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1997 Kansas City Wizards season

Field	Value
club	Kansas City Wizards
season	1997
manager	Ron Newman
mgrtitle	Head coach
league	Major League Soccer
league result	West: 1st
Overall: 2nd
cup1	USOC
cup1 result	Third Round
cup2	Playoffs
cup2 result	Conference Semifinals
league topscorer	Preki (12)
season topscorer	Preki (13)
average attendance	9,058
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Overall: 2nd Main article: Kansas City Wizards Seasons

The 1997 Kansas City Wizards season was the second in team and MLS history. Played at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri.

MLS did not allow matches to end in ties and thus Shootouts were used to decide draws, the stats that follow do not include shootout goals scored and the teams actually point total in the regular season was 49 even though it is shown below as 63. Shootout win= 2 points, Shootout loss= 0 points.

Squad

Competitions

[[1997 Major League Soccer season|Major League Soccer]]

Date	Opponents	H / A	**Result
F – A**	Scorers	Attendance
March 29, 1997	San Jose Earthquakes	H	2–2 (W)	Johnston
Preki
April 5, 1997	Los Angeles Galaxy	H	3–2	Takawira
Preki
Chung
April 12, 1997	Tampa Bay Mutiny	A	1–2	Preki
April 18, 1997	Dallas Burn	H	2–1	Klopas
Chung
April 27, 1997	Tampa Bay Mutiny	H	2–2 (L)	Johnston
Wright
May 3, 1997	New England Revolution	A	1–2	Preki
May 10, 1997	Los Angeles Galaxy	H	1–0	Preki
May 18, 1997	NY/NJ Metrostars	A	0–1
May 22, 1997	Columbus Crew	H	3–1	McKeon 2
Chung
May 30, 1997	Los Angeles Galaxy	A	3–1	Wright
Takawira
Own goal
June 6, 1997	Dallas Burn	A	1–1 (W)	Wright
June 8, 1997	San Jose Earthquakes	A	3–2	Chung
Preki 2
June 15, 1997	San Jose Earthquakes	H	1–3	Bowers
June 21, 1997	D.C. United	H	6–1	Wright
Klopas
Chung
Preki
Bowers
Rodriguez
June 25, 1997	Tampa Bay Mutiny	H	2–2 (W)	Wright
Chung
June 28, 1997	Colorado Rapids	A	3–3 (W)	Takawira 2
Johnston
July 4, 1997	Columbus Crew	A	2–1	Takawira 2
July 6, 1997	Dallas Burn	H	1–3	Tinsley
July 12, 1997	New England Revolution	A	0–2
July 19, 1997	D.C. United	H	3–2	Chung 2
Takawira
July 26, 1997	New England Revolution	H	0–0 (W)
August 2, 1997	Dallas Burn	A	2–1	Chung
Preki
August 9, 1997	Tampa Bay Mutiny	A	2–0	Bowers
Klopas
August 17, 1997	NY/NJ Metrostars	H	3–3 (W)	Klopas
Johnston
Chung
August 24, 1997	San Jose Earthquakes	A	2–2 (W)	Preki
McKeon
August 28, 1997	Colorado Rapids	H	1–0	Preki
August 31, 1997	D.C. United	A	0–2
September 6, 1997	Colorado Rapids	A	2–1	Johnson
Klopas
September 12, 1997	NY/NJ Metrostars	H	0–0 (L)
September 14, 1997	Columbus Crew	A	0–4
September 26, 1997	Colorado Rapids	H	5–2	Johnston 2
McKeon
Preki
Takawira
September 28, 1997	Los Angeles Galaxy	A	0–2

U.S. Open Cup

Main article: 1997 U.S. Open Cup

White
Folan
Simpson
Klopas
Johnston
McKeon
Preki

MLS Cup Playoffs

Eastern Conference semifinals

Pittman
Tinsley
Rodriguez
Preki
Henderson
Bravo
Paule
Bravo
Harris
Takawira
Gough
McKeon
Okafor
Klopas
Preki

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	MLS	USOC	Playoffs	Total	Minutes	Discipline	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
13	MF	USA Mark Chung	32	10	1	0	2	0	35	10	2871	3141
21	MF	USA Matt McKeon	31	4	1	0	2	0	34	4	2737	3007
9	MF	USA Ryan Tinsley	31	1	1	0	2	0	34	1	2588	2826
26	FW	SCO Mo Johnston	29	6	1	0	2	0	32	6	2564	2834
3	FW	ENG Paul Wright	30	5	1	0	1	0	32	5	1646	1770
0	GK	USA Mike Ammann	29	0	0	0	2	0	31	0	2597	2777
20	DF	Nigeria Uche Okafor	27	0	1	0	2	0	30	0	2386	2641
11	MF	USA Preki	27	12	1	0	2	1	29	13	2330	2555
14	FW	USA Frank Klopas	27	5	1	1	2	0	30	6	1967	2123
12	FW	Zimbabwe Vitalis Takawira	28	8	0	0	2	1	30	9	2153	2299
6	DF	USA Sean Bowers	26	3	1	0	2	0	29	3	2017	2287
2	DF	USA Steve Pittman	26	0	1	0	2	0	29	0	2068	2317
4	DF	SCO Richard Gough	17	0	0	0	2	0	19	0	1457	1637
17	MF	USA Edmundo Rodriguez	16	1	0	0	1	0	17	1	543	554
22	FW	USA Brian Johnson	14	1	1	0	0	0	15	1	951	966
18	GK	USA Chris Snitko	5	0	1	0	0	0	6	0	282	372
16	MF	USA John Diffley	6	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	148	148
8	MF	USA Damian Silvera	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	166	166
19	MF	USA Jake Dancy	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	116	116
27	DF	USA John DeBrito	2	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	53	74
8	FW	USA Jamel Mitchell	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	16	16
23	FW	USA Nino DaSilva	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	12	12

Final Statistics

References

"1997 Kansas City Wizards Stats".

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