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Rating: 4.6 out of 5 based on 703 reviews

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Sporting Kansas City History

Sporting Kansas City has the honor of being one of the original franchises of Major League Soccer, first kicking off in 1996 as the Kansas City Wiz. A year later, the name changed to the Kansas City Wizards, which remained in use until the end of the 2010 season.

The Wiz/Wizards/Sporting KC were founded by Lamar Hunt, who owned the Kansas City Chiefs of the NFL. Hunt also helped to create Major League Soccer, the American Football League, and the United Soccer Association of the '60s, and his Hunt Sports Group owned the Wizards until shortly before he died in 2006.

Kansas City's MLS franchise has been home to some of the greatest names in American and international soccer, including Alexi Lalas, Tony Meola, Preki and Matt Besler. They have had a sustained period of achievement under former Wizards player and 2000 MLS Defender of the Year Peter Vermes, who has coached the team since 2009.

Sporting KC have claimed the MLS Cup in 2000 and 2013, a Supporters’ Shield in 2000 and four U.S. Open Cup titles (2004, 2012, 2015, and 2017). In 2023, Kansas City reached the Conference Semifinals of the MLS Cup Playoffs.

Sporting Kansas City Team Info

Conference: Western
Team Colors: Sporting Blue, Dark Indigo, Lead
Team Rivals: St. Louis City SC, Houston Dynamo FC, Portland Timbers, Real Salt Lake

Sporting Kansas City at Children's Mercy Park

Sporting KC play at Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas, which opened as Livestrong Sporting Park in 2011 and seats 18,467 for soccer games. Sporting KC is the only major professional sports team in the state of Kansas, and is the only major sports team to have played in both Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas.

FAQS

Sporting Kansas City’s 2024 regular season kicks off in February at Shell Energy Stadium in Houston, Texas, when Sporting Kansas City face off against Houston Dynamo FC. Kansas City host their home opener against the Philadelphia Union on March 2. Sporting Kansas City play their final match of the regular season at Toyota Stadium in Frisco, Texas against Western Conference opponents FC Dallas. Here’s a list of key matches to keep an eye on: 

  • 02/24 @ Houston Dynamo FC
  • 03/02 vs. Philadelphia Union
  • 04/07 vs. Portland Timbers
  • 04/20 vs. St. Louis City SC
  • 05/04 @ Real Salt Lake
  • 05/11 vs. Houston Dynamo FC
  • 05/25 @ Portland Timbers
  • 06/19 vs. Real Salt Lake
  • 07/20 vs. St. Louis City SC
  • 09/28 @ St. Louis City SC
  • 10/19 @ FC Dallas

Tickets for the 2024 regular season can be purchased on Ticketmaster.

Sporting Kansas City have made three appearances in the MLS Cup championship match, and have won twice (in 2000 and 2013).

Sporting Kansas City compete at Children's Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas. The seating map for Children's Mercy Park can be viewed here.

Reviews

Rating: 4.6 out of 5 based on 703 reviews
  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    Brilliant atmosphere!

    by MIKEMETAL on 5/24/16Children's Mercy Park - Kansas City

    First time to go to Sporting Park. I sat in the cheering section and it was out of site! The cheers were great, and people were very friendly. Since it was the first time for me and my family to go, nice fans gave us pointers on getting to some nice seats in the free seating area. We will be going back for more games!

  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    The fans are the best

    by MattyBlast on 5/24/16Children's Mercy Park - Kansas City

    I could hardly hear myself think at this game because the fans on both end zones were singing, chanting, beating on drums, and otherwise acting crazy the whole time. They're a riot! It was like being at a game in Europe. The atmosphere was intense, especially when KC was about to execute a set piece. And if a serious chance at a goal was imminent, the energy level in the place soared instantly. I'm definitely going back for more of this!

  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    Extreme fun

    by Kfears on 5/24/16Children's Mercy Park - Kansas City

    Win or lose. Sporting KC games are the most exciting sporting event I've ever been to. Will definitely attend as many games as I can.

  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    Great experience

    by JJinComo on 5/24/16Children's Mercy Park - Kansas City

    Very nice stadium and good variety on the vendors. The game was great. Love soccer!

  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    Sporting KC-Real Salt Lake game

    by STLFCguy on 5/24/16Children's Mercy Park - Kansas City

    Great venue, event and atmosphere, well worth the travel (480 miles) total. My only beef is that parking SUCKS!!!!! more signage is needed and better guidance from workers once you are in the Legends area. I parked in the T Bones lot, walked a 1/4 mile only to be told (due to wearing SKC jerseys) that the lot was not for the soccer match, I missed the first 15 minutes of the game.

  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    Good game

    by Wschart on 5/18/16Children's Mercy Park - Kansas City

    This is my second visit to see Sporting KC. I went about a year ago, when it was Sporting Park, now it's Children's Mercy Park due to a naming rights deal with a local hospital. Still a great venue. The stadium was packed, the crowd was quite vocal, making for great atmosphere. And the home team responded with a great game, even if they gave up the first goal against the run of play. No problem, put in a sub and literally within minutes he provided an assist on the tying goal and a few minutes, headed in the winner. We had seats in the south stands, right behind the goal 11 rows up, so we got a great view of both goals. A new service this year is free shuttles running to and from the free parking lot that otherwise would be a 10 or 15 minute walk.

