Game Guide: Sporting KC at Houston Dynamo by Sporting Kansas City

HOUSTON DYNAMO v SPORTING KANSAS CITY (September 23, BBVA Compass Stadium, 7:30 p.m. CT) PROBABLE LINEUPS

2015 SEASON RECORDS Dynamo at home

ROSTERS

GP W-L-T PTS GF GA 29 9-12-8 35 36 39 14 7-4-3 24 25 18

Sporting KC 28 12-8-8 44 44 39 on road 14 3-7-4 13 18 23

Deric

LEAGUE HEAD-TO-HEAD

ALL-TIME (22 meetings): Dynamo 7 wins, 30 goals … Sporting 5 wins, 27 goals … Ties 10

Horst

Rodriguez

7 Beasley

Williams

AT HOUSTON (11 meetings): Dynamo 3 wins, 16 goals … Sporting 3 wins, 14 goals … Ties 5

Sturgis

Barnes

Clark

Miranda

2015 (MLS) 4/25: HOU 4, KC 4 (Barnes 11, 46; Bruin 46+; R. Rodriguez 83 – Nemeth 2; Dwyer 74; Feilhaber 80, 95+) 8/1: KC 1, HOU 1 (Dwyer 6 – Clark 78)

Davis

12 Bruin

UPCOMING MATCHES SPORTING DYNAMO Sun. Sep. 27 Seattle Sat. Sep. 26 Colorado Sat. Oct. 3 at Portland Sun. Oct. 4 at FC Dallas Fri. Oct. 16 at San Jose Sun. Oct. 18 Seattle Wed. Oct. 21 Colorado Sun. Oct. 25 at Vancouver

Dwyer

9 Nemeth

Nagamura

Feilhaber

Zusi

93 WHERE THE GOALS COME FROM SPORTING

DYNAMO

F 36 73

A 39 67

GOALS SCORED MINUTES PER GOAL

F 44 57

A 39 65

19 11 14 0

22 6 9 2

23 6 4 0 5 1 4 1

21 3 3 2 2 1 6 1

8 29 7

9 26 4

Mustivar

15 Sinovic

RIGHT FOOT LEFT FOOT HEADERS OTHER

22 8 7 2

TYPE OF PLAY

18 3 5 3 2 1 4 0

23 3 1 2 4 1 3 2

OPEN PLAY CROSS CORNER REBOUND PENALTIES DIRECT FROM FREE KICK FREE KICK (INDIRECT) OWN GOALS

10 22 4

9 25 5

INSIDE GOAL AREA INSIDE PENALTY AREA OUTSIDE PENALTY AREA

Besler

Ellis

7 Myers

21 Kempin

HOW SCORED

20 9 7 0

REFEREE: Sorin Stoica. AR1 (bench): Sean Hurd; AR2 (opposite): Jeremy Hanson; 4th: Armando Villarreal DISCIPLINARY SITUATION SUSPENDED: HOU: Luis Garrido (caution accumulation; through Sept. 23) WARNINGS (suspended next yellow card): HOU: Giles Barnes, Ricardo Clark, Kofi Sarkodie, Jermaine Taylor, Sheanon Williams … KC: Matt Besler, Benny Feilhaber, Paulo Nagamura

DISABLED LIST / INJURED RESERVE

HOUSTON DYNAMO 1 Tyler Deric (GK) 2 Kofi Sarkodie (DF) 3 Rob Lovejoy (MF() 4 Jermaine Taylor (DF) 5 Raul Rodriguez (DF) 6 Nathan Sturgis (MF) 7 DaMarcus Beasley (DF) 8 Luis Garrido (MF) 9 Erick Torres (FW) 10 Giles Barnes (FW) 11 Brad Davis (MF) 12 Will Bruin (FW) 13 Ricardo Clark (MF) 14 Alex (MF) 15 Alexander Lopez (MF) 16 A.J. Cochran (DF) 17 Chandler Hoffman (FW) 18 David Horst (DF) 19 Mauro Manotas (FW) 20 Rasheed Olabiyi (MF) 21 Zach Steinberger (MF) 22 Sheanon Williams (DF) 23 Taylor Hunter (DF) 27 Boniek Garcia (MF) 28 Memo Rodriguez (MF) 30 Michael Lisch (GK) 31 Joe Willis (GK) 33 Leonel Miranda (MF) SPORTING KC 2 Erik Palmer-Brown (DF) 3 Ike Opara (DF) 4 Kevin Ellis (DF) 5 Matt Besler (DF) 6 Paulo Nagamura (MF) 7 Chance Myers (DF) 8 Graham Zusi (MF) 9 Krisztian Nemeth (FW) 10 Benny Feilhaber (MF) 11 Bernardo Anor (MF) 12 Mikey Lopez (MF) 13 Amadou Dia (DF) 14 Dom Dwyer (FW) 15 Seth Sinovic (DF) 17 Saad Abdul-Salaam (DF) 20 Amobi Okugo (MF) 21 Jon Kempin (GK) 22 Connor Hallisey (MF) 23 Jalil Anibaba (DF) 27 Roger Espinoza (MF) 29 Tim Melia (GK) 37 Jacob Peterson (FW) 71 Marcel de Jong (DF) 93 Soni Mustivar (MF) 94 Jimmy Medranda (MF) 96 Jordi Quintilla (MF)

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DISTANCE

(W-L-T) HOU KC

RECORD AT HALFTIME LEAD TIED TRAIL 6-0-2 2-5-4 1-7-2 6-0-1 4-5-6 2-3-1

INTERNATIONAL DUTY HOU: Erick Torres (Mexico U-23)

RECORD WITH FIRST GOAL SCORE ALLOW 8-0-3 1-12-4 9-2-3 3-6-1

THE LAST TIME Home win Road win Home loss Road loss Tie game Shutout for Shutout vs.

HOUSTON DYNAMO Date Score (Gms since) 8/29/2015 HOU 2, VAN 0 7/10/2015 HOU 2, SJ 0 9/12/2015 HOU 1, RSL 3 9/20/2015 HOU 0, PHI 2 8/21/2015 HOU 2, POR 2 8/29/2015 HOU 2, VAN 0 9/20/2015 HOU 0, PHI 2

(1) (6) (0) (0) (4) (2) (0)

SPORTING KANSAS CITY Date Score (Gms since) 9/18/2015 KC 3, DAL 1 8/08/2015 KC 3, TOR 1 8/19/2015 KC 0, SJ 5 9/13/2015 KC 1, ORL 3 9/09/2015 KC 0, POR 0 9/09/2015 KC 0, POR 0 9/09/2015 KC 0, POR 0

GAME-BY-GAME: WON/LOST/TIED Dynamo WLTTLWTTLLWWLTWLLTWLWTWLTLWLL TLTWWTLTWTWTWWLWWWLTWWLLLTLW Sporting KC

(0) (4) (1) (0) (2) (2) (2)

TEAM LEADERS DYNAMO G: 10 Bruin A: 8 Davis SHT: 64 Barnes SOG: 21 Bruin FC: 62 Garrido FS: 56 Barnes OF: 11 Bruin C: 8 Garrido E: 1 3 players tied SPORTING G: 10 Dwyer/Feilhaber A: 14 Feilhaber SHT: 80 Dwyer SOG: 31 Dwyer FC: 48 Dwyer FS: 67 Dwyer OF: 23 Dwyer C: 6 Dwyer E: 1 3 players tied

GOALSCORING RECORD GOALS SCORED IN GAME GP 0 1 2 3 4+ TOT AVG HOU 29 10 9 5 3 2 36 1.24 KC 28 5 13 3 3 4 44 1.57 GOALS ALLOWED IN GAME GP 0 1 2 3 4+ TOT AVG HOU 29 6 12 8 1 2 39 1.34 KC 28 10 6 6 4 2 39 1.39 GOALS BY INTERVALS GOALS SCORED Total 1-15 16-30 31-45 46-60 61-75 76-90 HOU 36 6 2 7 5 6 10 KC 44 5 7 6 9 6 11 GOALS ALLOWED Total 1-15 16-30 31-45 46-60 61-75 76-90 HOU 39 5 2 9 5 9 9 KC 39 8 5 5 6 7 8

HOUSTON DYNAMO v SPORTING KANSAS CITY

(September 23, BBVA Compass Stadium, 7:30 p.m. CT -- MLS Game 296)

HOUSTON DYNAMO 2015 CAREER No. Player Pos Ht Wt Birthdate Birthplace GP GS G A GP GS G A GK 6-3 185 08/30/1988 Houston, TX 27 27 0 0 41 40 0 0 1 Tyler Deric Kofi Sarkodie DF 5-9 165 03/22/1991 Huber Heights, OH 16 15 0 1 98 94 0 10 2 3 Rob Lovejoy MF 6-0 165 10/23/1991 Greensboro, NC 14 2 1 1 14 2 1 1 DF 5-10 195 01/14/1985 Portland, Jamaica 16 16 0 1 106 101 1 4 4 Jermaine Taylor 5 Raul Rodriguez DF 6-0 165 09/22/1987 Barcelona, Spain 23 23 2 0 23 23 2 0 6 Nathan Sturgis MF 5-10 160 07/06/1987 Boca Raton, FL 18 15 1 2 145 117 6 6 DaMarcus Beasley DF 5-8 145 05/24/1982 Fort Wayne, IN 23 23 1 0 131 121 15 20 7 MF 5-7 165 11/05/1990 Juticalpa, Honduras 25 19 0 0 36 30 0 0 8 Luis Garrido 9 Erick Torres FW 5-11 168 01/19/1993 Guadalajara, Mexico 9 2 0 1 53 46 22 3 FW 5-11 181 08/05/1988 London, England 23 23 6 2 94 90 26 11 10 Giles Barnes 11 Brad Davis MF 5-11 170 11/08/1981 St. Charles, MO 26 25 3 8 364 321 54 120 12 Will Bruin FW 6-2 195 10/24/1989 St. Louis, MO 28 23 10 2 142 129 45 15 13 Ricardo Clark MF 5-10 160 02/10/1983 Atlanta, GA 25 25 6 1 272 257 29 21 Alex MF 5-8 163 12/15/1988 Sao Paulo, Brazil 13 9 2 0 88 57 5 2 14 MF 5-9 155 06/05/1992 Tegucigalpa, Honduras 16 12 0 3 28 14 0 4 15 Alexander Lopez A.J. Cochran DF 6-3 195 02/09/1993 St. Louis, MO 7 5 0 0 26 19 0 0 16 Chandler Hoffman FW 6-0 160 08/17/1990 Birmingham, AL 5 0 0 0 20 2 0 0 17 18 David Horst DF 6-4 210 10/25/1985 Pine Grove, PA 27 23 0 2 100 89 2 3 Mauro Manotas FW 6-0 155 07/15/1995 Sabanalarga, Colombia 7 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 19 20 Rasheed Olabiyi MF 6-0 160 08/08/1990 Ibadan, Nigeria 4 1 0 1 4 1 0 1 21 Zach Steinberger MF 5-11 172 05/10/1992 Long Beach, CA 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 22 Sheanon Williams DF 5-11 170 03/17/1990 Boston, MA 26 24 0 4 150 147 7 21 Taylor Hunter DF 6-0 160 07/07/1993 Aurora, CO 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 23 27 Boniek Garcia MF 5-9 150 09/04/1984 Tegucigalpa, Honduras 19 13 3 4 85 77 12 17 28 Memo Rodriguez MF 5-8 145 12/27/1995 Wharton, TX 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 Michael Lisch GK 6-4 175 08/30/1990 Austin, TX 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 Joe Willis GK 6-5 185 08/10/1988 St. Louis, MO 2 2 0 0 25 24 0 0 33 Leonel Miranda MF 5-8 155 01/07/1994 Buenos Aires, Argentina 15 6 1 1 15 6 1 1 HEAD COACH : Owen Coyle

07/14/1966 W9 L12 T8

SPORTING KANSAS CITY 2015 CAREER No. Player Pos Ht Wt Birthdate Birthplace GP GS G A GP GS G A DF 6-1 175 04/24/1997 Napoleon, OH 3 2 0 0 6 4 0 0 2 Erik Palmer-Brown 3 Ike Opara DF 6-2 180 02/21/1989 Durham, NC 6 6 2 0 62 45 8 0 Kevin Ellis DF 5-9 160 06/30/1991 Kansas City, MO 22 21 3 1 44 38 3 4 4 5 Matt Besler DF 6-0 170 02/11/1987 Kansas City, MO 27 27 0 3 177 172 2 10 Paulo Nagamura MF 5-8 155 03/02/1983 Sao Paulo, Brazil 16 12 3 1 238 213 15 20 6 7 Chance Myers DF 6-0 165 12/07/1987 Thousand Oaks, CA 9 6 0 2 132 104 2 15 Graham Zusi FW 5-10 160 08/18/1986 Orlando, FL 20 18 2 4 168 133 24 43 8 9 Krisztian Nemeth FW 5-11 165 01/05/1989 Gyor, Hungary 24 21 9 6 24 21 9 6 MF 5-9 160 01/19/1985 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 27 26 10 14 137 124 22 33 10 Benny Feilhaber 11 Bernardo Anor MF 6-1 178 05/24/1988 Caracas, Venezuela 9 1 0 0 80 49 12 3 Mikey Lopez MF 5-8 160 02/20/1993 Dallas, TX 3 2 0 0 11 7 0 0 12 13 Amadou Dia DF 5-10 150 06/08/1993 Nantes, France 20 11 0 0 20 11 0 0 FW 5-9 180 07/30/1990 Cuckfield, England 25 24 10 2 75 62 34 5 14 Dom Dwyer 15 Seth Sinovic DF 5-10 170 01/28/1987 Kansas City, MO 9 8 0 0 142 138 0 7 17 Saad Abdul-Salaam DF 6-4 185 09/08/1991 Charlotte, NC 17 7 0 1 17 7 0 1 20 Amobi Okugo MF 6-0 175 03/13/1991 Hayward, CA 17 10 0 1 134 111 5 7 Jon Kempin GK 6-1 170 04/08/1993 Overland Park, KS 2 2 0 0 6 5 0 0 21 22 Connor Hallisey FW 5-9 158 02/09/1993 Granite Bay, CA 11 4 0 1 11 4 0 1 23 Jalil Anibaba DF 6-0 185 10/19/1988 Fullerton, CA 15 13 1 4 127 120 5 10 27 Roger Espinoza MF 5-11 170 10/25/1986 Puerto Cortes, Honduras 17 17 1 4 130 110 3 15 GK 6-1 190 05/15/1986 Great River, NY 18 18 0 0 24 23 0 0 29 Tim Melia 37 Jacob Peterson FW 5-10 165 01/27/1986 Portage, MI 23 13 1 1 222 127 16 15 71 Marcel de Jong DF 5-9 170 10/15/1986 Newmarket, Ontario, Canada 12 10 1 1 12 10 1 1 93 Soni Mustivar MF 5-10 170 02/12/1990 Ivry Sur Seine, France 21 17 0 2 21 17 0 2 Jimmy Medranda MF 5-5 150 02/07/1994 Mosquera, Colombia 7 7 0 0 13 8 0 0 94 96 Jordi Quintilla MF 5-9 154 10/25/1993 Barcelona, Spain 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 HEAD COACH : Peter Vermes

11/21/1966 W88 L66 T52

HOUSTON DYNAMO vs SPORTING KANSAS CITY BBVA COMPASS STADIUM, Houston, Texas August 23, 2015 (WEEK 30, MLS Game #296) 7:30 p.m. CT (ROOT-SW; KMCI-38) A key match in the Western Conference playoff hunt is ahead at midweek when the Houston Dynamo play host to Sporting Kansas City at BBVA Compass Stadium. The Dynamo return home off a second consecutive defeat, falling 2-0 at Philadelphia Union last weekend, leaving them six points below the red line and the final playoff positions in the division. Sporting put an end to a five-game winless run of their own with a 3-1 home win against FC Dallas last Friday, sitting three points above the red line in fifth place in the West. REFEREE: Sorin Stoica. AR1 (bench): Sean Hurd; AR2 (opposite): Jeremy Hanson; 4th: Armando Villarreal MLS Career: 41 games; FC/gm: 28.9; Y/gm: 4.1; R: 19; pens: 20 SUSPENDED: HOU: Luis Garrido (caution accumulation; through Sept. 23) WARNINGS: SUSPENDED NEXT YELLOW CARD: HOU: Giles Barnes, Ricardo Clark, Kofi Sarkodie, Jermaine Taylor, Sheanon Williams … KC: Matt Besler, Benny Feilhaber, Paulo Nagamura SUSPENDED AFTER TWO YELLOW CARDS: HOU: Will Bruin, Tyler Deric, David Horst, Leonel Miranda … KC: Roger Espinoza, Soni Mustivar, Kevin Ellis, Dom Dwyer DISABLED LIST: none INTERNATIONAL ABSENCES: HOU: Erick Torres (Mexico U-23) HEAD-TO-HEAD ALL-TIME (22 meetings): Dynamo 7 wins, 30 goals … Sporting 5 wins, 27 goals … Ties 10 AT HOUSTON (11 meetings): Dynamo 3 wins, 16 goals … Sporting 3 wins, 14 goals … Ties 5 2015 (MLS) 4/25: HOU 4, KC 4 (Barnes 11, 46; Bruin 46+; R. Rodriguez 83 – Nemeth 2; Dwyer 74; Feilhaber 80, 95+) 8/1: KC 1, HOU 1 (Dwyer 6 – Clark 78)  The teams are meeting for the third time this season, the first two ending in draws. Benny Feilhaber scored two goals for Sporting KC, the second deep into second-half added time, to leave the teams in a wild 4-4 draw April 25 at BBVA Compass Stadium. KC’s Dom Dwyer scored early and the Dynamo’s Ricardo Clark scored late as the teams ended in a 1-1 draw Aug. 1 at Sporting Park.  The home team has not won in the series in the last six meetings. Each team won at the other’s home ground in the two matchups a season ago. Sporting won 2-0 at BBVA Compass Stadium on June 6, then the Dynamo returned the favor with a 3-1 victory Aug. 29 at Sporting Park.  The teams met three consecutive seasons in the MLS Cup Playoffs from 2011-13, the Dynamo advancing in the first two meetings before SKC triumphed in the last. The 2011 and 2013 meetings were for the Eastern Conference Championship; both clubs find themselves in the Western Conference beginning this season.  Coaches record: Peter Vermes vs. HOU: P15 W4 L3 D8 … Owen Coyle vs. KC: P2 W0 L0 D2 LAST MEETING (MLS)  Sporting took the lead in the sixth minute. Benny Feilhaber swung in a free kick from the right wing and Dom Dwyer rose in the box to nod home.  The Dynamo leveled terms in nearly identical circumstances in the 78th minute. From nearly the same spot on the pitch as the SKC goal, Brad Davis swung in a free kick and Ricardo Clark went up to send a header home for the equalizer.  The Dynamo finished the match a man down when midfielder Nathan Sturgis was shown a straight red card by referee Jorge Gonzalez in the 86th minute for a serious foul on Kansas City's Roger Espinoza.  SPORTING KANSAS CITY (4-1-2-3): Tim Melia - Chance Myers (Saad Abdul-Salaam 79), Kevin Ellis, Matt Besler, Amadou Dia - Soni Mustivar - Benny Feilhaber, Roger Espinoza (Paulo Nagamura 90) - Graham Zusi (Jacob Peterson 90), Dom Dwyer, Krisztian Nemeth.  HOUSTON DYNAMO (4-2-3-1): Tyler Deric - Sheanon Williams, David Horst, Raul Rodriguez, DaMarcus Beasley - Ricardo Clark (Luis Garrido 80), Nathan Sturgis (ejected 86) - Alex (Leonel Miranda 68), Brad Davis, Giles Barnes - Will Bruin (Erick Torres 62).

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HOUSTON DYNAMO The Houston Dynamo fell to their second consecutive loss, dropping a 2-0 decision to Philadelphia Union on Sunday afternoon at PPL Park. The Dynamo are in ninth place in the Western Conference with 35 points from 29 matches. LAST MATCH  The Union opener came in just the third minute.Cristian Maidana played a ball down the right touchline to Sebastien Le Toux, who slid a cross over to Tranquillo Barnetta, and he beat Dynamo goalkeeper Tyler Deric from point-blank range  The home side doubled their lead in the 63rd minute. Fabinho got free to put in a cross after an effective onetwo with Barnetta near the left corner, and C.J. Sapong banged it home from inside the goal area.  Dynamo head coach Owen Coyle made three changes to the team that suffered a 3-1 loss to Real Salt Lake at BBVA Compass Stadium. Kofi Sarkodie, Leonel Miranda and Boniek Garcia came into the team in place of Raul Rodriguez, Nathan Sturgis and Erick Torres.  HOUSTON DYNAMO (4-4-1-1): Tyler Deric - Kofi Sarkodie (Luis Garrido 46), David Horst, A.J. Cochran, Sheanon Williams - Leonel Miranda, Ricardo Clark, Boniek Garcia, Brad Davis (Erick Torres 70) - Giles Barnes (Mauro Manotas 81) - Will Bruin. TEAM NEWS  It was a second consecutive defeat for the Dynamo, their third in the last four games. The Dynamo have not won back-to-back games since May 10-16; the loss also extended their road winless stretch to six games.  “For those first 15 minutes of the second half we were terrific. We had them on the back heel. Of course that second goal gives them a little breather or cushion if you want,” Dynamo head coach Owen Coyle said. “All in all, when all’s said and done, you can’t play for a 15 minute period and think that’s ever going to be enough. This is an elite level. That’s the harsh thing.”  The Dynamo were also blanked at the attacking end for a 10th time this season. Each of their last five attacking shutouts have ended in 2-0 defeats.  “I don’t understand why we can’t start the game like that,” said striker Will Bruin. “I don’t understand why we have to wait until we’re down one-nothing to realize ‘oh [darn] we’ve got to keep the ball and play. It’s frustrating obviously because results aren’t happening. We’ve got five games left and at this rate it’s going to be the offseason for us.”  With fullback DaMarcus Beasley (calf injury) and center back Raúl Rodríguez (yellow card accumulation) both unavailable, Sheanon Williams moved to his less-favored left back spot.  “When we have players missing at the back and concede soft goals as we’ve done again then we’re going to have to take chances at the other end and we’ve not done that. … We have to cut out individual errors,” Coyle said. “The boys that step in still need to be ready to man up and get clean sheets to give you a chance to win games.”  Kofi Sarkodie came in at right back, his first start in five matches, since Aug. 21, but he was removed at the halftime break in favor of Luis Garrido.  Striker Erick Torres missed the match after being called into the Mexico U-23 national team which started preparations for CONCACAF Olympic qualifying.  Leonel Miranda made his first start since Aug. 8, coming in on the right of midfield and playing the full 90 minutes. Boniek Garcia made his first start in four games. SPORTING KANSAS CITY Sporting Kansas City put an end to their winless run after five games, hitting for a 3-1 win against FC Dallas on Friday evening at Sporting Park. Sporting are in fifth place in the Western Conference with 44 points from 28 matches. LAST MATCH  Sporting took the lead in the 65th minute. After Benny Feilhaber was fouled just outside the box, he took the resulting free kick and sent in a low blast that found the lower right corner of the net.  Eleven minutes later, the lead was doubled. FCD goalkeeper Jesse Gonzalez hauled down Dom Dwyer just inside the penalty area and referee Mark Geiger pointed to the spot. Feilhaber converted the penalty after a stutter-step run-up.  Dallas pulled a goal back 10 minutes from time, when Victor Ulloa was free to push forward and drive in a low shot from just outside the area.  But Sporting restored their advantage just three minutes later when Dwyer drove Paulo Nagamura's pass into the upper right corner from the right side of the box to seal Sporting's victory.  SKC manager Peter Vermes made two changes to the team that fell 3-1 to Orlando City SC at the Citrus Bowl. Chance Myers and Paulo Nagamura came into the side in place of Saad Abdul-Salaam and Jacob Peterson.  SPORTING KANSAS CITY (4-1-2-3): Jon Kempin - Chance Myers (Saad Abdul-Salaam 70), Kevin Ellis, Matt Besler, Seth Sinovic - Soni Mustivar - Paulo Nagamura (Jalil Anibaba 92+), Benny Feilhaber - Graham Zusi, Dom Dwyer, Krisztian Nemeth (Bernardo Anor 82).

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TEAM NEWS  Sporting snapped a five-game winless run with the win against FC Dallas, their first victory since winning backto-back games Aug. 8-15.  “Obviously we haven't been in good form of late, and we realize that. We've given up some soft goals in games, and that's not who we are. But one of the things I like about the guys is that they will make sure it doesn't happen again and they will get back to where they were. Seven of the guys that started played in the [2013] MLS Cup Final. It was one of the first times this year we were able to start that many guys who were fit,” said SKC manager Peter Vermes.  Benny Feilhaber scored two goals in a game for the second time in his MLS career – the first coming on April 25 of this year vs. Houston. Feilhaber reached the 10-goal plateau for the first time in his five seasons in MLS; he had scored 12 goals total in his first four years in the league.  “He played a very specific role in the game and it made him very effective for the team. When he's playing that way, he winds up contributing for us in many different ways in goals and assists and making sure he's in a dangerous place on the field. He makes the other team have to make decisions that are imposed upon them because of what we're doing, not because of what they decide to do. When he's in the game and gets into the places he was, he is a very good player,” said Vermes.  Dom Dwyer netted his 10th goal of the season, his first goal in four matches, marking the second consecutive year he’s hit double-digits in goals.  “I think the great thing this year is goals are being scored by committee. [Dwyer is] still banging in the ones he has to as well, but he's really come on strong as the season goes on. Krisztian [Nemeth] always adds something at the right times,” said Vermes. “Again, it's nice to be able to have a couple guys you have to focus on. It's only going to get better when those guys are not only playing in the areas of the field where they can be really dangerous, but we're also getting the ball in good spots. When you play like we did tonight and you move the ball like we did, that is going to happen on a regular basis.”  After playing in a central midfield role in the Orlando City match, Graham Zusi returned to his usual wide attacking role on the front line.  “I think he had a really good match. He's getting to a place where he's closer to feeling 100 percent in regards to his physical capacity. For a while he struggled over the course of the season. He's played a lot of games injured or not even close to being 90 percent, so I think it has a lot to do with him getting healthier,” said Vermes. “And the other thing is that when he is playing as a winger, he is so much more effective. We've asked him to do a lot this season-play the middle, play defensive midfield. Sometimes that's not fair to him, but credit to him as well. He understands that he has to do whatever he can to help the team.”  Jon Kempin made a second consecutive start as first-choice goalkeeper Tim Melia is still sidelined with a hamstring injury. Kempin was credited with the win, his second in six MLS starts, his first since Aug. 16 of last year vs. Toronto FC.  Chance Myers returned to the back four after a two-match absence after being forced off early in the Aug. 29 game vs. Colorado, coming back in at left back and playing the full 90 minutes.  “What the defense did very well was they stepped and won the ball before they were able to trap it. So we didn't have to recover as much because they were winning the ball right away. When we can preserve that energy and have it going forward, it makes all the difference. We didn't get as tired as we did in the games we played away from home the past few weeks,” said Feilhaber.

