Leonel Saint-Preux ( MIN) * Ricardo Sánchez ( MIN) * Ryan Stewart ( CLE) * Jamie Watson ( WIL) * Tsuyoshi Yoshitake ( CHA) * Thabiso Khumalo ( DC) ;1 goal * Ade Akinbiyi ( HOU) * Andre Akpan ( CHI) * Paulo Araujo Jr. ( MIA) * Corey Ashe ( HOU) ;1 goal ''(continued)'' * Chris Bagley ( WIL) * Almir Barbosa ( WM) * Kenney Bertz ( ROC) * Geoff Bloes ( HAR) * Tenywa Bonseu ( PIT) * Bobby Boswell ( HOU) * Freddie Braun ( CHI) * David Bulow ( RIC) * Carl Catullo ( LYN) * Ryan Cordeiro ( RM) * Brian Farber ( POR) * Carlos Fernandes ( EI) * Steve Fisher ( HAR) * Steve Gillespie ( CLE) * Gavin Glinton (

) * Christian Gómez ( DC) * Andrei Gotsmanov ( 402) * Andrew Gregor ( ROC) * Ty Harden ( ROC) * Jeff Harwell ( AUS) * David Hayes ( POR) * Ryan Heins ( ROC) *

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( CHA) * Philip Hufstader ( WIL) * Trevor Hurst ( SON) *

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( DC) * Eddie Johnson ( AUS) * George Josten ( POR) * Tim Karalexis ( WIL) * Skelly Kellar ( ARI) * Michael Kraus ( KC) * Neil Krause ( WM) ;1 goal ''(continued)'' * Eric Lafon ( SON) * Jeff Larentowicz ( NE) * Eric Larson ( SON) *

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( CHV) * Rauwshan McKenzie ( KC) * Jason McLaughlin ( POR) * Ryan McMahen ( AUS) * Pascal Milien ( CHI) * Fredy Montero (

) * Gerardo Moreira ( EP) * Jaime Moreno ( DC) * Rodrigo Morín ( EP) * Ciaran O'Brien ( AUS) * Mo Oduor ( HAR) *

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( CLB) * Daniel Paladini (

) * Ricardo Pierre-Louis ( CLE) * Brian Plotkin (

) * David Ponce (

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) * Jon Ports ( REA) * Tony Schmitz ( 402) * Diego Serna ( MIA) * Chad Severs ( HAR) *

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( HAR) * Clyde Simms ( DC) * Ange N'Silu ( DC) * Kevin Stoll (

) * Abe Thompson ( KC) * Zico Viega ( EI) * Jay Willis ( WM) * Kyle Zenoni ( MIL)

External links

TheCup.us - 2009 match reports and results

References

{{2009–10 in North and Central America, and Caribbean Football (CONCACAF) U.S. Open Cup

Lamar Hunt Lamar Hunt Sr. (August 2, 1932 – December 13, 2006) was an American businessman most notable for his promotion of football, soccer, and tennis in the United States. With his brothers, he also attempted to corner the silver market. He was t ...