[1] On the other hand, the owners of the top professional teams saw the challenge cup as a money losing competition as they were forced to play obscure amateur teams which tended to have smaller crowds and therefore gate receipts.

After USFA took its cut, the amount distributed to the teams frequently did not cover the travel expenses.

Therefore, the SLSL proposed, and the ASL agreed to, the creation of an American Professional Soccer Championship.

[2] That game series took place in April 1925 at University Field in St. Louis, Missouri.

This diffused the ASL and SLSL hostility to the challenge cup leading to their re-entering the competition for 1926.