After Sunday evening’s massive disappointment at MAPFRE Columbus Crew SC find themselves having won a lone game in their last eleven and looking more like contenders for the Wooden Spoon than the MLS Cup. Optimists will point out the Black and Gold currently sit just two points out of...
Sunday evening’s game was a real chance for some of the Columbus Crew’s role-players to step up and stake a claim for more regular minutes in the second half of the 2019 MLS season. The Black &Gold were without several starters through both injury and international absences, including key...
It was the perfect night for soccer in Columbus, Ohio, but it was far from a perfect performance from Columbus Crew SC. Ultimately it didn’t have to be perfect, as the MLS side was able to navigate its way to a 1-0 victory in its maiden U.S. Open Cup...
Columbus Crew SC announced that Season Ticket Memberships for the 2016 Major League Soccer season are now on sale. During this special pricing window, current Season Ticket Members also have the opportunity to save when they extend for the 2016 campaign. Furthermore, effective today through September 25, new and...
The Columbus Crew announced today that it has re-signed the club’s 2013 Budweiser Golden Boot-winning forward Dominic Oduro. The 28-year-old netted a career-high 13 goals and matched a career-high four assists in his first season with the Black & Gold in 2013. Per Major League Soccer and club policy, terms of...
The Columbus Crew announced Homegrown Player Wil Trapp is set to spend two weeks of his Major League Soccer offseason training with Dutch Eredivisie side PEC Zwolle. The 20-year-old midfielder departed for Holland and will train with the former club of Crew Sporting Director and Head Coach Gregg Berhalter, the team with which...
The Columbus Crew announced that it has been awarded a pair of national club honors. The Crew won the PROMAXBDA Sports Media Marketing Award for Best Spot for the television commercial entitled “Family,” while Crew Stadium was named Sports Turf Managers Association’s 2013 Field of the Year. WATCH: “Family” – winners of PROMAXBDA Sports Media Marketing Award...
The Columbus Crew announced that it has added three defenders ahead of the 2014 season by re-signing Josh Williams and adding Costa Rican leftback Waylon Francis and Columbus native Matt Wiet as the club’s sixth Homegrown Player. Williams and Wiet have been immediately added to the roster while Francis – who will occupy an...
Major League Soccer unveiled its 2014 regular-season schedule Monday, a campaign that sees each of its 19 clubs play a 34-match clip beginning on March 8 and concluding on Oct. 26. For the third consecutive season, each team is scheduled to play an unbalanced schedule that features a single match against...
While the math doesn't have them eliminated yet, the Columbus Crew's playoff chances are slim to none as they fell at home to Sporting Kansas City 1-0. A header from Ike Opara in the 17' off a pass from Graham Zusi was all SKC needed to effectively end Columbus's...
In a friendly match that lived up to its designation, the Columbus Crew and England’s Wigan Athletic played a tentative, loose match that saw a plethora of substitutions and a 2-1 win for the 2013 FA Cup winners. The match started with fairly regular lineups for both teams. Notable...
In what players and coaches both acknowledged was one of the most important games of the season, the Columbus Crew could not muster another win in front of their largest home crowd of the season. For the second straight match, the Crew leapt out to an early lead, giving...
After a two-game losing streak that included a drubbing at the hands of the Philadelphia Union and a disappointing exit from Open Cup play at the hands of the Chicago Fire, the Columbus Crew rebounded Saturday with a shocking win over conference leaders Montreal Impact. On the back of...
After two draws in MLS play seemed to steady the Crew’s 2013 campaign, a 3-0 loss to the Philadelphia Union once again has the team reeling. Goals in the 25th, 29th and 31st minutes of play gave the Union a commanding halftime lead, and the Crew could not recover...
After 13 games of the MLS regular season, the Columbus Crew certainly have an identity. Unfortunately for the team, that identity entails generating an overwhelming number of missed scoring opportunities. In a disappointing 1-1 draw against the visiting Houston Dynamo Saturday, the Crew were able to put __ shots...
The Crew stopped a two game skid in their Trillium Cup matchup with Toronto FC on Saturday with a hard-fought 1-0 victory on the road. Dominic Oduro’s game winning goal brought his tally to five on the season as he splits time between winger and striker. With regular...
The Columbus Crew announced, in conjunction with Major League Soccer, that the 2013 MLS Business Summit is being held in Columbus Sept. 10-12. For the second consecutive year, the Summit brings together representatives in every functional area from the League office and all member clubs to develop strategies and...
Less than an hour before the 7:30 p.m. kickoff of the Columbus Crew hosting DC United, a fire in the speaker cabinet of the stadium’s scoreboard forced a match delay while the Columbus Fire Department extinguished the flames. The damage was contained to the scoreboard, and fans were left...
For the third time in as many games, the Columbus Crew stunned their opponent with a late winner, giving them their fourth straight victory and extending their unbeaten streak to six games. Goals by Chad Marshall and Emilio Renteria gave the Crew a 2-1 edge over visiting Montreal Impact,...
At a press conference Thursday morning, the Columbus Crew officially announced their newest signing Federico Higuain. The Argentinian forward is the third designated player in the club’s history after Andrés Mendoza and fellow Argentinian Guillermo Barros Schelotto. Higuan, formerly of the Argentine Primera División’s Club Atlético Colón, said that...
In the Crew’s first match since the death of Kirk Urso on August 5, players coaches and fans performed with heavy hearts and played to a 1-1 draw with visiting LA Galaxy in Crew Stadium. The match began with tributes to Urso by the team and fans, and the...
Wednesday marked the Columbus Crew’s return to soccer. The match against the Los Angeles Galaxy was the perfect restart after the Crew cancelled their match against Toronto on Saturday due to the funeral of midfielder Kirk Urso. Urso was remembered before Wednesday’s game, 10 days after passing away in...
