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The second oldest continuously running Cup tournament in the world is the US Open Cup. The 101st US Open Cup Final will be held this coming Tuesday (Sept 16), between Philadelphia Union and Seattle Sounders.
For most of its history, the US Open Cup has been an amateur tournament. During the 1920s, professional teams competed, but disagreements between the league and the then-USFA over Cup participation, combined with the stock market crash and great depression, led to a collapse of professional soccer in the US in the early '30s.
MLS teams have competed in the US Open Cup since the league's first season in 1996. Teams in the old NASL never participated.
The most successful teams in the competition have been Bethlehem Steel FC, a professional team in the 1920s, and Maccabi Los Angeles, an amateur team that dominated the 1970s.
Bethlehem Steel was a strong enough team in their heyday to ignite a diplomatic row over their "poaching" of players from Manchester United and other English teams.
In the MLS era, an MLS team has won the Cup every year except 1999, when the semi-pro Rochester Rhinos won, upsetting four MLS teams in the process. The most successful MLS team in the tournament are the Chicago Fire with four Cups, though Seattle has the chance to win their fourth Cup this year.
It's an absolutely bizarre tournament, but its history is more or less the history of the sport in the US. This year I saw AC Schwaben, an amateur club in the Chicago suburbs that has been around since 1926, take on Dayton Dutch Lions, a semi-pro club from Ohio that featured the grandson of Cruyff (who, other than a nifty touch or two, was not that good).
For more information, see this.
Also, come back on Tuesday night. A Cup final is always an entertaining match.
I'd recommend reading a couple books if you really want the answers you're looking for:
Soccer in a Football World
Distant Corners: American Soccer's History of Missed Opportunities and Lost Causes