Starting XI and Lineup Notes: Colorado vs. St. Louis in the 2026 U.S. Open Cup Semifinal

LINEUP NOTES
Colorado Rapids vs. St. Louis CITY SC
2026 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Semifinal
Sept. 16, 2026
DICK’S Sporting Goods Park; Commerce City, Colo.
Pre-Game Coverage: 9:00 p.m. ET on CBS Sports Network/Paramount+
Kickoff: 9:30 p.m. ET on CBS Sports Network, Paramount+

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Colorado Rapids Starting XI

31-Adam Beaudry, 4-Reggie Cannon, 6-Rob Holding, 5-Loic Williams (C), 29-Miguel Navarro, 13-Wayne Frederick, 8-Hamzat Ojediran, 10-Paxten Aaronson, 7-Morgan Whittaker, 77-Darren Yapi, 93-Georgi Minoungou

Substitutes: 61-Bryan Dowd, 9-Sayed Abu Farkhi, 12-Joshua Atencio, 24-Noah Cobb, 32-Donavan Phillip, 2-Keegan Rosenberry, 99-Jackson Travis

Not Dressed: 26-Mamadou Billo Diop, 15-Ali Fadal, 16-Alexander Harris, 88-Youssef Maziz, 1-Zack Steffen, 27-Kimani Stewart-Baynes, 33-Kosi Thompson

St. Louis CITY SC Starting XI

1-Roman Bürki (C), 5-Lukas MacNaughton, 32-Timo Baumgartl, 21-Dante Polvara, 6-Conrad Wallem, 14-Tomas Totland, 8-Christopher Durkin, 24-Daniel Edelman, 77-Jeong Sangbin, 23-Alexandru-Irinel Matan, 11-Simon Becher

Substitutes: 42-Damion Downs, 27-Fallou Fall, 39-Benjamin Lundt, 59-Mykhi Joyner, 99-Jaziel Orozco, 7-Tomas Ostrak, 19-Carlo Holse

Not Dressed: 12-Celio Pompeu, 29-Palmer Ault, 18-Charles-Emile Brunet, 20-Rafael Dos Santos, 4-Mbacke Fall, 46-Caden Glover, 22-Kyle Hiebert, 80-Brendan McSorley, 31-Christian Eduardo Olivares Molina, 33-Tyson Pearce, 28-Miguel Perez, 91-Zachary Zengue

ADDITIONAL NOTES

• Colorado Rapids have reached the U.S. Open Cup Semifinals for the first time this century, last making it this far in 1999 when they finished runners-up. The Rapids faced lower-division opposition in their previous two semi-finals, losing to the Rochester Raging Rhinos in 1996 before beating Charleston Battery in 1999.
• St. Louis CITY SC has reached the Semifinals for the first time in just the club’s third entry in the competition. One of the three rounds St. Louis advanced in during this year’s competition was a fourth-round win at Chicago, its only ever away victory in the U.S. Open Cup.
• Colorado and St. Louis have met on eight prior occasions, exclusively in MLS play. The all-time series is knotted up at 3W-3L-2D, though St. Louis has picked up a pair of 1-0 victories—home and away—against Colorado this season.