MLS Cup '98 was the final playoff match of the 1998 Major League Soccer season, the 3rd season of first-division professional soccer in the United States since the collapse of the original North American Soccer League. As the top two finishers in the MLS Cup Playoffs, both D.C. United and Chicago Fire earned the right to represent the United States in the 1999 CONCACAF Champions' Cup. The clubs faced off once again in the third-place match of the continental tournament, almost a year after meeting in MLS Cup '98. That game ended in a 2-2 draw.