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2015 HOUSTON DYNAMO STATISTICS (9-12-8, 35 pts.) UNF 12 10 13 11 27 14 14 5 6 33 3 7 15 18 22 22 9 4 2 20 16 17 31 8 19 23 1 21

POS F F M M M M M D M M M D M D D D F D D M D F G M F D G M

PLAYER Will Bruin Giles Barnes Ricardo Clark Brad Davis Boniek Garcia Alex (HOU) Alex (TOT) Raul Rodriguez Nathan Sturgis Leonel Miranda Rob Lovejoy DaMarcus Beasley Alexander Lopez David Horst Sheanon Williams (HOU) Sheanon Williams (TOT) Erick Torres Jermaine Taylor Kofi Sarkodie Rasheed Olabiyi A.J. Cochran Chandler Hoffman Joe Willis Luis Garrido Mauro Manotas Taylor Hunter Tyler Deric Zach Steinberger Own-goals received Opponent totals Team totals

GAME-WINNING GAME-WINNING Giles Barnes PENALTY KICK

GP 28 23 25 26 19 12 13 23 18 15 14 23 16 27 9 26 9 16 16 4 7 5 2 25 7 1 27 3

GS 23 23 25 25 13 9 9 23 15 6 2 23 12 23 9 24 2 16 15 1 5 0 2 19 0 1 27 0

MIN 1977 2047 2144 2253 1201 772 780 2005 1292 637 306 1924 947 2153 810 2082 256 1427 1304 80 512 30 180 1778 70 90 2430 29

29 29

2610 2610

G 10 6 6 3 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 39 36

A 2 2 1 8 4 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 3 2 2 4 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

SHT 39 64 53 41 7 11 11 13 9 10 6 12 18 12 1 8 4 3 4 2 3 0 0 14 1 0 0 1

SOG 21 18 19 12 4 3 3 4 3 4 1 6 3 2 0 2 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0

31 32

330 328

122 104

FC 28 30 37 25 14 11 12 31 18 9 3 13 10 29 6 22 6 18 21 2 8 0 0 62 1 0 1 1

FS 23 56 28 22 26 10 11 12 19 15 5 45 7 24 6 21 7 8 10 0 4 0 1 19 0 1 4 0

OFF 11 10 3 5 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 3 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0

CK 0 0 0 92 14 1 1 0 0 10 0 0 27 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

C 2 5 5 1 1 1 1 6 2 2 0 1 1 3 2 5 1 3 4 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 3 0

E 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

376 384 384 376

62 39

152 144

50 51

6 3

GOALS: Will Bruin 3, Giles Barnes 3, Ricardo Clark 2, Alex 1 ASSISTS: Brad Davis 2, Boniek Garcia 2, Sheanon Williams 2, Alexander Lopez 2, Kofi Sarkodie 1, 1, Erick Torres 1 GOALS/ATTEMPTS: Brad Davis 2-2, Boniek Garcia 0-1, Giles Barnes 0-1

HOUSTON DYNAMO GOALKEEPING UNF 1 31

POS G G

GOALKEEPER Tyler Deric Joe Willis Team totals Opponent totals

GP 27 2 29 29

GS 27 2 29 29

MIN SHTS 2430 118 180 4 2610 122 2610 104

SV 75 2 77 67

GA 37 2 39 36

GAA 1.37 1 1.34 1.24

PG 4 0 4 2

PA 4 0 4 4

W L 8 12 1 0 9 12 12 9

T 7 1 8 8

SO 6 0 6 10

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2015 SPORTING KANSAS CITY STATISTICS (12-8-8, 44 pts.) UNF 10 14 9 4 6 8 3 23 27 37 71 5 7 93 20 20 22 17 13 11 2 94 21 96 1 12 16 16 15 29

POS M F F D M F D D M F D D D M M M F D D M D M G M G M M M D G

PLAYER Benny Feilhaber Dom Dwyer Krisztian Nemeth Kevin Ellis Paulo Nagamura Graham Zusi Ike Opara Jalil Anibaba Roger Espinoza Jacob Peterson Marcel de Jong Matt Besler Chance Myers Soni Mustivar Amobi Okugo (KC) Amobi Okugo (TOT) Connor Hallisey Saad Abdul-Salaam Amadou Dia Bernardo Anor Erik Palmer-Brown Jimmy Medranda Jon Kempin Jordi Quintilla Luis Marin Mikey Lopez Servando Carrasco (KC) Servando Carrasco (TOT) Seth Sinovic Tim Melia Own-goals received Team totals Opponent totals

GP 27 25 24 22 16 20 6 15 17 23 12 27 9 21 2 17 11 17 20 9 3 7 2 3 8 3 9 19 9 18

GS 26 24 21 21 12 18 6 13 17 13 10 27 6 17 1 10 4 7 11 1 2 7 2 0 8 2 6 15 8 18

MIN 2326 2170 1810 1895 1078 1581 534 1199 1484 1136 793 2410 480 1541 78 890 381 754 1137 256 185 426 180 31 720 212 508 1304 752 1620

28 28

2520 2520

G 10 10 9 3 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 44 39

A 14 2 6 1 1 4 0 4 4 1 1 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0

SHT 41 80 50 7 19 22 7 11 19 19 12 0 5 2 0 4 7 4 5 4 1 5 0 1 0 1 7 10 6 0

SOG 16 31 17 5 5 5 2 4 5 10 3 0 1 0 0 1 3 2 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0

48 37

335 287

114 124

FC 38 48 17 28 18 15 6 10 28 6 3 23 10 27 0 11 1 8 25 6 1 10 0 2 0 8 10 20 13 1

FS 49 67 31 16 6 24 4 4 18 10 9 11 2 17 0 6 1 10 13 5 1 4 1 0 2 3 1 2 4 2

OFF 1 23 8 1 1 4 0 2 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

CK 54 0 0 0 0 60 0 0 0 1 7 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0

C 5 6 2 4 4 1 0 1 3 2 1 4 1 4 0 5 0 1 2 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 3 2 1

E 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

362 332 332 362

49 91

126 149

51 45

3 4

GAME-WINNING GOALS: Krisztian Nemeth 4, Benny Feilhaber 3, Paulo Nagamura 2, Ike Opara 1, Kevin Ellis 1, Dom Dwyer 1 GAME-WINNING ASSISTS: Benny Feilhaber 4, Matt Besler 2, Graham Zusi 2, Jalil Anibaba 1, Kevin Ellis 1, Krisztian Nemeth 1, Soni Mustivar 1, Chance Myers 1 PENALTY KICK GOALS/ATTEMPTS: Benny Feilhaber 5-5, Dom Dwyer 0-1 SPORTING KANSAS CITY GOALKEEPING UNF 29 21 1

POS G G G

GOALKEEPER Tim Melia Jon Kempin Luis Marin Team totals Opponent totals

GP 18 2 8 28 28

GS 18 2 8 28 28

MIN SHTS 1620 86 180 8 720 30 2520 124 2520 114

SV 60 4 19 83 68

GA 23 4 12 39 44

GAA 1.28 2 1.5 1.39 1.57

PG 2 0 0 2 5

PA 2 0 0 2 6

W L 9 5 1 1 2 2 12 8 8 12

T 4 0 4 8 8

SO 7 0 3 10 5

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HOUSTON DYNAMO 2015 SCHEDULE DAY Sat. Fri. Sat. Sat. Sat. Sat. Sat. Sat.

DATE Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar. Apr. Apr. Apr. Apr.

Fri. May Tue. Sun. Sat. Fri. Sat.

May May May May May

Fri. June

OPPONENT RESULT 7 Columbus W 1-0 13 Orlando City SC L 0-1 21 at Los Angeles T 1-1 28 Colorado T 0-0 4 at Seattle L 0-1 11 Montreal W 3-0 18 at D.C. United T 1-1 25 Sporting KC T 4-4

ATT 22351 22407 19087 19603 39860 18924 13047 21046

W-L-T 1-0-0 1-1-0 1-1-1 1-1-2 1-2-2 2-2-2 2-2-3 2-2-4

L 1-4

19975

2-3-4

5 San Jose 10 at Toronto FC 16 Portland 22 at Los Angeles 30 at New York City FC 5 New York

L W W L T

0-1 2-1 3-1 0-1 1-1

16018 30226 20844 20195 26211

2-4-4 3-4-4 4-4-4 4-5-4 4-5-5

W 4-2

22356

5-5-5

L L T W L

0-2 0-2 1-1 2-0 0-2

21144 15037 22651 18000 20174

5-6-5 5-7-5 5-7-6 6-7-6 6-8-6

4 8 8 5 7

W T W L T

3-0 1-1 2-1 0-2 2-2

22445 19882 21876 21723 21144

7-8-6 7-8-7 8-8-7 8-9-7 8-9-8

7 7 6 7 6

1 FC Dallas

POS PTS NOTES: 3 3 HOU: Barnes (66); 4 3 ORL: own goal (74) 2 4 HOU: Sturgis (11); LA: Keane (3) 5 5 8 5 SEA: Martins (39) 4 8 HOU: Barnes (15) Clark (72) Lovejoy (80); 3 9 HOU: Clark (65); DC: Rolfe (36) 5 10 HOU: Barnes (11,46) Bruin (46+) Rodriguez (83); KC: Nemeth (2) Dwyer (74) Feilhaber (80,95+) 5 10 HOU: Barnes (32); DAL: Hollingshead (9) Texeira (21) Diaz (52) Castillo (55) 6 10 SJ: Jahn (54) 6 13 HOU: Garcia (44) Bruin (53); TOR: Altidore (77) 4 16 HOU: Bruin (9,83) Barnes (75); POR: Adi (48) 5 16 LA: Gordon (91+) 5 17 HOU: Bruin (16); NYC: Villa (46+)

Sat. Fri. Fri. Fri. Sat.

June June July July July

Sat. Sat. Sat. Sat. Fri.

July Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug.

20 at Portland 26 at FC Dallas 3 Chicago 10 at San Jose 18 at Real Salt Lake 25 Los Angeles 1 at Sporting KC 8 San Jose 15 at New England 21 at Portland

Wed. Aug. Sat. Aug. Sat. Sep.

26 at Colorado 29 Vancouver 12 Real Salt Lake

L 1-2 W 2-0 L 1-3

10439 21257 20909

8-10-8 9-10-8 9-11-8

7 7 7

Sun. Wed. Sat. Sun. Sun. Sun.

20 at Philadelphia 23 Sporting KC 26 Colorado 4 at FC Dallas 18 Seattle 25 at Vancouver

L 0-2

14784

9-12-8

Sep. Sep. Sep. Oct. Oct. Oct.

20 HOU: Garcia (59) Clark (72) Bruin (80,94+); NYR: Grella (42) Abang (90) 20 POR: Urruti (34) Fernandez (61) 20 DAL: own goal (33) Castillo (42) 21 HOU: De Lima (56); CHI: Nyarko (72) 24 HOU: Clark (10) Bruin (81); 24 RSL: Morales (36) Plata (65) 27 HOU: Bruin (9) Davis (27) Miranda (88); 28 HOU: Clark (78); KC: Dwyer (6) 31 HOU: Beasley (55) De Lima (76); SJ: Amarikwa (70) 31 NE: Goncalves (69) Agudelo (88) 32 HOU: Garcia (40) Bruin (45); POR: Nagbe (76) Melano (86) 32 HOU: Davis (37); COL: Sanchez (20) Doyle (79) 35 HOU: Clark (34) Rodriguez (87); 35 HOU: Davis (65); RSL: Morales (47+) Sandoval (51) Martinez (68) 35 PHI: Barnetta (3) Sapong (63)

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Sun. Apr.

OPPONENT 8 New York 14 at FC Dallas 21 Portland 28 at New York City FC 5 Philadelphia

Sat. Apr. Sat. Apr. Sat. Apr.

11 Real Salt Lake 18 at Los Angeles 25 at Houston

T 0-0 L 1-2 T 4-4

20087 20018 21046

2-1-3 2-2-3 2-2-4

2 4 6

Sun. Sat. Sat. Wed.

May May May May

3 Chicago 9 at D.C. United 16 Colorado 20 New England

W T T W

1-0 1-1 0-0 4-2

19581 16221 0 18864

3-2-4 3-2-5 3-2-5 4-2-5

4 4 6 4

Sat. Fri. Sat. Sun.

May May June June

T W W L

0-0 4-0 1-0 1-2

40653 20172 21505 19155

4-2-6 5-2-6 6-2-6 6-3-6

3 2 2 2

Sat. Sun. Sat. Fri.

June July July July

W W W L

2-0 1-0 2-1 1-2

19835 21000 19070 20809

7-3-6 8-3-6 9-3-6 9-4-6

2 2 2 2

27 KC: 30 KC: 33 KC: 33 KC:

Sat. Aug. Sat. Aug.

23 at Seattle 29 FC Dallas 6 Seattle 21 at Real Salt Lake 27 Colorado 12 at Vancouver 18 Montreal 24 at Real Salt Lake 1 Houston 8 at Toronto FC

8 KC: Dwyer (16) Anibaba (91+) Nemeth (94+); PHI: own goal (3) Aristeguieta (19) 9 9 KC: Nemeth (22); LA: Husidic (9) Gonzalez (94+) 10 KC: Nemeth (2) Dwyer (74) Feilhaber (80,95+); HOU: Barnes (11,46) Bruin (46+) Rodriguez (83) 13 KC: Nagamura (75); 14 KC: Dwyer (45); DC: Arrieta (42) 14 17 KC: Dwyer (29) Nemeth (39,46) Feilhaber (43); NE: Agudelo (11) Caldwell (64) 18 21 KC: Nemeth (19) Feilhaber (51) Ellis (57) Zusi (64); 24 KC: Feilhaber (84); 24 KC: Dwyer (30); RSL: Jaime (15) Garcia (93+)

T 1-1 W 3-1

19882 24326

9-4-7 10-4-7

2 2

Sat. Aug.

15 Vancouver

W 4-3

19969

11-4-7

Wed. Aug. Sat. Aug.

19 San Jose 22 at Columbus

L 0-5 L 2-3

18866 20018

11-5-7 11-6-7

2 2

Sat. Aug. Wed. Sep. Sun. Sep.

29 at Colorado 9 at Portland 13 at Orlando City SC 18 FC Dallas 23 at Houston 27 Seattle 3 at Portland 16 at San Jose 21 Colorado 25 Los Angeles

L 1-2 T 0-0 L 1-3

16480 21144 22241

11-7-7 11-7-8 11-8-8

3 3 5

34 KC: Dwyer (6); HOU: Clark (78) 37 KC: Feilhaber (22) Nemeth (29) Peterson (87); TOR: Bradley (22) 40 KC: Ellis (53) Dwyer (81) Nagamura (87,94+); VAN: Manneh (9,41) Morales (75) 40 SJ: Cato (3,58) Wondolowski (17,61) Godoy (27) 40 KC: de Jong (14) Zusi (62); CLB: Finlay (35) Tchani (80) McInerney (88) 40 KC: Dwyer (47); COL: Figueroa (53) Doyle (76) 41 41 KC: Nemeth (59); ORL: Winter (3,72) Rochez (66)

W 3-1

18861

12-8-8

44 KC: Feilhaber (65,76) Dwyer (83); DAL: Ulloa (80)

Fri. Wed. Sun. Sat. Fri. Wed. Sun.

DATE Mar. Mar. Mar. Mar.

Sep. Sep. Sep. Oct. Oct. Oct. Oct.

RESULT T 1-1 L 1-3 T 0-0 W 1-0

ATT 19784 14149 20848 27454

W-L-T 0-0-1 0-1-1 0-1-2 1-1-2

POS PTS NOTES: 7 1 KC: Opara (50); NYR: Sam (54) 9 1 KC: Espinoza (44); DAL: Perez (17,52) Castillo (73) 8 2 6 5 KC: Opara (13);

W 3-2

19545

2-1-2

Nemeth (32) own goal (64); Ellis (52); Feilhaber (4) Dwyer (34); MTL: Piatti (59) Feilhaber (50); RSL: Morales (34) Plata (73)

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DYNAMO INDIVIDUAL HIGH GAMES (2015)

TEAM HIGH GAMES (2015)

Goals 2 Giles Barnes 2 Will Bruin 2 Will Bruin Assists 2 Brad Davis 2 Boniek Garcia Shots 6 Giles Barnes Shots on Goal 5 Ricardo Clark Fouls Committed 7 Ricardo Clark Fouls Suffered 5 Giles Barnes 5 Giles Barnes Offside 2 5 times Saves 6 Tyler Deric 6 Tyler Deric 6 Tyler Deric Shots Faced 9 Tyler Deric Goals Allowed 4 Tyler Deric 4 Tyler Deric

Goals 4 04/25/2015 vs 4 06/05/2015 vs Assists 4 06/05/2015 vs Shots 18 04/18/2015 vs Shots on Goal 8 07/10/2015 vs Fouls Committed 24 07/10/2015 vs Fouls Suffered 20 05/30/2015 vs Corner Kicks 13 05/10/2015 vs Offside 5 04/25/2015 vs Saves 6 03/07/2015 vs 6 04/18/2015 vs 6 05/30/2015 vs Shots Faced 9 09/12/2015 vs Goals Allowed 4 04/25/2015 vs 4 05/01/2015 vs

04/25/2015 vs KC 05/16/2015 vs POR 06/05/2015 vs NYR

T 4-4 W 3-1 W 4-2

04/25/2015 vs KC 06/05/2015 vs NYR

T 4-4 W 4-2

04/11/2015 vs MTL

W 3-0

07/10/2015 vs SJ

W 2-0

05/01/2015 vs DAL

L 1-4

04/25/2015 vs KC 05/30/2015 vs NYC

T 4-4 T 1-1

03/21/2015 vs LA

T 1-1

03/07/2015 vs CLB 04/18/2015 vs DC 05/30/2015 vs NYC

W 1-0 T 1-1 T 1-1

09/12/2015 vs RSL

L 1-3

04/25/2015 vs KC 05/01/2015 vs DAL

T 4-4 L 1-4

KC NYR

T 4-4 W 4-2

NYR

W 4-2

T 1-1

W 2-0

NYC

T 1-1

TOR

W 2-1

T 4-4

CLB DC NYC

W 1-0 T 1-1 T 1-1

RSL

L 1-3

KC DAL

T 4-4 L 1-4

SPORTING KC INDIVIDUAL HIGH GAMES (2015)

TEAM HIGH GAMES (2015)

Goals 2 4 times Assists 2 5 times Shots 7 Dom Dwyer Shots on Goal 5 Dom Dwyer Fouls Committed 6 Amadou Dia Fouls Suffered 7 Krisztian Nemeth Offside 3 Dom Dwyer 3 Dom Dwyer Saves 7 Tim Melia Shots Faced 9 Tim Melia Goals Allowed 5 Tim Melia

Goals 4 04/25/2015 at 4 05/20/2015 at 4 05/29/2015 at 4 08/15/2015 at Assists 7 05/29/2015 at Shots 18 03/08/2015 at 18 09/18/2015 at Shots on Goal 9 09/18/2015 at Fouls Committed 19 08/01/2015 at 19 09/09/2015 at Fouls Suffered 19 08/29/2015 at Corner Kicks 8 04/05/2015 at Offside 4 05/20/2015 at 4 05/29/2015 at 4 09/13/2015 at Saves 7 09/09/2015 at Shots Faced 9 08/19/2015 at Goals Allowed 5 08/19/2015 at

04/25/2015 at HOU

T 4-4

04/05/2015 at PHI

W 3-2

08/29/2015 at COL

L 1-2

08/29/2015 at COL

L 1-2

08/01/2015 at HOU

T 1-1

05/29/2015 at DAL

W 4-0

05/20/2015 at NE 09/13/2015 at ORL

W 4-2 L 1-3

09/09/2015 at POR

T 0-0

08/19/2015 at SJ

L 0-5

08/19/2015 at SJ

L 0-5

TEAM LOW GAMES (2015) Shots 4 07/18/2015 vs Shots on Goal 0 03/13/2015 vs Fouls Committed 8 04/25/2015 vs 8 05/10/2015 vs 8 08/29/2015 vs Fouls Suffered 6 05/01/2015 vs Corner Kicks 1 03/07/2015 vs 1 04/11/2015 vs 1 08/01/2015 vs Offside 0 03/13/2015 vs 0 05/16/2015 vs 0 05/22/2015 vs 0 06/20/2015 vs 0 08/08/2015 vs 0 08/15/2015 vs 0 08/21/2015 vs 0 08/26/2015 vs 0 08/29/2015 vs 0 09/20/2015 vs Saves 0 04/25/2015 vs 0 05/16/2015 vs 0 06/20/2015 vs Shots Faced 1 05/16/2015 vs

RSL

L 0-2

ORL

L 0-1

KC TOR VAN

T 4-4 W 2-1 W 2-0

DAL

L 1-4

CLB MTL KC

W 1-0 W 3-0 T 1-1

ORL POR LA POR SJ NE POR COL VAN PHI

L W L L W L T L W L

KC POR POR

T 4-4 W 3-1 L 0-2

POR

W 3-1

0-1 3-1 0-1 0-2 2-1 0-2 2-2 1-2 2-0 0-2

TEAM LOW GAMES (2015)

HOU NE DAL VAN

T W W W

4-4 4-2 4-0 4-3

DAL

W 4-0

NYR DAL

T 1-1 W 3-1

DAL

W 3-1

HOU POR

T 1-1 T 0-0

COL

L 1-2

PHI

W 3-2

NE DAL ORL

W 4-2 W 4-0 L 1-3

POR

T 0-0

L 0-5

Shots 5 08/22/2015 at Shots on Goal 1 04/11/2015 at Fouls Committed 7 06/06/2015 at 7 09/18/2015 at Fouls Suffered 6 05/23/2015 at Corner Kicks 2 03/28/2015 at 2 05/20/2015 at 2 07/12/2015 at Offside 0 03/08/2015 at 0 03/21/2015 at 0 05/23/2015 at 0 06/21/2015 at 0 06/27/2015 at 0 08/19/2015 at 0 08/29/2015 at Saves 0 04/11/2015 at 0 04/25/2015 at Shots Faced 0 04/11/2015 at

CLB

L 2-3

RSL

T 0-0

SEA DAL

W 1-0 W 3-1

SEA

T 0-0

NYC NE VAN

W 1-0 W 4-2 W 1-0

NYR POR SEA RSL COL SJ COL

T T T L W L L

RSL HOU

T 0-0 T 4-4

RSL

T 0-0

1-1 0-0 0-0 1-2 2-0 0-5 1-2

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2015 HOUSTON DYNAMO VS. SPORTING KANSAS CITY (0-0-2) UNF 10 13 12 5 11 6 7 18 4 1 22 2 17 14 9 15 8 33

POS F M F D M M D D D G D D F M F M M M

PLAYER

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 2

2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 2

180 170 132 180 180 170 180 101 77 180 90 90 20 68 28 79 16 22 180 180

2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 5

0 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3

7 3 1 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 19 25

3 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 7

3 2 1 3 1 3 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 20 34

6 2 2 0 5 7 5 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 34 20

2 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 8 4

0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 8 9

0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 7

0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Giles Barnes Ricardo Clark Will Bruin Raul Rodriguez Brad Davis Nathan Sturgis DaMarcus Beasley David Horst Jermaine Taylor Tyler Deric Sheanon Williams Kofi Sarkodie Chandler Hoffman Alex Erick Torres Alexander Lopez Luis Garrido Leonel Miranda Team totals Opponent totals

GAME-WINNING GOALS: None GAME-WINNING ASSISTS: None PENALTY KICK GOALS/ATTEMPTS: None

UNF 1

POS G

GOALKEEPER Tyler Deric Team totals Opponent totals

2 2 2

MIN SHT 180 180 180

7 7 9

GAA

O'TIME

1 1 4

5 5 5

2.50 2.50 2.50

1 1 0

0 0 0

2 2 2

0 0 0

0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0

2015 SPORTING KANSAS CITY VS. HOUSTON DYNAMO (0-0-2) UNF 10 14 9 71 8 27 7 6 37 5 29 16 23 4 1 93 17 22 13

POS M F F D F M D M F D G M D D G M D F D

PLAYER

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

2 2 2 1 2 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 2 2

2 2 2 1 2 2 1 0 0 2 1 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 2 2

180 180 180 63 179 179 79 1 1 180 90 55 90 179 90 125 11 1 117 180 180

2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 5

1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4

2 10 5 0 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 25 19

2 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 9

5 2 0 0 2 2 2 0 0 1 0 3 1 5 0 4 1 0 6 34 20

2 5 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 20 34

0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 8

6 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 8

0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 7 3

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Benny Feilhaber Dom Dwyer Krisztian Nemeth Marcel de Jong Graham Zusi Roger Espinoza Chance Myers Paulo Nagamura Jacob Peterson Matt Besler Tim Melia Servando Carrasco Jalil Anibaba Kevin Ellis Luis Marin Soni Mustivar Saad Abdul-Salaam Connor Hallisey Amadou Dia Team totals Opponent totals

GAME-WINNING GOALS: None GAME-WINNING ASSISTS: None PENALTY KICK GOALS/ATTEMPTS: None

UNF 29 1

POS G G

GOALKEEPER Tim Melia Luis Marin Team totals Opponent totals

1 1 2 2

MIN SHT 90 90 180 180

5 4 9 7

GAA

O'TIME

4 0 4 1

1 4 5 5

1.00 4.00 2.50 2.50

0 0 0 1

0 0 0 0

1 1 2 2

0 0 0 0

0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0

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HEAD-TO-HEAD

SPORTING KC VS DYNAMO ALL-TIME REGULAR-SEASON RESULTS

Dynamo

Sporting KC

Dynamo 7 wins, 30 goals Sporting KC 5 wins, 27 goals 10 ties 4/8/2006 7/15/2006 6/24/2007 9/1/2007 11/10/2007 4/12/2008 9/7/2008 7/4/2009 10/4/2009 5/1/2010 9/22/2010 7/16/2011 9/10/2011 11/6/2011 7/7/2012 7/18/2012 9/14/2012 11/4/2012 11/7/2012 5/12/2013 5/26/2013 10/9/2013 11/9/2013 11/23/2013 6/6/2014 8/29/2014 4/25/2015 8/1/2015

KC 2 at HOU HOU 3 at KC HOU 1 at KC HOU 1 vs KC HOU 2 vs KC KC 0 vs HOU HOU 3 vs KC HOU 1 at KC HOU 1 vs KC HOU 3 vs KC KC 4 vs HOU HOU 1 vs KC KC 3 vs HOU HOU 2 at KC KC 0 vs HOU HOU 2 vs KC KC 1 vs HOU HOU 2 vs KC KC 1 vs HOU KC 1 at HOU KC 1 vs HOU HOU 0 vs KC HOU 0 vs KC KC 2 vs HOU KC 2 at HOU HOU 3 at KC HOU 4 vs KC KC 1 vs HOU

1 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 4 1

(H) (KC) (KC) (H) (H) (CA) (H) (CA) (H) (H) (CA) (H) (SP) (SP) (SP) (HB) (SP) (HB) (SP) (HB) (SP) (HB) (HB) (SP) (HB) (SP) (HB) (SP)

Category Goals Shots Shots on Goal Fouls Offsides Corner Kicks

1 14 105 43 139 41 63

2 16 121 45 129 32 54

OT 0 0 0 0 0 0

Tot 30 226 88 268 73 117

1 8 117 42 141 16 59

2 19 155 53 156 22 65

OT 0 0 0 0 0 0

Tot 27 272 95 297 38 124

GOALS SCORED IN 15-MINUTE INTERVALS: HOU KC

1-15

16-30

31-45

46-60

61-75

76-90

Total

3 3

6 1

3 3

7 2

6 9

5 9

0 0

30 27

CAREER COACHING RECORDS: Peter Vermes Owen Coyle

vs. HOU vs. KC

4-3-8 0-0-2

(1.33 pts./game) (1 pts./game)

ALL-TIME SERIES LEADERS: Goals Assists Shots Shots on Goal Fouls Committed Fouls Suffered Wins Losses Shutouts Saves Goals Allowed

5 8 34 14 21 37 4 2 3 31 10

Dynamo Brad Davis Brad Davis Brad Davis Brad Davis Clark/Davis Brad Davis Pat Onstad Hall/Onstad Pat Onstad Tally Hall Pat Onstad

4 4 32 13 16 18 3 3 4 23 11

Sporting KC Dom Dwyer Graham Zusi Kei Kamara Kei Kamara Aurelien Collin Graham Zusi Jimmy Nielsen Kevin Hartman Jimmy Nielsen Kevin Hartman Jimmy Nielsen

