Club: | Swope Park Rangers |
Season: | 2019 |
Manager: | Paulo Nagamura |
Chairman: | Kurt Austin |
Stadium: | Children's Mercy Park[1] |
League: | USL Championship |
League Result: | 18th (Eastern Conference) |
Cup1: | USL Playoffs |
Cup1 Result: | Did not qualify |
League Topscorer: | TBD |
Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
Chrtitle: | General manager |
Highest Attendance: | League/All: 1,565 (October 8 vs. Ottawa Fury FC) |
Lowest Attendance: | League/All: 232 (April 15 vs. Indy Eleven) |
Largest Win: | 3–0 (Sept. 21 at Charlotte) |
Largest Loss: | 3–8 (October 12 at Louisville) |
Prevseason: | 2018 |
Nextseason: | 2020 |
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The 2019 Swope Park Rangers season was the club's fourth year of play and their first season in the Eastern Conference of the newly renamed USL Championship, the top tier of United Soccer League. The second tier of the United States Soccer Pyramid. The Rangers continued to play at Children's Mercy Park after complications with Shawnee Mission District Stadium in Overland Park, Kansas.
The 2018 Swope Park Rangers season finished the year with a record of 15-8-11 and 7th in the Western Conference qualifying for the 2018 USL Playoffs.
In the first round, Swope Park defeated #2 seed Sacramento Republic 2–1.[2] In the conference semi-finals, the Rangers lost to #3 Phoenix Rising 4–2.[3]
Date | Player | Position | Destination club | Notes | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
November 30, 2018 | Christian Herrera | GK | Orlando City B | Option Declined, Out of Contract | [16] |
November 30, 2018 | Darrin MacLeod | GK | North Carolina FC | Option Declined, Out of Contract | |
November 30, 2018 | Dakota Barnathan | DF | Ottawa Fury | Option Declined, Out of Contract | |
November 30, 2018 | Thierry Catherine | DF | Golden Lion FC | Option Declined, Out of Contract | |
November 30, 2018 | Matt Lewis | DF | New York Cosmos | Option Declined, Out of Contract | |
November 30, 2018 | Parker Maher | DF | TBD | Option Declined, Out of Contract | |
November 30, 2018 | Bryam Rebellón | DF | El Paso Locomotive FC | Option Declined, Out of Contract | |
November 30, 2018 | Chase Minter | MF | TBD | Option Declined, Out of Contract | |
November 30, 2018 | Matheus Silva | MF | Orlando City B | Option Declined, Out of Contract | |
November 30, 2018 | Jose Barragan | FW | TBD | Option Declined, Out of Contract | |
November 30, 2018 | Tyler Blackwood | FW | Sacramento Republic FC | Option Declined, Out of Contract | |
November 30, 2018 | Hadji Barry | FW | Ironi Kiryat Shmona | Out of Contract | |
April 24, 2019 | Justin Bilyeu | DF | Retired | [17] | |
See main article: 2019 USL Championship season.
See main article: 2019 U.S. Open Cup.
Due to their affiliation with a higher division professional club (Sporting Kansas City), SPR was one of 13 teams expressly forbidden from entering the Cup competition.[18]
Last updated on 26 August 2019.|-! colspan="14" style="background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center"|Goalkeepers
|-! colspan="14" style="background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center"|Defenders
|-! colspan="14" style="background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center"|Midfielders
|-! colspan="14" style="background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center"|Forwards
|-! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Players who have made an appearance or had a squad number this season but have left the club|-|}
Number | Position | Name | Total | |||
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85 | MF | Felipe Hernandez | 8 | 0 | 8 | |
96 | Wilson Harris | 4 | 0 | 4 | ||
11 | MF | Kelyn Rowe | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
91 | Ethan Vanacore-Decker | 3 | 0 | 3 | ||
39 | DF | Jerome Ngom Mbekeli | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
43 | Mark Segbers | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
92 | Alexsander Andrade | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
44 | Camden Riley | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
95 | Rassambek Akhmatov | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
70 | Zé Pedro | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
24 | Gedion Zelalem | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||
23 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||
3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |