2011 Sporting Kansas City season

Overview

Preseason

After all players reported to Kansas City for entrance physicals and a week's worth of training at the Kansas City Chiefs Indoor Practice Facility, Sporting Kansas City traveled to Phoenix, Arizona for the second straight season to train at the Reach 11 Sports Complex. Designated Player Omar Bravo made his long-awaited debut with the team and the coaching staff brought in more than a dozen guest trialists for evaluation, including Chad Ochocinco.

Squad

First team roster

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Formation

Player movement

In

Out

Loans

In

Out

Major League Soccer

League table

Eastern Conference standings

Results summary

Match results

Preseason

Robbie Rogers Kei Kamara

Jason Garey Andrew Hainault

C.J. Sapong

2011 Desert Cup

Mravec Sapong Myers Zusi Ubiparipovic

Richards Kamara

Regular season

Conrad Valentin Zemanski Arnaud Bravo Bravo Bravo

Puerari Puerari Pappa Besler Arnaud Bunbury Diop

Camilo Kamara
Harrington
Diop
Bunbury

Harrington Thomas

McCarthy Perović Joseph Mansally Lekić Lekić Joseph Collin

Besler Harrington |stadium = Gillette Stadium

Loyd
Ihemelu
Rodriguez Zusi
Sinovic Stojcev Collin Sassano

Júlio César

Collin

Bravo
Johnson

Bunbury

Neagle

Saad

Bravo Santos
Warshaw

Bravo

Sapong

James (o.g.)

Sapong

MLS Cup Playoffs

1st Leg Nyassi 2nd Leg Espinoza Cesar Arnaud Sapong Comminges Mullan Nyassi Costly

U.S. Open Cup

Sporting Kansas City began qualification for the 2011 U.S. Open Cup with a 1–0 victory over Houston Dynamo on April 6, 2011. Sporting Kansas City was one of ten MLS clubs vying for two play-in berths available. In the qualification finals, the club defeated New England Revolution 5–0 on May 25, 2011. Sporting KC entered the formal Cup competition in the Third round, defeating the Chicago Fire Premier club 3–0 on June 28, 2011. In the Quarterfinal round on July 12, 2011, they were defeated by the Richmond Kickers.

Kickoff times are in CDT. (a.e.t) Palmer Chabala Boswell Sapong

Sapong Collin

Stojčev Kamara

Bulow

Friendly Matches

Sporting Kansas City team played a friendly match against the English Premier League team Newcastle United on July 20, 2011. They also hosted the Liga MX México Primera División team Club Deportivo Guadalajara on October 12, 2011.

Ellis Torres

Recognition

MLS Player of the Week

AT&T Goal of the Week

MLS Save of the Week

MLS Player of the Month

MLS All-Stars 2011

2011 Team Awards

Notable reserve games

The reserve game on March 28, 2011, against the Kansas City Brass garnered widespread interest due to NFL player Chad Ochocinco appearing for Sporting. Ochocinco briefly trained with the team during the NFL lockout.

Miscellany

Allocation ranking

Sporting Kansas City is in the #4 position in the MLS Allocation Ranking. The allocation ranking is the mechanism used to determine which MLS club has first priority to acquire a U.S. National Team player who signs with MLS after playing abroad, or a former MLS player who returns to the league after having gone to a club abroad for a transfer fee. A ranking can be traded, provided that part of the compensation received in return is another club's ranking.

International roster spots

Sporting Kansas City has 9 international roster spots. Each club in Major League Soccer is allocated 8 international roster spots, which can be traded. Sporting Kansas City acquired an additional spot from D.C. United on 3 February 2010 for use during the 2010 and 2011 seasons. Sporting had also acquired another spot from Real Salt Lake on 23 February 2010 but that spot was for the 2010 season only and reverted to Real Salt Lake on 1 January 2011.

There is no limit on the number of international slots on each club's roster. The remaining roster slots must belong to domestic players. For clubs based in the United States, a domestic player is either a U.S. citizen, a permanent resident (green card holder) or the holder of other special status (e.g., refugee or asylum status).

Future draft pick trades

Future picks acquired: 2012 SuperDraft Round 2 pick acquired from FC Dallas; 2013 SuperDraft Round 2 pick acquired from New York Red Bulls.

Future picks traded: 2012 SuperDraft Round 2 pick traded to Philadelphia Union.

MLS rights to other players

It is believed that Sporting maintains the MLS rights to Herculez Gomez after the player declined a contract offer by the club and instead signed with a non-MLS side.

Notes

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