Английская Википедия:2019 U.S. Open Cup qualification

Шаблон:Main The 2019 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup tournament proper will feature teams from all five tiers of the men's American soccer pyramid.

Qualification for the 2019 tournament includes local qualifying matches contested by 94 amateur teams scheduled to take place in 2018. One team also qualified by winning the 2018 National Amateur Cup, and other clubs playing in national leagues that are not fully professional qualify based on their results in 2018 league play.^[1] Clubs playing in fully professional leagues may enter the tournament proper and bypass the qualification process.

Qualification procedures

The United States Soccer Federation's (U.S. Soccer) Open Cup Committee manages both the tournament proper and the local qualification process.

Clubs based in the United States that play in a league that is an organization member of U.S. Soccer are generally eligible to compete for the U.S. Open Cup, if their league includes at least four teams and has a schedule of at least 10 matches for each club.^[2]

U.S.-based teams in Division I, II and III professional leagues qualify for the U.S. Open Cup automatically, provided they are eligible. To be eligible, these teams must be members in good standing of their leagues on December 31, 2018, and remain so through the 2019 U.S. Open Cup Final. The league must also remain in operation through the U.S. Open Cup Final. A new Division I, II or III professional league must have its match schedule announced to the public by January 31, 2019, and the first match must be scheduled for no later than seven days before the first scheduled round of the U.S. Open Cup tournament proper that involves the team's division. If a new club joins an existing Division I, II or III league, the league must meet the aforementioned criteria applicable to new leagues in order for the new club to be eligible for the U.S. Open Cup.^[2]

A professional team that is majority owned by a higher-level professional team or whose player roster is materially managed by a higher-level professional team is ineligible to participate in the U.S. Open Cup.^[2]

Clubs that are below Division III are Open Division teams. To be eligible for the 2019 U.S. Open Cup, an Open Division team must have been a playing member in good standing of its league on August 13, 2018, and remain so through the 2019 U.S. Open Cup Final. The league must have been in operation since no later than July 14, 2018, and remain so until the 2019 U.S. Open Cup Final. A team that started its first season of competition in an existing league must have started its new league's schedule no later than July 14, 2018.^[2]

Starting in 2019, the winner of the previous year's National Amateur Cup automatically qualifies for the U.S. Open Cup.^[3] The cup winner enters the tournament proper in the first round with the other Open Division clubs.

National leagues may elect to use the results of their previous year's seasons to determine which of their teams qualify for the U.S. Open Cup in lieu of having their teams play local qualifying matches. If a national league so elects, its teams are not eligible to participate in local qualifying. To qualify as a national league, the league must

Have a minimum of 50 active U.S.-based teams in good standing,
Have a common championship each season that is only available to league teams and is compulsory,
Use a league format with a standings table as opposed to a single-elimination (knockout) format,
Have teams in at least three U.S. time zones among Eastern, Central, Mountain and Pacific, with the three time zones containing the most teams each having at least 15% of the member teams,
Have two time zones represented by at least three different U.S. states or the District of Columbia and a third time zone represented by at least two different U.S. states or the District of Columbia,
Have teams in at least 10 different U.S. states or the District of Columbia,
Have played for at least three years meeting the above criteria and
Timely pay the team-based Open Cup entry fee for all teams in the league.^[2]

Both leagues which currently qualify as national leagues, the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL) and USL League Two (formerly the Premier Development League, or PDL), elected to use the results of their 2018 seasons to determine their qualifying teams for the 2019 U.S. Open Cup.^[4] National leagues determine their own procedures for ranking teams based on 2018 results for the purposes of 2019 U.S. Open Cup qualification.^[2]

Eligible Open Division clubs that did not win the National Amateur Cup and are not members of national leagues must have submitted an application to enter local qualifying by August 13, 2018.^[2]

Once applications for local qualifying are approved, U.S. Soccer estimates the number of Open Division teams needed in the U.S. Open Cup, based on the anticipated participation of professional teams. One of these slots is allocated to the National Amateur Cup champions. The remainder are allocated among the pool of local qualification teams and the national leagues, based on the relative number of teams in each, resulting in a target number of local qualifiers. The number of rounds of local qualifying and the number of teams receiving byes in the first round of qualifying are then established to set the number of local qualifiers as close as possible to the target number. Byes are distributed randomly and are meant to avoid unnecessary travel but are kept to a minimum to preserve the integrity of the qualification tournament. Once the qualification tournament format has been finalized, the number of local qualifiers becomes fixed, unless a team that qualifies later becomes ineligible. After the December 31, 2018 professional clubs entry application deadline, the final number of Open Division teams needed in the 2019 U.S. Open Cup will become known. From this number, the fixed number of local qualifiers plus one for the National Amateur Cup champion are subtracted to determine the number of slots for clubs from the national leagues. These slots are allocated among the leagues based on their relative numbers of U.S.-based eligible teams.^[2]

