Carolina Challenge Cup

Carolina Challenge Cup

The Carolina Challenge Cup is a four-team round robin pre-season competition hosted by the Charleston Battery. It was started in 2004 and features teams from Major League Soccer and the United Soccer Leagues. The Columbus Crew edged out D.C. United on goal differential to win the 2004 competition, while the San Jose Earthquakes won the 2005 competition. San Jose's second iteration (although a separate team), the Houston Dynamo, won the 2006 and 2007 versions. The San Jose Earthquakes again won the tournament on their return to the MLS in 2008 while Real Salt Lake claimed the title in their debut in 2009.

Over the first few years of the tournament, the champion had gone on to win one of the two year-end MLS trophies, the MLS Supporters' Shield or MLS Cup. This streak ended in 2008 as San Jose Earthquakes failed to make the playoffs, consequently missing out on both titles. Since 2008 it has either predicted the MLS Cup winner or the team with the worst record in the league. San Jose and D.C United had the worst records in 2008 and 2010 respectively, while Real Salt Lake won the 2009 MLS Cup.

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Coffee Pot Cup

A highlight of the competitions that have been held so far is the Coffee Pot Cup, a game between D.C. United and the host Charleston Battery, making it a rare example of an MLS-USL team rivalry. The history behind this comes from a postgame incident after the Third Round of the 1999 U.S. Open Cup, where Charleston pulled a shocking 4-3 extra time upset at home over D.C. A news report from then:

"D.C. United apparently used the visitors' locker room to vent its frustration over losing to the Charleston Battery in last Wednesday's US Open Cup match at Blackbaud Stadium here. Members of the Major League Soccer team smashed two coffee pots and pulled off some showerheads, according to Battery officials. 'I think a bill will be sent to them,' Battery general manager Buckley Andrews said earlier this week. The US Soccer Federation website's match report on Charleston's 4-3 overtime win over the two-time MLS champion called it 'one of the biggest upsets ever seen in American soccer history ... It will surely go down as an Open Cup classic.'"

After a few years, supporters of both sides in the name of spirited competition decided to have an actual Coffee Pot played for between the sides as a friendly wager. The winner has the other team's supporters fill the Cup with beer for the winning team's supporters to enjoy. Supporters of both sides say that whenever the two sides play, they are playing for the Coffee Pot Cup (the two sides could meet in the U.S. Open Cup if drawn together, or in an arranged friendly). The inaugural winners of the Cup in 2004 were D.C. United after winning 2-1. In 2005 and 2006, the two teams played to a tie (2-2, 1-1), meaning no one had to pay for the beer to fill the Cup, but D.C. maintained possession.

Mainly due to their commitment to play in the CONCACAF Champions' Cup, D.C. United were unable to play in the 2007 and 2008 versions of the tournament.

Most recently the teams competed in the final of the 2008 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, as D.C. United defeated Charleston 2-1 on September 3, 2008 at RFK Stadium.

  • 2004, Carolina Challenge Cup: D.C. United 2, Charleston Battery 1
  • 2005, Carolina Challenge Cup: D.C. United 2, Charleston Battery 2
  • 2006, Carolina Challenge Cup: D.C. United 1, Charleston Battery 1
  • 2006, Cary, NC Friendly: D.C. United 2, Charleston Battery 0
  • 2008, US Open Cup: D.C. United 2, Charleston Battery 1
  • 2009, Carolina Challenge Cup: D.C. United 2, Charleston Battery 0
  • 2010, Carolina Challenge Cup: D.C. United 2, Charleston Battery 0
  • 2011. Carolina Challenge Cup: D.C. United 2, Charleston Battery 1

Participants

Champions

Results

2011-Teams Pts Pld W L T GF GA GD
D.C. United 7 3 2 0 1 5 3 +2
Charleston Battery 4 3 1 1 1 3 3 0
Chicago Fire SC 4 3 1 1 1 1 1 0
Toronto FC 1 3 0 2 1 3 5 -2
2010-Teams Pts Pld W L T GF GA GD
D.C. United 9 3 3 0 0 5 1 +4
Real Salt Lake 6 3 2 1 0 5 3 +2
Toronto FC 2 3 0 1 2 0 2 -2
Charleston Battery 2 3 0 1 2 1 5 -4
2009-Team Pts Pld W L T GF GA GD
Real Salt Lake 9 3 3 0 0 7 2 +5
Toronto FC 6 3 2 1 0 5 4 +1
D.C. United 3 3 1 2 0 3 5 -2
Charleston Battery 0 3 0 3 0 2 6 -4
2008-Team Pts Pld W L T GF GA GD
San Jose Earthquakes 9 3 3 0 0 6 1 +5
Charleston Battery 4 3 1 1 1 4 3 +1
New York Red Bulls 2 3 0 1 2 2 5 -3
Toronto FC 1 3 0 2 1 1 4 -3
2007-Team Pts Pld W L T GF GA GD
Houston Dynamo 7 3 2 0 1 5 2 +3
Toronto FC 6 3 2 1 0 5 3 +2
New York Red Bulls 3 3 1 2 0 3 4 -1
Charleston Battery 1 3 0 2 1 1 5 -4
2006-Team Pts Pld W L T GF GA GD
Houston Dynamo 7 3 2 0 1 5 1 +4
D.C. United 5 3 1 0 2 3 2 +1
Charleston Battery 4 3 1 1 1 2 2 0
New York Red Bulls 0 3 0 3 0 0 5 -5
2005-Team Pts Pld W L T GF GA GD
San Jose Earthquakes 7 3 2 0 1 4 1 +3
D.C. United 4 3 1 1 1 5 4 +1
Columbus Crew 4 3 1 1 1 2 4 -2
Charleston Battery 1 3 0 2 1 2 4 -2
2004-Team Pts Pld W L T GF GA GD
Columbus Crew 7 3 2 0 1 5 1 +4
D.C. United 7 3 2 0 1 3 1 +2
Charleston Battery 1 3 0 2 1 3 6 -3
Wilmington Hammerheads 1 3 0 2 1 1 4 -3

All-time Table

#(Pts) Team Pts Pld W L T GF GA GD PPG #(PPG)
1 D.C. United 28 15 8 3 4 19 13 +6 1.867 4
2 San Jose Earthquakes 16 6 5 0 1 10 2 +8 2.667 1
3 Real Salt Lake 15 6 5 1 0 12 5 +7 2.500 2
4 Houston Dynamo 14 6 4 0 2 10 3 +7 2.333 3
5 Toronto FC 14 12 4 6 2 11 13 -2 1.167 6
6 Charleston Battery 12 21 2 13 6 15 31 -16 0.571 7
7 Columbus Crew 11 6 3 1 2 7 5 +2 1.833 5
8 New York Red Bulls 5 9 1 6 2 5 14 -9 0.556 8
9 Wilmington Hammerheads 1 3 0 2 1 1 4 -3 0.333 9

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