June 30, 2022 – Major League Soccer (MLS) News Release
NEW YORK AND MEXICO CITY (June 30 , 2022) – Major League Soccer (MLS) and LIGA MX announced today that Leagues Cup Showcase will add three feature matches this September in Cincinnati, Nashville and Salt Lake City. For the first time in each club’s history, FC Cincinnati will host Club Deportivo Guadalajara, Nashville SC will face Club América and Real Salt Lake will play against Atlas FC. The Leagues Cup Showcase series will serve as a preview to the highly-anticipated 2023 Leagues Cup which will feature all MLS and LIGA MX Clubs next summer.
These three matches join the previously announced August 3 doubleheader in Los Angeles featuring LA Galaxy vs. Chivas and LAFC vs. Club América. The September match schedule is as follows.
Date Game Stadium
Sept. 21 FC Cincinnati vs. Club Deportivo Guadalajara TQL Stadium, Cincinnati, OH
Sept. 21 Nashville SC vs. Club América GEODIS Park, Nashville, TN
Sept. 22 Real Salt Lake vs. Atlas FC Rio Tinto Stadium, Sandy, UT
Ticket Information
FC Cincinnati, Nashville SC and Real Salt Lake season ticket holders will have priority access to purchase tickets through an exclusive presale. Tickets will be made available to the public as follows:
FC Cincinnati vs. Club Deportivo Guadalajara: Monday, July 18 at 9:00 a.m. ET via SeatGeek
Nashville SC vs. Club América: Thursday, July 21 at 10:00 a.m. ET via Ticketmaster
Real Salt Lake vs. Atlas FC: Ticket details coming soon. Click here to sign up for ticket notifications. Chivas and Club América are two of the most successful clubs in LIGA MX with 12 and 13 titles respectively. Atlas FC is the current LIGA MX Campeón de Campeones – the overall Mexican league champion – given the club’s back-to-back Apertura 2021 and Clausura 2022 season wins.
Recently joining MLS in 2019 and 2020, FC Cincinnati and Nashville SC, respectively, will play their first-ever international matches as MLS clubs and the first international club matches at their stadiums. FC Cincinnati’s TQL Stadium, which hosted its first game in Spring 2021, is one of the league’s newest stadium jewels with a capacity of 26,000 fans. In Nashville, GEODIS Park inaugurated this May, is the largest soccer-specific stadium in the United States at a capacity of 30,000. An MLS club with a deeper-rooted history, Real Salt Lake joined the league in 2005, debuted its scenic Rio Tinto Stadium in 2008, was an MLS Cup champion (2009), and has participated in important cup…
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