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2006 Kansas City Wizards season

Field	Value
club	Kansas City Wizards
image	Kansas City Wizards logo (2006–10).svg
season	2006
manager	Bob Gansler
Brian Bliss
mgrtitle	Head coach
league	Major League Soccer
league result	East: 5th
Overall: 11th
cup1	USOC
cup1 result	Fourth Round
league topscorer	Scott Sealy (10)
season topscorer	Scott Sealy (11)
average attendance	11,083
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Brian Bliss Overall: 11th Main article: List of Sporting Kansas City seasons

The 2006 Kansas City Wizards season was the 11th in Major League Soccer. Kansas City continued its decline in the Eastern Conference, finishing with 38 points (10W 14L 8D) and once again joining the Columbus Crew in missing out on post-season play. Despite this, attendance at the cavernous Arrowhead Stadium rose back to around 11,000.

Three Wizards, Jimmy Conrad, Eddie Johnson, and Josh Wolff, represented the United States men's national soccer team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. The U.S. finished among the worst teams in the tournament, but Conrad and Johnson made substitute appearances in the tournament. An additional player, talented defender José Burciaga Jr., stood out as the top player at the club, making MLS Best XI and becoming the team MVP for the season.

On July 19, 2006, Bob Gansler departed his position as head coach; to that point, he was the most successful coach in Wizards history, winning every trophy the club had amassed to that point (one MLS Cup, one U.S. Open Cup, and one Supporters' Shield). Fans were reportedly pleased with the move, with some having called the longtime coach "Bunker Bob."

This season also marked the final under the MLS multi-club ownership of Lamar Hunt and his sports properties, as a major shift occurred. First, Hunt sold the club to OnGoal, LLC in August (Hunt, a titan of U.S. sports including in MLS, died in December). Next, the new ownership actively looked out for land in the Kansas City area to build a new, soccer-specific stadium to house the club, kicking off a five-year, six-season and three-stadium process leading to an eventual rebrand in 2011.

Squad

Competitions

[[2006 Major League Soccer season|Major League Soccer]]

Overall

Conference

Date	Opponents	H / A	**Result
F – A**	Scorers	Attendance
April 1, 2006	Columbus Crew	H	3–1	Arnaud
Jewsbury
Johnson
April 8, 2006	Houston Dynamo	A	2–1	Victorine
Burciaga Jr.
April 15, 2006	New England Revolution	H	1–0	Conrad
April 23, 2006	FC Dallas	A	1–2	Zotinca
April 29, 2006	Columbus Crew	A	1–0	Wolff
May 6, 2006	Chicago Fire S.C.	H	1–1	Johnson
May 13, 2006	D.C. United	A	1–2	Victorine
May 20, 2006	Real Salt Lake	A	1–2	Pore
May 27, 2006	D.C. United	H	1–3	Sealy
June 3, 2006	New York Red Bulls	H	1–1	Burciaga Jr.
June 10, 2006	Columbus Crew	A	1–0	Burciaga Jr.
June 17, 2006	Chicago Fire S.C.	H	3–2	Sealy 2
Burciaga Jr.
June 24, 2006	D.C. United	A	0–1
June 28, 2006	D.C. United	H	2–3	Garcia
Burciaga Jr.
July 1, 2006	Los Angeles Galaxy	H	0–2
July 4, 2006	Chicago Fire S.C.	A	0–1
July 8, 2006	Colorado Rapids	A	0–1
July 15, 2006	Houston Dynamo	H	2–3	Wolff
Conrad
July 22, 2006	New York Red Bulls	A	0–1
July 29, 2006	New England Revolution	H	1–1	Wolff
August 9, 2006	New England Revolution	A	0–0
August 12, 2006	Columbus Crew	H	4–0	Arnaud
Sealy
Victorine
Pore
August 16, 2006	Chicago Fire S.C.	A	0–3
August 19, 2006	Chivas USA	A	1–1	Burciaga Jr.
August 27, 2006	FC Dallas	H	1–0	Sealy
August 30, 2006	New York Red Bulls	H	2–2	Sealy
Wolff
September 2, 2006	Los Angeles Galaxy	A	1–2	Thomas
September 9, 2006	Colorado Rapids	H	4–1	Sealy
van den Bergh
Arnaud 2
September 23, 2006	New England Revolution	A	1–1	Sealy
September 30, 2006	Real Salt Lake	H	3–3	Wolff
Sealy
Burciaga Jr.
October 7, 2006	Chivas USA	H	2–1	van den Bergh
Burciaga Jr.
October 14, 2006	New York Red Bulls	A	2–3	van den Bergh
Sealy

[[2006 U.S. Open Cup|U.S. Open Cup]]

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	**Result
F – A**	Scorers	Attendance
July 12, 2006	Third Round	Des Moines Menace	H	2–1	Pore
Sealy
August 14, 2006	Fourth Round	Chicago Fire S.C.	A	0–2

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	MLS	USOC	Total	Minutes	Discipline	Apps	Goals	Apps
22	FW	USA Davy Arnaud	32	4	0	0	32	4	2785	2785
9	MF	USA Sasha Victorine	31	3	1	0	32	3	2701	2717
6	DF	USA Jose Burciaga Jr.	30	8	0	0	30	8	2590	2590
19	FW	TTO Scott Sealy	29	10	1	1	30	11	1762	1852
1	GK	USA Bo Oshoniyi	29	0	0	0	29	0	2610	2610
3	DF	USA Nick Garcia	29	1	0	0	29	1	2519	2519
14	MF	USA Jack Jewsbury	28	1	1	0	29	1	1817	1907
4	DF	JAM Shavar Thomas	26	1	1	0	27	1	2147	2237
5	MF	USA Kerry Zavagnin	25	0	1	0	26	0	2069	2159
23	MF	ROM Alex Zotinca	24	1	0	0	24	1	1303	1303
7	FW	USA Eddie Johnson	19	2	2	0	21	2	1480	1505
25	MF	USA Matt Groenwald	19	0	2	0	21	0	1221	1287
29	FW	USA Ryan Pore	19	2	2	1	21	3	563	728
15	FW	USA Josh Wolff	19	5	1	0	20	5	1587	1608
12	DF	USA Jimmy Conrad	15	2	0	0	15	2	1252	1252
11	MF	NED Dave van den Bergh	13	3	0	0	13	2	991	991
21	MF	USA Lance Watson	11	0	1	0	12	0	450	530
17	FW	ARM Yura Movsisyan	10	0	2	0	12	0	221	335
20	DF	USA Tyson Wahl	10	0	1	0	11	0	607	697
26	MF	USA Ryan Raybould	8	0	1	0	9	0	583	673
18	GK	USA Will Hesmer	3	0	2	0	5	0	270	450
16	DF	USA Brian Roberts	1	0	2	0	3	0	17	197
13	FW	USA Will John	1	0	2	0	3	0	3	138
33	MF	RUS Sergei Raad	1	0	2	0	3	0	22	136
28	--	Stephen Shirley	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	180
35	MF	USA Ryan McMahen	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	164
27	MF	JAM Jermaine Hue	2	0	0	0	2	0	51	51

Final Statistics

References

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