Football team

Sporting Kansas City

Club · United States · Major League Soccer

«Wizards»

263 Matches

90 wins

52 draws

121 losses

383–440 Goals

−57 Difference

1.5 Scored per game

Form L L W L W 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

Fixtures and results

15 Oct	Major League Soccer	Nashville SC A
11 Oct	Major League Soccer	Portland Timbers H
2 Oct	Major League Soccer	Seattle Sounders A	1:2	L
27 Sep	Major League Soccer	Houston Dynamo A	2:0	W
20 Sep	Major League Soccer	Philadelphia Union H	3:4	L
13 Sep	Major League Soccer	Los Angeles FC H	3:1	W

Standing

Major League Soccer

Group stage · Major League Soccer - Western Conference

#	Team	M	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
11	Real Salt Lake	27	9	5	13	40:44	32
12	San Diego	27	8	8	11	47:47	32
13	Austin	27	7	10	10	35:47	31
14	Minnesota United	27	7	8	12	40:49	29
15	Sporting Kansas City	27	6	3	18	32:65	21

Full table

Team statistics

matches counted in total: 263

263 Matches

90 wins

52 draws

121 losses

383–440 Goals

−57 Difference

1.5 Scored per game

Match outcomes matches counted in total: 263

90 52 121

wins draws losses

Scored and conceded last matches

scored — above the line conceded — below the line

Metric	Total	Home	Away
Matches	263	133	130
Scored	383	228	155
Conceded	440	194	246
Scored per game	1.5	1.7	1.2
Conceded per game	1.7	1.5	1.9
Difference	−57	+34	−91

Key players

by appearances over the last year

John Pulskamp Goalkeeper 26 Matches

Jacob Bartlett Defender 26 Matches

Calvin Harris Midfielder 25 Matches

Steven Afrifa Forward 25 Matches

Shapi Suleymanov Forward 25 Matches

Lasse Berg Johnsen Midfielder 24 Matches

Jaden Reid Defender 23 Matches

Stefan Cleveland Goalkeeper 23 Matches

Squad of Sporting Kansas City

by appearances over the last year

Number	Player	Position	Age	Matches
1	John Pulskamp	Goalkeeper		26
16	Jacob Bartlett	Defender		26
14	Calvin Harris	Midfielder		25
17	Steven Afrifa	Forward		25
93	Shapi Suleymanov	Forward		25
4	Lasse Berg Johnsen	Midfielder		24
99	Jaden Reid	Defender		23
30	Stefan Cleveland	Goalkeeper		23
28	Wyatt Meyer	Defender		22
15	Jansen Miller	Defender		22
2	Ian James	Defender		21
19	Taylor Caleray	Forward		21
8	Jacob Davis	Defender		20
20	K. Agyabeng	Midfielder		19
9	Dejan Joveljić	Forward		19
23	Ethan Bartlow	Defender		18
6	Manu García	Midfielder		18
13	J. Reynolds	Defender		16
7	Osvaldo Pedro Capemba	Midfielder		16
22	Zorhan Ludovic Bassong	Defender		15
14	M. Chantré	Midfielder		15
18	Emir Karić	Defender		12
57	Diego Borges	Defender		12
5	Or Blorian	Defender		7
11	André Luiz Inácio da Silva	Midfielder		6
3	Moisés Castillo Mosquera	Defender		6
29	Simur Garfield-Reid	Forward	18	5
24	R. Ramos	Forward		4
41	P. Luro	Defender	24	3
12	Jack Cortkamp	Goalkeeper		3
88	S. Donon	Midfielder	19	3
42	A. Cunningham	Defender	19	2
33	Owen Michael Wolff	Midfielder	21	2
36	Ryan Schewe	Goalkeeper		2
61	Z. Loyo Reynaga	Midfielder		2
57	Diego Borges	Defender		1
99	J. Reid	Defender		1