Facing humiliation or redemption is Los Angeles FC, which has been snake-bitten in finals since it won MLS Cup in 2022. Facing history or further 2024 frustration is Sporting Kansas City, which is attempting to tie a record for most all-time Open Cup wins.

LAFC will take on Sporting Kansas City in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup final on Wednesday. Here's how to watch the MLS teams clash.

LAFC has finished second in four straight finals, including the Leagues Cup last month, and could use the “fresh air” that a tournament final can provide for a team mired in a mediocre recent run

Minnesota United waited almost eight years to get a regular-season win at Sporting Kansas City. What’s another couple of hours to wait? The Loons had to sit through a near-two-hour weather delay

Sporting Kansas City has been searching for solutions across the back line in 2024. And one of the answers has come from the forwards group. Following a 4-0 loss in Columbus on June 29, Sporting had conceded 45 goals in 20 regular-season matches, an average of 2.25 per game.

The final between LAFC and Sporting Kansas City should be a thrilling match between two MLS sides in opposite form and approaches of play. However, LAFC goes into the final with their most recent five-game winless streak in the MLS Western Conference,

An 83rd-minute penalty in their semi-final fixture last month lifted the Black and Gold to a 1-0 triumph over the Seattle Sounders, while Sporting were 2-0 winners versus Indy Eleven, advancing into the final of this competition for a fifth time.

US Open Cup began all the way back in March with roughly 100 teams representing 14 soccer leagues throughout the United States. After more than six months of play, the US Open Cup final will be played between Los Angeles Football Club and Sporting Kansas City,

Los Angeles FC will host Sporting Kansas City on Wednesday in the final of the 109th edition of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. The two MLS sides have emerged from a modified Open Cup, with just eight MLS teams participating after the league initially tried to withdraw all of its teams from the competition.