The Columbus Crew announced Sunday morning that 22-year-old midfielder Kirk Urso passed away last night. Urso has been battling injuries that has kept him out of the lineup since May. Before his injury he had made six appearances, starting in five. Urso did not make the trip to D.C....
The closing minutes of Saturday’s contest in Columbus Crew Stadium had those clad in black and gold biting their fingernails but Columbus goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum received a friendly bounce off the post to preserve a 1-0 shutout over DC United. It was Gruenebaum’s seventh clean sheet of the...
The Columbus Crew’s anemic offense had yet another frustrating evening. Before many of those in attendance had a chance to take their seats Saturday evening, the Crew found themselves down a goal to Sporting Kansas City. For a team that struggles to score goals, Columbus’ 1-0 deficit must have...
The electricity that most of Columbus is missing seemed to find its way to Columbus Crew Stadium Saturday evening just in time to spark the Columbus Crew to a dominating 2-0 victory over Real Salt Lake in front of a season-high crowd of 19,674. A power outage caused the...
The 1,646 faithful fans that came to Crew Stadium to watch the Crew’s opening U.S. Open Cup game left stunned after Columbus was eliminated 2-1 at the hands of the Dayton Dutch Lions. The Crew looked dominant for much of the game, holding the vast majority of possession, and...
Despite his popularity among Crew fans, Eddie Gaven often eludes the spotlight. His quiet demeanor and lack of flash might not catch the eye of the casual observer, but Gaven was instrumental for Columbus in their unbeaten May. Gaven started all five games in the month, and was one...
The Columbus Crew rallied to defeat FC Dallas 2-1 at Crew Stadium. Head Coach Robert Warzycha talks about the win, the header by Justin Meram and how his team played with a man up against Dallas. Justin Meram talks about getting his chance to play against FC Dallas,...
Despite dominating possession and the stat sheet, the Crew were unable to capitalize on their opportunities, while the visiting Vancouver Whitecaps needed just one lucky moment to defeat the Crew 1-0. Lee Young-Pyo’s 74th minute free kick gave Vancouver the game’s only goal, keeping Columbus near the bottom of...
After two straight victories, the Crew were unable to continue their winning ways in a 1-4 loss at the hands of the New York Red Bulls. Two goals in the first 13 minutes from New York forward Kenny Cooper created a hole that the Crew could not dig themselves...
Watch the post-game press conference with Columbus Crew head coach Robert Warzycha after they defeated the MLS expansion Montreal Impact 2-0 in front of a full house at Crew Stadium in the 2012 home opener.
The Columbus Crew opened their home season with a 2-0 win over the expansion Montreal Impact in MLS play. Goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum talks with Columbus Wired’s Justin Boggs after the match and talks about the win, the play of the defenders in front of him and how he feels...
After playing only 23 minutes in the Crew’s first game of the season in Colorado, the team’s new striker Olman Vargas got his opportunity to start in the home opener Saturday against the Montreal Impact. The striker started up top along with veteran forward Emilio Renteria, and the pairing...
As the Columbus Crew prepare for their home opener against the expansion Montreal Impact, Columbus Wired’s Justin Boggs talked to the Crew’s William Hessmer, Eddie Gavin and head coach Robert Warzycha to get their thoughts on the upcoming match.
Despite a 3-2 loss in their season finale in Chicago, the Crew earned the third wild card spot in the 2011 MLS Cup. After a change in playoff format, the wild card system will send The Crew to Colorado on Wednesday, where the 2nd wild card Rapids will host...
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. – The Columbus Crew had an opportunity to make a huge statement of “we’re back” going into the MLS playoffs this week. Instead, they have to spectate a game being played over 1,000 miles away as Columbus fell to the Chicago Fire 3-2 Saturday evening. The loss...
Crew Head Coach Robert Warzycha signed a multiyear contract on Thursday, his first new deal since taking the head coach job three years ago. The former Crew player and assistant’s deal will reportedly last two years, with an option for the club to extend the deal for up to...
Coming into Saturday afternoon, the Crew had their work cut out for them. With a 1-0 loss in the Colorado leg of the aggregate series, the team needed a two goal victory to avoid overtime or every player’s worst nightmare, the penalty kick shootout. Unfortunately for the Crew, even...
After rattling off two wins in a row against Trinidad’s Joe Public and the Philadelphia Union of the MLS, the Crew finally seemed to rebound from their 1-2-3 six game stretch. The slide included two losses to the Seattle Sounders, including a devastating 2-1 Open Cup final. The last...
After losing their lead in the MLS eastern conference, the Columbus Crew needed some good news. Though things haven’t improved much in the way of playoff standings, the CONCACAF Champions League provided a bright spot for a team struggling to turn things around. On Tuesday, group leaders Santos Laguna...
In the history of the MLS, only one goalkeeper has ever scored a goal. In October of 2008, Danny Ceparo, keeper of the New York Red Bulls, took a free kick from only a few yards outside of his own 18-yard box. The kick bounced awkwardly at the the...
Once again, the curse of the black jerseys struck again Tuesday night, while the Crew did something they hadn’t since 2009. With the Seattle Sounders at home, the squad decided to wear their neon “green” uniforms, forcing the Crew to abandon their banana kits and don the black jerseys...
In a soggy, cold night in Columbus, the eastern conference-leading Crew came into their Saturday evening game against the San Jose Earthquakes knowing that they could clinch a playoff spot with just a little bit of help. When the dust (or mud) settled in Crew Stadium, the team had...
In what seemed to be a torrential downpour in Guatemala Wednesday, the Crew couldn’t quite pull off a third straight Champions League victory. At the hands of Municipal, who the Crew defeated 2-0 in Columbus in their first meeting, the Crew came away with a 2-1 loss with leaders...