Mellinger: Sporting looks like KC’s most successful franchise

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

It takes time and decades to change a culture. The Chiefs and Royals have been a part of KCs landscape for decades. Pro Baseball and Pro Football have been around for a hundred years.

Pro Soccer in the U.S. is in its infancy by comparison.

Actually, it's not. Pro soccer has been in KC in some form since longer than the last time the Chiefs won a Superbowl. 1968 to be exact. So while it's not 100 years old it's not an infant either.

http://www.sportkc.org/sportkc.aspx?pgID=906

Sporting Kansas City 1990-Present
In 1996 the Kansas City Wiz of Major League Soccer were formed. In 1997 they were renamed the Wizards. The Wizards became the 2000 MLS Champions. In 2006 the team was purchased by a local group named OnGoal LLC. The team was officially rebranded Sporting Kansas City in 2010. In 2011 they opened the state-of-the-art LIVESTRONG Sporting Park, giving the team their first true home for players and fans alike.

Kansas City Comets 2001-2005
The Kansas City Comets are part of the newly formed Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL). The Comets are under the ownership of Kansas City Sports Enterprises and make their home in Kemper Arena. They were known as the Kansas City Attack for 10 years and became the Comets when the NPSL League disbanded in 2001.


Other Soccer Teams in Kansas City

Kansas City Spurs NASL 1968-1970

Kansas City Comets MISL 1981-1991

Kansas City Attack NPSL 1991-2000