Southwestern Showdown

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Southwestern Showdown
Other namesBattle for "The Golden Rattler"
Location Southwestern United States
Teams Albuquerque Sol FC
FC Tucson
First meetingAlbuquerque 1–1 Tucson [1]
June 6, 2014
Latest meetingTucson 2–1 Albuquerque
July 3, 2017 [2]
Statistics
Meetings total12 (9–2–1 Tucson)
All-time series4–0 (Tucson)
Largest victoryTucson 5–0 Albuquerque
July 13, 2016 [3]

The Southwestern Showdown is an annual rivalry series first held in 2014 between FC Tucson and Albuquerque Sol FC, soccer clubs in USL League Two. The club to gain the most league standings points over the course of all regular-season meetings is given the Golden Rattler, a trophy depicting a rattlesnake ready to strike, to hold for the following year. [4]

Contents

Inaugural series

The first ever match between the two clubs was held on June 6, 2014 at Ben Rios Field in Albuquerque, a 1–1 draw. [5] A day later on the same field Tucson won 3–0. [6] Tucson secured both the 2014 series (7–1) and the Mountain Division title with a 1–0 victory in the final match, held in Tucson on July 4 at the Kino Sports Complex North Stadium. [7]

Results

Three league standings points are awarded for a victory and one for a draw. In the event that the two clubs earn an equal number of league points in their regular-season head-to-head matches, the series tie is broken first by total goals scored within the matches (aggregate score) and then by Mountain Division standings at the end of the regular season. [4]

██Albuquerque Sol FC victory
██FC Tucson victory
██Draw
Series resultsIndividual game results
YearPointsVenueDateScoreReferences
20147 – 1 (FCT)Ben Rios FieldJune 6, 2014ABQ 1 – 1 FCT [1] [8]
Ben Rios FieldJune 7, 2014ABQ 0 – 3 FCT [6]
Kino North StadiumJuly 4, 2014FCT 1 – 0 ABQ [7]
20153 – 3 (FCT)*Ben Rios FieldJune 6, 2015ABQ 1 – 0 FCT [9]
Kino North StadiumJuly 4, 2015FCT 2 – 0 ABQ [10]
post seasonKino North StadiumJuly 18, 2015FCT 2 – 1 ABQ [11]
20166 – 0 (FCT) UNM Soccer StadiumJune 25, 2016ABQ 0 – 2 FCT [3]
Kino North StadiumJuly 13, 2016FCT 5 – 0 ABQ [12]
201710 – 1 (FCT)Ben Rios FieldMay 20, 2017ABQ 2 – 4 FCT [13] [14]
Kino North StadiumJune 24, 2017FCT 3 – 1 ABQ [15] [14]
UNM Soccer StadiumJuly 1, 2017ABQ 2 – 2 FCT [16]
Kino North StadiumJuly 3, 2017FCT 3 – 1 ABQ [2]

* Series tie broken by aggregate score.

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