Brimstone Cup
Brimstone Cup logo
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| Type | Cup awarded to the team with the most aggregate points |
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| First meeting | 2001 (officially) |
| Latest meeting | July 16, 2015 (FCD 3–1 CHI) |
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| All-time series | 9–5–2 (FC Dallas) |
| 2016 series | |
The Brimstone Cup is a soccer trophy awarded to the yearly winner of the rivalry between the Chicago Fire and FC Dallas Major League Soccer teams. The Cup is awarded by the Brimstone Cup Committee to the team with the most points in games played between the two. If the two teams have the same points against each other at the end of the year (including MLS regular season and playoff games and the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup), then the cup stays with the team holding it at the beginning of the year.
The cup was created during the 2001 season by the supporters' groups of both clubs. Its name came from a reference of the names of the two teams at the time, as FC Dallas was then known as the Dallas Burn. The name is reflected with a quote from Virgil's Aeneid engraved on the base: "The more the kindled combat rises high'r, The more with fury burns the blazing fire."
The Brimstone Cup remained in Chicago for the fourth season in a row following a 2–0 Chicago home victory at Toyota Park on August 2, 2015. On July 16, 2016, FC Dallas regained the Cup for the first time in four years with a 3-1 home victory at Toyota Stadium.
Following the creation of the Supporter's Shield in 1997, the Brimstone Cup was the second award created by MLS fans. MLS went on to create several artificial "Cups" that have gained acceptance by their various fanbases. And several Cups were authentically created by their respective fanbases, in later years, but all of them followed the example of Section 8 and The Inferno, the supporter's organizations that created this first award to memorialize a rivalry between 2 MLS sides.
The Inferno and Section 8 supplied 100% of the funding to have the R.S. Owens Corporation, the makers of the Academy Awards since 1982, craft the actual Brimstone Cup.
Unofficial results1
1The Brimstone Cup did not exist in the years 1998–2000. These results were determined retroactively and are unofficial.
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