Welcome to Fire20, our weekly series celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Chicago Fire Soccer Club by making deep dives into the team’s history. This week we look back at Harry Shipp’s spectacular hat-trick against NYRB in 2014.
There was not a whole lot that went right for the Fire in 2014. They posted an MLS regular season record of 6-10-18 (yes the historic drawing had begun), accumulating just 36 points, leaving them in 9th place in the Eastern Conference, well out of the playoffs.
Chicago reached the semifinals of the U.S. Open Cup, but were bounced in humiliating fashion 6-0 by Seattle, and their top goal scorer found the back of the net only nine times across all competitions.