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2007 Kansas City Wizards season

Field	Value
club	Kansas City Wizards
image	Kansas City Wizards logo (2006–10).svg
season	2007
manager	Curt Onalfo
mgrtitle	Head coach
league	Major League Soccer
league result	East: 5th
Overall: 8th
cup1	Playoffs
cup1 result	Conference Finals
league topscorer	Eddie Johnson (15)
season topscorer	Eddie Johnson (15)
average attendance	11,586
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Overall: 8th

The 2007 Kansas City Wizards season was the 12th for the club in Major League Soccer. The Wizards finished fifth in the Eastern Conference and eighth overall with 40 points (11W 12L 7D), their best points total since 2004 and, resultantly, as an Eastern Conference team.

Curt Onalfo took over as head coach this season. The club also acquired Kevin Hartman from the LA Galaxy, where the goalkeeper had made a name for himself in the league. For Kansas City, 2007 was mostly defined on-field by Eddie Johnson, who scored 15 league goals including back to back hat tricks to end May and begin June, a feat never before accomplished in the league. Johnson's achievements would be overshadowed by the overall chaos of the 2007 MLS season which included the introduction of the Designated Player Rule, enabling teams to sign far more prolific attackers than previous seasons. Despite Johnson's stellar play and the improvement of the Wizards (who made their first playoff as an Eastern team and lost the re-classified Western Conference Finals to eventual champions Houston Dynamo), more high-profile forwards such as DPs Luciano Emilio and Juan Pablo Ángel were given MLS Best XI consideration over the USMNT player.

This was the last season the Wizards played all their home matches at Arrowhead Stadium, as new ownership began a process of relocation and rebranding that would end up with the club opening its own new stadium in 2011.

Squad

Competitions

[[2007 Major League Soccer season|Major League Soccer]]

Date	Opponents	H / A	**Result
F – A**	Scorers	Attendance
April 14, 2007	D.C. United	A	4–2	Harrington
Victorine
Johnson
Sealy
April 21, 2007	Chicago Fire S.C.	A	1–2	Marinelli
April 25, 2007	Toronto FC	H	3–0	Johnson
Zavagnin
Movsisyan
April 28, 2007	Toronto FC	A	1–0	Johnson
May 5, 2007	Columbus Crew	H	1–0	Burciaga Jr.
May 12, 2007	FC Dallas	H	1–2	Harrington
May 19, 2007	Colorado Rapids	A	1–1	Arnaud
May 26, 2007	New England Revolution	A	4–3	Johnson 3
Arnaud
June 2, 2007	New York Red Bulls	H	3–2	Johnson 3
June 16, 2007	New York Red Bulls	A	3–3	Movsisyan 2
Zavagnin
June 20, 2007	Columbus Crew	A	1–2	Jewsbury
June 24, 2007	Houston Dynamo	H	0–1
July 1, 2007	Toronto FC	H	1–1	Harrington
July 4, 2007	D.C. United	H	0–1
July 7, 2007	Los Angeles Galaxy	A	2–2	Movsisyan
Arnaud
July 14, 2007	Real Salt Lake	H	1–0	Johnson
July 22, 2007	Colorado Rapids	H	2–2	Johnson 2
July 29, 2007	Chivas USA	H	3–2	Zavagnin
Arnaud
Movsisyan
August 2, 2007	New England Revolution	A	0–2
August 19, 2007	New England Revolution	H	0–1
August 22, 2007	Chicago Fire S.C.	H	3–2	Victorine
Sealy
Burciaga Jr.
August 25, 2007	Chicago Fire S.C.	A	0–2
August 29, 2007	Real Salt Lake	A	1–3	Johnson
September 1, 2007	Houston Dynamo	A	1–1	Johnson
September 15, 2007	Columbus Crew	H	3–2	Sealy 2
Johnson
September 22, 2007	Chivas USA	A	1–2	Colombano
September 27, 2007	Los Angeles Galaxy	H	0–1
October 5, 2007	D.C. United	H	1–1	Sealy
October 13, 2007	New York Red Bulls	A	1–2	Jewsbury
October 20, 2007	FC Dallas	A	2–0	Sealy 2

[[2007 U.S. Open Cup qualification|U.S. Open Cup qualification]]

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	**Result
F – A**	Scorers	Attendance
April 18, 2007	Semifinal Qualification	Real Salt Lake	A	1–2
(AET)	Victorine

[[2007 Major League Soccer season#2007 MLS Cup Playoffs|MLS Cup Playoffs]]

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	**Result
F – A**	Scorers	Attendance
October 27, 2007	Conference Semi-finals	Chivas USA	H	1–0	Arnaud
November 3, 2007	Conference Semi-finals	Chivas USA	A	0–0
November 10, 2007	Conference Finals	Houston Dynamo	A	0–2

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	MLS	Playoffs	USOC	Total	Minutes	Discipline	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	USA Kevin Hartman	30	0	3	0	1	0	34	0	2700	3090
5	MF	USA Kerry Zavagnin	29	3	3	0	1	0	33	3	2564	2850
2	DF	USA Michael Harrington	29	3	3	0	1	0	33	3	2422	2812
9	MF	USA Sasha Victorine	29	2	3	0	1	1	33	3	2135	2402
22	FW	USA Davy Arnaud	28	4	3	1	1	0	32	5	2489	2807
14	MF	USA Jack Jewsbury	28	2	3	0	1	0	32	2	2316	2642
3	DF	USA Nick Garcia	27	0	3	0	1	0	31	0	2420	2810
12	DF	USA Jimmy Conrad	25	0	3	0	1	0	29	0	2172	2562
7	FW	USA Eddie Johnson	24	15	3	0	1	0	28	15	2149	2464
10	MF	ARG Carlos Marinelli	26	1	1	0	1	0	28	1	1674	1777
11	MF	CRC Kurt Morsink	21	0	3	0	1	0	25	0	895	1267
6	DF	USA Jose Burciaga Jr.	23	2	1	0	0	0	24	2	1826	1824
19	FW	TTO Scott Sealy	18	7	3	0	1	0	22	7	1194	1487
29	FW	USA Ryan Pore	17	0	3	0	0	0	20	0	456	512
17	FW	ARM Yura Movsisyan	18	5	0	0	1	0	19	5	666	786
26	MF	USA Ryan Raybould	10	0	1	0	1	0	12	0	424	545
16	FW	ARG Eloy Colombano	10	1	1	0	0	0	11	1	310	334
20	DF	USA Tyson Wahl	6	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	415	415
15	DF	USA Aaron Hohlbein	5	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	360	360
13	FW	USA Will John	3	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	26	146
21	MF	USA Lance Watson	2	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	23	24

Final Statistics

References

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