Philadelphia Union defeated FC Cincinnati 5-0 at Subaru Park on Wednesday night. Homegrown midfielder Quinn Sullivan opened the scoring in the 43rd minute, converting his first-ever penalty kick, before Quinn and his brother, Cavan Sullivan, assisted Bruno Damiani in first-half stoppage time to double the Union’s lead, becoming the third pair of brothers in MLS history to both record an assist on the same goal. Damini added his second goal early in the second half before completing his first career MLS hat trick in the 61st minute, with Cavan Sullivan providing the assist. Forward Milan Iloski converted a penalty kick in the 89th minute to complete the 5-0 victory at home.
The Union are on the road to face San Diego FC at Snapdragon Stadium on Sunday, September 13 (9:00 p.m. ET / Apple TV).
Philadelphia Union (5) – FC Cincinnati (0)
Subaru Park (Chester, PA)
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
TODAY’S MATCH INFO
Referee: Joe Dickerson
Asst. Referee 1: Oscar Mitchell-Carvalho
Asst. Referee 2: Eric Weisbrod
Fourth Official: Joshua Encarnacion
VAR: Victor Rivas
AVAR: Craig Lowry
SCORING SUMMARY
PHI – Quinn Sullivan (PK) 43’
PHI – Bruno Damiani (C. Sullivan, Q. Sullivan) 45+1’
PHI – Bruno Damiani (Q. Sullivan, C. Sullivan) 49’
PHI – Bruno Damiani (C. Sullivan ) 61’
PHI – Milan Iloski (PK) 89’
DISCIPLINARY SUMMARY
CIN – Obinna Nwobodo (ejected) 16’
CIN – Evander (caution) 43’
CIN – Brian Anunga (caution) 88’
LINEUP
Philadelphia Union: Andre Blake (C), Kai Wagner, Nathan Harriel, Neil Pierre, Frankie Westfield, Danley Jean Jacques, Jovan Lukic (Jesus Bueno 65’), Cavan Sullivan (Alejandro Bedoya 75’) , Quinn Sullivan (Indiana Vassilev, 65’), Ezekiel Alladoh (Milan Iloski 65’), Bruno Damiani (Malik Jakupovic 75’).
Substitutes not used: Andrew Rick, Japhet Sery, Ben Bender, Agustín Anello.
FC Cincinnati: Roman Celentano, Miles Robinson, Kyle Smith, Andrei Chirila, Obinna Nwobodo, Evander (C) (Alvas Powell 47’), Gerardo Valenzuela (Brian Anunga, 62’), Kevin Denkey ( Tom Barlow 47), Pavel Bucha, Ender Echenique (Nick Hagglund, 47’), Ayoub Jabbari (Samuel Gidi 74’).
Substitutes not used: Evan Louro, Teenage Hadebe, Kenji Mboma Dem, Bryan Ramírez.
NOTES
- The Philadelphia Union are now unbeaten in nine consecutive MLS matches.
- Homegrown midfielders Cavan and Quinn Sullivan started together in an MLS match for the first time.
- Homegrown midfielder Quinn Sullivan scored his first-ever penalty kick goal and first goal of the season.
- Homegrowns Cavan and Quinn Sullivan became just the third pair of brothers in MLS history to each record an assist on the same goal and the first to accomplish the feat twice in a single match.
- Forward Bruno Damiani scored his first-ever MLS hat trick.
- Goalkeeper Andre Blake registered his fifth MLS clean sheet of the season.
- Forward Milan Iloski scored his 12th goal of the season.
- With the hat trick of assists tonight, Homegrown midfielder Cavan Sullivan now leads the team with 10 assists.
