American football team

Sporting Kansas City

Club · United States · Major League Soccer

«Wizards»

260 Matches

89 wins

52 draws

119 losses

377–434 Goals

−57 Difference

1.4 Scored per game

Form L D L L L W

Kansas City sits on a state line, and the football club sits on the Kansas side of it — in Kansas City, Kansas. That geography matters more than it sounds. When the ground on Village West opened, it anchored a stretch of the Wyandotte County suburbs that had been built up around retail and racing rather than sport, and it gave a team that had spent years playing in a converted American football stadium something scaled to the game: 18,467 seats, all of them close.

The club came out of Lamar Hunt's office. Hunt founded it on 6 June 1995 as Kansas City Wiz. The name lasted a year before it became Wizards, and the nickname stuck long after the branding did not — in 2010 the club dropped it entirely for Sporting Kansas City, a European construction that read as an odd fit in Kansas until the trophies started arriving again.

The season worth talking about is 2000. Kansas City took the Supporters' Shield and the MLS Cup in the same year, the only time the club has managed the double, and the only Shield in its record. Thirteen years passed before the second MLS Cup, in 2013.

Since then the club's currency has been the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, the competition named for the man who founded it — won in 2004, 2012, 2015 and 2017, a run no other side matched in that stretch. It is a knockout trophy, and it rewards a squad that turns up for six games a year rather than thirty-four.

Which leaves the gap plainly marked. The Shield has not come back to Kansas City since 2000, and a league title has not since 2013.

Latest results

All matches

13 Sep	Major League Soccer	Los Angeles FC H	3:1	W
6 Sep	Major League Soccer	FC Dallas A	3:4	L
30 Aug	Major League Soccer	Vancouver Whitecaps H	0:3	L
24 Aug	Major League Soccer	Atlanta United FC A	1:2	L
20 Aug	Major League Soccer	St. Louis City SC H	1:1	D
16 Aug	Major League Soccer	Colorado Rapids A	0:2	L

Standing

Major League Soccer

Group stage · Major League Soccer - Western Conference

#	Team	M	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
11	Real Salt Lake	24	8	5	11	37:39	29
12	Minnesota United	25	7	8	10	37:43	29
13	Austin	25	7	8	10	32:44	29
14	Seattle Sounders	23	7	7	9	25:30	28
15	Sporting Kansas City	24	5	3	16	26:59	18

Full table

Team statistics

matches counted: 260

260 Matches

89 wins

52 draws

119 losses

377–434 Goals

−57 Difference

1.4 Scored per game

Season results matches counted: 260

89 52 119

wins draws losses

Scored and conceded last matches

scored — above the line conceded — below the line

Metric	Total	Home	Away
Matches	260	132	128
Scored	377	225	152
Conceded	434	190	244
Scored per game	1.4	1.7	1.2
Conceded per game	1.7	1.4	1.9
Difference	−57	+35	−92

Key players

by appearances over the last year

Jacob Bartlett Defender 23 Matches

John Pulskamp Goalkeeper 23 Matches

Shapi Suleymanov Forward 23 Matches

Steven Afrifa Forward 22 Matches

Calvin Harris Midfielder 22 Matches

Lasse Berg Johnsen Midfielder 21 Matches

Jaden Reid Defender 20 Matches

Stefan Cleveland Goalkeeper 20 Matches

Squad of Sporting Kansas City

by appearances over the last year

Number	Player	Position	Age	Matches
16	Jacob Bartlett	Defender		23
1	John Pulskamp	Goalkeeper		23
93	Shapi Suleymanov	Forward		23
17	Steven Afrifa	Forward		22
14	Calvin Harris	Midfielder		22
4	Lasse Berg Johnsen	Midfielder		21
99	Jaden Reid	Defender		20
30	Stefan Cleveland	Goalkeeper		20
8	Jacob Davis	Defender		20
15	Jansen Miller	Defender		19
28	Wyatt Meyer	Defender		19
2	Ian James	Defender		19
9	Dejan Joveljić	Forward		19
19	Taylor Caleray	Forward		18
6	Manu García	Midfielder		18
23	Ethan Bartlow	Defender		17
20	K. Agyabeng	Midfielder		16
7	Osvaldo Pedro Capemba	Midfielder		16
14	M. Chantré	Midfielder		15
13	J. Reynolds	Defender		13
22	Zorhan Ludovic Bassong	Midfielder		12
57	Diego Borges	Defender		11
18	Emir Karić	Defender		9
5	Or Blorian	Defender		7
3	Moisés Castillo Mosquera	Defender		5
11	André Luiz Inácio da Silva	Midfielder		3
41	P. Luro	Defender	24	3
12	Jack Cortkamp	Goalkeeper		3
88	S. Donon	Midfielder	19	3
29	Simur Garfield-Reid	Forward	18	2
24	R. Ramos	Forward		2
36	Ryan Schewe	Goalkeeper		2
61	Z. Loyo Reynaga	Midfielder		2
42	A. Cunningham	Defender	19	1
99	J. Reid	Defender		1
57	Diego Borges	Defender		1