CHICAGO, Ill. — Some soccer games are forgettable. This one could probably have been summarized in an email. The 14th-placed Chicago Fire played their final MLS game until late August against New York City FC in front of over 25,000 fans, but the game did not match the crowd’s
The Fire return home for their last game at Soldier Field until the end of August 31st desperately seeking a win before heading out on the road for two games over the next week. They’re hosting New York City FC, the youngest team in the league by average age
Heading into PayPal Park in San Jose last Sunday, the Fire had a choice: Knowing that a win would put them level on points (though behind on tiebreakers) with teams in postseason spots, they could make things easy for the remaining dozen games of their season, or they could make
Any ounce of existing Chicago Fire momentum died with a quiet whimper tonight as the Men in Red stumbled to a 1-0 loss against the last-placed San Jose Earthquakes. The Fire had rallied from 3-1 down late to win 4-3 against the Philadelphia Union last Wednesday but could not build
The Fire won a hard-fought, come-from behind battle against the Philadelphia Union on Wednesday, in a match where the team gave hints about the next steps in its tactical evolution. On Sunday, they face a San Jose Earthquakes side that’s on the ropes, with just three wins and two
After a midweek win at home, the Fire return to the road for their final Western Conference matchup of the regular season to take on the San Jose Earthquakes, the team that has far and away the worst record in Major League Soccer, and who are just two matches – both
The Chicago Fire stunned the Philadelphia Union 4-3, completing a late comeback. We spoke with head coach Frank Klopas as well as Fabian Herbers, Maren Haile-Selassie, and Gastón Giménez after the final whistle.
CHICAGO, Ill. — Tonight’s 4th of July fireworks paled in comparison to the ones that played out on the Soldier Field pitch. If was there that the Chicago Fire earned a 4-3 home win over the Philadelphia Union, exercising late-game heroics against a struggling but talented team. Hugo Cuypers scored
After a disappointing loss in second-half stoppage time, the Fire remain in the 15th and final place in MLS’s Eastern Conference, and are now six points behind Atlanta and Toronto for the final postseason spots. The team has strange company on the outside of the postseason picture in the
The Fire are back home for the first time since the start of June in one of two home matches in the first of just two matches at Soldier Field in July. Their opponent is the Philadelphia Union, a team that had long been the toast of the league but
The Fire traveled to Seattle hoping to complete their set of wins over MLS’s three Cascadian-based teams. Things started well for the Fire, who went up with a 1-0 win in the first half, but ultimately disciplinary issues cost the Fire and they remain winless in Seattle after a
The Fire have done it: They’ve finally found a way to the bottom of the table after years spent mostly towards – but never actually at, at least this late in the season – the bottom. Yet the team is also just three points removed from the 9th and final postseason
Until their victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps in 2022, Fire had never won in Cascadia. In 2023, the team notched its first-ever victory in Portland over the Timbers. With Saturday’s test in Seattle against the Sounders, they have a chance to complete a set of away victories over all
For the second year in a row, the Fire traveled to Orlando early in the summer hoping to turn two convincing wins into a three game winning streak. The Fire outshot and out-chanced their opponent, but for the second year in a row, Orlando played the spoiler, this time dispatching
On average across the league, MLS teams win about half their games at home and about a quarter on the road, with draws filling in the rest. The Fire are slightly underperforming the road average – it took until their eighth road game of the season for the team to get
For the second year in a row, the Fire head to Orlando early in the second half of the season after winning their previous two games. Last year, the team had won its previous two games on the road going into the match, the first time in a decade the