MLS Cup 2007
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| Date | 18 November 2007 | ||||||
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| Venue | Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Washington, D.C., USA | ||||||
| Man of the Match | Dwayne De Rosario (Houston Dynamo) | ||||||
| Referee | Alex Prus | ||||||
| Attendance | 39,859 | ||||||
| Weather | Sunny 55 °F (13 °C) | ||||||
MLS Cup 2007 was the final match of the 2007 MLS season, the 12th in the history of Major League Soccer. The game was a rematch between the previous year's two MLS Cup finalists, New England Revolution and Houston Dynamo.
The match took place on Sunday, 18 November 2007 at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in Washington, D.C.. Houston won the game by a score of 2-1, handing New England its third consecutive MLS Cup defeat and fourth overall. Plácido Domingo performed the national anthem and Jimmy Eat World performed "Big Casino" at halftime.
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium was announced as the venue for MLS Cup 2007 on 14 December 2006.
Home to D.C. United and Major League Baseball's Washington Nationals at the time, RFK Stadium previously hosted MLS Cup in 1997 and 2002. The facility also hosted matches during the 1994 FIFA World Cup, the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup and was the site of the 1996 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final and the 2002 MLS All-Star Game.
MLS adopted a new format for qualification into the playoffs. In 2007, the top two teams from each of the league's two conferences, followed by the next four teams with the highest number of points at the end of the regular season, qualified for the postseason, leading to the possibility of an uneven number of playoff teams from each conference. This year, five teams qualified from the Eastern Conference, and only three teams from the Western Conference qualified, so the Kansas City Wizards, who have been assigned to the Western Conference playoffs, could have played a fellow Eastern Conference team in the final.
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