National league track

National Premier Soccer League

The NPSL ranked the top 30 of its 98 U.S.-based clubs based on results of its 2018 season for the purposes of qualification for the 2019 U.S. Open Cup.^[4] The NPSL champion earned the top ranking, and the other finalist is second. The national semifinal loser from the region with the larger number of teams is ranked third, and the remaining national semifinalist is ranked fourth. The four regional final losers are ranked fifth through eighth based on the number of teams in their region, from largest to smallest. The remaining 22 slots in the rankings are allocated among the regions based on their sizes. The total number of slots allocated to each region are South 9, Northeast 8, Midwest 7 and West 6. Since U.S. Soccer has not yet determined how many berths NPSL clubs will be awarded in the U.S. Open Cup, each of the 22 slots available in the rankings for teams that did not reach the region finals are each allocated to a specific region. This ensures that, regardless of the number of berths awarded to NPSL clubs, the berths will have been allocated as fairly as possible, taking into account the relative sizes of the regions. The allocation of the ninth through 30th slots for 2019 qualifying is as follows:

Region	Position
South	9, 12, 15, 19, 22, 25, 28
Northeast	10, 14, 17, 21, 26, 29
Midwest	11, 16, 20, 24, 30
West	13, 18, 23, 27

Starting with the ninth slot, no conference that already has a team in the rankings may have an additional team claim a slot, until every conference in the region has at least one team in the rankings. Ties in the standings are broken using regular-season conference tiebreaker procedures.^[2]

Шаблон:Tooltip	Team	Шаблон:Tooltip	Explanation
1	Miami FC 2	N/A	NPSL champion
2	Шаблон:Sortname	NPSL finalist
3	Duluth FC	Midwest Region champion (22 clubs)
4	Шаблон:Sortname	West Region champion (20 clubs)
5	Little Rock Rangers	South Region finalist (30 clubs)
6	New York Cosmos B	Northeast Region finalist (26 clubs)
7	Шаблон:Sortname	Midwest Region finalist (22 clubs)
8	Orange County FC	West Region finalist (20 clubs)
9	Laredo Heat	3	Representing Lone Star Conference
10	Шаблон:Sortname	N/A	Representing Mid-Atlantic Conference
11	Erie Commodores FC	Representing East Conference
12	Chattanooga FC	2	Representing Southeast Conference
13	El Farolito	N/A	Representing Golden Gate Conference
14	Junior Lone Star FC	2.4	Northeast Region #4 club
15	Midland-Odessa Sockers FC	2.2Шаблон:Efn	South Region #5 club
16	Minneapolis City SC	2.4	Midwest Region #4 club
17	Brooklyn Italians	2.2	Northeast Region #5 club
18	ASC San Diego	2.3	West Region #4 club
19	Шаблон:Sortname	2.2Шаблон:Efn	South Region #6 club
20	Cleveland SC	2	Midwest Region #5 club
21	West Chester United SC	2.1	Northeast Region #6 club
22	Houston Dutch Lions FC	2.1	South Region #7 club
23	Шаблон:Sortname	2.2Шаблон:Efn	West Region #5 club
24	Grand Rapids FC	1.9	Midwest Region #6 club
25	Fort Worth Vaqueros FC	2Шаблон:Efn	South Region #8 club
26	Hartford City FC	1.9Шаблон:Efn	Northeast Region #7 club
27	Spokane SC Shadow	2.2Шаблон:Efn	West Region #6 club
28	Jacksonville Armada FC	2Шаблон:Efn	South Region #9 club
29	Шаблон:Sortname	1.9Шаблон:Efn	Northeast Region #8 club
29	Northern Virginia United FC	1.9Шаблон:Efn	Northeast Region #8 club
30	Rochester Lancers	1.8	Midwest Region #7 club

Notes: Шаблон:Notelist

USL League Two

USL League Two elected to use the results of the 2018 PDL regular season to rank its 69 U.S.-based teams for the purposes of qualification for the 2019 U.S. Open Cup.^[4] The highest placing teams from each division, provided that they are American, are ranked first in order of points. The remaining teams are then ranked based on points regardless of division. The 2018 PDL regular-season standings tiebreaker system is invoked when needed.^[2] The rankings of the USL League Two teams for 2019 U.S. Open Cup qualification are shown in the table below.

