It has been simply 11 days because the conclusion of the 2023 MLS season, and it is already time to start out circling these dates and reserving these flights in 2024.
On Wednesday, Main League Soccer launched the 2024 MLS common season schedule, with Sporting as soon as once more set to take the sector on 34 events because the staff appears to be like to make it back-to-back appearances within the MLS Cup Playoffs. The schedule consists of 17 matches at our residence, Kids’s Mercy Park, and 17 on the highway from coast-to-coast. To safe your seats for the upcoming marketing campaign, go to SportingKC.com/tickets.
The 2024 season marks Sporting’s twenty ninth marketing campaign as a MLS constitution member, together with 12 months two of MLS Season Cross on Apple TV with all 34 matches airing in English and Spanish on the no-blackouts service. Under, we take a crack at a rapid-fire rundown of all 34 common season matches.
Saturday, Feb. 24 at Houston Dynamo FC | 7:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
Sporting’s season-opener at Houston will mark the earliest begin to an MLS common season in league historical past. It is going to additionally give the membership a right away likelihood to avenge the loss within the MLS Cup Playoffs Western Convention Semifinal with the squad returning to Shell Power Stadium on the first attainable alternative. Simply 91 days could have handed by the point Sporting returns to Houston searching for revenge.
Saturday, March 2 vs. Philadelphia Union | 7:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
Cannot ask for a extra formidable opponent within the membership’s residence opener than the Philadelphia Union. Led by the second-longest tenured lively coach in MLS, Jim Curtin, the Union have been a powerhouse during the last 4 seasons, racking up a league-leading 223 mixed factors because the begin of 2020.
Saturday, March 9 at LAFC | 9:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
The season-opening gauntlet continues in Week 3 as Sporting pays a go to to MLS Cup runners-up LAFC. Steve Cherundolo’s squad, led by celebrity ahead Denis Bouanga who had 38 objectives in all competitions in 2023, will probably be on the hunt for extra silverware in 2024 – although Sporting has a sneakily stable 2-3-1 report all-time at BMO Stadium.
Saturday, March 16 vs. San Jose Earthquakes | 7:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
It is a rematch of the 2023 MLS Cup Playoffs Western Convention Wild Card Match. Boy, that is a mouthful. Sporting, who prevailed in a dramatic penalty shootout that evening in late October, is unbeaten of their final seven residence matches towards San Jose within the common season, placing up a dominant 6-0-1 report because the begin of 2016.
Saturday, March 23 vs. LA Galaxy | 7:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
Armed with a pair of open DP spots heading into this offseason, the Galaxy are certain to be new and improved in 2024 after ending second-to-last within the West this previous season. Star midfielder Riqui Puig will proceed to tug the strings as LA enters a brand new period following the departure of Mexican striker Chicharito.
Saturday, March 30 at Toronto FC | 6:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
The 2023 model of Toronto offered the proper instance of how nothing is gained on paper on this sport. Regardless of boasting a few of the finest attacking expertise in all of MLS with Italian duo Lorenzo Insigne and Federico Bernardeschi, Toronto languished all through the season and completed useless final in MLS with a 4-20-10 report. Boosted by the arrival of former Canadian Nationwide Crew head coach John Herdman, TFC will probably be anticipating a bounceback season way more aligned with the standard of their roster in 2024.
Sunday, April 7 vs. Portland Timbers | 12:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross & FOX
In our first nationally televised match of the season, Sporting proceed a collection with Portland that sometimes sees the house staff come out on prime over current years. Portland has not gained a regular-season match in Kansas Metropolis since 2013 whereas Sporting likewise has not tasted victory at Windfall Park since 2017. Final season went chalk, with Portland profitable 1-0 at residence within the season opener earlier than Sporting responded with a 4-1 victory at Kids’s Mercy Park in Might.
Saturday, April 13 vs. Inter Miami CF | 7:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
The GOAT is coming to Kansas Metropolis. What else is there to say?
Saturday, April 20 vs. St. Louis | 7:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
The primary installment of our rivalry collection with cross-state foes St. Louis comes on 4/20 in a match prone to deliver all of the smoke. After St. Louis was unceremoniously dumped out of the MLS Cup Playoffs by Sporting to curtail their “historic” growth season, all eyes across the league will probably be fixated on what’s quickly turning into one of many must-watch matchups in MLS.
Saturday, April 27 at Minnesota United FC | 7:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
From a fierce rival one week to a pleasant rival the subsequent. Sporting and Minnesota will resume niceties with each other for the primary of three conferences in 2024 when the 2 groups face off at Allianz Area in St. Paul. The match marks the primary of a number of drivable Roaddrons in 2024, we’ll see and listen to you there!
