Brimstone Cup

The Brimstone Cup is a soccer trophy awarded to the yearly winner of the Major League Soccer rivalry between Chicago Fire FC and FC Dallas. The Cup is awarded by the Brimstone Cup Committee to the team with the most points in games played between the two. If the two teams have the same points against each other at the end of the year (including MLS regular season and playoff games and the U.S. Open Cup), then the cup stays with the team holding it at the beginning of the year.

Brimstone Cup logo
Type	Cup awarded to the team with the most aggregate points
Teams	Chicago Fire FC FC Dallas
First meeting	2001 (officially)
Latest meeting	September 14, 2019 CHI 4–0 FCD
Stadiums	Toyota Stadium Soldier Field
Statistics
All-time series	18–12–5 (FC Dallas)
2019 series
Series score CHI 1–0 FCD Series Champion CHI

The cup was created during the 2001 season by the supporters' groups of both clubs, Section 8 from Chicago and the Inferno from Dallas.[1] Its name came from a reference of the names of the two teams at the time, as FC Dallas was then known as the Dallas Burn. The name is reflected with a quote from Virgil's Aeneid engraved on the base: "The more the kindled combat rises high'r, The more with fury burns the blazing fire." The two supporters groups contracted with the R.S. Owens Corporation, the makers of the Academy Awards since 1982, to craft the physical Brimstone Cup.[1]

The Brimstone Cup remained in Chicago for the fourth season in a row following a 2–0 Chicago home victory at Toyota Park, now known as SeatGeek Stadium, on August 2, 2015. On July 16, 2016, FC Dallas regained the Cup for the first time in four years with a 3-1 home victory at Toyota Stadium.