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BRIMSTONE CUP GAMES

Date Comp Score Note
2010
10-2-10 Season CHI at FCD --
5-27-10 Season FCD at CHI --
2009 - FC Dallas retains Cup.  (3-3) tie cup stays with holder rule.
5-31-09 Season FCD 3 @ CHI 0 Coming off a Thursday game, undefeated Chicago rests some players.  Worst record in the league FCD surprises most observers and comes out in a 4-5-1 formation.  Cunningham scores off a corner, McCarty free kick ends in a Brown own goal, and Cooper scores a pretty free kick goal late in the game.  Soumare receives second yellow and is sent off. 
3-21-09 Season CHI 3 @ FCD 1 Chicago takes the season opener down in Dallas continuing recent trend of road wins in this series.  Cooper scores a notable goal from past midfield.  Chicago controlls possession and scores three straight goals.  Mapp, McBride, and and Blanco scoring for Chicago.
2008 - FC Dallas wins '08 Brimstone Cup (6-0)
9-21-08 Season FCD 4 @ CHI 1 Cunningham brace in Dallas biggest series win in Chicago.  Pitchkolan and Guarda also score.  McBride nets for Chciago.
6-15-08 Season CHI 0 @ FCD 1 Cooper nads the long goal in the match.
2007 - FC Dallas wins '07 Brimstone Cup (4-1)
9-20-07 Season CHI 1 @ FCD 1 Strong defensive game by Chicago looks to have tied the BC, but Ruiz steals the Cup with a goal 3+ minutes into stoppage time.
CHI: Rolfe.  FCD: Ruiz
5-17-07 Season FCD 2 @ CHI 1 Cooper and Toja net for FCD on the road in the first half, Calen Carr gets one back but FCD holds on to win.
FCD: Cooper, Toja.  CHI: Carr
2006 - FC Dallas wins '06 Brimstone Cup (6-0)
7-16-06 Season FCD 3 @ CHI 2 In Chicago, another come from behind win by the same score line despite the brace from Herron.
FCD: Nunez, Rhine, Cooper. CHI: Herron (2).
4-1-06 Season CHI 2 @ FCD 3 Brimstone Cup opens up 2006 season in Dallas.
CHI: Barrett and Rolfe. FCD: Alvarez, Mina, Cooper
2005 - FC Dallas wins '05 Brimstone Cup (6-3)
9-28-05 USOC CHI 0 @ FCD 1 Ronnie O'Brien nets for FCD in first Brimstone Cup game at PHP.
6-12-05 Season CHI 2 @ FCD 0 Jaqua and Reiter take out FCD at the last Cotton Bowl BC game.
4-2-05 Season FCD 2 @ CHI 1 Last BC game at the Solider Field.  Mulrooney and Johnson for Dallas.  Kelly Gray nets for Chicago.
For 2005 The Dallas Burn are renamed FC Dallas.
2004 -- Dallas wins '04 Brimstone Cup (6-0)
8-28-04 Season CHI 1 @ DAL 4 DAL: O'Brien, Johnson (2), Nhleko. CHI: Jaqua
Johnson speed to much for banged up Fire missing Armas and Razov
Dallas wins Brimstone Cup as teams could only meet again in MLS Cup Final.
4-17-04 Season DAL 2 @ CHI 0 DAL: Johnson, Rhine
Domination by Burn in Chicago over a tired beat up squad. 
2003 -- Dallas retains the Brimstone Cup (3-3) tie cup stays with holder rule.
9-20-83 Season CHI 0 @ DAL 2 CHI: none; DAL: Nhleko, Johnson
Chicago has the misfortune of being the first team Dallas faces after Coach Mike Jeffries is fired.
6-18-03 Season DAL 1 @ CHI 4 DAL: Suarez; CHI: Razov (2), Ralph, Gray
A hard fought close game until Chicago scores two goals late to put it away.
2002 -- Dallas wins '02 Brimstone Cup (6-0)
8-10-02 Season CHI 1 @ DAL 3 CHI - Stoitchkov; DAL - Pareja, Kreis, O'Brien.
Burn take Brimstone Cup after it becomes impossible for the Burn to meet CHIcago in the playoffs.
6-15-02 Season DAL 3 @ CHI 1 DAL - Kreis (2), Rhine ; CHI - Wolyniec
2002, MLS folded Miami and Tampa Bay.  League realigned to East and West with Chicago and Dallas in different divisions.  Consequently Dallas and Chicago only face each other twice a year.
2001 -- Chicago wins 1st Brimstone Cup (11-5)
9-29-01 Playoffs DAL 0 @ CHI 2 Chicago takes the 1st Brimstone Cup. Chicago captain Peter Nowak recorded a pair of assists in the win, leading the Fire past their archrivals.
9-20-01 Playoffs DAL 0@ CHI 2 The shutout registered by Fire goalkeeper Zach Thornton was his seventh career playoff clean sheet which ties him with Columbus Crew goalkeeper Tom Presthus for the all-time playoff lead. "It's a heated rivalry and there are a bunch of guys on both teams who are not fond of each other," Marsch said.