Saturday, Might 4 at Actual Salt Lake | 8:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
What has traditionally been a really tough place to go for Sporting was flipped on its head of their final go to – a nervy 3-2 victory in an absolute must-win match within the penultimate week of the 2023 marketing campaign. Buoyed by that end result, Sporting went on to clinch a spot within the postseason on Resolution Day. That victory was simply Sporting’s second regular-season win at America First Area since 2013.
Saturday, Might 11 vs. Houston Dynamo FC | 7:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
The primary repeat opponents of the 2024 marketing campaign. The final time the Dynamo visited Kids’s Mercy Park, Sporting prevailed 2-1 following a gritty and decided efficiency having been compelled to play the ultimate 51 minutes plus down a person on Sept. 23, 2023. That match would show to be Houston’s solely loss of their last 12 regular-season video games of the season and their solely loss in 16 together with postseason till the Dynamo finally fell to LAFC within the Western Convention Closing.
Saturday, Might 18 at Austin FC | 7:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
Whereas Austin skilled a moderately steep crash again to actuality in 2023 following a high-flying 2022, make no mistake – that is nonetheless a squad with loads of expertise and led by a pair of Sporting Legends in head coach Josh Wolff and assistant coach Davy Arnaud. A raucous Q2 Stadium will welcome a Sporting facet decided to vary their fortunes having performed three, misplaced three within the Texas capital.
Saturday, Might 25 at Portland Timbers | 9:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
Our first journey to the Pacific Northwest is available in late Might, a beautiful time of 12 months if anybody is contemplating a lengthier Roaddron… Portland are coming into a brand-new period in 2024 following the midseason departure of longtime coach Gio Savarese, with Phil Neville just lately appointed because the Timbers look to qualify for the postseason for the primary time since falling within the 2021 MLS Cup.
Wednesday, Might 29 vs. Vancouver Whitecaps FC | 7:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
The primary midweek match of the 12 months sees Sporting host the Whitecaps at Kids’s Mercy Park. We expect Vancouver head coach Vanni Sartini will probably be again on the sidelines by then?
Saturday, June 1 at Minnesota United FC | 7:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
It is again to the Twin Cities on the primary day of June. Sporting clinched a spot within the 2023 MLS Cup Playoffs on the expense of Minnesota however would it not shock anybody to see the Loons again within the postseason with a full 12 months of star playmaker Emanuel Reynoso?
Saturday, June 8 vs. Seattle Sounders FC | 7:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
One of many prime on-field rivalries that has developed organically over time returns on June 8 when Sporting hosts the Sounders. Lest we neglect, it was a matchup with Seattle that sparked Sporting to life in 2023, incomes their first win of the season at Lumen Area on Might 7 that was the genesis of a run that noticed Sporting end with the season with one of the best report within the West from that time ahead.
Saturday, June 15 at LA Galaxy | 9:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
Nothing like a summer time evening in sunny So Cal, proper? Sporting has misplaced in simply certainly one of their final six visits to Dignity Well being Sports activities Park, most just lately salvaging a 2-2 draw by way of Alan Pulido’s late penalty on June 21, 2023.
Wednesday, June 19 vs. Actual Salt Lake | 7:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
2013 MLS Cup rematches are at all times spicy. Anticipate nothing much less on this one as head coach Pablo Mastroeni brings a facet stuffed with human spirit to Kids’s Mercy Park this coming midsummer.
Saturday, June 22 at Columbus Crew | 6:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
Reigning champs? On the highway? Carry it on. Sporting will make their first-ever go to to Columbus’ new Decrease.com Area to tackle a free-flowing Columbus facet led by stars Cucho Hernandez and Darlington Nagbe. Sporting hasn’t misplaced to Columbus of their final 5 conferences, however this ain’t your father’s Crew.
Saturday, June 29 vs. Austin FC | 7:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
Sporting has gained two of their 4 residence matches towards Austin because the Texans joined MLS in 2021, together with a dominant 4-1 win on June 10, 2023. Beneath new Sporting Director Rodolfo Borrell, it stays to be seen if we’ll be getting the 2022 model or the 2023 model of Austin FC in 2024.
Thursday, July 4 at Colorado Rapids | 8:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
When one appears to be like again on the 2023 marketing campaign, two of essentially the most head-scratching outcomes got here towards the Rapids as Sporting picked up only one level out of six accessible with a 0-0 draw on the highway and a 1-0 loss at residence towards what ended up being the worst staff within the West and second-worst staff in all of MLS. A brand new season provides Sporting a possibility to place that proper on Independence Day.
