2015 Sporting Kansas City season explained

Club:	Sporting Kansas City
Season:	2015
Stadium:	Sporting Park
League:	MLS
League Result:	Conference: 6th Overall: 10th
Chrtitle:	Owner
Chairman:	Sporting Club
Ceo:	Robb Heineman
Mgrtitle:	Head coach
Manager:	Peter Vermes
Cup1:	Playoffs
Cup1 Result:	Knockout Stage
Cup2:	U.S. Open Cup
Cup2 Result:	Champions
League Topscorer:	Dom Dwyer 12
Season Topscorer:	Dom Dwyer 17
Highest Attendance:	21,505 (June 6 vs. Seattle)
Lowest Attendance:	League: 18,861 (September 18 vs. FC Dallas) All: 16,117 (Aug 12 vs. Real Salt Lake)
Average Attendance:	League: All:
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Prevseason:	2014
Nextseason:	2016

The 2015 Sporting Kansas City season was the twentieth season of the team's existence in Major League Soccer and the fifth year played under the Sporting Kansas City moniker.

Due to the dissolution of Chivas USA and MLS expansion to New York and Orlando, Sporting Kansas City moved to the Western Conference. Sporting was a member of the Western Conference for its first nine seasons before moving to the Eastern Conference for the previous ten seasons.

Squad

First team roster

As of October 13, 2015.^[1]

Player movement

See also: List of Major League Soccer transfers 2015.

In

Date	Player	Position	Previous club	Fee/notes	Ref
December 8, 2014	Bernardo Añor	MF	Columbus Crew SC	Trade for Allocation Money	^[2]
December 12, 2014	Jalil Anibaba	MF	Orlando City SC	Trade in exchange for Aurélien Collin	^[3]
December 16, 2014	James Marcelin	MF	Fort Lauderdale Strikers	Free transfer	^[4]
December 18, 2014	Krisztián Németh	FW	Roda JC Kerkrade	Free transfer	^[5]
December 18, 2014	Luis Marín	GK	Universidad de Chile	Free transfer
December 23, 2014	Tim Melia	GK	Chivas USA	Free transfer	^[6]
January 6, 2015	Roger Espinoza	MF	Wigan Athletic	Free transfer	^[7]
January 15, 2015	Connor Hallisey	MF	UC Berkeley	2015 MLS SuperDraft	^[8]
January 15, 2015	Saad Abdul-Salaam	DF	University of Akron	2015 MLS SuperDraft
January 27, 2015	Servando Carrasco	MF	Houston Dynamo	Trade for rights in exchange for draft pick
February 13, 2015	Soni Mustivar	MF	FC Petrolul Ploiești	Free transfer
February 18, 2015	Amadou Dia	MF	Clemson University	2015 MLS SuperDraft
February 24, 2015	James Ansu Rogers	FW	University of New Mexico	2015 MLS SuperDraft
March 2, 2015	Marcel de Jong	DF	FC Augsburg	Free	^[9]
July 20, 2015	Amobi Okugo	DF/MF	Orlando City SC	Trade for Servando Carrasco
August 6, 2015	Jordi Quintillà	MF	Ajaccio	Transfer

Out

Date	Player	Position	New club	Fee/notes	Ref
November 25, 2014	Toni Dovale	MF	Lugo	Option declined	^[10]
November 25, 2014	Michael Kafari	MF		Option declined
November 25, 2014	Victor Muñoz	MF	Arizona United SC	Option declined
November 25, 2014	Lawrence Olum	MF	Kedah FA	Contract terminated
November 25, 2014	Soony Saad	FW	BEC Tero Sasana	Out of contract
November 25, 2014	Christian Duke	MF	Oklahoma City Energy FC	Waived	^[11]
December 8, 2014	Aurélien Collin	DF	Orlando City SC	Trade for Allocation Money and Jalil Anibaba
December 8, 2014	C. J. Sapong	DF	Philadelphia Union	Trade for 2015 MLS SuperDraft pick
December 10, 2014	Sal Zizzo	MF	New York City FC	2014 MLS Expansion Draft	^[12]
December 12, 2014	Eric Kronberg	GK	Montreal Impact	Option declined
December 12, 2014	Andy Gruenebaum	GK	San Jose Earthquakes	Option declined
January 20, 2015	Claudio Bieler	FW	Quilmes	Out of contract	^[13]
February 24, 2015	Jorge Claros	MF	Qingdao Jonoon	Contract terminated
May 27, 2015	Luis Marín	GK	Palestino	Mutually terminated	^[14]
June 22, 2015	James Ansu Rogers	FW		Waived
July 20, 2015	Servando Carrasco	MF	Orlando City SC	Trade for Amobi Okugo

