The Fire play their 32nd game of a 34-game regular season on Wednesday night at Soldier Field against the Eastern Conference’s 13th-place team. Of course, that isn’t the main narrative here, nor the way the game has been presented. The game along Lake Michigan will almost
The Fire traveled to Harrison, New Jersey looking for their first win since the Leagues Cup break. They got it. In a match where both they and the Red Bulls were level on points and on the outside of the postseason picture looking in, the Fire achieved a win – something
The Fire travel to Harrison, New Jersey, to face the New York Red Bulls, a team level with them on points but behind in the standings due to tiebreakers. The point - and, more importantly, dropped points from teams above and below them in the standings, meaning that the playoffs remain
Two teams in turmoil met at Soldier Field on Saturday, and though both showed mettle, neither ultimately left satisfied as the teams played to a 2-2 draw. The Chicago Fire entered the match in the midst of a team-record goalless drought, and the New England Revolution, on their
After a 3-0 shellacking courtesy of a Cucho Hernández hat trick – the second fastest in league history – at Lower.com field in Columbus, Ohio on Wednesday, the Chicago Fire return to Soldier Field for their first and only home game in the month of September. Their opponent is the
The Fire head to Ohio’s capital to face the Crew on Wednesday in search of points as the team tries to punch its ticket to the postseason for the first time in six seasons. The match comes as the Fire are in the midst of their second-longest goalless
When the Fire take to the pitch at Stade Saputo in Montréal on Saturday, it will have been over two months since their last victory in the league. Even if that is due in no small part to the monthlong Leagues Cup break, it has been 18,787 seconds of
The Chicago Fire traveled to the nation’s capital to face D.C. United in possession of the ninth and final postseason spot in the Eastern Conference. No more. The Fire were out-possessed, out-chanced and outplayed as they lost 4-0 to the team immediately behind them in
Three days after a disappointing 1-0 loss to the visiting Vancouver Whitecaps, the Fire head back on the road for a crucial matchup against D.C. United. D.C. are in 10th place in the Eastern Conference, two points and one spot behind the Fire, who retain a hold
Just shy of four days after the team lost 3-0 against the L.A. Galaxy in California, the Fire are back in action, this time at Soldier Field. The home match – the last for the team until September 23, comes at a critical time for the Fire, with the
The Fire went to Carson, California on their last Western Conference trip of the season looking to return to winning ways in league play. They had reason for confidence - the Fire went into the match with nothing but wins against western conference teams in MLS play this season. That confidence,
The Fire head out to Los Angeles to take on the Galaxy in a one-game road trip. The match is the final away match to MLS’s Western Conference this year. The team will hope to regain the road form they found in the last time they were on
For the first time in four score and seven ye 35 days, the Fire return to Soldier Field to play a regular season MLS game, hosting Orlando City SC. The match comes well over two weeks after the Fire’s last game across all competitions, a 1-0 loss to
And then there was one. The Fire now only have one competition on their schedule for the rest of the year, the MLS regular season. The team currently sits in eighth place in the Eastern Conference, in a playoff spot with eleven games – almost exactly one-third – of their season
Nine months after current Chicago Red Stars owner Arnim Whisler announced his intention to sell the Chicago Red Stars of the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL), a new ownership group lead by Laura Ricketts has announced that they have an agreement in principle to buy the club. The team
The Fire once again find themselves in a must-win game: the knockout round of a tournament. Their opponent? Club América, is the continent’s biggest, most famous, most storied club. The one with the most titles in the history of Mexican football. It isn’t the first match between
