Sporting Kansas City

 Sporting Kansas City is a well-known Kansas-based American soccer club that is a member of Major League Soccer, and is among its charter clubs having been a part of the league ever since it was formed. During its initial fifteen years, the young team was called Kansas City Wizards, and was finally given its current name in 2010 following its relocation to a new arena. The team is popularly known as the Sporting, and has won two MLSCups, an MLS Supporters’ Shield, and a U.S.  Open Cup of Lamar Hunt. The team has also competed in CONCACAF Championship Cups, making it to the quarter-finals in the 2005 season, and the Semi-finals in 2002. Sporting Kansas City tickets are a real treat for soccer lovers whose average attendance has gone up to more than seventeen thousand for regular season, and over nineteen thousand during playoffs.
 
Sporting Kansas City was founded by Lamar Hunt who has also contributed to the founding of Kansas City Chiefs, United Soccer Association, Chicago Bulls, Major League Soccer and American Football League. Sporting, then called the Kansas City Wiz, competed in their very first game in 1996 at the Arrowhead stadium, where it won from the Colorado Rapids. The team wrapped up with an impressive 17-15 record, gaining rank among the ten MLS teams, which were considered to be qualified for the earliest MLS Playoffs.  
 
Currently, Sporting Kansas City has been playing their home games at the Livestrong Sporting Park since 2011. The stadium has been structured according to the requirement-specificity of soccer games, and has a seating capacity of over eighteen thousand. The team has known to have switched from several home stadiums including Arrowhead Stadium, Blue Valley Sports Complex, Julian Filed, Community America Ballpark and Stanley H. Durwood Stadium.  
 
The official colors of Sporting Kansas City are the traditional indigo and blue. The basic logo of the team consists of a shield shaped as a teardrop, which contains a somewhat stylized version of the state line of Kansas Missouri with blue stripes placed on Kansas side, and an intertwined SC on Missouri side. The significance of the state line is that it represents the team’s fan-base in the metropolitan regions of Missouri and Kansas that combined together, are known as Kansas City. Furthermore, the eleven lines of the state line are meant to coincide with the particular number of players allowed on a soccer field during a game.  
 
Sporting Kansas City team has a proper supporters group that stands in a portion called The Cauldron. This name was taken from the big metallic pots often associated with witchcraft practices, and selected owing to the team’s earlier title of Wizards. Since the last few years, the team has experience much expansion in its fan section, where many groups have responded with much anticipation by bringing more voice to Sporting’s Cauldron atmosphere and culture.  So hurry up, book some of those Sporting Kansas City tickets and come contribute to their fan groups while you watch the team make exciting goals.