  • Rating: 4 out of 5

    Sporting KC

    by cbsoccer on 5/18/16Children's Mercy Park - Kansas City

    Sporting KC played a great game, no dissapointments there! Thought there wasn't a bad seat in the house at Children's Mercy Park, but I was wrong. Extremely foul sewer odor kept wafting up to our seats in Section 123. Hope this issue is corrected ASAP, cause otherwise was an excellent experience.

  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    Great time

    by RochMnFan on 5/4/16Children's Mercy Park - Kansas City

    Went as a Galaxy fan with my son. Galaxy didn't look like they wanted to be there, so game wasn't as good as would have liked from my perspective- it was a tie that felt like a win. But stadium is GREAT. Favorite of all MLS stadiums I've been to so far. We were up high, but still see really well. Fun watching the fans in the cauldron- they look like they have a great!!! And they did add to the atmosphere. Fans were great. It's a great to go to games as an opposing fan and have folks talk about their team, share some inside scoops on why player x gets more cheers, what the team has been going through, enjoy the game and root for their team while congratulating you when your team makes a good play. Even got tips on where to go eat while we were there - and a good to it was!! This is what sports should be about!

  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    1st Sporting KC game.

    by Sanmanusmc on 4/16/16Children's Mercy Park - Kansas City

    Great stadium, facilities, fans, experience!! Will definately be going again!!

  • Rating: 1 out of 5

    First - Last - Only

    by KneeBraceandEarplugs on 4/6/16Children's Mercy Park - Kansas City

    "$10 beer and nowhere to sit" $85.00 for 2 tickets - our first professional soccer game. Tickets had seat numbers listed on tickets which makes it appears there is an actual seat but it was general admission seating extremely overbooked so it was standing room only behind others who were already standing in front of us so unless you brought a step ladder you saw little or nothing of the game. Standing for 2 1/2 hours with a recent knee injury not fun - only option unless you wanted to watch it in a bar area away from the actual field and watch game on TV's. So went back to ticket office at stadium. They would not upgrade us to an actual seat by have us just pay the difference in price. Instead they said they could sell us new 2 higher priced tickets on top of the $85 which those tickets would get thrown into the trash can. But even though I saw a hundred empty seats at the stadium the ticket office said there were not 2 seats together in the entire stadium. Ha ! So that probably saved me another $200 so we went back inside and stood for 2 hours drinking $10 cans of beer. Usually for two people, $100 gets you more than 5 beers each. Overall experience - 1) extremely frustrating 2) tire achy feet & legs - walking half a mile to park and standing during entire game 3) unnecessarily overly deafening loud. 4) expensive 5) a parking nightmare taking at least 20 minutes to find a parking spot. Other than that I am sure it would be fun for the whole family.

  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    Far exceeded expectations

    by Kbm84779 on 4/5/16Children's Mercy Park - Kansas City

    Went into it expecting to see a fun game and left wanting season tickets. Awesome crowd experience, awesome game, and awesome stadium- they weren't kidding/ every seat is a good seat! We had general admission South Side seats & loved them!

  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    Amazing Fans and Intro

    by RedeAdventures on 3/15/16Children's Mercy Park - Kansas City

    amazing fans have the sporting club, before the game, fireworks and a song rock for the intro, the songs and themes the all fans in stadium...

  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    Great game

    by ECalvillo on 10/28/15Sporting Park - Kansas City

    It was a great atmosphere awesome game will definitely will be going to another game

  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    Sporting KC vs LA Galaxy was an intense game!

    by KansasEnriqueBoy on 10/28/15Sporting Park - Kansas City

    Great venue, easy to view from any seats in the stadium. Convenient parking in the west side of the stadium. The game was back and forth with both teams starting off with pretty much everyone of their starters!

  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    Sporting KC

    by CLNO on 10/28/15Sporting Park - Kansas City

    The park is amazing, the fans are even better and the team is outstanding. If I lived in KC, or even in the state I would get season tickets!

  • Rating: 4 out of 5

    MLS

    by Rico89 on 9/30/15Sporting Park - Kansas City

    If you love soccer you "Got game" , It is really excited ,loud and fun too be part of you'r home town Fan. I recommend too all soccer fans that never been to a soccer game.

  • Rating: 1 out of 5

    worst $100 spent

    by huddle2015 on 9/30/15Sporting Park - Kansas City

    Arrived to game 30 minutes before start All GA Seats were taken..not even singles were available We walked around for over 45 minutes and missed much of first half looking for seats No help from stadium staff would never recommend purchasing in this section

  • Rating: 4 out of 5

    Great Athletic Event

    by Soccerjazzercise on 9/21/15Sporting Park - Kansas City

    KC Sporting soccer team has a very cool venue to play soccer. The fans are a lot of fun and really get into the game. Big scoreboards if you missed something that happened on the field. Seats we had were protected by rain. It drizzled a little before the game. Concessions are expensive. More than what we are used to.

  • Rating: 5 out of 5

    Fun family night

    by Danyaaliyah on 8/22/15Sporting Park - Kansas City

    Fun family night. Only wish SportingKC had played better.

  • Rating: 2 out of 5

    Terrible Game (Most SKC games are much better)

    by Rob1011 on 8/22/15Sporting Park - Kansas City

    I don't want to detract from the stadium or Sporting KC in general--they have a good stadium and the team's been doing really well. It just happened that this was a terrible game. This is my second SKC game and my buddy's first--not a good one to have picked!! I swear, some impostors stole the Sporting team's uniforms and proceeded to let San Jose wipe the field with them. Bummer--they've generally been doing very well, but sure not this night.