| USL Jägermeister Cup | |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Country: | United States |
| Dates: | – |
| Num Teams: | 12 |
| Matches: | 42 |
| Goals: | 113 |
| Attendance: | 96,611 |
| Top Goal Scorer: |  Bruno Rendón(7 goals) |
| Next Season: | 2025 |
| Updated: | August 14, 2024 |
The 2024 USL Cup is the first edition of the USL Cup (known as the USL Jägermeister Cup for sponsorship reasons). The competition is open to all clubs in USL League One.
The 2024 edition of the USL Cup is a professional soccer tournament held between teams in USL League One.[1] Richmond Kickers chairman Rob Ukrop stated after the announcement of the USL Cup that another league had been invited to participate, but declined the opportunity.[2]
The 2024 USL Cup runs concurrent with the 2024 USL League One season. The tournament will begin roughly two months into the league season and end one month before the end of the league season and start of the league playoffs.
The schedule for 2024 USL Cup group stage games was announced simultaneously with the USL League One league schedule on December 14, 2023.[3]
The announcement of the USL Cup stated that the winning club would receive prize money, but did not specify the amount.
The group stage is to be played from April 27 to September 1. Teams were divided into three regional groups of four teams: the West Group, the Central Group, and the East Group. Teams in each group will play each other twice: one home and one away. Each team will also play two teams from other groups; one team at home and the other away.
If a team wins in regulation, they will receive three points in the standings, while the loser will receive zero. If the game is tied at the end of regulation, a penalty kick shootout will occur; the winner will receive two points and the loser will receive one.
The top team in each group will reach the knockout stage. Of the other nine teams, the team that scores the most goals will also reach the knockout stage.
The ranking of teams in the group stage is determined as follows:[4]
| Color key: Home Away Win Shootout win Shootout loss Loss< | -- Postponed--> | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Club | Matches | |||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8< | --Win : bgcolor=#DDFCDD | scoreSO win: bgcolor=#DDFCFF | scoreSO loss: bgcolor=#FFFFDD | scoreLoss: bgcolor=#FFDDDD | score--> |
| Central Valley Fuego FC (CV) | SPK | LEX | OMA | NCO | TRM | SPK | OMA | NCO | ||||
| 1–1 (4–2) | 2–2 (1–4) | 0–0 (1–4) | 3–4 | 1–1 (4–5) | 1–0 | 0–1 | 8/30 | |||||
| Northern Colorado Hailstorm FC (NCO) | OMA | KNX | CLT | CV | SPK | OMA | SPK | CV | ||||
| 2–2 (2–3) | 5–1 | 2–2 (4–2) | 4–3 | 3–1 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 8/30 | |||||
| Spokane Velocity FC (SPK) | CV | OMA | GVL | OMA | NCO | CV | NCO | RIC | ||||
| 1–1 (2–4) | 3–2 | 0–0 (4–5) | 1–4 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 8/29 | |||||
| Union Omaha (OMA) | NCO | SPK | CV | SPK | CHA | NCO | CV | MAD | ||||
| 2–2 (3–2) | 2–3 | 0–0 (4–1) | 4–1 | 4–2 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 8/29 | |||||
| Color key: Home Away Win Shootout win Shootout loss Loss< | -- Postponed--> | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Club | Matches | |||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8< | --Win : bgcolor=#DDFCDD | scoreSO win: bgcolor=#DDFCFF | scoreSO loss: bgcolor=#FFFFDD | scoreLoss: bgcolor=#FFDDDD | score--> |
| Chattanooga Red Wolves SC (CHA) | KNX | RIC | LEX | MAD | OMA | KNX | MAD | LEX | ||||
| 0–1 | 1–0 | 3–4 | 0–1 | 2–4 | 1–1 (3–4) | 1–2 | 8/31 | |||||
| Forward Madison FC (MAD) | LEX | CLT | KNX | CHT | KNX | LEX | CHT | OMA | ||||
| 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 8/29 | |||||
| Lexington SC (LEX) | MAD | CV | CHA | KNX | GVL | MAD | KNX | CHA | ||||
| 1–0 | 2–2 (4–1) | 4–3 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 (5–3) | 8/31 | |||||
| One Knoxville SC (KNX) | CHA | NCO | MAD | LEX | MAD | CHA | LEX | TRM | ||||
| 1–0 | 1–5 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 (4–3) | 0–0 (3–5) | 9/1 | |||||
| Color key: Home Away Win Shootout win Shootout loss Loss< | -- Postponed--> | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Club | Matches | |||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8< | --Win : bgcolor=#DDFCDD | scoreSO win: bgcolor=#DDFCFF | scoreSO loss: bgcolor=#FFFFDD | scoreLoss: bgcolor=#FFDDDD | score--> |
| Charlotte Independence (CLT) | TRM | MAD | NCO | RIC | RIC | TRM | GVL | GVL | ||||
| 1–1 (5–4) | 1–2 | 2–2 (2–4) | 1–0 | 2–2 (4–5) | 1–1 (2–3) | 2–1 | 8/30 | |||||
| Greenville Triumph SC (GVL) | RIC | TRM | SPK | TRM | LEX | RIC | CLT | CLT | ||||
| 1–1 (3–5) | 3–2 | 0–0 (5–4) | 3–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 8/30 | |||||
| Richmond Kickers (RIC) | GVL | CHA | TRM | CLT | CLT | GVL | TRM | SPK | ||||
| 1–1 (5–3) | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 2–2 (5–4) | 0–2 | 1–1 (6–5) | 8/29 | |||||
| South Georgia Tormenta FC (TRM) | CLT | GVL | RIC | GVL | CV | CLT | RIC | KNX | ||||
