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2011 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the TFAR nomination of the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page unless you are renominating the article at TFAR. For renominations, please add   to the top of the discussion and   at the bottom, then complete a new TFAR nom underneath.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/September 16, 2014 by BencherliteTalk 19:09, 30 August 2014 (UTC)



The 2011 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final was a soccer match between Seattle Sounders FC and the Chicago Fire played on October 4, 2011 at CenturyLink Field in Seattle, Washington. The match was the culmination of the 2011 tournament, which was open to amateur and professional soccer teams affiliated with the United States Soccer Federation. This was the 98th edition of the U.S. Open Cup, the oldest ongoing competition in American soccer. Seattle Sounders FC won by defeating the Chicago Fire 2–0 with goals scored by Fredy Montero and Osvaldo Alonso. The attendance of 36,615 at the final set a tournament record. Seattle had previously won the 2009 and 2010 tournaments, making them the first team since 1968 to win three consecutive championships (trophies pictured) and the fourth team to do so in the tournament's history.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Last football related article, Sigi Schmid, on May 12. Last sports related article, Lionel Palairet, on September 2. Both were biographies, not covering stadiums, teams, or events. Aston Villa F.C. (football) ran on 16th of August and 2007 Appalachian State vs. Michigan football game (sporting event) will run on the 29th of August.
 * Main editors: SkotyWa
 * Promoted: 2013
 * Reasons for nomination: I'm nominating this article to run on the same day as the playing of the 2014 US Open Cup final. I believe this would be more relevant than running the article on the anniversary of the event and is a great opportunity to increase awareness of this 101-year-old tournament.  Also one of the participants from the 2011 final has returned to the final this year adding to the relevance.
 * Support as nominator. SkotyWATC 15:27, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Actually Aston Villa F.C. ran on 16th August, and a 2007 American sports game is the TFA on 29th August - see Today's featured article/August 2014 (TFAREC needs updating for the rest of August, as it says). Anfield is also nominated for later in September. BencherliteTalk 19:09, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the clarification. I had assumed TFAREC was up to date. Still this means over 2 weeks will have passed between articles related to sports all up and a month since the last football (soccer) related article. --SkotyWATC 16:59, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Normally it is - as it wasn't (because I had no more time before going on holiday), I left TWO messages on the TFAREC page (top and bottom of the list) saying it was out of date, and you missed both of them. Never mind, no harm done. BencherliteTalk 11:04, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * I just went back and looked at the history of that page. I'm really sorry I missed those.  I guess I got tunnel vision on searching the table and didn't take a minute to read the text outside the table.  My mistake.  Sorry for the confusion/trouble. --SkotyWATC 05:11, 28 August 2014 (UTC)