2 2 10 4 6 5

Sporting KC Feilhaber/Bunbury Harrington/Zusi C.J. Sapong (09/14/12) Johnson/Sapong Hirsig/Dia 3 players tied

ALL-TIME SERIES GAME HIGHS:

Shutouts Saves

Dynamo 3 players tied 4 players tied Brian Ching (04/08/06) 5 players tied 7 players tied Ricardo Clark (05/12/13) 1 6 players tied 7 Tally Hall (twice)

Goals Allowed

4 Onstad/Deric

Goals Assists Shots Shots on Goal Fouls Committed Fouls Suffered

2 2 8 3 4 6

1 6 players tied 7 Kevin Hartman (09/07/08) 4 Luis Marin (04/25/15)

W-L-T Breakdowns: Houston Dynamo W-L-T At Halftime: Leading Tied Trailing First Goal: Allowed Scored Goals Scored: 0 goals 1 goals 2 goals 3 goals 4 goals Goals Allowed: 0 goals 1 goals 2 goals 3 goals 4 goals

Streak (started)

Sporting Kansas City W-L-T

Streak (started)

6-0-2 2-6-4 1-6-2

1 Ws 3 Ls 1 Ls

(08/29/2015) (08/15/2015) (09/20/2015)

6-0-1 4-5-6 2-3-1

1 Ws (08/08/2015) 1 Ws (09/18/2015) 2 Ls (08/19/2015)

1-12-4 8-0-3

4 Ls 1 Ws

(08/15/2015) (08/29/2015)

3-6-1 9-2-3

2 Ls (08/19/2015) 1 Ws (09/18/2015)

0-9-1 1-3-5 4-0-1 3-0-0 1-0-1

8 Ls 2 Ls 1 Ws 5 Ws 1 Ws

(04/04/2015) (08/26/2015) (08/29/2015) (08/29/2014) (06/05/2015)

0-1-5 4-6-3 2-1-0 3-0-0 3-0-1

1 2 1 5 3

Ts Ls Ls Ws Ws

(09/09/2015) (08/29/2015) (08/22/2015) (03/29/2014) (05/20/2015)

5-0-1 3-4-5 1-6-1 0-1-0 0-1-1

4 Ws 1 Ws 2 Ls 6 Ls 1 Ls

(04/11/2015) (08/08/2015) (08/26/2015) (05/25/2014) (05/01/2015)

6-0-5 3-0-3 2-4-0 1-3-0 0-1-1

1 2 3 2 1

Ts Ws Ls Ls Ls

(09/09/2015) (08/08/2015) (06/21/2015) (08/22/2015) (08/19/2015)

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DYNAMO CAREER SCORING VS. SPORTING KC (7-5-10) PLAYER

MIN

Brad Davis Will Bruin Giles Barnes Luis Angel Landin Calen Carr Brian Ching Ricardo Clark Nate Jaqua Kei Kamara Dominic Oduro Brian Mullan Adrian Serioux Cam Weaver Samuel Appiah David Horst Patrick Ianni Joseph Ngwenya Eddie Robinson Raul Rodriguez Mike Chabala Stuart Holden Corey Ashe Dwayne De Rosario Boniek Garcia Kevin Goldthwaite Andre Hainault Alejandro Moreno Nathan Sturgis Craig Waibel Team totals Opponent totals

20 10 7 2 1 9 13 1 2 4 9 4 4 1 4 2 3 6 2 5 5 16 5 6 1 8 2 2 3 22 22

19 10 6 2 1 5 13 1 2 3 9 2 2 0 3 2 2 5 2 4 3 13 4 6 1 7 2 2 3 22 22

1543 764 539 134 90 453 1157 83 180 267 786 206 131 19 200 180 171 459 180 405 314 1167 361 540 90 646 169 170 270 1980 1980

5 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 27

8 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 31 25

SHT GOALKEEPER

MIN

SHT

GAA

34 21 13 3 3 15 12 4 9 6 8 2 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 0 4 5 9 3 3 1 3 1 2 226 272

2 9 8 4 22 22

180 800 720 280 1980 1980

6 41 33 15 95 88

5 31 20 7 63 55

0.50 1.01 1.25 2.25 1.23 1.36

0 1 0 2 3 0

Tony Caig Tally Hall Pat Onstad Tyler Deric Team totals Opponent totals

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SPORTING KC CAREER SCORING VS. DYNAMO (5-7-10) PLAYER

MIN

SHT

GOALKEEPER

Dom Dwyer Kei Kamara Teal Bunbury Benny Feilhaber Aurelien Collin C.J. Sapong Josh Wolff Jose Burciaga Jr. Sasha Victorine Davy Arnaud Jimmy Conrad Zoltan Hercegfalvi Eddie Johnson Krisztian Nemeth Soony Saad Ryan Smith Graham Zusi Michael Harrington Claudio Bieler Marcel de Jong Roger Espinoza Claudio Lopez Jacob Peterson Craig Rocastle Julio Cesar Scott Sealy Seth Sinovic Alex Zotinca Team totals Opponent totals

5 10 7 4 7 8 7 3 4 10 7 1 3 2 4 2 10 11 2 1 10 4 8 2 2 4 9 2 22 22

5 7 2 4 7 6 6 3 4 7 7 0 3 2 2 2 9 10 2 1 10 4 4 1 2 3 9 1 22 22

434 637 230 293 630 566 525 270 342 653 630 28 270 180 180 162 832 850 177 63 836 360 410 130 180 224 799 98 1980 1980

4 3 3 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 30

0 1 0 3 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 25 31

23 32 8 4 8 15 11 4 5 10 3 2 7 5 4 2 20 3 6 0 9 11 5 1 0 3 5 2 272 226

Eric Kronberg Tim Melia Jimmy Nielsen Kevin Hartman Bo Oshoniyi Jon Kempin Luis Marin Team totals Opponent totals

1 1 10 6 2 1 1 22 22

MIN SHTS 90 90 900 540 180 90 90 1980 1980

3 5 30 30 13 3 4 88 95

GAA

3 4 17 23 8 0 0 55 63

0.00 1.00 1.10 1.17 2.00 3.00 4.00 1.36 1.23

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3

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CURRENT DYNAMO VS. SPORTING KC (7-5-10)

CURRENT SPORTING KC VS. DYNAMO (5-7-10)

PLAYER

MIN

SHT

PLAYER

MIN

SHT

Brad Davis Will Bruin Giles Barnes Ricardo Clark DaMarcus Beasley David Horst Raul Rodriguez Alex Boniek Garcia Nathan Sturgis Sheanon Williams A.J. Cochran Tyler Deric Luis Garrido Chandler Hoffman Alexander Lopez Leonel Miranda Kofi Sarkodie Jermaine Taylor Erick Torres Joe Willis Team totals Opponent totals

30 10 7 20 11 5 2 8 6 9 8 1 4 3 2 2 1 8 9 1 1 22 22

28 10 6 18 9 4 2 6 6 8 8 1 3 1 0 2 0 8 9 0 1 22 22

2292 764 539 1635 820 290 180 429 540 660 713 90 280 106 26 169 22 707 707 28 90 1980 1980

6 2 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 27

9 2 1 0 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 25

47 21 13 19 11 2 2 4 3 3 5 0 0 0 0 5 0 2 6 0 0 226 272

Dom Dwyer Benny Feilhaber Bernardo Anor Jacob Peterson Krisztian Nemeth Graham Zusi Marcel de Jong Roger Espinoza Paulo Nagamura Amobi Okugo Seth Sinovic Saad Abdul-Salaam Jalil Anibaba Matt Besler Amadou Dia Kevin Ellis Connor Hallisey Jon Kempin Tim Melia Soni Mustivar Chance Myers Ike Opara Erik Palmer-Brown Team totals Opponent totals

5 7 5 22 2 10 1 10 20 10 10 1 9 12 2 4 1 1 2 2 12 3 1 22 22

5 7 4 13 2 9 1 10 18 8 9 0 9 12 1 4 0 1 2 1 8 3 1 22 22

434 550 405 1160 180 832 63 836 1503 763 800 11 772 1066 117 359 1 90 157 125 803 270 90 1980 1980

4 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 30

0 3 2 1 0 4 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 31

23 5 15 15 5 20 0 9 15 10 5 0 5 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 5 2 0 272 226

GOALKEEPER

MIN

SHT

GAA

Joe Willis Tyler Deric Team totals Opponent totals

1 4 22 22

90 280 1980 1980

4 15 95 88

3 7 63 55

1.00 2.25 1.23 1.36

0 2 3 0

5 0 55 63

2.29 3.00 1.36 1.23

0 0 0 3

GOALKEEPER

Tim Melia Jon Kempin Team totals Opponent totals

2 1 22 22

MIN SHTS 157 90 1980 1980

9 3 88 95

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Houston Dynamo vs. Sporting Kansas City Wednesday, 23 September 2015 – 7:30 p.m. CT MLS regular season – Game #30 – Home Game #15 BBVA Compass Stadium – Houston, Texas

Broadcast Information Dynamo Media Contacts (@HoustonDynamo.com) TV: ROOT Sports Southwest Lester Gretsch (lgretsch@ 832-‐‑633-‐‑0632) Radio: KGOW 1560 AM; Spanish: La Ranchera 850 AM, 101.7 Matt Pedersen (mpedersen@ 832-‐‑794-‐‑8673)

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DYNAMO OPEN TWO-GAME HOME STAND AGAINST RIVAL SPORTING KANSAS CITY The Houston Dynamo (9-‐‑12-‐‑8; 35 points) return home for two games in four days at BBVA Compass Stadium, beginning Wednesday against Sporting Kansas City (12-‐‑8-‐‑8; 44 points). The Dynamo fell to the Philadelphia Union, 2-‐‑0, on Sunday night at PPL Park. Sporting Kansas City ended a five-‐‑game winless run with a 3-‐‑1 home victory over FC Dallas on Friday. The Dynamo and Sporting KC will meet for the fourth and final time in all competitions this season.

HOUSTON VS. KANSAS CITY

Wednesday’s game is the 20th in all competitions between Houston and Sporting Kansas City since the 2011 season. The clubs faced off twice in 11 days at Sporting Park earlier this season, with Sporting KC advancing in the U.S. Open Cup with a 3-‐‑1 win on July 21 before the rivals played to a 1-‐‑1 draw on Aug. 1. The clubs battled to a thrilling 4-‐‑4 draw on April 28 at BBVA Compass Stadium, with Sporting KC erasing 3-‐‑1 and 4-‐‑3 deficits for a road point as Giles Barnes and Benny Feilhaber each scored two goals. Sporting KC has controlled the recent series, with a 6-‐‑1-‐‑4 mark in the last 11 meetings and 8-‐‑4-‐‑7 record since the start of 2011. Overall, the Dynamo are 7-‐‑5-‐‑10 all-‐‑time in regular season games against Sporting Kansas City, with a 3-‐‑3-‐‑5 mark in home games. The former Eastern Conference rivals played 10 games from 2012-‐‑13, including four playoff games. The clubs met in the postseason three straight years from 2011-‐‑13 and the Dynamo advanced in 2012 and 2013 before Sporting KC secured a 2-‐‑1 aggregate series win in the 2013 Eastern Conference Championship. Sporting KC snapped Houston’s MLS record 36-‐‑game home undefeated streak with a 1-‐‑0 win at BBVA Compass Stadium on May 12, 2013. The Dynamo have met Sporting KC in the postseason four times (2007, 2011, 2012, 2013), more than any other opponent.

DYNAMO PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) (right-‐‑to-‐‑left) Tyler Deric Sheanon Williams, David Horst, Raul Rodriguez, DaMarcus Beasley Leonel Miranda, Nathan Sturgis, Ricardo Clark, Giles Barnes, Brad Davis Will Bruin

Injury Report Presented by Houston Methodist (As of Tuesday, Sept. 22)

Out: Jermaine Taylor – R quad tear Questionable: Alex Lima – R hamstring strain Probable: DaMarcus Beasley – L calf strain; Kofi Sarkodie – R knee bone bruise

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Dynamo drop road game at Philadelphia: Tranquillo Barnetta scored early and added an assist as the Philadelphia Union secured a 2-‐‑0 victory over the Houston Dynamo on Sunday night at PPL Park. Barnetta, a Switzerland international and veteran of three FIFA World Cups, delivered the Union a 1-‐‑0 lead in the third minute, collecting a pass from Sebastien Le Toux with a good first touch before sliding a finish past Tyler Deric for his first goal with Philadelphia. Houston nearly equalized in the 36th minute as Kofi Sarkodie delivered a cross from the right flank and David Horst drove a header that deflected off a defender before hitting the inside of the post. The ball caromed across the front of the goal and John McCarthy reacted quickly to palm away at the goal line. Deric made his fifth save of the first half in stoppage time, diving to his left to deny Cristian Maidana as Philadelphia set a club record with six shots on target in the first 45 minutes. The Dynamo came out with more energy to begin the second half and came close to leveling the score in the 49th minute. Will Bruin fed Leonel Miranda with a through ball to the top of the box, but the Argentinian’s shot missed wide at the near upper corner. Bruin took his own chance three minutes later, collecting the ball 30 yards from goal, turning to create space and forcing a save from McCarthy, who parried over the crossbar for a corner kick. The Dynamo were victimized by poor timing on Philadelphia’s second goal as Boniek Garcia, playing right back after Kofi Sarkodie exited the game at halftime, was receiving treatment on his knee on the sideline as the Dynamo played down a man. The Union exploited the vacated space on Garcia’s side, with Barnetta and Fabinho combining before the Brazilian drove a low cross and C.J. Sapong slid for a one-‐‑touch finish from six yards. Sapong equaled a career-‐‑high with his ninth goal of the season.

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Milestones and notes from 2-‐‑0 loss at Union on Sunday: o The loss ended Houston’s six-‐‑game unbeaten streak (4-‐‑0-‐‑2) against the Union, dating to September 2012. o It was Giles Barnes’ 100th career start in all competitions with the Dynamo. o Sheanon Williams faced his former team for the first time and made his 150th career MLS regular season appearance. o It was David Horst’s 100th career MLS regular season game. o It was Will Bruin’s 165th game in all competitions with the Dynamo to pass Tally Hall for eighth on the club list. o Luis Garrido received a yellow card and will be suspended for Wednesday’s game against Sporting Kansas City due to yellow-‐‑ card accumulation. o Raul Rodriguez missed the match, serving a one-‐‑game suspension for yellow-‐‑card accumulation.

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Playoff outlook – where Dynamo stand with five games left: The Dynamo are on the outside edge of the playoff race, but still have a chance to qualify for the playoffs in the Western Conference. The Dynamo (35 points, 5 games remaining) trail the Portland Timbers (41 points, 5 games remaining) by six points for the final playoff spot in the Western Conference. Houston also trails Real Salt Lake (38 points, 5 games remaining) and the San Jose Earthquakes (40 points, 4 games remaining). Three of Houston’s final five games are at home, and four are against West clubs currently even or above the Dynamo in the standings: Vancouver, Sporting Kansas City, Seattle and Dallas. With two wins at home this week, the Dynamo could pull even with the Timbers, who travel to face Columbus on Saturday. Still, the Dynamo need favorable results as San Jose and Real Salt Lake sit closer to Portland and the final playoff spot. The Earthquakes host Real Salt Lake on Sunday evening. Sheanon Williams return to Philadelphia to face former club: It was a disappointing homecoming on Sunday for Dynamo defender Sheanon Williams, who lost his first game against his old team. The Dynamo acquired Williams and an international roster slot from Philadelphia in exchange for allocation money on July 23. Williams immediately entered the Dynamo starting lineup and has started all nine games and recorded two assists since his arrival. The 25-‐‑year-‐‑old appeared in 141 regular-‐‑season games in six seasons with the Union, averaging 29 appearances per season over the last four years. The defender tallied seven goals and 19 assists with Philadelphia, including eight, a career-‐‑high, in 2013. Williams made 17 regular-‐‑season appearances (15 starts) for the Union this season and is one of six players in the Eastern Conference to log four consecutive seasons with at least 2,000 minutes with the same club (2011-‐‑14). A Boston native, Williams joined the U.S. U-‐‑17 national team residency program in Bradenton, Florida and played at the 2007 FIFA U-‐‑17 World Cup in Korea. Two years later, Williams played at the 2009 FIFA U-‐‑20 World Cup in Egypt.

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Milestones and notes from 3-‐‑1 defeat to Real Salt Lake on Sept. 12: o The loss ended Houston’s eight-‐‑game home unbeaten streak in all competitions, dating to May 16. The Dynamo were 7-‐‑0-‐‑1 and outscored opponents 18-‐‑5 during the streak. o Real Salt Lake has won four consecutive games against the Dynamo dating to 2013. o Ricardo Clark played in his 235th career game in all competitions with Houston to pass Bobby Boswell for third on the club list. o It was also Clark’s 225th career start in all competitions with the Dynamo. o Will Bruin made his 128th career regular-‐‑season start to pass Brian Mullan for seventh on the club list. o Brad Davis made his 25th appearance this season to reach 25 appearances or more for the eighth consecutive season (2008-‐‑2015).

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Dynamo snap home unbeaten streak: After opening the year 2-‐‑3-‐‑2 through the first seven home games, the Dynamo were unbeaten in their previous eight home games in all competitions (7-‐‑0-‐‑1), outscoring opponents 18-‐‑5 before the home defeat to Real Salt Lake on Sept. 12. Houston’s previous home loss was on May 5 to San Jose and the only blemish in the following four months was a 1-‐‑1 draw against Chicago. Over that span, the Dynamo defeated Portland, New York, LA, San Jose and Vancouver at home in league play and Austin and Colorado in the U.S. Open Cup.

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Milestones and notes from 2-‐‑0 win over Vancouver on Aug. 29: o Ricardo Clark scored his 25th career Dynamo goal in all competitions and his sixth goal of the season, extending his career high. o Clark was back on the field for the first time since Aug. 1 after missing four games with a hamstring strain. o Erick Torres made his first start with the Dynamo and recorded his first assist on Clark’s goal. o It was Clark'ʹs second game-‐‑winning goal of the season (seventh-‐‑career game-‐‑winner) after his winner at San Jose on July 10. o Midfielder Boniek Garcia entered as a second-‐‑half substitute for his 100th career appearance in all competitions with Houston. o Head coach Owen Coyle deployed a 4-‐‑4-‐‑2 formation with Bruin, Torres and Giles Barnes starting together for the first time. o Sheanon Williams earned his fourth assist of the season, including his time with Philadelphia. It'ʹs the second most assists in one season for Williams, who tallied eight in 2013.

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Four return from international duty: The Jamaica national team completed a dramatic turnaround, capturing a 2-‐‑0 win at Nicaragua on Sept. 8 to advance to the fourth round of CONCACAF qualifying for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Simon Dawkins scored in the 90th minute of Tuesday’s second leg, delivering the Reggae Boyz the required two-‐‑goal win and 4-‐‑3 aggregate series win over Nicaragua in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying series at Estadio Nacional Dennis Martínez in Managua. The series win carries Jamaica – along with Dynamo forward Giles Barnes and defender Jermaine Taylor – into CONCACAF qualifying’s semifinal round, joining Costa Rica, Panama and Haiti in a very competitive group B. Barnes did not play on Sept. 8, his first absence after seven consecutive starts for Jamaica, including all six at the Gold Cup. Barnes’ role on Sept. 8 was expected to be limited due to Achilles tendonitis, which he has dealt with for close to a month. Barnes played 90 minutes in the first leg on Sept. 4 as Jamaica suffered a surprise 3-‐‑2 home defeat. Elsewhere on Sept. 8, Dynamo midfielder Luis Garrido played 90 minutes and Boniek Garcia entered as a substitute in the 59th minute as Honduras suffered a 2-‐‑0 friendly loss to Ecuador at Estadio Olimpico in Quito. Garrido earned his 32nd cap for Honduras while Garcia registered his 101st career appearance after celebrating his centennial cap with an assist in a 3-‐‑0 win at Venezuela on Sept. 4. Dynamo forward Erick Torres spent a week in Mexico City with the Mexico Under-‐‑22 national team and gained to appearances. The 22-‐‑year-‐‑old started and played 70 minutes against the Panama U-‐‑22s before entering as a substitute against Cruz Azul of Liga MX. Dynamo continue recent trend on three-‐‑game road trip: The Dynamo completed a three-‐‑game road swing in Colorado on Aug. 26 and the club continued its recent form on extended road trips. Including the just-‐‑completed three-‐‑city trip, the Dynamo have a combined record of 0-‐‑10-‐‑5 in the last five three-‐‑game road trips, with individual trip totals of 0-‐‑3-‐‑0, 0-‐‑2-‐‑1, 0-‐‑2-‐‑1, 0-‐‑1-‐‑2 and 0-‐‑2-‐‑1 on the recent trip.

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Will Bruin is first Dynamo player with three 10-‐‑goal seasons: Will Bruin tallied his tenth goal of the regular season on Aug. 21 in Portland to become the first player in Dynamo history to record three seasons with 10 or more goals, eclipsing Brian Ching, who reached 10 or more goals twice in Houston. Bruin recorded 10 goals last year before a foot injury limited him to 47 minutes in the final nine games of the season. Bruin had a career-‐‑high 12 goals in the 2012 regular-‐‑season, one shy of Ching’s Dynamo record of 13 regular season goals set in 2008. With four goals in the final nine games of the season, Bruin would set a new club mark. Among players taken in the 2011 MLS SuperDraft, Bruin and Real Salt Lake’s Joao Plata are the only players with a 10-‐‑goal season, and Bruin has three in the last four years.

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Dynamo sign Academy midfielder Christian Lucatero as Homegrown Player: The Dynamo announced on Aug. 18 the signing of Dynamo Academy midfielder Christian Lucatero as a Homegrown Player. Lucatero will be eligible to join the Dynamo roster in January 2016 but will train with the first team through the remainder of the season. The Pasadena, Texas native joined the Dynamo Academy in 2010 with the U-‐‑15s and was named Dynamo Academy Player of the Year in 2013 and Players'ʹ Player of the Year in 2014. The 18-‐‑year-‐‑old was named USSDA Central Conference Player of the Year in July after scoring 26 goals in 27 games with the Dynamo Academy U-‐‑18s this season, tied for fifth in the nation. Lucatero is the seventh player from the Dynamo Academy to sign a professional contract with the Dynamo first team. The Pasadena High School graduate helped lead the U-‐‑18s to the Academy’s first Frontier Division championship in 2015 and to the quarterfinals of the USSDA Academy Championships. In two seasons with the U-‐‑ 18s, Lucatero scored 41 goals in 54 games. Lucatero has been a part of camps with both the United States and Mexico Under-‐‑18 national teams in the last year, including a U.S. U-‐‑18 camp in Bosnia and Herzegovina in April. Lucatero was committed to play at Oregon State University this fall. He is eligible to play with the Academy U-‐‑18s in the USSDA season this fall.

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Barnes stars at first CONCACAF Gold Cup: Dynamo forward Giles Barnes scored in his Jamaica debut in March and has been a regular for head coach Winfried Schaefer since, starting all six games and scoring two goals – game winners against Haiti and the United States – as Jamaica reached its first CONCACAF Gold Cup final. Barnes helped eliminate the United States with a 19-‐‑yard free kick in the semifinals and appeared in 485 total minutes in the competition. He has three goals in 12 appearances for Jamaica, all in the last six months since his March 28 debut.

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DaMarcus Beasley starts 2015 AT&T MLS All-‐‑Star game for fourth career appearance: Dynamo defender DaMarcus Beasley started and played the first 45 minutes for the MLS All-‐‑Stars in a 2-‐‑1 victory over Tottenham in the 2015 AT&T MLS All-‐‑Star Game on July 29. It was Beasley’s fourth starting assignment and fourth MLS All-‐‑Star selection, after he started three straight games from 2001-‐‑ 2003. Prior to his call up to the U.S. national team for the Gold Cup, Beasley led the Dynamo field players in minutes this season.

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Will Bruin is second Dynamo player to 50 goals: Will Bruin scored his 50th career Dynamo goal in all competitions in a 3-‐‑1 U.S. Open Cup quarterfinal loss at Sporting KC on July 21. Bruin, in his fifth season with Houston, is the second player in Dynamo history to record 50 career goals in all competitions with the club. Brian Ching, the club leader, tallied 69 goals in 224 career games with Houston.

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DaMarcus Beasley extends U.S. men’s national team appearance streak to 15 years: Dynamo defender DaMarcus Beasley entered as a substitute for the U.S. men’s national team in a loss to Panama in the third place game at the CONCACAF Gold Cup. With the appearance, Beasley extended his remarkable streak of consecutive years with an appearance with the national team to 15. The Fort Wayne, Indiana native has played in at least one game for U.S. national team every year from 2001-‐‑15. Beasley captained the United States to the Gold Cup title in 2013, his fourth Gold Cup championship (2002, 2005, 2007, 2013). The left back joined the Dynamo last July after starting four games at the 2014 FIFA World Cup to become the first American to play in four World Cups. Beasley, 33, has made 122 appearances for the U.S. (fifth most) and is tied for ninth in U.S. history with 17 goals and tied for ninth in assists with 13. His resume also includes 11 career matches at the FIFA World Cup, tied for second-‐‑most in U.S. history.

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Dynamo sign Nigerian midfielder Rasheed Olabiyi: The Dynamo signed Nigerian midfielder Rasheed Olabiyi on July 9. Olabiyi, who last played with Enyimba International FC of the Nigeria Premier League, made his Dynamo debut as a substitute in the 2-‐‑0 win at San Jose on July 10. The central midfielder (pronounced: Ra-‐‑sheed Oh-‐‑la-‐‑bee-‐‑ee) represented Nigeria at the Under-‐‑17, U-‐‑20 and U-‐‑ 23 levels and was a 2014 Nigeria Premier League Bext XI selection. A native of Ibadan, Olabiyi was a two-‐‑time MVP (2006, 2007) of the Lagos-‐‑based Pepsi Football Academy, which featured Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel and Monaco defender Elderson Echiejile in its youth ranks. Olabiyi has spent his entire professional career with Enyimba, one of the largest clubs in Nigeria, after joining the Aba club in 2007. He helped the Peoples’ Elephants win the Nigeria Premier League in 2010 as well as three Nigeria FA Cups (2009, 2013, 2014) and two Nigeria Super Cups (2010, 2013). Enyimba also reached the semifinals of the CAF (African) Champions League in 2011.

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Brad Davis is longest-‐‑tenured MLS player with same team: After 10-‐‑year Chicago Fire veteran left back Gonzalo Segares announced his retirement on Feb. 6, Dynamo captain Brad Davis now has the longest-‐‑tenure with one club among active MLS players. Davis, 33, is in his tenth season with the Dynamo after following the club from San Jose in December 2005. His nine full years of service with the Dynamo eclipse the veteran Real Salt Lake trio of Nick Rimando, Kyle Beckerman and Javier Morales (eight years each). Davis is in his 14th season overall in MLS and with 116 assists is third on the league’s all-‐‑time assist list.

