Major League Soccer teams will not compete in the 2024 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, the league announced Friday. Instead, MLS will have its developmental teams, which play in third-division MLS Next Pro, partake in the nation’s oldest ongoing tournament, which was first held in 1914.
The league will reassess its first teams’ involvement after the 2024 season to determine whether this change will become the new standard for participation.
According to MLS chief communications officer Dan Courtemanche, MLS has been in discussions with U.S. Soccer about this potential change “for several…
