What is the Heritage Cup? What does it stand for and who is involved?
The San Jose Earthquakes were the first team in Major League Soccer to have kept the same name as a predecessor NASL club. Seattle Sounders FC, which entered the league in 2009, became the second. As an annual tradition, the two teams compete with one another for the Heritage Cup, using only their final two matchups of each season, with points earned as the deciding factor and aggregate score line as a tiebreaker.
For example, in 2015, San Jose and Seattle met three times, but only the final two matches count towards the hardware.