A playwright couldn’t have set the stage any better: The Chicago Fire are headed to Ft. Lauderdale to take on Lionel Messi and the rest of Inter Miami’s star-studded roster in the only MLS game being played that day. A win for the Fire will book the team
The Chicago Fire faced the Columbus Crew, the team that took them down 4-2 in their season opener and walked away with a 2-0 victory at the end of the night. The win – the second multi-goal win and second clean sheet in a row for the Fire against a playoff-bound
The Chicago Fire made a giant leap closer to MLS postseason qualification for the first time since 2017 when they defeated the Columbus Crew 2-0 on Saturday. The Men in Red's long-awaited return to the playoffs is now so close they can taste it, but there is still
The Chicago Fire took two giant leaps closer to an MLS playoff spot tonight, and are now so near they can feel it. A dominant 2-0 home victory over a spiraling Columbus Crew is enough to put the Men in Red within one win of clinching a postseason berth for
Last Saturday, the Chicago Fire started three center backs for the first time this year. They also kept a clean sheet, scored three times and walked away with their first win against a team currently in a playoff spot since June 28th. With a result like that against one of
As part of a series of moves to slowly but surely peel open the curtain on the league’s opaque salary cap structure, MLS has begun releasing the amount of General Allocation Money (GAM) in each team’s coffers several times a year. In the most recent release that came
Seven months after the Chicago Fire kicked off their season in Columbus, the Fire are set to meet the Crew once again, this time at Soldier Field. In the first game of the Gregg Berhalter era in Chicago, the team showed both their promise, getting off to a two goal
In many ways, Christopher Cupps is like a normal 17-year-old kid. He walks his dog, rides his bike, goes to club soccer practice, and plays his games on the weekend. Except that club is the Chicago Fire first team, and those games are high-stakes Major League Soccer contests. And unlike
The Chicago Fire's 2026 roster is already continuing to take shape, and three more players saw their contract renewals confirmed this afternoon – Jonathan Dean, Jeff Gal, and Chris Mueller. The announcement comes six days after the club re-signed homegrown products Chris Brady, Sergio Oregel, and Mauricio Pineda to
The Chicago Fire secured one of the most important wins in years last night, stunning Minnesota United 3-0 at Allianz Field. It was a victory with major playoff implications for the Fire, and is a form of revenge against the team that eliminated them from the U.S. Open Cup
Two months ago, Allianz Field in Minnesota was the site of the Fire’s most heartbreaking loss of 2025. Tonight, it hosted one of their most important wins. With a 3-0 victory in St. Paul, the Fire stay in a playoff position with four games to go, and by picking
The Chicago Fire return to Allianz Field, the site of the team’s quarter-final exit from the U.S. Open Cup in July. As with last week’s game against New York City, the Fire will be looking to avenge a 3-1 defeat that spiraled from an early red card.
In 2025, the Chicago Fire have played a brand of fun-to-watch soccer and the results have also picked up: The team’s 42 points eclipses the total they’ve had any year since the 2017 season, the last year that the Fire made the playoffs. Although the Fire have continued
The Chicago Fire have signed homegrown trio Chris Brady, Sergio Oregel Jr., and Mauricio Pineda to multi-year contract extensions, the club announced this morning. The deals come after all three have been major first team contributors for the Fire in 2025. Oregel is in the final year of his initial
The Chicago Fire returned to Soldier Field for the first time since July looking to extend an undefeated run at home that extended past two months. The streak – built largely off of results at SeatGeek – saw the team finally claw its way to a winning record at home but ended
A week after a win at SeatGeek gave the Chicago Fire a winning record at home for the first time this season and sent the team ahead of one New York team in the standings, the Fire looked to repeat the feat, facing New York City FC, a team that