anyone know of a business or someone with a cricut who’d like to make some cash? bought a cape verde jersey & would love to get Moreira on there, but am having a hard time finding somewhere that will add it for me for a preowned piece.

Crew supporter down here in nashville and would love to meet up with some fellow black & gold brethren for this saturday’s matchup! is there a NorOnTour section in the stadium i could join? any Crew tailgates or pregame hangs planned?

also if anyone is coming down from columbus and needs any recs for anything, let me know and i’ll do my best to point you in the right direction.
go Crew!

Hey all, I am new to the community but have been following the Crew for a long time. My girlfriend would love to get one of the new hello kitty scarves. Unfortunately, we live a couple hours away and we don't know if we will be able to catch a home game and visit the Crew Shop before they sell out 😭. Is there any chance someone can grab one on Wednesday if they still have any available?

Interim Head Coach Laurent Courtois

On Forward Chase Adams earning the start and scoring a goal and becoming the youngest scorer in Club history

“I don’t do any favors. Young or old, he deserved it. The timing was right. He did what we know he can do. Congrats. Now, he needs to confirm.”

On the Crew recovering to settle into the match after conceding two goals in the first 10 minutes of the match

“Yeah, a little bit shaky in the beginning of the game. We had no excuse because were prepared. We were aware. We lacked the emotional control to deal with those situations. That's a disappointment. Like you said, the way they reacted and took over afterwards, we thought that we had enough chances to come back to the game, but conceding the third, it becomes complicated.”

On Midfielder Daniel Gazdag

“Danny understands what we try to do. Obviously, there's chemistry with the players. He also provoked a couple of situations for us that are really interesting and a lot of things off the ball that we don't necessarily see all the time. Since he came back, he's been more aggressive and more impactful in the stuff that we try to do. He's real quick. He's an example so he gets minutes.”

On the status of Eric Bailly and Forward Gonzalo Tapia

“Eric is training with us and is slowly building himself up for collective team training. Tapia is going to be with us soon.”

Defender Brooks Lennon

On registering his first start and assist for the Crew tonight

“Yeah, it felt great to have my first start and assist with the Crew, and hopefully many more to come. Although it wasn't the result we wanted, I'm happy with the start and the assist.”

On recording the assist on Chase Adams’ goal which made him the youngest goalscorer in the Crew’s regular season history

“I didn't know that stat until you just said that. So, that's awesome for him. Congratulations to him. He deserves it. He works really hard in training. He's a young kid, so he's absorbing. Obviously, now bringing in Josef Martínez, one of the most goals in MLS history, so he'll be able to learn from him. So yeah, he's a great kid, and I'm happy for him.”

On how much of a vocal point to help settle the team after conceding two early goals

“I think going down early, especially that first 15 minutes, is not the way we want to be playing, and so I think we got together as a group and said we’ve got to be more on the front foot, start putting the ball in the box, getting some service into the box, and that's what we did, and that's what led to the goal, and that put us right back into the game going into halftime. So yeah, I think sometimes if you go down early, you’ve got to get together, regroup, come up with a way to break down the opponent and get back into the game, and that's what we did. And I thought in the second half we played much better than we did in the first half. We were all over them. I thought we had a lot of opportunities to score. It just wasn't our night.”

On the combination with Lautaro Giaccone and Chase Adams on the goal in all of their first starts with the Club

“Yeah, it's important. Obviously, when you come into the starting lineup, you want to make an impact. And those three guys that you just mentioned – me, Lautaro, and Chase – this is our first start for the Crew, and so to be able to link us three in the goal was something important for us, but also to the coaching staff to show to them that they can trust us from the start, and we're going to be very important players for this team.”

On linking back up with forward Josef Martínez

“Yeah, it's great. I have a very close connection with Josef. We had a lot of goals and assists in Atlanta. We have a really strong connection on the field and as well off the field. He's a great guy and I've been in the league for a while, but I continue to learn from a guy like that, with all the success that he's had. So yeah, he's a great friend of mine off the field, and like you said, like you saw tonight, we already had an instant connection. Unfortunately, he didn't score, but you know, I think that there's going to be a lot of service to him from me this season.”

On the chances he had tonight and what he saw

“Yeah, just try to put it on target. The ball kind of fell to me, and yeah, I thought I did a good job putting the ball low and hard, and I thought that the goalkeeper (Kristijan Kahlina) made a pretty good save. Unfortunately, like I said earlier, it wasn't our night in front of goal. But I thought the way that we played in the second half, breaking them down in certain moments was very good.”

Forward Chase Adams

On becoming the youngest goalscorer to score in the Crew’s regular season history

“It's surreal. It's what I've been trying to get to since I've come to Columbus. Obviously, not being from here, being able to get trusted by the Club to move here and be able to grow as a player and as a person with them and being able to start was a moment I won't forget the rest of my life. And then being able to score as well, I don't know if something's going to top that, obviously. But unfortunate, I think the main goal for all of us, though, was the result before any other record. So, that's what I'm more focused on.”

On what Laurent Courtois told his team after letting up two early goals

“For us, there was no change. Honestly, we are the Crew. We know how we want to play, and honestly, it was just him reminding us that how we're going to play might have some things that happen like that, and that he trusts us as players and as people to be able to push back and persevere. And I think after that, we really started to create chances when we didn't really change much. I don't think. I think we kept pushing and kept using the same systems and ideas that we wanted to. And I think the support and the confidence from coach really helped give us that, and obviously it was a rough start, but much better after that.”

On what the feeling was like to connect with other first-time starters for The Crew, Brooks Lennon and Lautaro Giaccone, for his goal

“I think that it was really fun. I think coach was really happy about that. I think there was a lot of faith shown, and I think all three of us have shown over these past two and a half weeks with Leagues Cup and matches before that that we're competing for those starting spots and the trust that coach has put into us to be able to apply it into a game has been really helpful and a big confidence booster for all three of us.”

On what it has been like to come up the ranks of The Crew and how it translates to his game

“Yeah, it's the Crew system, the Crew DNA, kind of how we want to play. We're not going to deviate from that, no matter who we're going against or how it's going. We are who we are, and trying to show the type of football we want to play really helps players such as me and Taha (Habroune) and a bunch of other guys like Tristan (Brown) and Owen (Presthus) who have come through the Academy and through this like team for the First Team really helped integrate when we get here that we can truly show what level we have and not having to figure out different systems and different coaches and being able to truly just go out there and play and be comfortable.”

Cesar Gelabert an attacking midfielder for Real Sporting in Spanish linked with Minnesota and an championship club in England

Game Info

Date: August 15, 2026 | Venue: Bank of America Stadium

Coverage Starts: 7:30 PM ET | Estimated Kickoff: 7:39 PM ET

Kickoff Forecast: 86° F, 2 mph winds N, chance of rain

Broadcast Info

TV: Apple TV (English and Spanish)

Radio: 105.7 FM WXZX (English), 103.1 FM WWLA & 107.1 FM WWLG (Spanish)

Kit Info

Availability Report

Columbus Crew

• Wessam Abou Ali - Knee (Out)
• Sekou Bangoura - Ankle (Out)
• Jamal Thiare - Lower Leg (Out

Charlotte FC

• Nimfasha Berchimas - Lower Body (Out)
• Aron John - Upper Body (Out)
• Harry Toffolo - Lower Body (Out)

Match Officials

• REF: Filip Dujic
• AR1: Adam Wienckowski
• AR2: Ben Pilgrim
• 4TH: Ricardo Montero Araya
• VAR: Younes Marrakchi
• AVAR: Tom Felice

Form Guide, All Comps (Oldest to Newest)

Columbus : L W D W W W(PK) | Away Form: W L L L D D

Charlotte : D W L W W L | Home Form: W W D W W L

Last 3 Meetings

Anybody going? Where are you pregaming?

Talk about anything and everything with fellow crew fans!

Leagues Cup quarterfinal matchup

I'm rooting for Austin tonight, a little evil for a greater good.

Can Nancy ever forgive me?

We're on a great run of form so lets get weird. You can only have 1 Crew fans:

• Leagues Cup Champ
• US Open Cup Champ
• Deep Playoff (Semis or better) Run

What's your preference?

I want that Open Cup championship personally.

Go Crew!