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A new era under head coach Owen Coyle: The Dynamo appointed Owen Coyle as the second head coach in team history on Dec. 9, welcoming the former English Premier League manager to the Bayou City. A Scotland native, Coyle scored 297 goals in over 600 appearances in England and Scotland, primarily with Airdrie and also with Motherwell and Bolton. The forward with Irish ancestry made one appearance for the Republic of Ireland national team. As manager, Coyle led Burnley to promotion to the English Premier League in 2009 for the first time in 33 years. Under Coyle, the Clarets also reached the League Cup semifinals in 2008. Coyle later managed Bolton and former Dynamo midfielder Stuart Holden and led the Wanderers to the 2010-‐‑11 FA Cup semifinals. He was twice named Premier League Manager of the Month (November 2010, March 2012) before taking the helm at Wigan Athletic in 2013. Coyle effectively completed his playing career at age 38 as a player-‐‑manager with Airdrie in 2005 after previously serving in a player-‐‑ manager role with Falkirk in 2003 and co-‐‑leading the Bairns to the Scottish First Division title. He gained his first full time managerial role in 2005 with St. Johnstone in the Scottish First Division and led the Saints to a second-‐‑place finish in his first two seasons as well as to the semifinals of the Scottish Cup and Scottish League Cup in 2007. Coyle also made sporadic playing appearances with St. Johnsone, and later, with Bolton. Coyle took the helm at Burnley in November 2007 and earned success in his first full season in the English Championship, leading the Clarets to a fifth place finish in the 2008-‐‑09 campaign and a place in the Championship playoffs. Burnley defeated Reading, 3-‐‑0, in the semifinal before beating Sheffield United, 1-‐‑0, in the final for promotion to the Premier League. Coyle has thrived in Cup competitions, repeatedly bouncing clubs from higher divisions. With St. Johnstone, he beat Scottish giants Rangers in the 2006-‐‑07 Scottish League Cup quarterfinals and Scottish Premier League clubs Falkirk and Motherwell to reach the Scottish Cup the same year. He then guided Burnley to three upsets of Premiership clubs in the 2008-‐‑09 League Cup – defeating Fulham, Chelsea and Arsenal in succession to reach the semifinals. Coyle’s most recent managerial role was with Wigan Athletic in the English Championship. He joined the Latics in June 2013 but left the club in December of the same year.

Coyle’s technical staff: Head coach Owen Coyle’s coaching staff includes former Dynamo captain Wade Barrett, who is entering his sixth season, along with longtime Coyle lieutenant Sandy Stewart, goalkeeper coach Paul Rogers and Paul Caffrey, the club’s sports performance director/fitness coach. o Wade Barrett won three MLS Cups as a player, including 2006 and 2007 with the Dynamo, and served as captain in 138 of his 140 appearances with the club. Barrett made 241 appearances in 10 MLS seasons and spent three seasons in Denmark (Aarhus) and Norway (Fredrikstad). o Sandy Stewart joins Coyle in Houston after serving as Coyle’s assistant in four previous coaching roles: Wigan Athletic, Bolton, Burnley and St. Johnstone. The defender made over 500 appearances in Scotland, primarily in with Airdrie, where he managed the club to the 2003-‐‑04 Scottish League Second Division title as Coyle led the club with 15 goals. o Paul Rogers spent the last six years as goalkeeper coach with the United States Women’s National Team. The Brighton, England helped lead the U.S. to a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games and a second-‐‑place finish at the 2010 FIFA Women’s World Cup. Rogers served as goalkeeper coach for the Canada Women’s National Team in 2008 and was an assistant and goalkeeper coach with St. Louis Athletica of Women’s Professional Soccer from 2009-‐‑10, and collegiately with Florida State University, the University of Louisville and Tulane University. As a player, Rogers had spells with several professional and semi-‐‑professional clubs in England, including time as a youth player with Queens Park Rangers and Plymouth Argyle and senior player with Brighton & Hove Albion. o Paul Caffrey holds experience in MLS and with the United States national team program. A Dublin, Ireland native, he spent 2014 at Chivas USA as the first assistant coach under Wilmer Cabrera. He served as an assistant coach and fitness coach with the Colorado Rapids on Oscar Pareja’s staff from 2012-‐‑13. He also was the first assistant coach under Cabrera with the United States under-‐‑17 national team from 2007-‐‑11 and oversaw the physical preparation and fitness training of the team. Caffrey played four seasons with the Long Island Rough Riders after a four-‐‑year college career at Adelphi University. • Matt Jordan appointed as club’s first vice president/general manager: The Dynamo appointed Matt Jordan as vice president/general manager to oversee soccer operations and the technical areas of the club on Nov. 6. Jordan spent the last four seasons with the technical staff of the Montreal Impact, most recently serving the role of technical director. The 39-‐‑year-‐‑old enjoyed a 13-‐‑year professional career highlighted by eight years in Major League Soccer as well as time in the Danish Superliga and North American Soccer League. The Clemson University product was a two-‐‑time All-‐‑American, an MLS All-‐‑Star and finalist for Goalkeeper of the Year in 1999 with the Dallas Burn. During his stint with the Impact, Jordan was involved in the process of signing several notable foreign players including Italians Marco Di Vaio and Alessandro Nesta and Argentine midfielders Ignacio Piatti, Hernan Bernardello and Andres Romero. Jordan also led the initiative to launch a new USL Pro franchise under Impact management, FC Montreal, for the 2015 season. Jordan was offered a position with the Impact’s technical staff upon retirement as a player in 2011 after four years with the club to help Montreal’s successful transition from the NASL to MLS. The Aurora, Colo. native’s playing career included stops with the Dallas Burn (1998-‐‑2002), Columbus Crew (2004-‐‑05) and Colorado Rapids (2006) in MLS, Odense BK in the Danish Superliga (2003-‐‑04) and with the Montreal Impact (2007-‐‑10). •

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Dynamo open tenth season: The Dynamo celebrate their tenth season in 2015 and will celebrate their biggest moments, best memories and most impactful players throughout the year. Through nine seasons, a high bar has been set, with two MLS Cups titles, four MLS Cup Final appearances and six conference championship appearances. The club has also reached the playoffs in seven of nine years.

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Dynamo return to Western Conference: After a four year stint in the Eastern Conference, the Dynamo return to their roots in the Western Conference for the 2015 season. With Chivas USA ceasing operations and the addition of East Coast expansion sides Orlando City SC and New York City FC, the Dynamo and Sporting Kansas City are moving to the Western Conference to create two 10-‐‑team conferences. The Dynamo'ʹs time in the East saw them reach the conference final three times in four years, with two conference championships. The club also produced three conference final appearances and two wins in their original five year run in the West, including both of their MLS Cup victories. With the realignment, the Dynamo rekindle the Texas Derby against FC Dallas with a multi-‐‑game MLS series (three games in 2015) while keeping the rivalry that developed against Sporting Kansas City in the East. Houston also gets more regular season shots at perennial playoff foe LA Galaxy, and will multiple meetings with former head coach Dominic Kinnear and the San Jose Earthquakes. The last 10 MLS Cup finalists are now located in the Western Conference.

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Dynamo offseason: The Dynamo added 11 players to the roster in the offseason. The chart below details the offseason transactions:

INCOMING: PLAYER Jose “Memo” Rodriguez Joe Willis Chandler Hoffman Nathan Sturgis Erick “Cubo” Torres Leonel Miranda Raúl Rodríguez Zach Steinberger Oumar Ballo Rob Lovejoy Taylor Hunter OUTGOING: PLAYER Eric Brunner Andrew Driver Tally Hall Anthony Arena Omar Cummings Brian Ownby Bryan Salazar Mark Sherrod Servando Carrasco

POSITION Midfielder Goalkeeper Forward Midfielder Forward Midfielder/Forward Defender Midfielder Defender Midfielder Defender

HOW ACQUIRED Signed as Homegrown Player on Dec. 4 Acquired via trade from D.C. United on Dec. 8 Selected in Stage Two of Re-‐‑Entry Draft on Dec. 18 Selected in Stage Two of Re-‐‑Entry Draft on Dec. 18 Signed as Designated Player from Chivas Guadalajara on Dec. 24 Acquired via loan from Independiente on Jan. 8 Signed as discovery player from RCD Espanyol on Jan. 9 Selected in first round of 2015 MLS SuperDraft Selected in second round of 2015 MLS SuperDraft Selected in second round of 2015 MLS SuperDraft Selected in third round of 2015 MLS SuperDraft

POSITION Defender Midfielder Goalkeeper Defender Forward Midfielder Forward Forward Midfielder

NOTE Retired on Nov. 12 Traded to D.C. United on Dec. 8 Traded to Orlando City SC on Dec. 8 Option declined Option declined Option declined Option declined Selected by Orlando City SC in Expansion Draft Traded to Sporting Kansas City on Jan. 15

HOUSTON DYNAMO NUMERICAL ROSTER/TECHNICAL STAFF No. Name

Pos. Ht. Wt. Born

Pronunciation

Tyler Deric

GK 6-‐‑3

185 8-‐‑30-‐‑88

DARE-‐‑ick

Kofi Sarkodie

5-‐‑9

165 3-‐‑22-‐‑91

KO-‐‑fee sar-‐‑KO-‐‑dee

Rob Lovejoy

6-‐‑0

165 10-‐‑23-‐‑91

Jermaine Taylor

5-‐‑10 195 1-‐‑14-‐‑85

Raúl Rodríguez

6-‐‑0

165 9-‐‑22-‐‑87

International

Nathan Sturgis

5-‐‑10 160 7-‐‑6-‐‑87

DaMarcus Beasley

5-‐‑8

145 8-‐‑24-‐‑82

Luis Garrido

5-‐‑7

165 11-‐‑5-‐‑90

Ga-‐‑ree-‐‑dough

Erick Torres

5-‐‑11 168 1-‐‑19-‐‑93

Giles Barnes

F/M 6-‐‑2

190 8-‐‑5-‐‑88

Status

Designated Player International

Designated Player/International

Brad Davis

5-‐‑11 165 11-‐‑8-‐‑81

Will Bruin

6-‐‑2

Ricardo Clark

5-‐‑10 160 2-‐‑10-‐‑83

Alex

5-‐‑8

155 12-‐‑15-‐‑88

Alexander López

5-‐‑9

155 6-‐‑5-‐‑1992

International

195 10-‐‑24-‐‑89

AJ Cochran

6-‐‑3

200 2-‐‑9-‐‑93

Generation adidas

Chandler Hoffman

6-‐‑0

160 8-‐‑18-‐‑90

David Horst

6-‐‑4

210 10-‐‑25-‐‑85

Mauro Manotas

6-‐‑0

155 7-‐‑15-‐‑95

MAW-‐‑roh Man-‐‑OH-‐‑tas

International

20 Rasheed Olabiyi

6-‐‑0

160 8-‐‑8-‐‑90

Ra-‐‑sheed Oh-‐‑la-‐‑bee-‐‑ee

International

5-‐‑11 172 5-‐‑10-‐‑92

Zach Steinberger

Sheanon Williams

5-‐‑11 170 3-‐‑17-‐‑90

Shane-‐‑en

Taylor Hunter

6-‐‑0

170 7-‐‑7-‐‑93

Boniek Garcia

5-‐‑9

150 9-‐‑4-‐‑84

Bone-‐‑ee-‐‑ECK

Memo Rodriguez

5-‐‑8

145 12-‐‑27-‐‑95

Michael Lisch

GK 6-‐‑4

175 8-‐‑30-‐‑90

Lish

Joe Willis

GK 6-‐‑5

200 8-‐‑10-‐‑88

Leonel Miranda

155 1-‐‑7-‐‑94

Lee-‐‑oh-‐‑nel Mir-‐‑an-‐‑da

5-‐‑8

Homegrown Player

Visit www.Soundcloud.com/HoustonDynamo to hear audio pronunciations from the players. Head Coach – Owen Coyle (1st season in MLS; 9-‐‑12-‐‑8 record) Assistant Coach – Wade Barrett Assistant Coach – Sandy Stewart Goalkeepers Coach – Paul Rogers Sports Performance Director/Fitness Coach – Paul Caffrey Director of Sports Medicine Head Athletic Trainer – Theron Enns VP/General Manager – Matt Jordan Assistant GM/Director of Soccer Operations – Nick Kowba Assistant Athletic Trainer – Rory Blevins Equipment Manager – Justin Andrews Assistant Equipment Manager – JP Henderson

International

Houston Dynamo Player Bios

*All Dynamo career stats are regular season only 1 TYLER DERIC GK 6-3 185 Born: 8/30/88, Houston, TX Age: 27 Last Club: Dynamo Academy College: North Carolina Dynamo career: Seventh year – 41 GP, 10 SHO, 13 W Pronunciation: DARE-ick First ever Dynamo Academy product and second home-grown player in league history. Started final nine games in 2014 after serving as backup to Tally Hall and Pat Onstad for five years. 2015 MLS: 27 GP, 27 GS, 2,430 mins, 1.37 GAA, 6 shutouts, 8-127

2015 USOC: 0 GP, 0 GS, 0 mins, 0 G, 0 A 2014 MLS: 11 GP, 10 GS, 910 mins, 1.38 GAA, 3 shutouts, 3-5-2 • Made 40th regular season appearance with the Dynamo against Real Salt Lake on September 12 • Recorded sixth shutout of season in 2-0 win vs. Whitecaps on August 29 • Won fourth MLS Save of the Week of season for reaction save of Raul Rodriguez’ errant clearance at Real Salt Lake on July 18 (11th MLS Save of the Week nomination in 2015) • Won three straight MLS Save of the Week awards from Week 2-4 (Palm save on Marcelo Sarvas of Colorado on March 28; diving save against Mika Vayrynen of LA Galaxy on March 21; diving save against Kaká free kick on March 13) • Started final 9 games of 2014 season and set career-high with 11 appearances after replacing injured Tally Hall • Made first penalty kick save of professional career, stopping Jermain Defoe’s attempt in 1-0 win at Toronto Oct. 8, making 6 saves to record 3rd shutout in 4 games • 2013 CCL: Helped lead Dynamo to quarterfinals with start in all 4 games as Dynamo went unbeaten to win Group 3 Last start: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last shutout: 8/29/15 vs. Vancouver Whitecaps Most saves (Career): 7 (2x): 10/12/14 vs. D.C. United & 10/27/12 at Colorado Rapids 2 KOFI SARKODIE DF 5-9 165 Born: 3/22/91, Dayton, OH Age: 24 Last Club: University of Akron Dynamo career: Fifth year – 98 GP, 94 GS, 0 G, 10 A Pronunciation: KO-fee sar-KO-dee Dynamic outside defender in fifth MLS season. Selected by Dynamo with No. 7 pick of 2011 MLS SuperDraft. United States U-23 international. 2015 MLS: 16 GP, 15 GS, 1,304 mins, 0 G, 1 A 2015 USOC: 3 GP, 3 GS, 270 mins, 0 G, 0 A 2014 MLS: 32 GP, 32 GS, 2,872 mins, 0 G, 4 A

• Issued third career red card for sliding challenge against Abdoulie Mansally on July 18 at Real Salt Lake • Assisted on Giles Barnes’ game-winning goal in 1-0 victory over Columbus on March 7 (10th career regular-season assist) • Matched career-high with four assists in 2014 • Matched a club record with 44 appearances in all competitions in 2013 (along with Giles Barnes and Bobby Boswell), equaling mark set by Brian Mullan in 2008 • Scored first MLS goal on Nov. 11, 2012 against D.C. in first leg of Eastern Conference Championship • Started at SEA on 3/25/11, becoming youngest Dynamo player to start an MLS match at age 20 years, 3 days Last start: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last appearance: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last goal: 11/11/12 vs. D.C. United (Playoffs) Last assist: 3/7/15 vs. Columbus Crew SC 3 ROB LOVEJOY M 6-0 165 Born: 10/23/1991, Greensboro, N.C. Age: 23 Last Club: University of North Carolina Dynamo career: Rookie – 14 GP, 2 GS, 1 G, 1 A Acquired: Selected by Houston in 2015 MLS SuperDraft (No. 36 overall) out of University of North Carolina Wide midfielder who can run at defenders, selected by Dynamo in 2015 MLS SuperDraft. 2015 MLS: 14 GP, 2 GS, 306 mins, 1 G, 1 A 2015 USOC: 1 GP, 1 GS, 90 mins, 0 G, 0 A • Scored first career MLS goal and recorded first MLS assist after entering as substitute on April 11 vs. Montreal Impact • Made first MLS start on March 28 vs. Colorado Rapids • Made MLS debut as substitute against Orlando City on March 13 • Scored 5 goals and added 8 assists in 22 games for North Carolina in 2014 • Started all 26 games as North Carolina won 2011 NCAA title • Tallied 20 goals and 16 assists in 71 career games in four seasons at UNC • Helped lead North Carolina to 2010 NCAA College Cup Last start: 6/26/15 at FC Dallas Last appearance: 6/26/15 at FC Dallas Last goal: 4/11/15 vs. Montreal Impact Last assist: 4/11/15 vs. Montreal Impact 4 JERMAINE TAYLOR DF 5-10 195 Born: 1/14/85, Portland, Jamaica Age: 30 Last Club: St. George’s SC (Jamaica) – 2009-11 Other Clubs: Harbour View F.C. (Jamaica) – 2004-09 Dynamo career: Fifth year – 106 GP, 101 GS, 1 G, 4 A Calm, experienced defender who is an anchor at center back and remains a fixture for Jamaica national team (83 caps). 2015 MLS: 16 GP, 16 GS, 1,427 mins, 0 G, 1 A 2015 USOC: 0 GP, 0 GS, 0 mins, 0 G, 0 A

2014 MLS: 24 GP, 23 GS, 1,922 mins, 0 G, 0 A

• Part of Jamaica national team at CONCACAF Gold Cup before suffering injury in first half against El Salvador on July 14 • Appeared in one game, a substitute appearance vs. Argentina on June 20, for Jamaica national team at 2015 Copa America in Chile (80th cap) • Started all 4 matches as Jamaica won 2014 Caribbean Cup, and converted penalty kick in penalty shootout victory over Trinidad and Tobago in Final • Has played at all three positions across backline in Dynamo career Last start: 7/3/15 vs. Chicago Fire Last appearance: 7/3/15 vs. Chicago Fire Last goal: 8/3/12 vs. New York Red Bulls (first in MLS) Last assist: 7/6/13 vs. Philadelphia Union 5 RAÚL RODRÍGUEZ DF 6-0 Born: 9/22/87, Barcelona, Spain Last Club: RCD Espanyol (Spain) – 2010-15 Other Clubs: UDA Gramenet (Spain) – 2007-10 Dynamo career: First year – 23 GP, 23 GS, 2 G, 0 A

165 Age: 28

Veteran Spanish center back who signed with Dynamo on Jan. 9 after 4 ½ years with Espanyol in Spain’s La Liga. 2015 MLS: 23 GP, 23 GS, 1,005 mins, 2 G, 0 A 2015 USOC: 1 GP, 1 GS, 90 mins, 0 G, 0 A • Turned 28 on Tuesday • Scored second goal of season and Dynamo career in August 29 win against Vancouver Whitecaps • Scored first Dynamo goal, header from Brad Davis corner kick, for 4-3 lead in 83rd minute of 4-4 draw vs. Sporting KC on April 25 • Made Dynamo debut in 1-0 win over Columbus on March 7 • Made 80 first-team appearances in five seasons with Espanyol • Personal-best 28 league starts in the 2011-12 season • The Barcelona native signed with hometown club in summer 2010 and briefly played with the reserves before making his Liga BBVA debut in November 2010 against Atlético Madrid • The center back made his professional debut in 2007 with UDA Gramenet in Spain’s Segunda Division B (third-tier) and made 83 appearances in three seasons with the Catalonia club Last start: 9/12/15 vs. Real Salt Lake Last appearance: 9/12/15 vs. Real Salt Lake Last goal: 8/29/15 vs. Vancouver Whitecaps Last assist: None with Dynamo 6 NATHAN STURGIS M 5-10 160 Born: 7/6/87, Boca Raton, Fla. Age: 28 Last Club: Chivas USA (2014) Previous Clubs: Colorado Rapids (2013-14), Houston Dynamo (2012), Toronto FC (2011), Seattle Sounders FC (2009-10), Real Salt Lake (200708), LA Galaxy (2006-07) College: Clemson University Dynamo career: Second year overall – 23 GP, 19 GS, 1 G, 2 A

Experienced midfielder who returns to Dynamo after 2012 season in Houston. MLS veteran (tenth season) can play center midfield or center back. 2015 MLS: 18 GP, 15 GS, 1,292 mins, 1 G, 2 A 2015 USOC: 3 GP, 3 GS, 244 mins, 0 G, 1 A 2014 MLS: 22 GP, 13 GS, 1,201 mins, 0 G, 1 A • Issued first red card of MLS career (10 years) for sliding challenge against Roger Espinoza on Aug. 1 at Sporting KC • Recorded first assist of season on Giles Barnes’ second goal vs. Sporting KC on April 25 • Scored first career Dynamo goal, the equalizer vs. Galaxy from a corner kick on March 21 (first goal since July 4, 2013 with Colorado) • Appeared in 22 games in 2014; traded from Colorado to Chivas USA on July 1 • Appeared in 5 regular-season games (4 starts) with Dynamo in 2012; recorded three assists in CONCACAF Champions League • 27 caps with U.S. U-20’s; played all 510 minutes at 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup as U.S. went 3-1-1 and reached quarterfinals • Made MLS debut at age 18 in 2006 with LA Galaxy Last start: 9/12/15 vs. Real Salt Lake Last appearance: 9/12/15 vs. Real Salt Lake Last goal: 3/21/15 at LA Galaxy Last assist: 7/25/15 vs. LA Galaxy 7 DAMARCUS BEASLEY DF 5-8 145 DP Born: 5/24/82, Ft. Wayne, Indiana Age: 33 Last Club: Puebla F.C. (2011-14) Other Clubs: Chicago Fire (2000-04), PSV Eindhoven (2004-07), Manchester City (2006-07), Rangers (2007-10), Hannover 96 (2010-11) Dynamo career: Second year - 33 GP, 33 GS, 1 G, 0 A Four-time World Cup veteran and U.S. Men's national team legend (122 caps) signed as a Designated Player on July 23, 2014. 2015 MLS: 23 GP, 23 GS, 1,924 mins, 1 G, 0 A 2015 USOC: 0 GP, 0 GS, 0 mins, 0 G, 0 A 2014 MLS: 10 GP, 10 GS, 821 mins, 0 G, 0 A • Scored first goal of Dynamo career on August 8 against San Jose • Started and played 45 minutes in the MLS All-Star Game on July 29. (fourth career All-Star start and selection) • 15 consecutive years with at least one appearance for U.S. National Team (2011-15) • Only American to play in four FIFA World Cups (2002, 2006, 2010, 2014) • 11 appearances in World Cup matches, tied for second in U.S history • 5th most caps in USMNT history (122), 8th most assists, tied-9th most goals • Most goals scored by an American in UEFA Champions League (6) Last start: 8/29/15 vs. Vancouver Whitecaps Last appearance: 8/29/15 vs. Vancouver Whitecaps

Last goal: 8/8/15 vs. San Jose Earthquakes Last assist: None with Dynamo 8 LUIS GARRIDO MF 5-7 165 I Born: 11/5/90, Juticalpa, Honduras Age: 24 Last Club: CD Olimpia (2011-14) Dynamo career: Second year – 35 GP, 30 GS, 0 G, 0 A Pronunciation: Ga-ree-dough Tenacious defensive midfielder, Honduras international (32 caps) and 2014 World Cup veteran acquired via loan from CD Olimpia on July 25, 2014. 2015 MLS: 25 GP, 19 GS, 1,778 mins, 0 G, 0 A 2015 USOC: 1 GP, 1 GS, 30 mins, 0 G, 0 A 2014 MLS: 11 GP, 11 GS, 915 mins, 0 G, 0 A • Issued first red card in Dynamo career (regular season or USOC) in USOC quarterfinals match at Sporting KC on July 21 for reckless challenge against Amadou Dia • Joined Honduras at CONCACAF Gold Cup but did not feature • Started for Honduras in both legs of two-leg CONCACAF Gold Cup playoff vs. French Guiana, including 3-0 second-leg win on March 29 for 4-3 aggregate victory • Named Dynamo Newcomer of the Year and Young Player of the Year in 2014 after arriving on loan from Olimpia in late July • Started two games for Honduras at the 2014 World Cup • Started 11 of 16 matches in 2014 World Cup Qualifying, including 9 of 10 in hexagonal round • Made Houston Dynamo debut as starter in 1-0 victory over D.C. United on August 3, 2014 • Played at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London and the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup • Made professional debut with Juticalpa FC in 2007 before transferring to Honduran powerhouse C.D. Olimpia in 2008, with whom he played with current Dynamo midfielders Boniek Garcia and Alexander Lopez • Spent a portion of 2013 on loan with Red Star Belgrade in the Serbian SuperLiga • Started for Olimpia against the Dynamo on Oct. 23, 2012 in a CONCACAF Champions League group stage match Last start: 8/26/15 at Colorado Rapids Last appearance: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last goal: None in MLS Last assist: None in MLS 9 ERICK TORRES FW 5-11 168 I/DP Born: 1/19/93, Guadalajara, Mexico Age: 22 Last Club: Chivas Guadalajara (2015; 2010-13) Other Clubs: Chivas USA (2013-14) Dynamo career: First year – 9 GP, 2 GS, 0 G, 1 A Mexico national team forward (4 caps, 1 goal) scored 22 goals in 44 appearances with Chivas USA from 2013-14 before signing as a Designated Player on December 23, 2014. 2015 MLS: 9 GP, 2 GS, 256 mins, 0 G, 1 A 2015 USOC: 1 GP, 0 GS, 26 mins, 0 G, 0 A

2014 MLS: 29 GP, 29 GS, 2,510 mins, 15 G, 1 A • Earned first Dynamo assist on Ricardo Clark’s 34th-minute goal in 2-0 win against Vancouver on August 29 • Made Dynamo debut as 64th-minute substitute in 3-1 loss at Sporting Kansas City in U.S. Open Cup on July 21 • Spent 2015 Liga MX Torneo Clausura on loan with Chivas de Guadalajara, his childhood club • Scored 15 goals in 29 games in 2014, a Chivas USA club record for a single season • Joined Chivas USA on loan from Guadalajara in July 2013 and scored 22 goals in 44 appearances in one and a half seasons, the most goals by a Mexican-born player in MLS history • Made Mexico national team debut in September 2014 against Bolivia and scored his first goal for El Tri against Panama a month later. • Featured for Mexico youth national teams at the U-17, U-20 and U23 levels • At 18, he was the youngest member of the squad at the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup as Mexico finished in third place. Torres appeared in seven games and scored one goal. • Made his Liga MX debut with Chivas in November 2010 at age 17 and scored six goals in 15 games in the 2011 Clausura season as Chivas reached the semifinals of the Liga MX playoffs. • Torres scored 14 goals in 65 league games over three years with Guadalajara before he joined Chivas USA in MLS. • Last November, scored five goals in four appearances, including two goals in the final versus Venezuela, as the Mexico U-21s won the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games. Last start: 9/12/15 vs. Real Salt Lake Last appearance: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last goal: None with Dynamo Last assist: 8/29/15 vs. Vancouver Whitecaps 10 GILES BARNES FW/MF 5-11 181 Born: 8/5/88, London, England Age: 27 Last Club: Doncaster Rovers F.C. (England) 2011-12 Other Clubs: West Bromich Albion (2010-11), Derby County (2005-09) Dynamo career: Fourth year – 94 GP, 90 GS, 26 G, 11 A Quick, explosive forward/attacking midfielder who won 2014 Dynamo MVP, Players’ Player of the Year, Golden Boot and Ironman of the Year awards. Jamaica international (12 caps, 3 goals) 2015 MLS: 23 GP, 23 GS, 2,047 mins, 6 G, 2 A 2015 USOC: 0 GP, 0 GS, 0 mins, 0 G, 0 A 2014 MLS: 34 GP, 34 GS, 3,028 mins, 11 G, 5 A • Earned second assist of season on Beasley goal in 55th minute of 2-1 win over San Jose on August 8 • Started all six games and scored two goals – game winners against Haiti and the United States – as Jamaica reached its first CONCACAF Gold Cup final (appeared in 485 total minutes) • Scored first goal for Jamaica national team in Jamaica debut on March 28 vs. Venezuela and recorded assist in 3-0 friendly win over Cuba on March 30 (first two caps) • Won 4 club awards in 2014: Dynamo MVP, Players’ Player of the Year, Golden Boot and Ironman of the Year • 6 goals in final 9 games in 2014 to win second consecutive Dynamo Golden Boot; Brian Ching is only other Dynamo player with 2+ Golden Boots

