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2009 Chicago Fire season

Field	Value
image	Chicago Fire SC wordmark secondary.svg
club	Chicago Fire
season	2009
league	Major League Soccer
manager	Denis Hamlett
chairman	Andrew Hauptman
average attendance	15,071
largest win	DAL 1-3 CHI (3/21)
largest loss	CHI 0-3 DAL (5/31)
cup1	MLS
cup1 result	5th overall (2nd in Eastern Conference)
cup2	MLS Cup Playoffs
cup2 result	Conference Final
cup3	U.S. Open Cup
cup3 result	Round of 16
cup4	Superliga
cup4 result	Runners-up
cup5	Brimstone Cup
cup5 result	No winner determined
league topscorer	Brian McBride (7)
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prevseason	2008
nextseason	2010

The 2009 Chicago Fire season was the club's 11th year of existence, as well as their 12th season in Major League Soccer and 12th consecutive year in the top-flight of American soccer. It began with a 3–1 away win over FC Dallas on March 21, 2009, and ended with a loss on penalties to Real Salt Lake in the Eastern Conference Final on November 14, 2009.

As of 2025, this is the most recent appearance for the Fire in the conference finals and was the last time the club won a playoff game until 2025.

Roster

Squad

As of July 17, 2009. -- Do NOT add new players before their signing is officially announced by the club -- and do NOT assign unreferenced jersey numbers as well. -- Do NOT create articles for new draft picks until they make either their MLS or U.S. Open Cup debut, and do not add red wikilinks to these players as it prevents the creation of articles by people who don't understand the WP:FOOTY notability guidelines -- Players with international caps should NOT be bolded - as per Wikipedia:WikiProject_Football/Clubs -- This is Wikipedia, not a football gazette. -- Any unconfirmed and unsourced signing/transfer will be reverted at sight. -- Thanks in advance.

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Transfers

In

Out

Club

Management

Other information

Competitions

Overall

Standings

Results summary

Matches

MLS regular season

March

Cooper Soumaré McBride Thorrington Pappa Blanco Olsen Jakovic Burch

April

Pappa Richards Johnson Convey Alvarez Corrales Salinas Segares McBride Robinson Rolfe McBride Soumaré Wolff Wolff Wolff Moreno Padula Zayner Ward Thorrington McBride Segares

May

Pappa Rolfe Montero Marshall Riley

Larentowicz Heaps Busch McBride Rolfe Nagamura Galindo Galindo Marsch Harris Trujillo Talley Blanco Conde Segares Blanco Nyarko Blanco Ward Soumaré Brown Torres Cunningham Ricchetti Cooper

June

Ward Davis Wondolowski Gomez Gomez Thorrington Pappa Conde Pause

July

Peterson Casey Conde Carroll Gaven Hejduk Nyarko Blanco Wondolowski Zaher Ianni Ljungberg Thorrington

August

Nyarko Clark Ching Holden Prideaux Busch Rolfe
Lowry Blanco Hercegfalvi Mapp Banner Pause Miglioranzi Donovan Ricketts Banner Robinson Robinson Casey Kimura Cummings Gibbs Burch Fred Namoff Jakovic

September

Olave Olave Rolfe Carr Lowry Mapp Schelotto Schelotto Prideaux McBride Wynne Barrett Robinson

October

Birchall Klein McBride Cuesta

MLS playoffs

Osei Joseph Husidic Blanco Jankauskas Larentowicz Prideaux Blanco Wingert Beckerman Johnson McBride Conde Thorrington Brown Pause Prideaux Morales Findley Beckerman Johnson Espindola Grabavoy

SuperLiga 2009

Conde Eskandarian Viniegra Pulido Cabrera Garcia Jankauskas McBride Blanco Blanco Pappa Itamar Banner Rolfe Mapp Woolard Viniegra Ayala Pulido Itamar

U.S. Open Cup

Bundy Briggs Watson

Friendlies

Pardo

References

"USA Major League Soccer - Attendance - 2009". ESPN Soccernet.
"Chicago Fire Roster". Chicago-Fire.com.
(January 15, 2009). "Dream comes true for Husidic". MLSnet.com.
(March 20, 2009). "Ward, Fire hope to help each other". MLSnet.com.
(November 2010). "Chicago Fire sign goalkeeper Andrew Dykstra". Chicago Fire Communications Department.
(October 26, 2008). "Gutierrez cherishes MLS memories". MLSnet.com.
(November 2010). "Weekly Notes: Roster changes". Chicago Fire Communications Department.
(November 2010). "Chicago Fire waive goalkeeper Nick Noble". Chicago Fire Communications Department.
(September 2016)

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