Шаблон:Tooltip	Team	Points	Explanation
1	Des Moines Menace	40	Heartland Division champion
2	Reading United AC	38	Mid Atlantic Division champion
3	Шаблон:Sortname	37	Southwest Division champion
4	South Georgia Tormenta FC	36	Deep South Division champion
5	SIMA Águilas	32	Southeast Division champion
6	Brazos Valley Cavalry F.C.	30Шаблон:Efn	Mid South Division champion
7	Black Rock FC	30Шаблон:Efn	Northeast Division champion
8	Myrtle Beach Mutiny	28Шаблон:Efn	South Atlantic Division champion
9	Colorado Rapids U-23	28Шаблон:Efn	Mountain Division champion
10	Dayton Dutch Lions	27	Great Lakes Division champion
11	New York Red Bulls U-23	31
12	Шаблон:Sortname	30Шаблон:Efn
13	Lakeland Tropics	30Шаблон:Efn
14	OKC Energy U23	28Шаблон:Efn
15	Long Island Rough Riders	28Шаблон:Efn
16	Mississippi Brilla	28Шаблон:Efn
17	Ocean City Nor'easters	27
18	Lansing United	26
19	Шаблон:Sortname	25
20	SC United Bantams	24Шаблон:Efn
21	GPS Portland Phoenix	24Шаблон:Efn
22	Chicago FC United	23Шаблон:Efn
23	North Carolina FC U23	23Шаблон:Efn
24	Ventura County Fusion	22Шаблон:Efn
25	Michigan Bucks	22Шаблон:Efn
26	Cincinnati Dutch Lions	22Шаблон:Efn
27	Western Mass Pioneers	22Шаблон:Efn
28	AHFC Royals	21Шаблон:Efn
29	Seattle Sounders FC U-23	21Шаблон:Efn
30	Orange County SC U-23	21Шаблон:Efn
31	St. Louis Lions	20Шаблон:Efn
32	Corpus Christi FC	20Шаблон:Efn
33	Santa Cruz Breakers FC	20Шаблон:Efn
34	Fresno FC U-23	20Шаблон:Efn
35	Kaw Valley FC	20Шаблон:Efn
36	IMG Academy Bradenton	20Шаблон:Efn
37	Lane United FC	20Шаблон:Efn
38	Birmingham Hammers	19
39	Texas United	18Шаблон:Efn
40	Шаблон:Sortname	18Шаблон:Efn
41	Tri-Cities Otters	17Шаблон:Efn
42	Шаблон:Sortname	17Шаблон:Efn
43	Lionsbridge FC	17Шаблон:Efn
44	San Francisco City FC	16Шаблон:Efn
45	Шаблон:Sortname	16Шаблон:Efn
46	San Francisco Glens	16Шаблон:Efn
47	Peachtree City MOBA	16Шаблон:Efn
48	Albuquerque Sol FC	16Шаблон:Efn
49	Colorado Pride Switchbacks U23	15Шаблон:Efn
50	West Virginia Chaos	15Шаблон:Efn
51	San Diego Zest FC	14
52	Southern California Seahorses	13Шаблон:Efn
53	Weston FC	13Шаблон:Efn
54	Шаблон:Sortname	13Шаблон:Efn
55	Charlotte Eagles	13Шаблон:Efn
56	Tobacco Road FC	13Шаблон:Efn
57	Westchester Flames	13Шаблон:Efn
58	Next Academy Palm Beach	12Шаблон:Efn
59	Ogden City SC	12Шаблон:Efn
60	Portland Timbers U23	11Шаблон:Efn
61	Carolina Dynamo	11Шаблон:Efn
62	Seacoast United Phantoms	10Шаблон:Efn
63	Houston FC	10Шаблон:Efn
64	Шаблон:Sortname	9
65	North County United	8
66	Memphis City FC	6
67	Evergreen FC	5
68	Lehigh Valley United	4
69	Derby City Rovers	1

Notes: Шаблон:Notelist

National Amateur Cup

Milwaukee Bavarian SC defeated West Chester United, 2–0, to win the 2018 National Amateur Cup and qualify for the 2019 U.S. Open Cup.^[3] The seven winners of the fourth round of local qualifying will join them as the eight Open Division teams in the tournament proper.

Local qualifying

U.S. Soccer originally announced that 95 teams would participate in local qualifying.^[4] However, Naples United FC 2 was disqualified, because the club was not affiliated with the U.S. Specialty Sports Association by the deadline for local amateur sides to participate in sanctioned league competition.^[5]

Four rounds of local qualifying matches will result in 7 clubs advancing to the tournament proper.

First qualifying round

The first qualifying round matches were scheduled to be played on September 22 and 23.^[1]^[6] Some matches were played on later dates due to weather delays.