FC Cincinnati broke its own USL regular-season attendance record when it drew 25,308 fans at Nippert Stadium for its 2-2 tie with with Orlando City B on Saturday. The crowd was larger than all but oneMLS crowd over the weekend. New York City drew 33,679 fans at Yankee Stadium for its derby against the Red […]
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Open Cup: Cincy set for another possible date with history
Senegalese globetrotter Djiby Fall scored his fourth game-winner of the 2017 competition in the 68th minute to give the USL’s FC Cincinnati a 1-0 win at NASL spring champion Miami FC anda berth in the semifinals of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. Fall also scored the deciders in the first three Cincy games — […]
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USL Rewind: Charlotte's unbeaten streak at 10 games
The top of the USL’s Eastern Conference is getting mighty tight. Led by two Lewis Hilton goals, Charlotte closed to within a point of leader Charleston byblasting Bethlehem Steel, 4-0, and is part of a logjam atop the conference by which four teams are each separated by just a point. The Independence ran its unbeaten […]
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What They're Saying:Todd Portune
“MLS, you tell us why it doesn’t work. You saw the same thing we did two Wednesdays ago. You’re telling me you don’t want that?” — Hamilton County commission president ToddPortune, questioning why MLS wants a soccer-specific stadium in Cincinnati, which would likely require public funds to build, instead of using the University of Cincinnati’s […]
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Open Cup: 'Mitch Says No!' for FC Cincinnati
For the second game in a row, FC Cincinnati set a U.S. Open Cup attendance crowd and sent the crowd home happy with a win over an MLS club. The second-year USL team beat the Chicago Fire in a shootoutbefore 32,287 fans at Nippert Stadium. Goalkeeper MitchHildebrandt was the hero, making saves on Nemanja Nikolic, […]
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Crowd Count: FC Cincinnati's top 10 list
FC Cincinnati’s crowd of 32,287 for its shootout win over the Chicago Fire broke its own record for the largest crowd in the U.S. Open Cup exclusive of in the final. In a year and half, it has alreadydrawn four crowds of more than 30,000 fans. FC Cincinnati’s top 10 crowds: ATT. OPPONENT (YEAR, COMPETITION)35,061 […]
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MLS Expansion: FC Cincinnati breaks new ground
FC Cincinnati, which hosts the Chicago Fire Wednesday in a round-of-16 of the U.S. Open Cup televised on ESPN and ESPN Deportes, has come out of nowhere to become a hot favorite for MLS expansion.None of the six MLS clubs that began as minor-league teams came close to enjoying the support FC Cincinnati enjoys. In […]