• Set Dynamo field player record, surpassing Geoff Cameron, with 3,028 regular-season minutes in 2014 • Matched a club record with 44 appearances in all competitions in 2013 (along with Kofi Sarkodie and Bobby Boswell), equaling mark set by Brian Mullan in 2008 • Joined Derby County of England in 2005 at age 17 and helped the Rams gain promotion to the EPL in 2007 Last start: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last appearance: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last goal: 5/16/15 vs. Portland Timbers Last assist: 8/8/15 vs. San Jose Earthquakes Last two-goal game: 4/25/15 vs. Sporting Kansas City 11 BRAD DAVIS MF 5-11 170 Born: 11/8/81, St. Charles, MO Age: 33 Last Club: San Jose Earthquakes (2005) Other Clubs: Dallas Burn - 2003-04, New York - 2002 College: Saint Louis University Dynamo career: Tenth year – 267 GP, 248 GS, 40 G, 102 A Original Dynamo player, 6-time MLS All-Star and winner of four team MVP awards. Club's all-time leader in games, starts, and assists, recorded 16 assists in 2011 as MLS MVP runner-up. United States international (17 caps) was member of 2014 World Cup team. 2015 MLS: 26 GP, 25 GS, 2,253 mins, 3 G, 8 A 2015 USOC: 1 GP, 1 GS, 77 mins, 0 G, 0 A 2014 MLS: 25 GP, 25 GS, 2,072 mins, 4 G, 11 A • Scored 40th career goal with Dynamo on penalty kick against Real Salt Lake on September 12 • Recorded 100th career regular-season Dynamo assist on Ricardo Clark’s 78th-minute goal at Sporting Kansas City on August 1 • Surpassed 25,000 career minutes in all competitions with Dynamo at Sporting KC on August 1 (franchise leader) • Scored first goal of season vs. LA Galaxy on July 25 • Recorded two assists in 4-4 draw vs. Sporting KC on April 25 to reach 115 career regular-season assists and pass Carlos Valderrama for third on MLS all-time list • Made 300th career Dynamo appearance in all competitions vs. Galaxy on March 21 (first to 300 in club history) • Dynamo captain is longest-tenured player in MLS with same club (9 full seasons with Dynamo entering 2015) • Made World Cup debut with start vs. Germany on June 26, 2014 • 6-time MLS All-Star (2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2005) Last start: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last appearance: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last goal: 9/12/15 vs. Real Salt Lake Last assist: 8/29/15 vs. Vancouver Whitecaps 12 WILL BRUIN FW 6-2 195 Born: 10/24/89, St. Louis, MO Age: 25 Last Club: Indiana University Dynamo career: Fourth year – 142 GP, 129 GS, 45 G, 15 A

Powerful forward set franchise record with 16 goals in all competitions in 2012 and made U.S. national team debut in January 2013. United States international (2 caps) 2015 MLS: 28 GP, 23 GS, 1,977 mins, 10 G, 2 A 2015 USOC: 1 GP, 1 GS, 64 mins, 1 G, 0 A 2014 MLS: 27 GP, 24 GS, 2,074 mins, 10 G, 1 A • Scored tenth goal of regular season and tallied assist in 2-2 draw at Portland on August 21 (third season with 10+ goals, a Dynamo record) • Scored 50th career Dynamo goal in all competitions in 59th minute of USOC quarterfinals loss to Sporting KC on July 21 • Tallied ninth career-multi goal game (including playoffs) with two goals and one assist in 4-2 win over New York Red Bulls on June 5 • Scored 10th goal of 2014 season in 3-1 win at Sporting KC on Aug. 29 but suffered mid foot sprain in right foot and missed next 6 games and appeared as substitute in final 3 games of season • Set franchise record with 16 goals in all competitions in 2012 (12 in regular season; 4 in playoffs) • Tied MLS record for most goal in a season by a second-year professional with 12 in 2012 Last start: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last appearance: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last goal: 8/21/15 at Portland Timbers Last assist: 8/21/15 at Portland Timbers Last two-goal game: 6/5/15 vs. New York Red Bulls Last hat trick: 4/29/11 vs. DC United (only in MLS) 13 RICARDO CLARK MF 5-10 160 Born: 2/10/83, Atlanta, GA Age: 32 Last Club: on loan at Stabæk Football (Norway) (2012) Other Clubs: New York MetroStars 2003-04; San Jose Earthquakes 2005; Eintracht Frankfurt (Germany) ‘10-12 College: Furman University Dynamo career: Eighth year – 188 GP, 182 GS, 22 G, 17 A Dynamo original and 2010 World Cup veteran returned to the club in 2012 after a three-year stint in Europe. 2006 MLS Best XI, 2007 MLS AllStar First XI, United States international (34 caps). 2015 MLS: 25 GP, 25 GS, 2,144 mins, 6 G, 1 A 2015 USOC: 3 GP, 1 GS, 113 mins, 1 G, 0 A 2014 MLS: 25 GP, 24 GS, 2,087 mins, 4 G, 4 A • Scored sixth goal of season on August 29 against Vancouver Whitecaps (second consecutive appearance with a goal) • Started 39 consecutive MLS games, dating to July 4, 2014 (last 17 games in 2014 and first 22 in 2015) before missing August 8 game vs. San Jose with left hamstring strain • Set career-high with fifth goal of regular season at Sporting Kansas City on August 1 • Recorded game-winning goal and assist in 4-2 win over New York on June 5 (first MLS game with goal and assist since at least 2010) • Started final 17 games of 2014 season after missing 9 games with concussion suffered at New York on April 23 • Helped lead the Dynamo to two MLS Cups (2006, 07) in his first stint with the team (2006-2009) • Started two games at 2010 World Cup in South Africa

• Started four games at 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup, including starts in 2-0 semifinal win over Spain and 3-2 defeat to Brazil in Final Last start: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last appearance: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last goal: 8/29/15 vs. Vancouver Whitecaps Last assist: 6/5/15 vs. New York Red Bulls 14 ALEX LIMA MF 5-8 155 Born: 12/15/88, São Paulo, Brazil Age: 26 Last Club: Chicago Fire (2012-15) Other Clubs: FC Wohlen (2010-12); FC Gossau (2009-10) Dynamo career: First year – 12 GP, 9 GS, 2 G, 0 A Acquired: Traded from Chicago Fire in exchange for Jason Johnson on April 13, 2015 Full name: Alexandre Monteiro De Lima Versatile midfielder can play across midfield; spent 2012-15 with Chicago Fire after three seasons in Switzerland. 2015 MLS (w/ HOU): 12 GP, 9 GS, 772 mins, 2 G, 0 A 2015 MLS (w/ CHI): 1 GP, 0 GS, 8 mins, 0 G, 0 A 2015 USOC: 2 GP, 2 GS, 163 mins, 0 G, 1 A 2014 MLS (w/ CHI): 28 GP, 24 GS, 1968 mins, 0 G, 1 A • Scored second goal of season – and first game-winner – vs. San Jose Earthquakes on August 8 • Scored first Dynamo goal on July 3 against Chicago Fire (former team) in 1-1 draw (first MLS goal since 9/14/13) • Made Dynamo debut as starter in 2-0 win vs. Austin on June 17 and assisted on Leonel Miranda’s opening goal with through ball • Tallied four goals and two assists in 77 appearances (49 starts) with Chicago, including playoffs • With Chicago, played in a variety of positions, including, all positions across the midfield, as a forward, and also as a wide defender • Product of Gremio Mauaense in Brazil; made 26 appearances in two years with Swiss club FC Wohlen and 19 appearances with Swiss club FC Gossau Last start: 8/29/15 vs. Vancouver Whitecaps Last appearance: 8/29/15 vs. Vancouver Whitecaps Last goal: 8/8/15 vs. San Jose Earthquakes Last assist: 6/17/15 vs. Austin Aztex (USOC) 15 ALEXANDER LÓPEZ MF 5-9 155 Born: 6/5/92, Tegucigalpa, Honduras Age: 23 Last Club: C.D. Olimpia (Honduras) 2010-13 Dynamo career: Third year – 28 GP, 14 GS, 0 G, 3 A Acquired: Transfer from C.D. Olimpia on Aug. 7, 2013 Young midfielder with experience with Honduran youth and senior national teams (8 caps), including 2012 Olympics and 2013 Gold Cup, who signed from Olimpia of Honduras on Aug. 7, 2013. 2015 MLS: 16 GP, 12 GS, 947 mins, 0 G, 3 A 2015 USOC: 2 GP, 0 GS, 33 mins, 0 G, 0 A 2014 MLS: 10 GP, 1 GS, 247 mins, 0 G, 0 A

• Tallied third assist of season on Clark’s goal at San Jose on July 10

• Member of Honduras’ 2013 Gold Cup semifinalist team, started four matches (5 total appearances) • Part of quarterfinalist squad at 2012 Summer Olympics, appearing in three games, including quarterfinal loss to Brazil • Made first team debut with C. D. Olimpia in 2010 at age 19 • Made Honduras senior national team debut in 2010 • Started three group matches for Honduras at 2009 U-17 World Cup in Nigeria Last start: 7/18/15 at Real Salt Lake Last appearance: 7/18/15 at Real Salt Lake Last goal: 6/11/14 vs. Laredo Heat (USOC) Last assist: 7/10/15 at San Jose Earthquakes 16 AJ COCHRAN DF 6-3 195 GA Born: 2/9/93, St. Louis, MO Age: 22 Last Club: University of Wisconsin Dynamo career: Second year – 26 GP, 19 GS, 0 G, 0 A Strong center back and Generation adidas member selected by Dynamo in first round (No. 16 overall) of the 2014 MLS SuperDraft. 2015 MLS: 7 GP, 5 GS, 512 mins, 0 G, 0 A 2015 USOC: 3 GP, 3 GS, 270 mins, 0 G, 0 A 2014 MLS: 20 GP, 14 GS, 1,405 mins, 0 G, 0 A • Made first MLS start of the season on July 25 vs. LA Galaxy • Made 2015 debut as substitute for on March 21 at LA Galaxy • Appeared in 19 regular-season games and 21 games in all competitions as a rookie in 2014 • Selected to U.S. U-23 training camp in Nassau, Bahamas and started vs. Bahamas senior national team on Aug. 6 • 2013 Big Ten Defender of the Year at University of Wisconsin • Part of U.S. U-20 national team camp in January 2012 • Traveled with U.S. U-18’s to Argentina & Chile in 2011 Last start: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last appearance: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last goal: None in MLS Last assist: None in MLS 17 CHANDLER HOFFMAN FW 6-0 Born: 8/18/90, Birmingham, Ala. Last Club: LA Galaxy (2013-14) Previous Clubs: Philadelphia Union (2012) College: University of California – Los Angles Dynamo career: First year – 5 GP, 0 GS, 0 G, 0 A

160 Age: 25

Forward acquired in 2014 MLS Re-Entry Draft after scoring 14 goals in 19 games with LA Galaxy II. 2015 MLS: 5 GP, 0 GS, 30 mins, 0 G, 0 A 2015 USOC: 2 GP, 2 GS, 159 mins, 0 G, 0 A 2014 MLS: 8 GP, 0 GS, 61 mins, 0 G, 0 A 2014 USL PRO (LA Galaxy II): 14 G, 19 GP

LOAN: Currently on loan with Colorado Springs (USL) • Scored first Dynamo goal, the game-winning header in 1-0 U.S. Open Cup win vs. Colorado on June 30 (first Dynamo start) • Scored 13 regular-season goals in 17 games (14 goals in 19 games, including playoffs) with LA Galaxy II in USL PRO in 2014 • Selected by Dynamo in Stage 2 of MLS Re-Entry Draft on Dec. 18 • Acquired by LA Galaxy in trade with Philadelphia Union on March 1, 2013 • The first Alabama native to be selected in the first round of MLS SuperDraft Last start: 6/30/15 vs. Colorado Rapids (USOC) Last appearance: 6/30/15 vs. Colorado Rapids (USOC) Last goal: None in MLS Last assist: None in MLS 18 DAVID HORST DF 6-4 210 Born: 10/25/85, Pine Grove, PA Age: 29 Last Club: Portland Timbers – 2011-13 Other Clubs: Real Salt Lake (2008-10); Puerto Rico Islanders (Loan; 2010); Austin Aztex (Loan; 2009) College: Old Dominion University Dynamo career: Second year – 58 GP, 54 GS, 1 G, 3 A Strong center back with aerial ability who started 31 games in 2014 after trade from Portland Timbers in December 2013. 2015 MLS: 27 GP, 23 GS, 2,153 mins, 0 G, 2 A 2015 USOC: 2 GP, 2 GS, 167 mins, 0 G, 0 A 2014 MLS: 31 GP, 31 GS, 2,653 mins, 1 G, 1 A • Served as captain for first time with Dynamo in U.S. Open Cup win vs. Colorado Rapids on June 30 • Assisted on two corner kick goals this season, Will Bruin’s goal at New York City FC on May 30 and Nate Sturgis’ equalizing goal vs. Galaxy on March 21, heading corner kick across goal for both assists • Set career-highs in games (31), starts (31) & minutes (2,653) in 2014 • Missed remainder of 2013 regular season after surgery to repair a displaced tibial plateau fracture of his right leg on April 8 • Member of 2009 Real Salt Lake squad that won MLS Cup • Joined Puerto Rico Islanders (2010) and Austin Aztex (2009) on loan Last start: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last appearance: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last goal: 8/29/14 at Sporting Kansas City Last assist: 5/30/15 at New York City FC 19 MAURO MANOTAS F 6-0 Born: 7/15/95, Sabanalarga, Colombia Last Club: Uniautónoma (Colombia) – 2014-15 Dynamo career: First year – 7 GP, 0 GS, 0 G, 0 A Pronunciation: MAW-roh Man-OH-tas

Last start: 6/30/15 vs. Colorado Rapids (USOC) Last appearance: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last goal: 6/30/15 vs. Colorado Rapids (USOC) Last assist: 6/17/15 vs. Austin Aztex (USOC) 20 RASHEED OLABIYI M 6-0 160 Born: 8/8/90, Ibadan, Nigeria Age: 25 Last Club: Enyimba International FC (Nigeria) – 2007-14 Dynamo career: First year – 4 GP, 1 GS, 0 G, 1 A Pronunciation: Ra-sheed Oh-la-bee-ee Nigeria U-17-U-23 international signed by the Dynamo on July 9 after seven seasons with Enyimba International FC of Nigeria Premier League. 2015 MLS: 4 GP, 1 GS, 80 mins, 0 G, 1 A • • • • • • •

155 Age: 20

Colombia U-20 national team forward acquired by the Dynamo in transfer from Uniautónoma F.C. on May 13, 2015. 2015 MLS: 7 GP, 0 GS, 70 mins, 0 G, 0 A 2015 USOC: 3 GP, 1 GS, 111 mins, 1 G, 1 A

• Made Dynamo debut as substitute in 2-0 win vs. Austin on June 17 and assisted on Ricardo Clark’s stoppage time goal with precise through ball • Began training with the Dynamo on June 1 • Scored six goals in 32 appearances across all competitions (Primera A and Copa Colombia) with Uniautónoma in Colombia's First Division • Helped the Colombia Under-20 national team qualify for the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup with a second place finish at the 2015 South American Youth Football Championship in Uruguay this January and February, appearing in three games (one start) and scoring against Brazil in the group stage. • Scored the crucial goal to keep Uniautónoma in the Colombian top flight (Categoria Primera A) in 2014, a late winner in the last regular season game to qualify for a playoff • Before debuting with the first team, Manotas starred with Uniautónoma’s U-20 team in 2013 and later in the Campeonato Postobon

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Made first Dynamo start in 2-2 draw at Portland on August 21 Recorded first assist of Dynamo career against LA Galaxy on July 25 Made Dynamo debut as a substitute in 2-0 win at San Jose on July 10 Played with hometown club Enyimba International FC of the Nigeria Premier League from 2007-2014 Represented Nigeria at the Under-17, U-20 and U-23 levels 2014 Nigeria Premier League Bext XI selection. Two-time MVP (2006, 2007) of the Lagos-based Pepsi Football Academy, which featured Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel Helped the Peoples’ Elephants win the Nigeria Premier League in 2010 as well as three Nigeria FA Cups (2009, 2013, 2014) and two Nigeria Super Cups (2010, 2013). Enyimba also reached the semifinals of the CAF (African) Champions League in 2011.

Last start: 8/21/15 at Portland Timbers Last appearance: 8/21/15 at Portland Timbers Last goal: None with Dynamo Last assist: 7/25/15 vs. LA Galaxy

Last appearance: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last goal: None with Dynamo Last assist: 8/29/15 vs. Vancouver Whitecaps 21 ZACH STEINBERGER MF Born: 5/10/92, Long Beach, Calif. Last Club: Butler University Dynamo career: First year – 2 GP, 0 GS, 0 G, 0 A

5-11

172 Age: 23

23 TAYLOR HUNTER DF 6-0 160 Born: 7/7/93, Aurora, Colo. Age: 22 Last Club: University of Denver Dynamo career: First year – 1 GP, 1 GS, 0 G, 0 A

Central midfielder who trained in England, Slovakia and Germany before four seasons at Butler University. Selected by Dynamo with No. 8 overall selection in 2015 MLS SuperDraft.

Right back selected by Dynamo in third round (No. 49 overall) of 2015 MLS SuperDraft after leading University of Denver to consecutive Summit League championships.

2015 MLS: 3 GP, 0 GS, 29 mins, 0 G, 0 A 2015 USOC: 3 GP, 2 GS, 185 mins, 0 G, 0 A

MLS: 1 GP, 1 GS, 90 mins, 0 G, 0 A 2015 w/ Colorado Springs (USL): 14 GP, 14 GS, 1,205 mins, 1 G, 0 A

2015 USOC: 2 GP, 1 GS, 105 mins, 0 G, 0 A

LOAN: Currently on loan with Indy Eleven (NASL) • Made MLS debut as substitute vs. Colorado on March 28 • Four-year starter scored 14 goals and added 15 assists at Butler University, earning all-conference honors in three seasons • Limited to 14 games as senior in 2014 after suffering facial injury • Attended IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida before moving to England at age 16 to play with Middlesbrough F.C.’s youth academy, then with youth teams in Kosice, Slovakia and Karlsruhe, Germany before moving back to the U.S. to attend Butler Last start: 6/30/15 vs. Colorado Rapids (USOC) Last appearance: 7/25/15 vs. LA Galaxy Last goal: None as professional Last assist: None as professional 22 SHEANON WILLIAMS D 5-11 Born: 3/17/90, Boston, Massachusetts Last Club: Philadelphia Union (2010-15) Dynamo career: First year – 9 GP, 9 GS, 0 G, 2 A Pronunciation: Shane-en

• Midfielder/defender appeared in 69 games in four seasons with the Pioneers

170 Age: 25

Versatile defender and six-year veteran acquired by the Dynamo in trade with Philadelphia Union on July 23, 2015 2015 MLS: 9 GP, 9 GS, 810 mins, 0 G, 2 A 2015 MLS (w/ PHI): 17 GP, 15 GS, 1272 mins, 0 G, 2 A • Recorded first assist with Dynamo Alex Lima’s game-winning goal vs. San Jose Earthquakes on August 8 • Made Dynamo debut as starter in 3-0 win vs. L.A. Galaxy on July 25 • Appeared in 141 regular-season games in six seasons with the Union, averaging 29 appearances per season over the last four years • Tallied seven goals and 19 assists with Philadelphia, including eight, a career-high, in 2013 • Made 17 regular-season appearances (15 starts) for the Union this season; is one of six players in the Eastern Conference to log four straight seasons with 2,000+ minutes with the same club (2011-14) • Joined the U.S. U-17 national team residency program in Bradenton, Florida and played at the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Korea and played at the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Egypt Last start: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union

• Has spent majority of 2015 season on loan to Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC of USL • Made MLS debut as starter on July 18 at Real Salt Lake • Made Dynamo debut as substitute in 1-0 win over Colorado Rapids on June 30 • Earned NSCAA All-West region third-team honors in 2014 after leading Denver to second consecutive Summit League championship • Named MVP of the 2014 Summit League tournament and earned Summit League Academic All-League team honors for the second straight year in 2014 • Team captain in 2014 as Denver reached the NCAA tournament in consecutive seasons for the first time in program history

Last start: 7/21/15 at Sporting KC (USOC) Last appearance: 7/21/15 at Sporting KC (USOC) Last goal: None with Dynamo Last assist: None with Dynamo

27 BONIEK GARCIA MF 5-9 150 Born: 9/4/84, Tegucigalpa, Honduras Age: 31 Last Club: C.D. Olimpia (Honduras) 2003-12 Dynamo career: Fourth year – 85 GP, 77 GS, 12 G, 17 A Acquired: Transfer from C.D. Olimpia on June 7, 2012 Dynamic two-way midfielder and 2014 World Cup veteran who is a fixture for Honduras national team (101 caps). 2015 MLS: 19 GP, 13 GS, 1,201 mins, 3 G, 4 A 2014 MLS: 27 GP, 26 GS, 2,206 mins, 2 G, 1 A • Earned 100th career cap for Honduras and recorded assist in 30 win over Venezuela on September 4. Also appeared as substitute in 2-0 loss at Peru on September 8. • Scored third goal of season in 2-2 draw at Portland on August 21 • Entered as halftime substitute and scored equalizing goal and added two assists in 4-2 win over New York Red Bulls on June 5 (first game with goal and two assists in Dynamo career) • Served as captain for Honduras national team for first time in 3-2 friendly loss vs. Venezuela on Feb. 5, 2015 (96th cap) • Set MLS career-highs in games, starts and minutes in 2014 • Made World Cup debut and appeared in three games (two starts) for Honduras national team at 2014 FIFA World Cup

• Member of Honduras team at 2010 FIFA World Cup (didn’t appear) Last start: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last appearance: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last goal: 8/21/15 at Portland Timbers Last assist: 8/8/15 vs. San Jose Earthquakes 28 MEMO RODRIGUEZ MF Born: 12/27/95, Wharton, Texas Last Club: Dynamo Academy (2011-14) Dynamo career: Rookie

5-8

145

HG Age: 19

Dynamo Academy product who signed as Homegrown Player on Dec. 4, 2014 after three years in Dynamo Academy. LOAN: Currently on loan with Charleston Battery (USL) • Played with Academy U-23s in summer of 2014 and trained with first team through last year • Commuted 75 miles from El Campo, Texas to train with Dynamo Academy from 2011-14 • Dynamo Academy Players’ Player of the Year in 2012 and 2013 30 MICHAEL LISCH GK Born: 8/30/90, Austin, TX Last Club: University of New Mexico Dynamo career: Second year – 0 GP, 0 GS

6-4

175 Age: 25

Goalkeeper with long frame and extensive college experience drafted by Dynamo in third round of 2014 MLS SuperDraft. 2014 USL PRO: 17 GP, 1,530 mins, 1.47 GAA, 4 shutouts • Appeared in 17 games and recorded 4 shutouts on loan with Pittsburgh Riverhounds (USL PRO) in 2014 • Spent four years at Wake Forest (2009-12) and one at University of New Mexico (2013); Led New Meixco to national semifinal berth 31 JOE WILLIS GK 6-5 185 Born: 8/10/88, St. Louis, Mo. Age: 27 Last Club: D.C. United (2011-14) College: University of Denver Dynamo career: First year – 2 GP, 2 GS, 0 SHO, 1 W Goalkeeper with great length and cup competition experience. Joined Dynamo via trade from D.C. United on Dec. 8, 2014. 2015 MLS: 2 GP, 2 GS, 180 mins, 1.00 GAA, 0 shutouts, 1-0-1 2015 USOC: 3 GP, 3 GS, 270 mins, 0.00 GAA, 2 shutouts, 2-1-0 2014 MLS: Did not feature 2014 Champions League: 3 GP, 90 mins, 0.00 GAA, 3 shutouts

• Earned first regular season win with Dynamo on August 8 against San Jose Earthquakes • Made 2015 MLS debut as starter in 1-1 draw vs. Chicago on July 3 (first MLS start since 10/4/13) • Recorded two shutouts in first two U.S. Open Cup starts, 1-0 over Colorado Rapids and 2-0 over Austin Aztex on June 17 • 2014: Recorded three shutouts in three CONCACAF Champions League starts as United won its group • Appeared in four U.S. Open Cup matches in 2013 as D.C. United won the cup with a road win over Real Salt Lake Last start: 8/8/15 vs. San Jose Earthquakes Last shutout: 6/30/15 vs. Colorado Rapids (USOC) 33 LEONEL MIRANDA MF 5-8 155 Born: 1/7/94, Buenos Aires, Argentina Age: 21 Last Club: Club Atlético Independiente (Argentina) – 2012-15 Dynamo career: First year – 15 GP, 6 GS, 1 G, 1 A Versatile midfielder joined the Dynamo on a season-long loan from CA Independiente on Jan. 9, 2015 after 2 ½ years in Argentina’s first division. 2015 MLS: 15 GP, 6 GS, 637 mins, 1 G, 1 A 2015 USOC: 3 GP, 3 GS, 270 mins, 1 G, 0 A • Scored first regular-season goal with Dynamo in 3-0 win over Galaxy on July 25 • Scored first Dynamo goal, the game-winner in 2-0 triumph over Austin on June 17 in U.S. Open Cup • Signed with Club Atlético Independiente in October 2012 and made his Primera Division debut with the Buenos Aires powerhouse in March 2013. • 34 first-team appearances and two goals with El Rojo, one of Argentina’s most successful clubs with a record seven Copa Libertadores championships. Last start: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last appearance: 9/20/15 at Philadelphia Union Last goal: 7/25/15 vs. LA Galaxy Last assist: 7/10/15 at San Jose Earthquakes LEGEND: GK-goalkeeper; DF-defender; MF-midfielder; FW-forward; Iinternational; DP-Designated Player; YDP-Young Designated Player; HG-home-grown; GA Generation adidas; USOC-U.S. Open Cup; CCLCONCACAF Champions League win vs. New York Red Bulls

HOW THE 2015 DYNAMO WERE ASSEMBLED Date 12/16/05 2/27/09 1/13/11 1/13/11 2/16/11 6/7/12 8/8/12 8/29/12 1/17/13 8/7/13 12/17/13 1/16/14 1/21/14 7/23/14 7/25/14 12/4/14 12/8/14 12/18/14 12/18/14 12/23/14 1/8/15 1/9/15 1/15/15 1/15/15 1/20/15 4/13/15 5/13/15 7/9/15 7/23/15

Player Brad Davis Tyler Deric Kofi Sarkodie Will Bruin Jermaine Taylor Boniek Garcia Ricardo Clark Giles Barnes Jason Johnson Alexander López David Horst AJ Cochran Michael Lisch DaMarcus Beasley Luis Garrido Memo Rodriguez Joe Willis Chandler Hoffman Nathan Sturgis Erick “Cubo” Torres Leonel Miranda Raúl Rodríguez Zach Steinberger Rob Lovejoy Taylor Hunter Alex Lima Mauro Manotas Rasheed Olayibi Sheanon Williams

Transaction type Moved with club from San Jose (SJ acquired 05 trade) Signed as home-grown player (first in club history) 2011 MLS SuperDraft, Round 1 (pick 7) 2011 MLS SuperDraft, Round 1 (pick 11) Transferred from St. George’s (Jamaica) Transferred from C.D. Olimpia (Honduras) Signed as free agent (originally moved with club from San Jose) Signed as free agent 2013 MLS SuperDraft Round 1 (pick 13) Transferred from C.D. Olimpia (Honduras) Traded from Portland Timbers in exchange for fourth round pick in 2014 Draft 2014 MLS SuperDraft Round 1 (pick 16) 2014 MLS SuperDraft Round 3 (pick 54) Signed as Designated Player Loaned from C.D. Olimpia (Honduras) Signed as Homegrown Player Traded from D.C. United in exchange for Andrew Driver Selected in Stage Two of Re-Entry Draft from LA Galaxy Selected in Stage Two of Re-Entry Draft from Chivas USA Signed as Designated Player from Chivas Guadalajara Loaned from Club Atlético Independiente Signed as discovery player from RCD Espanyol 2015 MLS SuperDraft Round 1 (No. 8 overall) 2015 MLS SuperDraft Round 2 (No. 36 overall) 2015 MLS SuperDraft Round 3 (No. 49 overall) Traded from Chicago Fire in exchange for Jason Johnson Transferred from Uniautónoma F.C. (Colombia) Signed as a discovery player (free agent) Traded from Philadelphia Union in exchange for allocation money

