About
The Riverside County Cup is a home and away cup competition with local semi-pro teams in Riverside County with the aim to promote inter league competition within the region. Usually played during the early fall months.
Rules
Home and Away match. The away goals rule is a method of breaking ties in association football when teams play each other twice, once at each team’s home ground. By the away goals rule, the team that has scored more goals “away from home” will win if scores are otherwise equal. The away goals rule is most often invoked in two-leg fixtures, where the initial result is determined by the aggregate score — i.e. the scores of both games are added together. But if the away team scores 1 away that would equal to 2 home goals scored in a competitive match. In many competitions, the away goals rule is the first tie-breaker in such cases, with a penalty shootout as the second tie-breaker if each team has scored the same number of away goals. Rules vary as to whether the away goals rule applies only to the end of normal time of the second leg, or applies in extra time as well. It will be used in the Riverside County Cup.
List of champions and year recap
2023
Champion: Temecula Fc (4th time)
Notable event:
Only two participants during this edition of the cup as TFC defeated Toros Neza USA in a two-legged final. TFC won 11-3 on aggregate.
2021
Champion: Temecula Fc (3rd time)
Notable event:
Only two participants as the 2020 edition was canceled due to COVID. Two matches where winner is crowned by total goals aggregated from both matches.
2019
Champion: Riverside Coras (1st time)
Notable event:
Toros Neza USA withdrew from the tournament after the third match.
Matches stream:
AC Miracle Hill vs Riverside Coras (2-5)
Riverside Coras vs AC Miracle Hill (6-0)
Temecula FC vs AC Miracle Hill (7-1)
2018
Champion: Temecula FC (2nd time)
Notable event: Riverside Coras withdrew from the tournament due to team manager’s health.
Matches stream:
City legends FC vs Temecula FC (2-3)
Toros Neza USA vs Temecula FC (1-2)
Recap article: From Protagonist soccer writer Steven Ramirez
2017 (1st edition)
Champion: Temecula FC
Overall stats:
| Teams | Games Played | Wins | Draws | Loses | Goal Difference +/- |
| Temecula FC | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 40/21 |
| Riverside Coras | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 22/9 |
| Toros Neza USA | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 21/16 |
| City Legends FC | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3/11 |
| AC Miracle Hill | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3/32 |