Loans

Out

No.	Pos.	Player	Loaned to	Start	End	Source
21	GK	Jon Kempin	San Antonio Scorpions	March 20, 2015	May 27, 2015	^[16]
17	DF	Saad Abdul-Salaam	San Antonio Scorpions	April 1, 2015	May 19, 2015	^[17] ^[18]

Competitions

Preseason

Desert Diamond Cup

See main article: 2015 Desert Diamond Cup. Kickoff times are in CST (UTC-06) unless shown otherwise

Major League Soccer

League table

See also: 2015 Major League Soccer season.

Regular season

See main article: 2015 Major League Soccer season.

Kickoff times are in CDT (UTC-05) unless shown otherwise

MLS Cup Playoffs

See main article: 2015 MLS Cup Playoffs.

=Knockout round

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U.S. Open Cup

See main article: 2015 U.S. Open Cup.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Players. October 13, 2015. SportingKC.com.
2. Web site: Austin. Kurt. Sporting KC acquires midfielder Bernardo Añor. SportingKC.com. Sporting Kansas City. January 27, 2015.
3. Web site: Sporting Kansas City acquire Jalil Anibaba from Orlando City to complete Aurélien Collin trade. MLSSoccer.com. MLSSoccer. January 27, 2015.
4. Web site: Austin. Kurt. Sporting KC signs midfielder James Marcelin. SportingKC.com. Sporting Kansas City. January 27, 2015.
5. Web site: Austin. Kurt. Sporting KC signs forward Krisztian Nemeth. SportingKC.com. Sporting Kansas City. January 27, 2015. September 27, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150927162842/http://www.sportingkc.com/news/2014/12/sporting-kc-signs-forward-krisztian-nemeth. dead.
6. Web site: Austin. Kurt. Sporting KC signs goalkeeper Tim Melia. SportingKC.com. Sporting Kansas City. January 27, 2015. December 23, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141223201135/http://www.sportingkc.com/news/2014/12/sporting-kc-signs-goalkeeper-tim-melia. dead.
7. Web site: Austin. Kurt. Roger Espinoza returns to Sporting KC . SportingKC.com. Sporting Kansas City. January 27, 2015.
8. Web site: Austin. Kurt. Sporting KC selects three in first round of 2015 MLS SuperDraft . SportingKC.com. Sporting Kansas City. January 27, 2015.
9. Web site: MLS Transactions 2015. mlssoccer.com. Major League Soccer. October 13, 2015.
10. Web site: Sporting Kansas City decline options on six players, part ways with Lawrence Olum . MLSSoccer.com. MLSSoccer. January 27, 2015.
11. Web site: After a mini-rebuild, Sporting KC begins preparation for new season. KansasCity.com. KanasCityStar.com. February 25, 2015.
12. Web site: New York City FC Bolsters Roster in Expansion Draft . NYCFC.com. NYCFC. January 27, 2015.
13. Web site: Sporting Kansas City agree to part ways with forward Claudio Bieler . MLSSoccer.com. MLSSoccer. January 27, 2015.
14. Web site: Austin. Kurt. Sporting KC and goalkeeper Luis Marin mutually agree to terminate contract. Sportingkc.com. Sporting Kansas City. May 27, 2015.
15. Web site: Austin. Kurt. Sporting KC acquires 19-year-old Igor Julião. SportingKC.com. Sporting Kansas City. April 7, 2014.
16. Web site: Austin. Kurt. Sporting KC loans goalkeeper Jon Kempin to the San Antonio Scorpions of NASL. sportingkc.com. Sporting Kansas City. May 21, 2015.
17. Web site: Austin. Kurt. Sporting KC agrees to loan Saad Abdul-Salaam. Sportingkc.com. Sporting Kansas City. May 21, 2015. May 7, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150507070632/http://www.sportingkc.com/news/2015/04/sporting-kc-agrees-loan-saad-abdul-salaam. dead.
18. Web site: Austin. Kurt. Sporting KC recalls Saad Abdul-Salaam from loan. sportingkc.com. Sporting Kansas City. May 21, 2015. May 21, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150521152159/http://www.sportingkc.com/news/2015/05/sporting-kc-recalls-saad-abdul-salaam-loan. dead.