Acquisitions by first season* with club 2006 1 2007 0 2008 0 2009 1 2010 0 2011 3 2012 3 2013 2 2014 5 2015 14

Acquisitions by method** MLS SuperDraft 8 MLS Re-Entry Draft 2 Trade 4 Home-Grown Player 2 San Jose original 1 Transfer 4 Loan 2 Trialist 0 Free agent 5

*For players that re-joined Dynamo (i.e. Clark), first season is classified by their year of return

**Returning players are classified by how they re-joined club

2015 DYNAMO GAME-‐‑BY-‐‑GAME LINEUPS (Formations listed right-‐‑to-‐‑left) Dynamo vs. Columbus Crew SC March 8, 2015 (4-‐‑4-‐‑2) Tyler Deric Kofi Sarkodie Raul Rodriguez (David Horst 90) Jermaine Taylor DaMarcus Beasley Boniek Garcia Ricardo Clark Luis Garrido Brad Davis Giles Barnes (Chandler Hoffman 90) Will Bruin (Leonel Miranda 57) Dynamo vs. Orlando City SC March 13, 2015 (4-‐‑4-‐‑2) Tyler Deric Kofi Sarkodie David Horst Jermaine Taylor DaMarcus Beasley Leonel Miranda (Will Bruin 53) Luis Garrido Ricardo Clark Brad Davis Boniek Garcia (Rob Lovejoy 83) Giles Barnes Dynamo at LA Galaxy March 21, 2015 (4-‐‑4-‐‑2) Tyler Deric Kofi Sarkodie David Horst Jermaine Taylor DaMarcus Beasley (AJ Cochran 55) Boniek Garcia Luis Garrido Ricardo Clark (Rob Lovejoy 42) Nathan Sturgis (Will Bruin 79) Brad Davis Giles Barnes Dynamo vs. Colorado Rapids March 28, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Tyler Deric Kofi Sarkodie David Horst Raul Rodriguez DaMarcus Beasley Leonel Miranda (Chandler Hoffman 83) Ricardo Clark (Zach Steinberger 69) Nathan Sturgis Brad Davis Rob Lovejoy (Alexander Lopez 59)

Will Bruin Dynamo at Seattle Sounders FC April 4, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Tyler Deric Kofi Sarkodie Raul Rodriguez (David Horst 26) Jermaine Taylor DaMarcus Beasley Boniek Garcia (Leonel Miranda 72) Luis Garrido (Will Bruin 64) Ricardo Clark Nathan Sturgis Brad Davis Giles Barnes Dynamo vs. Montreal Impact April 11, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Tyler Deric Kofi Sarkodie David Horst Jermaine Taylor DaMarcus Beasley Boniek Garcia (Alexander Lopez 53) Luis Garrido (Rob Lovejoy 64) Ricardo Clark Nathan Sturgis Brad Davis Giles Barnes (Chandler Hoffman 90) Dynamo at D.C. United April 18, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Tyler Deric Kofi Sarkodie Raul Rodriguez Jermaine Taylor, DaMarcus Beasley Luis Garrido (Will Bruin 45, Chandler Hoffman 90), Alexander Lopez (Rob Lovejoy 80) Ricardo Clark Nathan Sturgis Brad Davis Giles Barnes Dynamo vs. Sporting Kansas City April 25, 2015 (4-‐‑4-‐‑2) Tyler Deric Kofi Sarkodie Raul Rodriguez Jermaine Taylor (Ejected 79) DaMarcus Beasley Alexander Lopez (David Horst 80) Ricardo Clark Nathan Sturgis (Luis Garrido 84) Brad Davis

Giles Barnes Will Bruin (Chandler Hoffman 70) Dynamo vs. FC Dallas May 1, 2015 (4-‐‑4-‐‑2) Tyler Deric Kofi Sarkodie Raul Rodriguez Jermaine Taylor DaMarcus Beasley Alexander Lopez (Boniek Garcia 55) Ricardo Clark Nathan Sturgis (Luis Garrido 61) Brad Davis Giles Barnes Will Bruin (Rob Lovejoy 67)

Dynamo vs. San Jose Earthquakes May 5, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Tyler Deric Kofi Sarkodie (David Horst 83) Raul Rodriguez Jermaine Taylor DaMarcus Beasley Boniek Garcia (Rob Lovejoy 74) Luis Garrido Ricardo Clark Brad Davis Alexander Lopez (Will Bruin 65) Giles Barnes Dynamo at Toronto FC May 10, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Tyler Deric Raul Rodriguez David Horst Jermaine Taylor DaMarcus Beasley Boniek Garcia (Zach Steinberger 83) Luis Garrido Ricardo Clark (Leonel Miranda 83) Alexander Lopez (Rob Lovejoy 74) Giles Barnes Will Bruin Dynamo vs. Portland Timbers May 16, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Tyler Deric Raul Rodriguez David Horst Jermaine Taylor DaMarcus Beasley Boniek Garcia (Alexander Lopez 74) Luis Garrido Ricardo Clark

Brad Davis Giles Barnes Will Bruin (Rob Lovejoy 90) Dynamo at LA Galaxy May 22, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Tyler Deric Raul Rodriguez David Horst Jermaine Taylor DaMarcus Beasley Boniek Garcia (Alexander Lopez 66) Luis Garrido (Nathan Sturgis 54) Ricardo Clark Brad Davis Giles Barnes Will Bruin (Rob Lovejoy 88) Dynamo at New York City FC May 30, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Tyler Deric Raul Rodriguez David Horst Jermaine Taylor DaMarcus Beasley Boniek Garcia (Rob Lovejoy 78) Luis Garrido Ricardo Clark Alexander Lopez Giles Barnes Will Bruin Dynamo vs. New York Red Bulls June 5, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Tyler Deric Raul Rodriguez David Horst Jermaine Taylor DaMarcus Beasley Alex Lopez (Boniek Garcia 46) Luis Garrido Ricardo Clark Brad Davis (Rob Lovejoy 66) Giles Barnes Will Bruin Dynamo vs. Austin Aztex U.S.O.C. fourth round June 17, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Joe Willis Kofi Sarkodie Raul Rodriguez AJ Cochran Corey Ashe Leonel Miranda Zach Steinberger (Alexander Lopez 69) Nathan Sturgis Alex Monteiro (Ricardo Clark 84) Rob Lovejoy Chandler Hoffman (Mauro Manotas 69)

Dynamo at Portland Timbers June 20, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Tyler Deric Kofi Sarkodie Raul Rodriguez David Horst DaMarcus Beasley Leonel Miranda (Alex Lima 75) Luis Garrido Nathan Sturgis (Rob Lovejoy 58) Ricardo Clark Alexander Lopez (Mauro Manotas 82) Will Bruin Dynamo at FC Dallas June 26, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Tyler Deric Raul Rodriguez Jermaine Taylor DaMarcus Beasley Alexander Lopez (Alex Lima 84) Luis Garrido Ricardo Clark Rob Lovejoy (Brad Davis 29) Giles Barnes Will Bruin (Mauro Manotas 80) Dynamo vs. Colorado Rapids U.S.O.C. Round of 16 June 30, 2015 (4-‐‑4-‐‑2) Joe Willis Kofi Sarkodie David Horst (Taylor Hunter 77) AJ Cochran Corey Ashe Leonel Miranda Zach Steinberger Nathan Sturgis Alex Lima (Alexander Lopez 79) Chandler Hoffman Mauro Manotas (Ricardo Clark 77) Dynamo vs. Chicago Fire July 3, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Joe Willis Raul Rodriguez David Horst Jermaine Taylor DaMarcus Beasley Alexander Lopez (Alex Lima 53) Luis Garrido Ricardo Clark Brad Davis (Leonel Miranda 77) Giles Barnes Will Bruin (Mauro Manotas 78)

Dynamo at San Jose Earthquakes July 10, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Tyler Deric Kofi Sarkodie Raul Rodriguez David Horst DaMarcus Beasley Alex Lima (Leonel Miranda 70) Alexander Lopez (Rasheed Olabiyi 79) Nathan Sturgis Ricardo Clark Brad Davis Will Bruin (Mauro Manotas 90+1) Dynamo at Real Salt Lake July 18, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Tyler Deric Kofi Sarkodie (ejected 51) Raul Rodriguez David Horst Taylor Hunter Alex Lima (Leonel Miranda 45) Alexander Lopez (AJ Cochran 53) Nathan Sturgis (Luis Garrido 46) Ricardo Clark Brad Davis Will Bruin Dynamo at Sporting Kansas City U.S.O.C. quarterfinals July 21, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Joe Willis Kofi Sarkodie AJ Cochran David Horst Taylor Hunter Leonel Miranda Luis Garrido (ejected 30) Nathan Sturgis (Zach Steinberger 64) Ricardo Clark Brad Davis (Mauro Manotas 77) Will Bruin (Erick Torres 64) Dynamo vs. LA Galaxy July 25, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Tyler Deric Sheanon Williams Raul Rodriguez David Horst AJ Cochran Leonel Miranda Nathan Sturgis Ricardo Clark (Zach Steinberger 90+1) Brad Davis Alex Lima (Rasheed Olabiyi 87) Will Bruin (Erick Torres 69)

Dynamo at Sporting Kansas City August 1, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Tyler Deric Sheanon Williams Raul Rodriguez David Horst DaMarcus Beasley Alex Lima (Leonel Miranda 68) Nathan Sturgis (ejected 86) Ricardo Clark (Luis Garrido 80) Giles Barnes Brad Davis Will Bruin (Erick Torres 62) Dynamo vs. San Jose Earthquakes August 8, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Joe Willis Sheanon Williams Raul Rodriguez David Horst DaMarcus Beasley Leonel Miranda (Boniek Garcia 56) Luis Garrido Giles Barnes Brad Davis Alex Lima (Rasheed Olabiyi 85) Will Bruin (Erick Torres 78) Dynamo at New England Revolution August 15, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Tyler Deric Sheanon Williams David Horst A.J. Cochran DaMarcus Beasley (Kofi Sarkodie 45) Alex Luis Garrido Giles Barnes Nathan Sturgis (Boniek Garcia 76) Brad Davis Will Bruin (Erick Torres 56) Dynamo at Portland Timbers August 21, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Tyler Deric Kofi Sarkodie David Horst Raul Rodriguez Sheanon Williams Boniek Garcia Rasheed Olabiyi (Nathan Sturgis 61) Luis Garrido Brad Davis (Leonel Miranda 89) Alex Lima Will Bruin (Erick Torres 72)

Dynamo at Colorado Rapids August 26, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Tyler Deric Sheanon Williams David Horst AJ Cochran Alex Lima Boniek Garcia (Leonel Miranda 61) Nathan Sturgis Luis Garrido Giles Barnes (Erick Torres 78) Brad Davis Will Bruin (Mauro Manotas 70) Dynamo vs. Vancouver Whitecaps FC August 29, 2015 (4-‐‑4-‐‑2) Tyler Deric Sheanon Williams David Horst Raul Rodriguez DaMarcus Beasley (Luis Garrido 24) Brad Davis Ricardo Clark (Nathan Sturgis 72) Alex Lima Giles Barnes Erick Torres (Boniek Garcia 66) Will Bruin Dynamo vs. Real Salt Lake September 12, 2015 (4-‐‑4-‐‑2) Tyler Deric Sheanon Williams David Horst Raul Rodriguez AJ Cochran (Mauro Manotas 80) Brad Davis Ricardo Clark Nathan Sturgis Giles Barnes Erick Torres (Boniek Garcia 46) Will Bruin Dynamo at Philadelphia Union September 20, 2015 (4-‐‑5-‐‑1) Tyler Deric Kofi Sarkodie (Luis Garrido 46) David Horst AJ Cochran Sheanon Williams Leonel Miranda Ricardo Clark Boniek Garcia Giles Barnes (Mauro Manotas 81) Brad Davis (Erick Torres 70) Will Bruin

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Tyler Deric Kofi Sarkodie Rob Lovejoy Jermaine Taylor Raul Rodriguez Nathan Sturgis DaMarcus Beasley Luis Garrido Erick Torres Giles Barnes Brad Davis Will Bruin Ricardo Clark Alex Jason Johnson Alexander Lopez A.J. Cochran Chandler Hoffman David Horst Oumar Ballo Mauro Manotas Rasheed Olabiyi Zach Steinberger Sheanon Williams Taylor Hunter Corey Ashe Boniek Garcia Memo Rodriguez Michael Lisch Joe Willis Leonel Miranda

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21 LA 3-0 90G

22 23 24 KC SJ NE 1-1 2-1 0-2 90G 90G 45

26 COL 1-2 90G

27 VAN 2-0 90G

25 POR 2-2 90G 90D

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20 RSL 0-2 90G 51D

8 9 KC DAL 4-4 1-4 90G 90G 90D 90D 23 90D 90D 61M 90D 29 77D 90D 84M 90D 6

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20 10 9 3 5 61M 1 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D

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2015 REGULAR SEASON TEAM STATS SPORTING KANSAS CITY

Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015 Kickoff: 7:30 p.m. CT BBVA Compass Stadium (Houston) MLS Regular Season Game 29 Sporting Kansas City 12-8-8, 44 points (9-1-4 home; 3-7-4 away) 5th place in Western Conference Houston Dynamo 9-12-8, 35 points (7-4-3 home; 2-8-5 away) 9th place in Western Conference

12-8-8 (44 pts.) RECORD 28 GAMES PLAYED 5th in West CONFERENCE POSITION 44 GOALS 1.57 GOALS/GAME 48 ASSISTS 39 GOALS ALLOWED 1.39 ALLOWED/GAME +5 GOAL DIFFERENTIAL 335 (114) SHOTS (ON GOAL) 34.0% ON GOAL % 362 FOULS COMMITTED 332 FOULS SUFFERED 51 CAUTIONS 3 EJECTIONS

English TV: KMCI-TV, SKCTV English Radio: 99.3 FM Spanish Radio: La Grande 1340 AM Nate Bukaty (play-by-play) TV talent: Jake Yadrich (color) Kacie McDonnell (host) Radio talent: Enrique Morales (play-by-play) Raul Padrino Villegas (color)

SPORTING KANSAS CITY ROSTER No. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 17 20 21 22 23 27 29 37 71 93 94 96

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2015 MLS REGULAR SEASON STANDINGS Eastern Conference

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MLS EXPERIENCE MLS RECORD YEAR WITH TEAM RECORD WITH TEAM

1st season 9-12-8 (.448) 1st season 9-12-8 (.448)

SPORTING KANSAS CITY INJURY REPORT As of Monday, Sept. 21 OUT: • Roger Espinoza (tibial sesamoid fracture) • Ike Opara (ruptured Achilles) QUESTIONABLE: • Tim Melia (hamstring strain) • Amobi Okugo (knee sprain)

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes #HOUvSKC: HEAD-TO-HEAD

SPORTING KC BY THE NUMBERS

Fifth-place Sporting KC (12-8-8, 41 points) continues their playoff push Wednesday against Western Conference rival Houston Dynamo at BBVA Compass Stadium. The clubs have met on three previous occasions this season in all competitions, with Sporting KC earning a win and two draws. Remarkably, Sporting KC has scored nine of their 10 total goals after the 70th minute in those three matches.

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Aug. 1 -- Sporting KC 1, Houston Dynamo 1 The teams most recently met on Aug. 1 at Sporting Park, battling to a 1-1 draw in a match that snapped Sporting KC’s club-record nine-game home winning streak. Dom Dwyer put the hosts ahead in the 6th minute, scoring for the sixth straight game against Houston in all competitions dating back to the second leg of the 2013 Eastern Conference Finals. Ricardo Clark salvaged a 78thminute equalizer off a corner kick from Brad Davis.

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July 21 -- Sporting KC 3, Houston Dynamo 1 (U.S. Open Cup) Ten days earlier, Sporting KC eliminated Houston from the 2015 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup with a 3-1 comeback win in the quarterfinals. Will Bruin fired the visitors ahead just before the hour mark, cleaning up a goalmouth scramble following a corner kick from Davis. However, Peter Vermes’ men staged a furious rally in the final 20 minutes. The turnaround began in the 71st minute when Benny Feilhaber received a pass from Matt Besler and found the low corner of the net with a 22-yard strike from the top of the box. Fifteen minutes later, Dom Dwyer atoned for a missed penalty kick earlier in the match by receiving an exquisite through ball from Krisztian Nemeth and tucking low past Joe Willis. Nemeth then sealed the victory two minutes from time, finishing off an incisive move that involved Dwyer and Roger Espinoza.

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April 21 -- Houston Dynamo 4, Sporting KC 4 The first #HOUvSKC meeting of 2015 was an instant classic and one of the best games of the MLS season to date. Sporting KC rallied from a two-goal deficit with three goals in the final 20 minutes for a thrilling 4-4 draw at BBVA Compass Stadium. The eight-goal game equaled the second-highest scoring MLS match in KC history, a feat not seen since 1998, and was capped off by Benny Feilhaber’s brilliant equalizer in the fifth minute of second half stoppage time. Nemeth opened the scoring in the second minute (SKC’s earliest goal this season), but Houston would tally three consecutive times through Bruin and a brace from Giles Barnes. Dwyer and Feilhaber scored in the 74th and 80th minutes to level the match before Raul Rodriguez restored Houston’s lead in the 83rd minute. That set the stage for Feilhaber’s dramatic equalizer with 95 minutes on the clock.

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Sporting KC winger Graham Zusi and Houston defender DaMarcus Beasley were teammates on the United States Men’s National Team for the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup in July. Sporting KC’s Matt Besler and Graham Zusi were teammates with Houston’s DaMarcus Beasley and Brad Davis on the United States Men’s National Team for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. Sporting KC midfielder Benny Feilhaber and Houston Dynamo forward Giles Barnes were teammates at then-English Premier League club Derby County from 2007-2008. Sporting KC midfielder Benny Feilhaber and Houston midfielder Ricardo Clark were teammates on the United States Men’s National Team for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

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Dom Dwyer has scored in each of his last six matches against the Houston Dynamo in all competitions, beginning with in the 2013 Eastern Conference Championship second leg at Sporting Park. He has since scored in four straight regular season meetings (6/6/14, 8/29/14, 4/25/15, 8/1/15) and one Open Cup matchup (7/21/15). Brad Davis has six goals and nine assists in 30 regular season appearances against Sporting KC. His 30 games played against SKC are tied for the most among all active MLS players (Justin Mapp, Montreal). Will Bruin has scored in three of his last four matches against Sporting KC in all competitions (8/29/14, 4/25/15 and 7/21/15). Graham Zusi has five assists in 15 MLS appearances against Houston (including postseason). Benny Feilhaber has two goals and four assists in nine league appearances against Houston (including postseason), including his first career MLS brace on April 25. Krisztian Nemeth has scored in two of three meetings between the clubs this season (April 25 in MLS and July 21 in Open Cup).

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SKC is one of two MLS clubs (CLB) to have two players with at least 10 league goals (Benny Feilhaber 10, Dom Dwyer 10). In addition, SKC is the only club to have three players with nine league goals (Krisztian Nemeth). Captain Matt Besler leads MLS with 185 clearances and has played in every minute of Sporting KC’s last 30 matches in all competitions. Benny Feilhaber is tied for the MLS lead with 14 assists and is one of two MLS players (Sebastian Giovinco, Toronto) to reach double digits in goals and assists in league play. Dom Dwyer’s 32 regular season goals since the start of 2014 are the most over a two-year span in Sporting KC history. Krisztian Nemeth’s 13 goals in all competitions are the second most by a Sporting KC newcomer in club history (Miklos Molnar scored 17 in 2000). Kevin Ellis is tied for the lead among MLS defenders with three goals this season (Pa-Modou Kah, Nat Borchers). Soni Mustivar leads MLS with 6.2 interceptions per 90 minutes played and boasts a 14-3-4 record as a starter in all competitions. SKC leads MLS with 12 assists from set plays, 62 chances created from set plays and 14 headed goals — this despite SKC ranking second-to-last in MLS with 126 corner kicks (4.5 per game). SKC is tied for fourth in MLS with 10 clean sheets from 28 games but has just one shutout in their last 10 matches (Sept. 9, 0-0 draw at Portland). 22 of SKC’s 39 goals allowed have come over the last 11 games (2.00 GAA). In contrast, SKC conceded 17 goals through their first 17 games (1.00 GAA).

#HOUvSKC: PLAYER CONNECTIONS

#HOUvSKC Rivalry at a Glance Sporting KC has faced Houston 19 times in all competitions since the beginning of 2011, more than any other MLS opponent (8-4-7 record). This stretch includes five postseason games — the clubs squared off from 20112013 in the MLS Cup Playoffs, with Houston prevailing in 2011 and 2012 before Sporting KC enacted revenge en route to winning MLS Cup 2013 — and two Open Cup games played in 2011 and on July 21 (Sporting KC won both contests). Peter Vermes’ men have just one loss in the last 11 meetings against the Dynamo in all competitions with a 6-1-4 record. A handful of players have made their mark in recent matches of the rivalry. Dwyer has scored in each of his last six appearances against Houston dating back to November 2013, while Bruin has netted in three of his previous four games against Sporting KC (all competitions). Barnes and Feilhaber both notched a brace in a 4-4 draw this April, with the latter also scoring against Houston in the Open Cup on July 21. Nemeth, too, has found the back of the net in two of three games against the Dynamo this campaign. Sporting KC and Houston are two of five MLS franchises to win multiple MLS Cups alongside LA Galaxy, D.C. United and the San Jose Earthquakes. Sporting KC were crowned champions in 2000 and 2013, while Houston achieved back-toback titles in 2006 and 2007.

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Graham Zusi ranks third in club history with 53 assists across all competitions, one shy of tying Chris Klein for second. Dom Dwyer has scored 43 career goals in all competitions for Sporting KC, tied with Sporting Legend Chris Klein for fourth in club history. Benny Feilhaber has recorded 19 assists in all competitions this season, breaking the club record he previously shared with Preki (2003). Feilhaber also ranks eighth in club history with 24 regular season assists, one shy of tying Mark Chung for seventh. Paulo Nagamura is one shy of his 100th career appearance for Sporting KC in all competitions. The 11th-year MLS veteran joined KC ahead of the 2012 season. Seth Sinovic is one shy of his 150th career start for Sporting KC in all competitions. He joined KC in 2011 following a trade with the New England Revolution and is the only player to start 30 regular season matches for the club in each of the three previous seasons.

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes SPORTING KANSAS CITY NEWS AND NOTES LAST TIME OUT: SPORTING KC 3-1 FC DALLAS

FEILHABER ON FIRE

Sporting KC took a major step toward the top of the Western Conference with a 3-1 victory over second place FC Dallas on Friday at Sporting Park. Benny Feilhaber scored twice and Dom Dwyer added the team’s third goal of the night to give both players 10 regular season goals in 2015, marking the first time since 1998 for the club to have two double digit goal scorers in a season.

Midfielder Benny Feilhaber is piecing together one of the best seasons in Sporting KC history, setting MLS career highs with 10 goals and 14 assists during an MVPcaliber 2015 season. In a 3-1 win over FC Dallas last Friday, he became just the third player in club history to reach double digits in goals and assists in league play, joining Josh Wolff (2005) and Preki (1996-98, 2003). Feilhaber has recorded 19 assists this season in all competitions, breaking the club record he had previously shared with Preki (2003). Earlier this year, he became just the second player in club history (Preki) to reach 10 goals and 15 assists in a single season (all competitions). Feilhaber won MLS Player of the Month for April and received MLS All-Star honors for the first time in his career when he was named to the All-Star Fan XI and competed in the 2015 AT&T MLS All-Star Game on July 29. He has bagged two MLS Goal of the Week Awards (Weeks 8 and 21) and earned Team of the Week honors on eight separate occasions from various media outlets (see page 5).

Feilhaber also becomes only the third player in club history, and first since 2005, to record at least 10 goals and 10 assists in a single season. The MLS MVP candidate has scored or assisted on 24 of the team’s 44 regular season goals this season; only Preki had previously tallied a higher total in a single season. With the win, Sporting KC improves to 13-1-4 at home in all competitions this year and sits fifth in the Western Conference standings with six games remaining in the regular season.

ON THE ROAD AGAIN

Sporting KC is amidst a daunting portion of the schedule that will see the team play eight of 10 matches away from home. The stretch began with consecutive losses to Columbus Crew SC (Aug. 22) and the Colorardo Rapids (Aug. 29). After a bye during the first weekend of September, Sporting KC embarked on a two-game road trip that began in the Pacific Northwest against the Portland Timbers (0-0 draw) on Sept. 9 and ended in the opposite corner of the country against Orlando City SC (3-1 loss) on Sept 13.

SKC players with a combined 25 goals/assists in a single season (all competitions) Year Player Goals Assists Total 1996 Preki 22 14 36 2015 Benny Feilhaber 12 19 31 2003 Preki 12 18 30 1997 Preki 13 17 30 2014 Dom Dwyer 24 1 25

Peter Vermes’ men returned home last Friday and earned a 3-1 victory over FC Dallas. Wednesday’s visit to Houston comes before a nationally televised clash with Seattle Sounders FC on Sunday at Sporting Park. Their travels then continue with another formidable road trip, beginning with the 2015 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final at the Philadelphia Union (Sept. 30) and ending with a cross-country trek to Portland three days later (Oct. 3). After the October international break, Sporting KC will visit San Jose (Oct. 16) before rounding out the 2015 regular season with home games against Colorado Rapids (Oct. 21) and LA Galaxy (Oct. 25).

SET PIECE SALVO

Sporting KC has been one of the league’s most dangerous teams in set piece situations. The club leads MLS with 12 assists from set plays, 62 chances created from set plays and 14 headed goals — three more than any other team. Benny Feilhaber is second in MLS with five set piece assists (behind Brad Davis’ six), while Kevin Ellis and Dom Dwyer are tied for third with three headed goals apiece despite both standing at five-foot-nine.

THE POWER OF THREE

2015 marks the first season in club history that Sporting KC has seen three different players reach the double-digit goal mark in all competitions. Dom Dwyer (15), Krisztian Nemeth (13) and Benny Feilhaber (12) have combined for 40 of the team’s 57 totals goals in the MLS regular season and U.S. Open Cup.

Sporting KC’s aerial prowess bodes well for the rest of the 2015 campaign. For seven consecutive MLS seasons (and eight of the last nine), the team with the most headed goals has gone on to win the Supporters’ Shield and/or MLS Cup.

ROOKIE RELEVANCE

In a 3-1 win over FC Dallas last Friday, Feilhaber and Dwyer both notched double digit goals in league play, marking the first time two Kansas City players have done so in the same season since 1998 (Mo Johnston 11, Preki 10). Nemeth, meanwhile, has enjoyed perhaps the best season from a newcomer in Sporting KC history (excluding the inaugural MLS season in 1996). The Hungarian international has 13 goals and seven assists in all competitions, making his 20 combined goals and assists the most ever by a first-year Kansas City player. Player Dom Dwyer Krisztian Nemeth Benny Feilhaber TRIO TOTALS TEAM TOTALS

MLS 10 9 10 29 44

USOC 5 4 2 11 13

Three of Sporting KC’s first round selections in the 2015 MLS SuperDraft — Connor Hallisey (No. 10) Saad Abdul-Salaam (No. 12) and Amadou Dia (No. 20) — have contributed valuably to a campaign that sees the team in contention for U.S. Open Cup and Supporters’ Shield titles. The trio has combined for 48 regular season matches played, more rookie appearances than any other MLS club in 2015. Each player has also featured in all four matches during Sporting KC’s run to the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final.

