The Chicago Fire made a triumphant return to the MLS Cup playoffs for the first time since 2017 this fall, but one of head coach Gregg Berhalter’s final managerial moments in 2025 came with the fans, not the players.
The Fire fell 3–0 to the Philadelphia Union in game two of their best-of-three series and were eliminated from the postseason on Saturday night. The match had to be stopped twice in the second half due to discriminatory chants from Fire supporters. The infamous chant uses discriminatory language widely considered to be homophobic.