9-23-01 Playoffs CHI 1 @ DAL 1 DAL--Deering (Rhine, Kreis) 27, CHI--J. Beasley (Kovalenko, Nowak) 84
9-15-01 Season canceled 9/11 caused the cancellation of end of MLS season.
9-8-01 Season DAL 2 @ CHI 2 D. Beasley and Razov end up in hospital.   "Best MLS game I have ever seen"  says a TV producer.
7-21-01 Season DAL 1 @ CHI 2 Eric Wynalda scored in the final minute of overtime to lift Chicago to a dramatic 2-1 victory over Dallas at Soldier Field.
4-21-01 Season CHI 2 @ DAL 3 (OT) 1st Official Brimstone Cup Game, Dallas down 2-0 with 9 minutes to play comes back to win.
2001 was the first season the Brimstone Cup was awarded.
2000 - (Not Awarded) Chicago (9pts - 6pts)
8-30-00 Season DAL 0 @ CHI 4 Josh Wolff and DaMarcus Beasley had two goals apiece as Chicago routed Dallas 4-0 Wednesday night at Soldier Field to clinch a berth in the MLS Cup 2000 Playoffs.
8-16-00 Season CHI 0 @ DAL 3 Rookie Aleksey Korol had a pair of goals as Dallas cruised past Chicago 3-0 Wednesday night at the Cotton Bowl. The depleted Fire were beaten for the first time in six games.
8-9-00 USOC DAL 1 @ CHI 5 USOC Quarterfinals, not played at Solider Field.
5-24-00  Season DAL 3 @ CHI 4 (OT) Burn took a 3-1 lead on Chicago at Soldier Field after Evan Whitfield was given an early red.  The Fire came back to win the game in overtime.
3-18-00 Season CHI 2 @ DAL 4 Hristo Stoitchkov's first MLS game, the Fire are up 2-1 halftime lead with two goals from Hristo. The Burn score three second half goals to win the game 4-2.
1999 -- (Not Awarded) Dallas (12pts - 9pts)
10-27-99 Playoffs CHI 2 @ DAL 3 Dallas came back from an 0-2 deficit in the first six minutes to win, 3-2.  This game is regarded by many in MLS (not just Burn fans) as the greatest single game in MLS history.
10-23-99 Playoffs DAL 0 @ CHI 4 Dema Kovalenko made a late challenge against Burn defender Brandon Pollard and broke Pollard’s leg.
10-16-99 Playoffs CHI 1 @ DAL 2 Graziani takes part in both goals to lead Dallas to the win.
8-22-99 Season CHI 3 (0) @ DAL 3 (1) Newly acquired Dallas forward Ariel Graziani notched a goal and an assist in his home debut for the Burn to help his team to a 4-3 shootout win
7-4-99  Season CHI 2 @ DAL 1 Ante Razov exploded for two goals, Chicago pulls even with Dallas for second place in the Western Conference.
7-2-99  Season DAL 1 (0) @ CHI 1 (1) Chicago midfielder Diego Gutierrez tallied the game-winning shootout goal, The Fire out shot Dallas 20-4 and owned a commanding edge in possession percentage, 57-43.
4-10-99 Season DAL 0(1) @ CHI 0 (0) The Dallas Burn rode the hot goalkeeping of second-year netminder Matt Jordan to ruin the defending MLS Cup champion Chicago Fire's 1999 home opener, as the Burn sent 27,311 fans at Soldier Field home unhappy with the result of a 1-0 shootout decision.
1998 -- (Not Awarded) Chicago (9pts - 3pts)
9-10-98  Season CHI 2 @ DAL 3 Burn brings the ball length of the field with under :20 left on the clock.  Jorge Zarco Rodriguez scores in the last seconds (:02 left) to win the game, 3-2. 
8-4-98  USOC CHI 3 vs DAL 2  In New Orleans, USOC Semifinals
7-4-98 Season CHI 1 @ DAL 0 Lubos Kubik continued to haunt the Dallas Burn as the defender scored the lone goal in Chicago's 11th straight victory Saturday night at the Cotton Bowl. Chicago beat the Burn for the third time in less than three weeks, and Kubik scored goals in each of the three victories.
7-1-98  Season DAL 1 @ CHI 4 Jerzy Podbrozny and Lubos Kubik paced a first-half explosion as the Chicago Fire defeated the Dallas Burn, 4-1, for its 10th consecutive victory.
6-17-98 Season DAL 0 @ CHI 1 Thornton made a career-high 10 saves and Kubik scored the game-winning goal on a penalty kick in the 64th minute, giving Chicago a 1-0 victory over the Dallas Burn before 9,638 on a rainy night at Soldier Field in the first ever meeting between the two teams.
Chicago Fire join MLS in 1998 Season.

 

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