LAMAR HUNT US SOCCER TOURNAMENT

Introduction:

Lamar Hunt U.S. Soccer Cup is an American based soccer tournament, which is open to all the associated teams of the United States Soccer Federation (USSF).  Any team from the top qualified clubs of Major League Soccer or from the amateur adult club are accessible to the Lamar Hunt U.S. Soccer tournament.  This tournament was previously referred as the National Challenge Cup in 1914.  In the modern period also the tournament was just known as the U.S. Open, but again in 1919 in the memory of Lamar Hunt, who was one of the most crucial figures in the American’s soccer’s history, the tournament was renamed as the Lamar Hunt U.S. soccer tournament.  The tournament was withdrawn in 1979, but was brought back in action in 1997.  Now the tournament is eternally displayed at the National Soccer Hall of Fame in Oneonta, New York.

Tournament’s Status:

The Lamar Hunt U.S. Soccer Tournament was the very first real national cup tournament of the United States, because the previously organized soccer tournaments were transferred to regional level, due to the problems of management and traveling in the early 1900s.  Bethlehem Steel F.C. of Pennsylvania, Fall River of Massachusetts, and Maccabi Los Angeles each have won the Lamar Hunt tournament for a record five times.  The most successive wins are in the favor of the Greek American AA of New York, they have won it three times in a row.  The tournament’s popularity in near future may result in the fall of all the records.