Sporting Kansas City

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«Wizards»

258 Matches

88 wins

52 draws

118 losses

371–429 Goals

−58 Difference

1.4 Scored per game

Form L L L D L L

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

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
2 Aug	Major League Soccer	Houston Dynamo H	0:2	L
26 Jul	Major League Soccer	Los Angeles FC A	0:4	L

Standing

Major League Soccer

Group stage · Major League Soccer - Western Conference

#	Team	M	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
11	Portland Timbers	22	8	4	10	39:39	28
12	Seattle Sounders	21	7	5	9	24:29	26
13	Los Angeles Galaxy	23	6	8	9	28:35	26
14	Austin	22	6	6	10	28:41	24
15	Sporting Kansas City	22	4	3	15	20:54	15

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Team statistics

matches counted: 258

258 Matches

88 wins

52 draws

118 losses

371–429 Goals

−58 Difference

1.4 Scored per game

Season results matches counted: 258

88 52 118

wins draws losses

Scored and conceded last matches

scored — above the line conceded — below the line

Metric	Total	Home	Away
Matches	258	131	127
Scored	371	222	149
Conceded	429	189	240
Scored per game	1.4	1.7	1.2
Conceded per game	1.7	1.4	1.9
Difference	−58	+33	−91

Key players

by appearances over the last year

John Pulskamp Goalkeeper 20 Matches

Calvin Harris Midfielder 20 Matches

Jacob Bartlett Defender 20 Matches

Shapi Suleymanov Forward 20 Matches

Jacob Davis Defender 20 Matches

Steven Afrifa Forward 19 Matches

Dejan Joveljić Forward 19 Matches

Ian James Defender 18 Matches

Squad of Sporting Kansas City

by appearances over the last year

Number	Player	Position	Age	Matches
1	John Pulskamp	Goalkeeper		20
11	Calvin Harris	Midfielder		20
16	Jacob Bartlett	Defender		20
93	Shapi Suleymanov	Forward		20
8	Jacob Davis	Defender		20
17	Steven Afrifa	Forward		19
9	Dejan Joveljić	Forward		19
2	Ian James	Defender		18
99	Jaden Reid	Defender		18
4	Lasse Berg Johnsen	Midfielder		18
6	Manu García	Midfielder		18
30	Stefan Cleveland	Goalkeeper		17
23	Ethan Bartlow	Defender		17
28	Wyatt Meyer	Defender		16
15	Jansen Miller	Defender		16
19	Taylor Caleray	Forward		15
14	M. Chantré	Midfielder		15
7	Osvaldo Pedro Capemba	Midfielder		14
20	K. Agyabeng	Midfielder		13
22	Zorhan Ludovic Bassong	Midfielder		12
13	J. Reynolds	Defender		10
57	Diego Borges	Defender		9
18	Emir Karić	Defender		6
5	Or Blorian	Defender		5
41	P. Luro	Defender	24	3
12	Jack Cortkamp	Goalkeeper		3
88	S. Donon	Midfielder	19	3
3	Moisés Castillo Mosquera	Defender		2
36	Ryan Schewe	Goalkeeper		2
61	Z. Loyo Reynaga	Midfielder		2