| 1–1 (4–5) | 2–3 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 1–1 (5–4) | 1–1 (3–2) | 1–1 (5–6) | 9/1 | |||||
The ranking of teams for the knockout stage wild card is determined as follows:
| Team | Qualification | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Union Omaha | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 10 | +3 | 13 | Advance to knockout stage (wild card) |
| 2 | Charlotte Independence | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 9 | +1 | 11 | |
| 3 | Lexington SC | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 13 | |
| 4 | Central Valley Fuego FC | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | −1 | 8 | |
| 5 | Chattanooga Red Wolves SC | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 13 | −5 | 4 | |
| 6 | South Georgia Tormenta FC | 7 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | −4 | 6 | |
| 7 | One Knoxville SC | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 12 | |
| 8 | Spokane Velocity FC | 7 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 14 | −7 | 5 | |
| 9 | Richmond Kickers | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 9 |
The winner of each group, as well as the team who scores the most goals in the competition that does not win their group, progress to the knockout stage.
As of .[5] Goals scored in penalty shoot-outs are not counted towards players' goal counts or to match goal counts.
| Rank | Player | Team | Goals | By round | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|    | |||||||||||||
| 1 | Bruno Rendón | Northern Colorado Hailstorm FC | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 2 |  Ethan Hoard | Northern Colorado Hailstorm FC | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 3 |  Steevan Dos Santos | Union Omaha | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Luis Gil | Spokane Velocity FC | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Lyam MacKinnon | Greenville Triumph SC | 1 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| Missael Rodríguez | Union Omaha | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 7 | Luis Álvarez | Charlotte Independence | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
 Ates Diouf | Lexington SC | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
 Pedro Dolabella | Union Omaha | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Juan Carlos Obregón | Charlotte Independence | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Adrian Billhardt | Richmond Kickers | 2 | |||||||||||
| Robert Coronado | Central Valley Fuego FC | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Derek Gebhard | Forward Madison FC | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
 Joel Johnson | Charlotte Independence | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Lagos Kunga | Union Omaha | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Cameron Lancaster | Lexington SC | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
 Mayele Malango | Chattanooga Red Wolves SC | 2 | |||||||||||
 Raúl Mendiola | Central Valley Fuego FC | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Alfredo Midence | Central Valley Fuego FC | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Frank Ross | One Knoxville SC | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Jamie Smith | Greenville Triumph SC | 2 | |||||||||||
 Nil Vinyals | Richmond Kickers | 2 | |||||||||||
 Sebastián Vivas | South Georgia Tormenta FC | 1 | 1 | --> | |||||||||
| Player of the Round (sponsored by eFootball) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Round | Position | Player | Club | Reason | ||
| 1 | FW | Missael Rodríguez | Union Omaha | 2 goals vs. Northern Colorado Hailstorm FC | [6] | |
| 2 | MF | Bruno Rendón | Northern Colorado Hailstorm FC | 2 goals, 1 assist vs. One Knoxville SC | [7] | |
| 3 | FW | Mayele Malango | Chattanooga Red Wolves SC | 2 goals, 1 assist vs. Lexington SC | [8] | |
| 4 | FW | Lyam MacKinnon | Greenville Triumph SC | 2 goals vs. South Georgia Tormenta FC | [9] | |
| 5 | FW | Nil Vinyals | Richmond Kickers | 2 goals vs. Charlotte Independence | [10] | |
| 6 | FW | Shavon John-Brown | Central Valley Fuego FC | Game-winning goal vs. Spokane Velocity FC | [11] | |
| 7 | FW | Steevan Dos Santos | Union Omaha | Game-winning goal vs. Central Valley Fuego FC | [12] | |
| Goal of the Round (sponsored by Select Sport) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Round | Player | Club | Opponent | ||
| 1 | Pierre Reedy | Spokane Velocity FC | Central Valley Fuego FC | [13] | |
| 2 |  Haruki Yamazaki | Northern Colorado Hailstorm FC | One Knoxville SC | [14] | |
| 3 | Adrian Billhardt | Richmond Kickers | South Georgia Tormenta FC | [15] | |
| 4 |  Juan Galindrez | Forward Madison FC | Chattanooga Red Wolves SC | [16] | |
| 5 | Nil Vinyals | Richmond Kickers | Charlotte Independence | [17] | |
| 6 |  Pascal Corvino | Greenville Triumph SC | Richmond Kickers | [18] | |
| 7 | Devin Boyce | Forward Madison FC | Chattanooga Red Wolves SC | [19] | |
