Sporting Kansas City will host the New England Revolution at 7:30 p.m. CT on Wednesday, May 25th at the Blue Valley District Activities Complex (135th Street and Switzer Road in Overland Park, Kansas) in the final round of 2011 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup qualifying, the team announced Wednesday.
All tickets for the match will be $15 for general admission seating and are on sale to current Sporting Kansas City Season Ticket Members via TicketMaster. Season Ticket Members should have received an email with purchasing instructions and can call 888-4KC-GOAL with any questions.
Sporting Kansas City has played five previous Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup matches at BVDAC, with a 4-1-0 record at the venue. Most recently, the club played at BVDAC for a 2007 pre-season doubleheader.
The winner between Sporting Kansas City and the New England Revolution will earn one of Major League Soccer’s two at-large berths for the Third Round of the 2011 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, scheduled to begin on June 28th.
The U.S. Open Cup is the oldest annual team tournament in American sports history with origins in 1914 and is named after Lamar Hunt, the original founder of Sporting Kansas City. Sporting Kansas City, who defeated the Houston Dynamo in the previous round of qualifying last month, won the U.S. Open Cup in 2004, with current captain Davy Arnaud on the field as KC defeated the Chicago Fire 1-0 on a golden goal by striker Igor Simutenkov at Arrowhead Stadium.