Total Goals 15 13 12 40 57

GOALS IN BUNCHES

Sporting KC is fifth in MLS with 1.57 goals scored per game and has hit four goals in four regular season games this year. Just twice previously (1996, 2010) has Kansas City reached the four-goal mark on four occasions in the same regular season. In addition, Sporting KC’s 48 MLS assists (with six games still to play) are the most in a single regular season since 2002 (49).

MIGHTY MUSTIVAR BACK IN THE FOLD

PLAYOFF MATH

After missing three straight matches with a groin strain, defensive midfielder Soni Mustivar returned to the Sporting KC lineup on Sept. 9 in a 0-0 draw at the Portland Timbers. It was a welcome addition for Peter Vermes’ side, who were 0-3-0 with 10 goals allowed during the stretch that Mustivar was sidelined through injury.

In less than five weeks, the 2015 MLS Regular Season will end and 12 teams (six from each conference) will progress to the Audi 2015 MLS Cup Playoffs. The only team to have clinched a playoff berth as of Wednesday is the New York Red Bulls.

Sporting KC is 14-3-4 in all competitions when Mustivar starts this season. The 25-year-old Haitian, who joined the club in March from Romanian club Petrolul Ploiesti, leads MLS with 6.2 interceptions per 90 minutes played while serving as a shield in front of Sporting KC’s back four.

After going five straight matches without a win, Sporting KC rebounded emphatically last Friday with a 3-1 win over FC Dallas. Peter Vermes’ side is currently in fifth place in the Western Conference with 44 points, but sits only four points back of conference leaders Vancouver Whitecaps FC. The top six teams in each conference will make the playoffs, with the top two in each conference also earning a bye in the knockout round.

“I can never forget to mention Soni, because to me he is the most important player on this team,” midfielder Benny Feilhaber said last Friday after Sporting KC’s 3-1 win over FC Dallas. “He allows everyone in front of him to do what they do. He covers our (butts) so much and he wins those second balls. He opens up the game for us.”

Entering Wednesday, the magic number for Sporting KC is 10. The maximum number of points a team currently outside the top six can reach is 53 (Real Salt Lake). If Sporting KC reaches 54 points (10 more than their current total), they’ll be guaranteed a top-six finish in the Western Conference standings.

AWAY FROM HOME

Over the last five regular seasons, Sporting KC is the only MLS club with a .500 road record (31-31-20). The club’s 24 road victories from 2012-14 were the most over a three-year span in the league’s non-shootout era (2000-present). During this fiveyear period, Sporting KC is also the only team with a positive road goal differential at plus-three (100 GF, 97 GA). Sporting KC’s road form has dipped in 2015, however, with just three wins in 14 matches (3-7-4).

Sporting KC is also in ninth place in the Supporters’ Shield standings but have the fourth highest points per game in MLS. The race for the Shield will likely come down to the last weekend of the year with the previous four winners averaging 64 points.

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes SPORTING KANSAS CITY NEWS AND NOTES (CONTINUED) BESLER AND ZUSI ON PROVISIONAL USMNT ROSTER

CUP FINAL BECKONS

CONCACAF announced on Sept. 15 that Sporting KC defender Matt Besler and midfielder Graham Zusi were named to the United States Men’s National Team’s provisional 35-player roster for CONCACAF Cup 2015 between the U.S. MNT and Mexico on Oct. 10 at the Rose Bowl. Each national team will select their final 23-player rosters by Oct. 1 from the players on their provisional roster. The winner of CONCACAF Cup 2015, featuring the past two Gold Cup champions, will determine the region’s representative at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia.

Sporting KC has advanced to the 2015 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final where they will face the Philadelphia Union next Wednesday, Sept. 30, at PPL Park in Chester, Penn. The club will play for its third Open Cup title in team history, having previously lifted the Dewar Challenge Trophy as champions of the tournament in 2004 and 2012. Peter Vermes’ men reached the 2015 final with four home wins in the earlier rounds, beginning with a 1-0 result against USL club Saint Louis FC on June 16. Two weeks later, Dom Dwyer netted a club-record four goals as Sporting KC trounced FC Dallas 6-2 in the Round of 16. Sporting KC erased deficits in the quarterfinals and semifinals, respectively, defeating the Houston Dynamo (July 21) and Real Salt Lake (Aug. 12) by identical 3-1 scorelines. Dwyer is the tournament’s current Golden Boot leader on five goals, and with that total becomes Kansas City’s all-time leading scorer in the competition. Similarly, Benny Feilhaber has surged atop the club’s all-time Open Cup assist chart with five, each of them coming in 2015.

Besler, 28, has played every minute in Sporting Kansas City’s last 30 matches across all competitions and leads all MLS players with 185 clearances in 2015. In his seventh professional season, Besler leads all current players with 212 appearances for the club across all competitions. He is a four-time MLS All-Star to go along with MLS Best XI (2012, 2013) and Defender of the Year (2012) honors. Internationally, Besler has 26 career appearances for the U.S. Men’s National Team since debuting in 2013. He helped lead the U.S. MNT to the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup title and started all four matches for the U.S. at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

Seeking their first major trophy in team history, the Philadelphia Union will host the U.S. Open Cup Final for a second straight year. Seattle Sounders FC earned a 3-1 extra time victory at PPL Park to claim the 2014 title last September.

Zusi, a fellow Designated Player and 2009 MLS SuperDraft pick, has earned MLS AllStar honors each of the last four seasons to go along with MLS Best XI (2012, 2013) and Breakout Player of the Year (2011) recognitions. The University of Maryland product sits third on Sporting KC’s all-time assists charts (43) and his 24 goals scored are 10th most in team history.

ABOUT THE OPEN CUP

Now in its 102nd edition, the 2015 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup was headlined by the largest field in the modern era (1995-present) with 89 teams in contention when the first round began in May. The 2015 champion will win $250,000 in prize money, while the runner-up receives $60,000. The tournament winner qualifies for the group stage of the 2016-17 CONCACAF Champions League. The Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup has been held annually since 1914 and is open to all amateur/professional soccer teams affiliated with U.S. Soccer. It is the oldest ongoing national soccer competition in the U.S. and the world’s third-longest continuously running open soccer tournament. Sporting KC first won the championship in 2004 with a 1-0 win over the Chicago Fire at Arrowhead Stadium. Eight years later, the club lifted its second Open Cup title with a penalty kick shootout triumph over Seattle Sounders FC at Sporting Park.

The 29-year-old has 32 international caps for the United States with three goals and six assists, including two assists at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, since his debut in 2012. This summer, Zusi made three appearances at the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

OPARA OFF DISABLED LIST

Major League Soccer’s Roster Freeze Deadline was enforced on Sept. 15, at which time clubs submitted their final roster for the remainder of the 2015 season. Sporting KC defender Ike Opara was officially removed from the Disabled List and will be eligible for selection upon his recovery from a ruptured Achilles.

PETER THE GREAT

2015 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Bracket

Seventh-year head coach Peter Vermes has stamped his name in the Sporting KC and MLS history books this season. The 48-year-old began the 2015 campaign with 76 regular season coaching wins, good for 14th most in MLS history. More than six months later, Vermes has climbed to eighth all-time with 88 regular season victories—fifth among active coaches behind Sigi Schmid (221), Bruce Arena (189), Dominic Kinnear (150) and Jason Kreis (99).

Round of 16 June 30/July 1

Quarterfinals July 14-22

Semifinals August 12

Final

September 30

New York Red Bulls 4 New York 1 (3)

New York Cosmos 1

In addition, 2015 has seen Vermes become Kansas City’s winningest coach ever. When Sporting KC beat Real Salt Lake 3-1 in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup semifinals on Aug. 12, Vermes earned his 109th coaching win for the club in all competitions to pass his former coach Bob Gansler atop the club’s all-time chart. Three days later, Sporting KC pulled off a 4-3 comeback win to give Vermes his 87th regular season triumph, also passing Gansler for sole possession of first place in team history.

Philadelphia Union 2

July 21 Harrison, NJ

Phila. Union 1

Phila. Union 1 (4)

D.C. United 1

Aug. 12

The second-longest tenured manager in team history behind Gansler (1999-2006), Vermes assumed head coaching duties in August 2009 and has since compiled a 111-76-58 record in all competitions. He led Sporting KC to the 2012 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup championship and in 2013 became the first person to win MLS Cup as both a player and coach with the same team.

Philadelphia Union

Chester, PA

Chicago Fire 3 Chicago Fire 3 Charlotte Independence 1

Orlando City SC 2

July 22 Bridgeview, IL

Chicago Fire 0

Orlando City SC 1

Gansler coached Vermes as manager of the United States Men’s National at the 1990 FIFA World Cup and later in Kansas City when the club achieved the Supporters’ Shield and MLS Cup double in 2000.

Columbus Crew SC 0

FINAL: Sept. 30 PPL Park Chester, PA

Sporting Kansas City 6 Sporting KC 3

FC Dallas 2 Houston Dynamo 1 Colorado Rapids 0

July 21 Kansas City, KS

Sporting KC 3

Houston Dynamo 1 Aug. 12

Kansas City, KS

Real Salt Lake 2 Real Salt Lake 1

Portland Timbers 0 San Jose Earthquakes 0

July 14 Sandy, UT

LA Galaxy 0

LA Galaxy 1

Real Salt Lake 1

Sporting KC

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes SPORTING KANSAS CITY NEWS AND NOTES (CONTINUED) 2015 SPORTING KC POWER RANKINGS MLSsoccer.com Week 1 (3/9) 7th Week 2 (3/16) 14th Week 3 (3/23) 12th Week 4 (3/30) 7th Week 5 (4/6) 8th Week 6 (4/13) 8th Week 7 (4/20) 10th Week 8 (4/27) 9th Week 9 (5/4) 9th Week 10 (5/11) 9th Week 11 (5/18) 7th Week 12 (5/25) 3rd Week 13 (6/1) 2nd Week 14 (6/8) 2nd Week 15 (6/15) 2nd Week 16 (6/22) 4th Week 17 (6/29) 3rd Week 18 (7/6) 2nd Week 19 (7/13) 1st Week 20 (7/20) 1st Week 21 (7/27) 2nd Week 22 (8/3) 4th Week 23 (8/10) 4th Week 24 (8/17) 2nd Week 25 (8/24) 4th Week 26 (8/31) 6th Week 27 (9/7) 5th Week 28 (9/14) 8th N/A Week 29 (9/21)

ESPNFC.com 6th 13th 15th 12th 7th 5th 10th 9th 8th 8th 8th 6th 3rd 2nd 2nd 2nd 1st 1st 1st 2nd 2nd 2nd 2nd 1st 4th 7th 7th 10th 8th

2015 SPORTING KC MEDIA RECOGNITIONS SI.com 15th 17th 16th 15th 12th 11th 12th 13th 11th 11th 11th 9th 6th 2nd 7th 5th 3rd 1st 1st 1st 3rd 5th 4th 2nd 8th 11th 12th 13th 12th

Bleacher Report N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 13th 10th 9th 9th 9th 3rd 2nd 2nd 1st 3rd 3rd 3rd 1st 1st 3rd 3rd 2nd 1st 4th 5th 5th 8th N/A

SAADABDUL-SALAAM Team of the Week

Week 19 (7/13) Week 25 (8/25)

Bleacher Report Bleacher Report

JALIL ANIBABA Week 5 (4/6) Week 6 (4/13) Week 9 (5/4)

Team of the Week Goal.com Goal.com Bleacher Report

MATT BESLER Week 9 (5/4) Week 14 (6/8)

Team of the Week Goal.com NBC Pro Soccer Talk ESPNFC NBC Pro Soccer Talk SI.com

MARCEL DE JONG Team of the Week Week 3 (3/23) Bleacher Report Goal.com MLSsoccer.com AMADOU DIA Week 12 (5/25) Week 14 (6/8)

Team of the Week MLSsoccer.com Bleacher Report

DOM DWYER Week 5 (4/6)

Team of the Week Goal.com

DOM DWYER Week 12 (5/25)

Goal of the Week MLSsoccer.com

KEVIN ELLIS Week 13 (6/1) Week 17 (6/29) Week 23 (8/10)

Team of the Week Bleacher Report MLSsoccer.com NBC Pro Soccer Talk SI.com NBC Pro Soccer Talk Bleacher Report MLSsoccer.com

ROGER ESPINOZA Team of the Week Bleacher Report Week 2 (3/16) Week 3 (3/23) NBC Pro Soccer Talk Week 5 (4/6) Goal.com SI.com BENNY FEILHABER Team of the Week Week 1 (3/9) NBC Pro Soccer Talk Goal.com Week 4 (3/30) MLSsoccer.com NBC Pro Soccer Talk Week 6 (4/13) Bleacher Report Week 8 (4/27) Goal.com MLSsoccer.com NBC Pro Soccer Talk SI.com Week 9 (5/4) MLSsoccer.com NBC Pro Soccer Talk Week 12 (5/25) MLSsoccer.com Bleacher Report Week 20 (7/20) SI.com Week 23 (8/10) Bleacher Report Goal.com MLSsoccer.com SI.com Week 29 (9/21) Bleacher Report MLSsoccer.com SI.com BENNY FEILHABER Goal of the Week Week 8 (4/27) MLSsoccer.com Week 21 (7/27) MLSsoccer.com BENNY FEILHABER Player of the Month April MLSsoccer.com

TIM MELIA Week 9 (5/4) Week 14 (6/8) Week 19 (7/13) Week 22 (8/3) Week 28 (9/14)

Team of the Week MLSsoccer.com SI.com Bleacher Report ESPNFC MLSsoccer.com NBC Pro Soccer Talk SI.com Bleacher Report MLSsoccer.com SI.com MLSsoccer.com Goal.com MLSsoccer.com SI.com

SONI MUSTIVAR Team of the Week Week 19 (7/13) MLSsoccer.com CHANCE MYERS Team of the Week Week 17 (6/29) Bleacher Report MLSsoccer.com PAULO NAGAMURA Team of the Week Week 24 (8/17) Bleacher Report MLSsoccer.com SI.com PAULO NAGAMURA Player of the Week Week 24 (8/17) MLSsoccer.com Soccer By Ives KRISZTIAN NEMETH Team of the Week Week 12 (5/25) Bleacher Report Goal.com MLSsoccer.com SI.com ESPNFC Week 13 (6/1) MLSsoccer.com NBC Pro Soccer Talk SI.com KRISZTIAN NEMETH Goal of the Week Week 28 (9/14) MLSsoccer.com KRISZTIAN NEMETH Player of the Month May MLSsoccer.com IKE OPARA Week 1 (3/9) Week 3 (3/23) Week 4 (3/30) Week 6 (4/13)

Team of the Week Bleacher Report Goal.com MLSsoccer.com NBC Pro Soccer Talk Soccer By Ives MLSsoccer.com SI.com Bleacher Report Goal.com MLSsoccer.com NBC Pro Soccer Talk SI.com Goal.com

IKE OPARA March

Player of the Month Soccer By Ives MLSsoccer.com (finalist)

GRAHAM ZUSI Week 13 (6/1)

Team of the Week MLSsoccer.com

Sporting KC Game Notes | May 29, 2015 vs. FC Dallas | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes ALL-TIME MLS RESULTS

All-Time Regular Season SERIES LEADERS

Sporting KC regular season record vs. Houston Dynamo: 5-7-9 Home games: 2-4-4 (12 GF, 13 GA) Road games: 3-3-5 (14 GF, 16 GA) Date Score Result Location 04/08/2006 KC 2 at HOU 1 W Robertson Stadium 07/15/2006 KC 2 vs HOU 3 L Arrowhead Stadium 06/24/2007 KC 0 vs HOU 1 L Arrowhead Stadium 09/01/2007 KC 1 at HOU 1 T Robertson Stadium 04/12/2008 KC 0 vs HOU 0 T CommunityAmerica Ballpark 09/07/2008 KC 1 at HOU 3 L Robertson Stadium 07/04/2009 KC 0 vs HOU 1 L CommunityAmerica Ballpark 10/04/2009 KC 1 at HOU 1 T Robertson Stadium 05/01/2010 KC 0 at HOU 3 L Robertson Stadium 09/22/2010 KC 4 vs HOU 3 W CommunityAmerica Ballpark 07/16/2011 KC 1 at HOU 1 T Robertson Stadium 09/10/2011 KC 3 vs HOU 0 W Sporting Park 07/07/2012 KC 0 vs HOU 0 T Sporting Park 07/18/2012 KC 1 at HOU 2 L BBVA Compass Stadium 09/14/2012 KC 1 vs HOU 1 T Sporting Park 05/12/2013 KC 1 at HOU 0 W BBVA Compass Stadium 05/26/2013 KC 1 vs HOU 1 T Sporting Park 10/09/2013 KC 0 at HOU 0 T BBVA Compass Stadium 06/06/2014 KC 2 at HOU 0 W BBVA Compass Stadium 08/29/2014 KC 1 vs HOU 3 L Sporting Park 04/25/2015 KC 4 at HOU 4 T BBVA Compass Stadium 08/01/2015 KC 1 vs HOU 1 T Sporting Park

SPORTING KANSAS CITY

31-45 4 5

46-60 2 4

61-75 8 6

76-90 9 6

OT 0 0

Goals Assists Shots Shots on Goal Fouls Committed Fouls Suffered

Brad Davis 5 Brad Davis 8 Brad Davis 34 Brad Davis 14 Brad Davis 21 Brad Davis 37

3 Jimmy Nielsen 3 Kevin Hartman 4 Jimmy Nielsen 23 Kevin Hartman 11 Jimmy Nielsen

Wins Losses Shutouts Saves Goals alloweD

Pat Onstad 4 Hall/Onstad 2 Pat Onstad 3 Tally Hall 31 Pat Onstad 10

SPORTING KANSAS CITY 2 Bunbury/Feilhaber 2 Harrington/Zusi 10 C.J. Sapong (9/14/12) 4 Johnson/Sapong 6 Hirsig/Dia 5 three players tied

Goals Assists Shots Shots on Goal Fouls Committed Fouls Suffered

7 Kevin Hartman (9/7/08) 4 Luis Marin (4/25/15)

SAVES GOALS ALLOWED

Category Goals Shots Shots on Goal Fouls Offsides Corner Kicks

Total 27 30

(twice) Tally Hall 7

Onstad/Deric 4

1 8 117 42 141 16 59

2 19 155 53 156 22 64

OT 0 0 0 0 0 0

Total 27 272 95 297 38 123

houston dynamo

SPORTING PARK BY THE NUMBERS

19,401

CONSECUTIVE MLS SELLOUTS Dating back to April 2012 (including postseason)

ALL-TIME AVERAGE MLS ATTENDANCE 88 MLS matches since 2011 (including postseason)

SPORTING KC MATCHES PLAYED 82 MLS regular season, 6 MLS postseason, 14 Open Cup, 5 CCL, 5 friendlies

PERCENT CAPACITY IN MLS MATCHES 88 MLS matches since 2011 Seating capacity: 18,467

112

three players tied 2 four players tied 2 (4/8/06) Brian Ching 8 five players tied 3 seven players tied 4 (5/12/13) Ricardo Clark 6

SPORTING KANSAS CITY

Category Goals Shots Shots on Goal Fouls Offsides Corner Kicks

houston dynamo

All-Time Regular Season SERIES STATS

GOALS SCORED IN SERIES BY INTERVAL 16-30 1 6

4 Dom Dwyer 4 Graham Zusi 32 Kei Kamara 13 Kei Kamara 16 Aurelien Collin 18 Graham Zusi

All-Time Regular Season GAME HIGHS

Sporting KC postseason record vs. Houston Dynamo: 2-3-1 Home games: 2-1-0 (3 GF, 3 GA) Road games: 0-2-1 (0 GF, 4 GA) Date Score Result Location L Robertson Stadium 11/10/2007 KC 0 at HOU 2 11/06/2011 KC 0 vs HOU 2 L Sporting Park 11/04/2012 KC 0 at HOU 2 L BBVA Compass Stadium 11/07/2012 KC 1 vs HOU 0 W Sporting Park 11/09/2013 KC 0 at HOU 0 T BBVA Compass Stadium 11/23/2013 KC 2 vs HOU 1 W Sporting Park

1-15 KC 3 HOU 3

houston dynamo

105.1 6

1 14 105 43 139 41 63

2 16 121 45 129 32 54

OT 0 0 0 0 0 0

Total 30 226 88 268 73 117

SPORTING KC MATCHES WON not including penalty shootout wins in 2012 U.S. Open Cup and 2013 MLS Cup finals

182

SPORTING KC GOALS SCORED in 112 matches played at the stadium

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes SPORTING KANSAS CITY TRANSACTION TRACKER Players In

Players Out

Bernardo Anor (trade - 12/8/14)

Antonio Dovale (option declined - 11/25/14)

Jalil Anibaba (trade - 12/12/14)

Christian Duke (option declined - 11/25/14)

Luis Marin (signing - 12/18/14)

Andy Gruenebaum (option declined - 11/25/14)

Krisztian Nemeth (signing - 12/18/14)

Michael Kafari (option declined - 11/25/14)

Tim Melia (signing - 12/23/14)

Eric Kronberg (option declined - 11/25/14)

Roger Espinoza (signing - 1/6/15)

Victor Munoz (option declined - 11/25/14)

Connor Hallisey (SuperDraft - 1/15/15)

Sal Zizzo (option declined - 11/25/14)

Saad Abdul-Salaam (SuperDraft - 1/15/15)

Lawrence Olum (out of contract - 11/25/14)

Servando Carrasco (trade - 1/27/15)

Martin Steuble (out of contract - 11/25/14)

Soni Mustivar (signing - 2/13/15)

Aurelien Collin (trade - 12/8/14)

Amadou Dia (SuperDraft - 2/18/15)

C.J. Sapong (trade - 12/8/14)

James Ansu Rogers (SuperDraft - 2/25/15)

Soony Saad (out of contract - 1/1/15)

Marcel de Jong (signing - 3/2/15)

Igor Juliao (loan ends - 1/1/15)

Amobi Okugo (trade - 7/20/2015)

Claudio Bieler (out of contract - 1/20/15)

Jordi Quintilla (signing - 8/6/2015)

Jorge Claros (waived - 2/24/15) Luis Marin (contract terminated - 5/27/15) James Ansu Rogers (waived - 6/22/15) Servando Carrasco (trade - 7/20/15)

SPORTING KANSAS CITY TRANSACTION TIMELINE DATE IN/OUT DETAILS Nov. 25: Dec. 8: Dec. 8: Dec. 12: Dec. 18: Dec. 23: Jan. 1: Jan. 6: Jan. 15: Jan. 15: Jan. 20: Jan. 20: Jan. 27: Feb. 13: Feb. 18: Feb. 24: Feb. 25: March 2: March 24: April 1: May 19: May 27: May 27: June 22: July 20: Aug. 6:

OUT IN OUT IN IN IN OUT IN IN OUT IN IN IN IN OUT IN IN LOAN (out) LOAN (out) LOAN (in) OUT IN OUT IN/OUT IN

Sporting KC declines contract options for M Christian Duke, M Antonio Dovale, GK Andy Gruenebaum, M Michael Kafari, GK Eric Kronberg, M Victor Munoz and F Sal Zizzo; M Lawrence Olum and M Martin Steuble leave club out of contract Sporting KC acquires M Bernardo Anor from Columbus Crew SC Sporting KC trades D Aurelien Collin to Orlando City SC; trades F C.J. Sapong to Philadelphia Union Sporting KC signs D Jalil Anibaba after acquiring his rights from Orlando City SC (2014 MLS Expansion Draft) Sporting KC signs GK Luis Marin and F Krisztian Nemeth Sporting KC signs GK Tim Melia F Soony Saad leaves club out of contract; D Igor Juliao leaves club as loan expires Sporting KC signs M Roger Espinoza Sporting KC selects M Connor Hallisey (10th overall), D Saad Abdul-Salaam (12th overall) and D Amadou Dia (20th overall) in the first round of the 2015 MLS SuperDraft. Hallisey and Abdul-Salaam signed with MLS prior to the draft and were automatically added to Sporting KCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roster. Sporting KC signs F Jacob Peterson to new contract F Claudio Bieler leaves club out of contract Sporting KC selects M James Ansu Rogers (53rd overall) and D Tony Rocha (73rd overall) in the third and fourth rounds of the 2015 MLS SuperDraft Sporting KC signs D Kevin Ellis to new contract; signs M Servando Carrasco after acquiring his rights from Houston Dynamo Sporting KC signs M Soni Mustivar Sporting KC signs D Amadou Dia, the 20th overall pick (first round) in the 2015 MLS SuperDraft Sporting KC waives M Jorge Claros Sporting KC signs F James Ansu Rogers, the 53rd overall pick (third round) in the 2015 MLS SuperDraft Sporting KC signs D Marcel de Jong Sporting KC loans M Mikey Lopez to OKC Energy FC (USL) Sporting KC loans D Saad Abdul-Salaam to San Antonio Scorpions (NASL) Sporting KC recalls D Saad Abdul-Salaam from San Antonio Scorpions (NASL) Sporting KC and GK Luis Marin mutually agree to terminate contract Sporting KC recalls GK Jon Kempin from San Antonio Scorpions (NASL) Sporting KC waives F James Ansu Rogers Sporting KC acquires D/M Amobi Okugo from Orlando City SC in trade for Servando Carrasco Sporting KC signs M Jordi Quintilla

CONSTRUCTING SPORTING KANSAS CITY Year

MLS SuperDraft

2008

Chance Myers (1st)

2009

Matt Besler (8th) Graham Zusi (23rd)

Signings

Trades

Homegrown Players

2010

Jon Kempin (8/31/10)

2011

Seth Sinovic (5/10/11)

2012

Dom Dwyer (16th)

Jacob Peterson (1/19/12)

Paulo Nagamura (11/29/11)

2013

Mikey Lopez (14th)

Jimmy Medranda (8/9/13)

Benny Feilhaber (12/11/12) Ike Opara (12/12/12)

2015

Connor Hallisey (10th) Saad Abdul-Salaam (12th) Amadou Dia (20th)

Krisztian Nemeth (12/18/14) Tim Melia (12/23/14) Roger Espinoza (1/6/15) Soni Mustivar (2/16/15) Marcel de Jong (3/2/15) Jordi Quintilla (8/6/15)

Bernardo Anor (12/8/14) Jalil Anibaba (12/12/14) Amobi Okugo (7/20/15)

Kevin Ellis (2/18/11)

Erik Palmer-Brown (8/2/13)

MLS Lottery Draft

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes SPORTING KANSAS CITY 2015 SCHEDULE AND RESULTS DATE

OPPONENT

COMPETITION

TIME/RESULT TV/SCORERS

ATTENDANCE

SUNDAY, MARCH 8

NEW YORK RED BULLS

MLS

T 1-1

Opara 50 19,784

Saturday, March 14

at FC Dallas

MLS

L 1-3

Espinoza 44

14,149

SATURDAY, MARCH 21

PORTLAND TIMBERS

MLS

T 0-0

---

20,848

27,454

Saturday, March 28

at New York City FC

MLS

W 1-0

Opara 12

SUNDAY, APRIL 5

PHILADELPHIA UNION

MLS

W 3-2

Dwyer 16; Anibaba 91+; Nemeth 94+

19,545

SATURDAY, APRIL 11

REAL SALT LAKE

MLS

T 0-0

---

20,087

Saturday, April 18

at LA Galaxy

MLS

L 1-2

Nemeth 22

20,018

Saturday, April 25

at Houston Dynamo

MLS

T 4-4

Nemeth 2; Dwyer 74; Feilhaber 80, 95+

21,046

SUNDAY, MAY 3

CHICAGO FIRE

MLS

W 1-0

Nagamura 75

19,581

Saturday, May 9

at D.C. United

MLS

T 1-1

Dwyer 45

16,221

WEDNESDAY, MAY 20

NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION

MLS

W 4-2

Dwyer 29; Nemeth 39, 46; Feilhaber 43

18,864

Saturday, May 23

at Seattle Sounders FC

MLS

T 0-0

--- 40,653

FRIDAY, MAY 29

FC DALLAS

MLS

W 4-0

Nemeth 19; Feilhaber 51; Ellis 57; Zusi 64

20,172

SATURDAY, JUNE 6

SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC

MLS

W 1-0

Feilhaber 84

21,505

TUESDAY, JUNE 16

ST. LOUIS FC

U.S. Open Cup (4th Round)