Sunday, July 7 vs. FC Dallas | 7:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
Whereas Kansas Metropolis in July isn’t any picnic, let’s simply be grateful this one is not going down in a perpetually steamy Frisco, Texas.
Saturday, July 13 at San Jose Earthquakes | 9:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
Sporting followers know all about how infuriating matches towards Luchi Gonzalez-coached groups could be, with the previous nationwide staff assistant having fun with unprecedented success towards Sporting together with his dark-arts ways whereas guiding FC Dallas from 2018-2021. We had the final giggle in 2023, let’s hold that going.
Wednesday, July 17 at Vancouver Whitecaps FC | 9:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
One in all two journeys we’ll take north of the border in 2024, we head again to the Pacific Northwest to tackle a sneaky good Whitecaps facet that completed sixth within the West in 2023. In a uncommon feat throughout MLS, Sporting truly has a profitable report in Vancouver (5-4-3) however is winless at BC Place of their final three.
Saturday, July 20 vs. St. Louis | 7:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross & FS1
The ultimate match earlier than the Leagues Cup break is a doozie. Additionally airing nationally on FS1, Sporting will host St. Louis for the second time in 2024 in entrance of a jam-packed Kids’s Mercy Park. Let’s ship these followers in pink again throughout I-70 in a state of distress as soon as once more, lets?
Saturday, Aug. 24 vs. Orlando Metropolis SC | 7:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
The primary two matches popping out of the Leagues Cup break sees Sporting have interaction in some inter-conference motion. First up is a house match towards high-flying Orlando Metropolis SC who simply re-signed head coach Oscar Pareja after their terrific 2023 marketing campaign that noticed the Floridians end second within the Supporters’ Defend standings, six factors behind runaway leaders FC Cincinnati.
Saturday, Sept. 7 at New York Pink Bulls | 6:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
Two proud MLS constitution groups are set to battle it out in early September as Sporting pays a go to to the Massive Apple (adjoining?). Sporting final traveled to Pink Bull Enviornment for the 2021 season opener, incomes a 2-1 victory behind objectives from Gadi Kinda and Daniel Salloi. Each Sporting and the Pink Bulls have gained 22 video games apiece within the all-time regular-season collection, so there will be some bragging rights on the road right here.
Sunday, Sept. 15 at Seattle Sounders FC | 6 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross & FS1
The ultimate alternative for a regular-season Roaddron to the Pacific Northwest is available in mid-September and a return to Lumen Area to face Seattle. Whereas the Sounders have been a perennial powerhouse in MLS the previous decade and extra, Sporting has routinely been the one staff to provide Seattle matches. Street groups have gone 51-141-52 at Lumen Area because the Sounders joined MLS in 2009, however Peter Vermes’ facet is a useless even 6-6-2 up in Washington.
Wednesday, Sept. 18 vs. Colorado Rapids | 7:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
The countdown to the top of the common season continues with a house match towards Chris Armas’ new (and perhaps improved?) Rapids. Sporting are 23-7-6 all-time towards Colorado at residence and have misplaced simply two of their final eight conferences at Kids’s Mercy Park. Fortunately, the person who scored the winner in each of these losses – outdated pal Diego Rubio – moved on from Colorado this offseason.
Saturday, Sept. 21 vs. Minnesota United FC | 7:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
Minnesota returns to their private home of horrors, visiting Kids’s Mercy Park the place Sporting has gone 9-0-0 towards the Loons in MLS regular-season play – outscoring their northern foes 25-3 within the course of.
Saturday, Sept. 28 at St. Louis | 7:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
Again down I-70 we go for our first go to to Citypark because the 4-1 demolition job by Peter Vermes’ and the boys within the 2023 MLS Cup Playoffs. That end result marked the one win by the highway staff throughout 5 video games between the 2 sides in 2023, with Sporting holding a 3-2-0 edge within the all-time collection following that postseason rout.
Saturday, Oct. 5 vs. LAFC | 7:30 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
The house finale couldn’t be a lot tastier. If 2022 and 2023 are something to go by, LAFC will probably be a drive to be reckoned with as soon as once more within the new 12 months. Sporting started the collection towards LAFC on the entrance foot, going 4-2-0 of their first six conferences however are 0-4-1 of their final 5 so this will probably be one to observe because the playoff race reaches fever pitch.
Saturday, Oct. 19 at FC Dallas | 8 p.m. CT | MLS Season Cross
As dramatic and exhilarating as 2023 Resolution Day was for Sporting, let’s not go away it to the final second once more lets? Sporting will head south to face off towards a Dallas facet that Sporting has gotten the higher of simply 3 times of their final 12 conferences.