W 1-0

Zusi 70

19,298

Sunday, June 21

at Real Salt Lake

MLS

L 1-2

Dwyer 30

19,155

SATURDAY, JUNE 27

COLORADO RAPIDS

MLS

W 2-0

Nemeth 32; own goal 64

19,835

WEDNESDAY, JULY 1

FC DALLAS

U.S. Open Cup (5th Round)

W 6-2

Dwyer 5, 30, 41, 69; Nemeth 46+, 59

19,113

Sunday, July 12

at Vancouver Whitecaps

MLS

W 1-0

Ellis 52

21,000

SATURDAY, JULY 18

MONTREAL IMPACT

MLS

W 2-1

Feilhaber 4; Dwyer 34

19,070

TUESDAY, JULY 21

HOUSTON DYNAMO

U.S. Open Cup (Quarterfinals) W 3-1

Feilhaber 71; Dwyer 86; Nemeth 88

17,589

Friday, July 24

at Real Salt Lake

MLS

L 1-2

Feilhaber 50

20,809

SATURDAY, AUG. 1

HOUSTON DYNAMO

MLS

T 1-1

Dwyer 6

19,882

Saturday, Aug. 8

at Toronto FC

MLS

W 3-1

Feilhaber 22; Nemeth 29; Peterson 87

24,326

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 12

REAL SALT LAKE

U.S. Open Cup (Semifinals)

W 3-1

Mustivar 35; Feilhaber 80; Nemeth 85

16,117

SATURDAY, AUG. 15

VANCOUVER WHITECAPS

MLS

W 4-3

Ellis 53; Dwyer 81; Nagamura 87, 94+

19,969

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 19

SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES

MLS

L 0-5

---

18,866

Saturday, Aug. 22

at Columbus Crew SC

MLS

L 2-3

de Jong 14; Zusi 62

20,018

Saturday, Aug. 29

at Colorado Rapids

MLS

L 1-2

Dwyer 47

16,430

Wednesday, Sept. 9

at Portland Timbers

MLS

T 0-0

21,144 ---

Sunday, Sept. 13

at Orlando City SC

MLS

L 1-3

Nemeth 59

22,241

FRIDAY, SEPT. 18

FC DALLAS

MLS

W 3-1

Feilhaber 65, 76; Dwyer 83

18,861

Wednesday, Sept. 23

at Houston Dynamo

MLS

7:30

KMCI, SKCTV

SUNDAY, SEPT. 27

SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC

MLS

4:00

ESPN

Wednesday, Sept. 30

at Philadelphia Union

U.S. Open Cup (Final)

6:00 TBD

Saturday, Oct. 3

at Portland Timbers

MLS

9:30

KMCI, SKCTV

Friday, Oct. 16

at San Jose Earthquakes

MLS

10:00

KMCI, SKCTV

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 21

COLORADO RAPIDS

MLS

7:30

KMCI, SKCTV

SUNDAY, OCT. 25

LA GALAXY

MLS

6:00

TBD

Wed/Thu, Oct. 28/29

Conference Knockout Round

MLS Cup Playoffs

Sat/Sun, Oct. 31/Nov. 1

Conference Semifinals (Leg 1)

MLS Cup Playoffs

Sat/Sun, Nov. 7/8

Conference Semifinals (Leg 2)

MLS Cup Playoffs

Sat/Sun, Nov. 21/22

Conference Championship (Leg 1) MLS Cup Playoffs

Sat/Sun, Nov. 28/29

Conference Championship (Leg 2) MLS Cup Playoffs

Sat/Sun, Dec. 5/6

MLS Cup Final

MLS Cup Playoffs 8

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes SPORTING KANSAS CITY 2015 BOX SCORES March 8, 2015: Sporting KC 1-1 New York Red Bulls MLS Regular Season | Sporting Park | Kansas City, KS Attendance: 19,784 (54th straight sellout) Weather: 70 degrees and sunny Sporting KC (0-0-1, 1 pt) New York Red Bulls (0-0-1, 1 pt)

1 2 0 1 0 1

F 1 1

Sporting KC: Luis Marin; Seth Sinovic, Matt Besler (c), Ike Opara, Amadou Dia; Roger Espinoza, Benny Feilhaber, Krisztian Nemeth (Jacob Peterson 77); Bernardo Anor (Paulo Nagamura 61), Dom Dwyer, Graham Zusi (Erik Palmer-Brown 85) Subs not used: Tim Melia, Connor Hallisey, Jalil Anibaba, Jimmy Medranda New York Red Bulls: Luis Robles; Damien Perrinelle, Ronald Zubar (Matt Miazga 77), Roy Miller, Chris Duvall; Sacha Kljestan, Felipe (Anatole Bertrand Abang 84), Lloyd Sam, Dax McCarty (c), Mike Grella (Sal Zizzo 68); Bradley Wright-Phillips Subs not used: Kyle Reynish, Sean Davis, Leo Stolz, Dane Richards SKC NYR Stats Summary Shots (on goal) 18 (4) 14 (4) Saves 3 3 Fouls 10 17 Offside 0 5 Corner Kicks 6 9 Misconduct Summary: SKC -- Matt Besler (caution; reckless tackle) 30 SKC -- Matt Besler (caution; tactical foul) 70 SKC -- Matt Besler (ejection; second caution) 70 NYR -- Bradley Wright-Phillips (caution; tactical foul) 80 NYR -- Sacha Kljestan (caution; reckless tackle) 86 Scoring Summary: SKC -- Ike Opara 1 (Benny Feilhaber 1) 50 NYR -- Lloyd Sam 1 (Felipe 1) 54

March 28, 2015: New York City FC 0-1 Sporting KC MLS Regular Season | Yankee Stadium | Bronx, NY Attendance: 27,454 Weather: 36 degrees and cloudy Sporting KC (1-1-2, 5 pts) New York City FC (1-1-2, 5 pts)

1 2 1 0 0 0

F 1 0

March 14, 2015: FC Dallas 3-1 Sporting KC MLS Regular Season | Toyota Stadium | Frisco, TX Attendance: 14,149 Weather: 57 degrees and cloudy 1 2 1 0 1 2

Sporting KC (0-1-1, 1 pt) FC Dallas (2-0-0, 6 pts)

F 1 3

Sporting KC: Luis Marin; Amadou Dia, Kevin Ellis, Ike Opara, Marcel de Jong; Paulo Nagamura, Benny Feilhaber, Roger Espinoza; Graham Zusi (c) (Jacob Peterson 88), Dom Dwyer, Krisztian Nemeth (Bernardo Anor 76) Subs not used: Tim Melia, Seth Sinovic, Jalil Anibaba, Soni Mustivar, Jimmy Medranda FC Dallas: Chris Seitz; Atiba Harris, Matt Hedges (c), Moises Hernandez, Zach Loyd; Fabian Castillo (Kyle Bekker 89), Mauro Diaz (Ryan Hollingshead 69), Michel, Tesho Akindele (Michael Barrios 76), Victor Ulloa; Blas Perez Subs not used: Dan Kennedy, Walker Zimmerman, David Texeira, Kellyn Acosta Stats Summary SKC FCD Shots (on goal) 11 (4) 11 (5) Saves 2 3 Fouls 16 12 Offside 2 2 Corner Kicks 6 5 Misconduct Summary: FCD -- Atiba Harris (caution; reckless foul) 35 SKC -- Graham Zusi (caution; dissent) 41 FCD -- Kyle Bekker (caution; unsporting behavior) 90 SKC -- Kevin Ellis (caution; unsporting behavior) 90 Scoring Summary: FCD -- Blas Perez 2 (Tesho Akindele 1, Fabian Castillo 1) 17 SKC -- Roger Espinoza 1 (Benny Feilhaber 2) 44 FCD -- Blas Perez 3 (Michel 1) 52 FCD -- Fabian Castillo 1 (Ryan Hollingshead 1, Michel 2) 73

April 5, 2015: Sporting KC 3-2 Philadelphia Union MLS Regular Season | Sporting Park | Kansas City, KS Attendance: 19,545 (56th straight sellout) Weather: 61 degrees and cloudy 1 2 Sporting KC (2-1-2, 8 pts) 1 2 Philadelphia Union (0-3-2, 2 pts) 2 0

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Sporting KC: Luis Marin; Seth Sinovic, Matt Besler (c), Ike Opara, Jalil Anibaba; Servando Carrasco, Benny Feilhaber, Paulo Nagamura (Soni Mustivar 78); Graham Zusi (Bernardo Anor 39), Dom Dwyer, Jimmy Medranda (Jacob Peterson 67) Subs not used: Tim Melia, Kevin Ellis, Amadou Dia, Connor Hallisey

Sporting KC: Luis Marin; Jalil Anibaba, Ike Opara, Matt Besler (c), Marcel de Jong (Seth Sinovic 46); Servando Carrasco (Soni Mustivar 77), Roger Espinoza, Benny Feilhaber; Jacob Peterson, Dom Dwyer, Jimmy Medranda (Krisztian Nemeth 64) Subs not used: Tim Melia, Kevin Ellis, Paulo Nagamura, Bernardo Anor

New York City FC: Josh Saunders; Jeb Brovsky, Kwame Watson-Siriboe, Jason Hernandez, Chris Wingert; Ned Grabavoy, Andrew Jacobson (Thomas McNamara 84), Mix Diskerud (c), Mehdi Ballouchy (Kwadwo Poku 75); Patrick Mullins, Javier Calle (Tony Taylor 59) Subs not used: Ryan Meara, Andres Mendoza, Pablo Alvarez, Matthew Dunn

Philadelphia Union: Rais Mbolhi; Fabinho (Raymond Lee 78), Steven Vitoria, Maurice Edu (c), Raymon Gaddis; Andrew Wenger, Brian Carroll, Michael Lahoud, Eric Ayuk (C.J. Sapong 72); Sebastien Le Toux, Fernando Aristeguieta Subs not used: Ryan Meara, Andres Mendoza, Pablo Alvarez, Matthew Dunn

Stats Summary SKC NYC Shots (on goal) 9 (2) 12 (3) Saves 3 1 Fouls 11 16 Offside 2 1 Corner Kicks 2 3 Misconduct Summary: SKC -- Paulo Nagamura (caution; reckless tackle) 68 NYC -- Mix Diskerud (caution; tactical foul) 73 NYC -- Kwame Watson-Siriboe (caution; reckless tackle) 86 Scoring Summary: SKC -- Ike Opara 2 (Matt Besler 1) 12

Stats Summary SKC PHI Shots (on goal) 14 (6) 10 (5) Saves 4 2 Fouls 11 11 Offside 2 3 Corner Kicks 8 3 Misconduct Summary: SKC -- Marcel de Jong (caution; reckless tackle) 18 PHI -- Maurice Edu (caution; tactical foul) 62 PHI -- Brian Carroll (caution; reckless foul) 68 Scoring Summary: PHI -- Own Goal (Jacob Peterson) 3 SKC -- Dom Dwyer 1 (Benny Feilhaber 3) 16 PHI -- Fernando Aristeguieta 3 (Sebastien Le Toux 1) 19 SKC -- Jalil Anibaba 1 (Roger Espinoza 1) 91+ SKC -- Krisztian Nemeth 1 (M. Besler 2, B. Feilhaber 4) 94+

March 21, 2015: Sporting KC 0-0 Portland Timbers MLS Regular Season | Sporting Park | Kansas City, KS Attendance: 20,848 (55th straight sellout) Weather: 68 degrees and partly cloudy Sporting KC (0-1-2, 2 pts) Portland Timbers (0-0-3, 3 pts)

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Sporting KC: Luis Marin; Jalil Anibaba, Ike Opara, Matt Besler (c), Marcel de Jong; Benny Feilhaber (Servando Carrasco 84), Paulo Nagamura, Roger Espinoza (Soni Mustivar 93+); Graham Zusi, Dom Dwyer, Jimmy Medranda (Bernardo Anor 56) Subs not used: Tim Melia, Amadou Dia, Seth Sinovic, Jacob Peterson Portland Timbers: Adam Kwarasey; Alvas Powell, Nat Borchers, Liam Ridgewell (c), Jorge Villafana; Diego Chara, Jack Jewsbury, Dairon Asprilla (Gaston Fernandez 76), Darlington Nagbe, Rodney Wallace (Jeanderson 92+); Fanendo Adi (Maximiliano Urruti 76) Subs not used: Andrew Weber, Norberto Paparatto, Taylor Peay, George Fochive Stats Summary SKC POR Shots (on goal) 16 (2) 7 (3) Saves 3 2 Fouls 13 11 Offside 0 4 Corner Kicks 6 4 Misconduct Summary: POR -- Diego Chara (caution; reckless foul) 72 SKC -- Benny Feilhaber (caution; reckless foul) 82 Scoring Summary: None

April 11, 2015: Sporting KC 0-0 Real Salt Lake MLS Regular Season | Sporting Park | Kansas City, KS Attendance: 20,087 (57th straight sell out) Weather: 68 degrees and partly cloudy Sporting KC (2-1-3, 9 pts) Real Salt Lake (2-0-3, 9 pts)

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Sporting KC: Luis Marin; Marcel de Jong, Matt Besler (c), Ike Opara (Kevin Ellis 84), Jalil Anibaba; Roger Espinoza, Servando Carrasco, Benny Feilhaber; Krisztian Nemeth, Dom Dwyer, Jacob Peterson (Bernardo Anor 77) Subs not used: Tim Melia, Soni Mustivar, Amadou Dia, Jimmy Medranda, Paulo Nagamura Real Salt Lake: Nick Rimando; Jamison Olave, Elias Vasquez, Tony Beltran, Kenny Mansally; Luke Mulholland (John Stertzer 92+), Kyle Beckerman (c), Javier Morales; Luis Gil (Jordan Allen 65), Alvaro Saborio, Olmes Garcia (Demar Phillips 88) Subs not used: Jeff Attinella, Aaron Maund, Sebastian Saucedo, Devon Sandoval Stats Summary SKC RSL Shots (on goal) 12 (1) 4 (0) Saves 0 1 Fouls 11 11 Offside 2 5 Corner Kicks 7 2 Misconduct Summary: RSL -- Tony Beltran (caution; reckless tackle) 44 RSL -- Alvaro Saborio (caution; unsporting behavior) 61 SKC -- Servando Carrasco (caution; unsporting behavior) 61 RSL -- Kyle Beckerman (caution; dissent) 64 RSL -- Kenny Mansally (caution; delaying a restart) 80 Scoring Summary: None

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes SPORTING KANSAS CITY 2015 BOX SCORES (CONTINUED) April 18, 2015: LA Galaxy 2-1 Sporting KC MLS Regular Season | StubHub Center | Carson, CA Attendance: 20,018 Weather: 64 degrees and clear Sporting KC (2-2-3, 9 pts) LA Galaxy (3-2-2, 11 pts)

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Sporting KC: Luis Marin; Marcel de Jong (Amadou Dia 75), Matt Besler (c), Kevin Ellis, Jalil Anibaba; Servando Carrasco, Roger Espinoza, Benny Feilhaber; Krisztian Nemeth (Bernardo Anor 75), Dom Dwyer, Graham Zusi (Jacob Peterson 92) Subs not used: Tim Melia, Paulo Nagamura, Soni Mustivar, Connor Hallisey LA Galaxy: Jaime Penedo; Dan Gargan, A.J. DeLaGarza, Tommy Meyer (Omar Gonzalez 78), Robbie Rogers; Stefan Ishizaki (Gyasi Zardes 69), Rafael Garcia (Mike Vayrynen 66), Juninho (c), Baggio Husidic; Bradford Jamieson, Alan Gordon Subs not used: Brian Rowe, Oscar Sorto, Jose Villarreal, Ignacio Maganto SKC LA Stats Summary Shots (on goal) 10 (2) 9 (6) Saves 4 1 Fouls 12 11 Offside 3 2 Corner Kicks 3 9 Misconduct Summary: SKC -- Roger Espinoza (caution; tactical foul) 30 LA -- Dan Gargan (caution; reckless tackle) 32 LA -- Juninho (caution; unsporting behavior) 83 SKC -- Dom Dwyer (caution; unsporting behavior) 83 Scoring Summary: LA -- Baggio Husidic 1 (unassisted) 9 SKC -- Krisztian Nemeth 2 (B. Feilhaber 5, D. Dwyer 1) 22 LA -- Omar Gonzalez 1 (Juninho 2) 94+

May 9, 2015: D.C. United 1-1 Sporting KC MLS Regular Season | RFK Stadium | Washington, D.C. Attendance: 16,221 Weather: 81 degrees and cloudy Sporting KC (3-2-5, 14 pts) D.C. United (5-1-3, 18 pts)

1 2 1 0 1 0

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Sporting KC: Tim Melia; Seth Sinovic, Matt Besler (c), Erik Palmer-Brown, Jalil Anibaba; Soni Mustivar, Roger Espinoza, Benny Feilhaber; Jacob Peterson (Connor Hallisey 85), Dom Dwyer (Krisztian Nemeth 71), Graham Zusi (Amadou Dia 90) Subs not used: Luis Marin, Kevin Ellis, Servando Carrasco, Jimmy Medranda D.C. United: Bill Hamid; Chris Korb, Kofi Opare, Bobby Boswell, Sean Franklin; Chris Rolfe (Michael Farfan 74), Perry Kitchen, Davy Arnaud (c), Nick DeLeon (Miguel Aguilar 88), Chris Pontius, Jairo Arrieta (Luis Silva 66) Subs not used: Conor Doyle, Taylor Kemp, Steve Birnbaum, Andrew Dykstra Stats Summary SKC DC Shots (on goal) 11 (5) 7 (2) Saves 1 4 Fouls 10 9 Offside 2 4 Corner Kicks 5 5 Misconduct Summary: SKC -- Roger Espinoza (caution; reckless tackle) 9 DC -- Davy Arnaud (caution; tactical foul) 41 SKC -- Luis Marin (caution; dissent) 81 Scoring Summary: DC -- Jairo Arrieta 2 (Chris Pontius 1, Perry Kitchen 1) 42 SKC -- Dom Dwyer 3 (Roger Espinoza 2) 45

April 25, 2015: Houston Dynamo 4-4 Sporting KC MLS Regular Season | BBVA Compass Stadium | Houston, TX Attendance: 21,046 Weather: 79 degrees and partly cloudy Sporting KC (2-2-4, 10 pts) Houston Dynamo (2-2-4, 10 pts)

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Sporting KC: Luis Marin; Jalil Anibaba, Kevin Ellis (Connor Hallisey 92+), Matt Besler (c), Marcel de Jong (Amadou Dia 63); Servando Carrasco (Soni Mustivar 55), Benny Feilhaber, Roger Espinoza; Graham Zusi, Dom Dwyer, Krisztian Nemeth Subs not used: Tim Melia, Paulo Nagamura, Bernardo Anor, Jacob Peterson Houston Dynamo: Tyler Deric; Kofi Sarkodie, Raul Rodriguez, Jermaine Taylor, DaMarcus Beasley; Alex Lopez (David Horst 80), Ricardo Clark, Nathan Sturgis (Luis Garrido 84), Brad Davis (c); Giles Barnes, Will Bruin (Chandler Hoffman 70) Subs not used: Joe Willis, Alex, Leonel Miranda, Rob Lovejoy Stats Summary SKC HOU Shots (on goal) 16 (4) 12 (4) Saves 0 0 Fouls 14 7 Offside 2 5 Corner Kicks 7 6 Misconduct Summary: SKC -- Roger Espinoza (caution; reckless tackle) 31 SKC -- Jalil Anibaba (caution; reckless foul) 43 SKC -- Kevin Ellis (caution; tactical foul) 53 HOU -- Will Bruin (caution; reckless foul) 63 HOU -- Jermaine Taylor (ejection; denied obvious goal opp.) 79 Scoring Summary: SKC -- Krisztian Nemeth 3 (Marcel de Jong 1) 2 HOU -- Giles Barnes 3 (unassisted) 11 HOU -- Will Bruin 1 (Brad Davis 2) 46+ HOU -- Giles Barnes 4 (Nathan Sturgis 1) 46 SKC -- Dom Dwyer 2 (unassisted) 74 SKC -- Benny Feilhaber 1 (penalty kick) 80 HOU -- Raul Rodriguez 1 (Brad Davis 3) 83 SKC -- Benny Feilhaber 2 (Graham Zusi 1) 95+

1 2 3 1 1 1

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Sporting KC: Tim Melia; Jalil Anibaba, Kevin Ellis, Matt Besler (c), Amadou Dia; Soni Mustivar, Paulo Nagamura (Servando Carrasco 86), Benny Feilhaber; Jacob Peterson (Connor Hallisey 79), Dom Dwyer, Krisztian Nemeth (Saad AbdulSalaam 92+) Subs not used: Luis Marin, Jimmy Medranda, James Rogers NE Revolution: Brad Knighton; Jose Goncalves, Kevin Alston (Chris Tierney 73), Jermaine Jones (c), London Woodberry; Diego Fagundez (Charlie Davies 54), Lee Nguyen, Andy Dorman, Scott Caldwell, Kelyn Rowe (Teal Bunbury 54); Juan Agudelo Subs not used: Bobby Shuttleworth, Jeremy Hall, Sean Okoli, Steve Neumann Stats Summary SKC NE Shots (on goal) 15 (7) 11 (4) Saves 2 2 Fouls 16 12 Offside 4 4 Corner Kicks 2 10 Misconduct Summary: SKC -- Benny Feilhaber (caution; tactical foul) 30 SKC -- Dom Dwyer (caution; persistent infringement) 37 NE -- Andy Dorman (caution; tactical foul) 41 SKC -- Amadou Dia (caution; persistent infringement) 71 SKC -- Soni Mustivar (caution; reckless foul) 76 NE -- Jose Goncalves (caution; reckless foul) 89 Scoring Summary: NE -- Juan Agudelo 4 (Kelyn Rowe 3) 11 SKC -- Dom Dwyer 4 (Krisztian Nemeth 1, Jalil Anibaba 2) 29 SKC -- Krisztian Nemeth 4 (Benny Feilhaber 6) 39 SKC -- Benny Feilhaber 3 (penalty kick) 43 SKC -- Krisztian Nemeth 5 (Jacob Peterson 1, Benny Feilhaber 7) 46 NE -- Scott Caldwell 2 (Charlie Davies 1, Jose Goncalves 1) 64

Sporting KC (3-2-4, 13 pts) Chicago Fire (3-4-0, 9 pts)

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Sporting KC: Tim Melia; Jalil Anibaba, Kevin Ellis, Matt Besler (c), Seth Sinovic (Amadou Dia 77); Soni Mustivar (Jacob Peterson 85), Benny Feilhaber, Roger Espinoza (Paulo Nagamura 65); Graham Zusi, Dom Dwyer, Krisztian Nemeth Subs not used: Luis Marin, Erik Palmer-Brown, Connor Hallisey, Bernardo Anor Chicago Fire: Sean Johnson; Joevin Jones, Jeff Larentowicz (c), Adailton, Eric Gehrig (Lovel Palmer 85); Matt Polster, Shaun Maloney, David Accam, Chris Ritter (Kennedy Igboananike 77), Harrison Shipp; Guly (Quincy Amarikwa 72) Subs not used: Razvan Cocis, Victor Perez, Greg Cochrane, Jon Busch Stats Summary SKC CHI Shots (on goal) 14 (3) 11 (3) Saves 3 2 Fouls 14 12 Offside 2 8 Corner Kicks 3 4 Misconduct Summary: CHI -- Adailton (caution; persistent infringement) 32 SKC -- Seth Sinovic (caution; tactical foul) 38 CHI -- Chris Ritter (caution; delaying a restart) 58 CHI -- David Accam (ejection; violent conduct) 89 SKC -- Paulo Nagamura (caution; reckless tackle) 92+ Scoring Summary: SKC -- Paulo Nagamura 1 (Jalil Anibaba 1, Graham Zusi 2) 75

May 20, 2015: Sporting KC 4-2 New England Revolution MLS Regular Season | Sporting Park | Kansas City, KS Attendance: 18,864 (59th straight sellout) Weather: 53 degrees and cloudy Sporting KC (4-2-5, 17 pts) NE Revolution (5-3-4, 19 pts)

May 3, 2015: Sporting KC 1-0 Chicago Fire MLS Regular Season | Sporting Park | Kansas City, KS Attendance: 19,581 (58th straight sellout) Weather: 84 degrees and partly cloudy

May 23, 2015: Seattle Sounders FC 0-0 Sporting KC MLS Regular Season | CenturyLink Field | Seattle, WA Attendance: 40,653 Weather: 63 degrees and cloudy 1 2 Sporting KC (4-2-6, 18 pts) 0 0 Seattle Sounders FC (6-3-2, 20 pts) 0 0

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Sporting KC: Tim Melia; Jalil Anibaba, Matt Besler (c), Kevin Ellis, Amadou Dia; Soni Mustivar, Servando Carrasco (Graham Zusi 77), Benny Feilhaber; Jimmy Medranda (Saad Abdul-Salaam 58) , Krisztian Nemeth, Jacob Peterson (Connor Hallisey 56) Subs not used: Luis Marin, James Rogers Seattle Sounders FC: Stefan Frei; Tyrone Mears, Brad Evans, Chad Marshall, Dylan Remick; Osvaldo Alonso, Gonzalo Pineda, Marco Pappa (Cristian Roldan 73), Lamar Neagle (Andy Rose 64); Chad Barrett (Darwin Jones 84), Clint Dempsey (c) Subs not used: Troy Perkins, Zach Scott, Leo Gonzalez, Michael Azira Stats Summary SKC SEA Shots (on goal) 9 (3) 10 (1) Saves 1 3 Fouls 11 6 Offside 0 4 Corner Kicks 3 2 Misconduct Summary: SKC -- Kevin Ellis (caution; reckless foul) 81 SKC -- Soni Mustivar (caution; dissent) 81 Scoring Summary: None

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes SPORTING KANSAS CITY 2015 BOX SCORES (CONTINUED) May 29, 2015: Sporting KC 4-0 FC Dallas MLS Regular Season | Sporting Park | Kansas City, KS Attendance: 20,172 (60th straight sellout) Weather: 70 degrees and partly cloudy Sporting KC (5-2-6, 21 pts) FC Dallas (6-4-3, 21 pts)

1 2 1 3 0 0

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Sporting KC: Tim Melia; Amadou Dia, Matt Besler (c), Kevin Ellis, Jalil Anibaba; Soni Mustivar, Roger Espinoza (Servando Carrasco 71), Benny Feilhaber; Graham Zusi (Saad Abdul-Salaam 83), Krisztian Nemeth, Connor Hallisey (Marcel de Jong 65) Subs not used: Jon Kempin, Jimmy Medranda, James Rogers FC Dallas: Dan Kennedy; Moises Hernandez, Matt Hedges (c), Zach Loyd, Je-Vaughn Watson; Kyle Bekker, Victor Ulloa, Mauro Diaz (Michel 72), Ryan Hollingshead; Tesho Akindele (David Texeira 74), Blas Perez (Rolando Escobar 46) Subs not used: Atiba Harris, Chris Seitz, Walker Zimmerman, Michael Barrios Stats Summary SKC DAL Shots (on goal) 12 (6) 5 (1) Saves 1 2 Fouls 11 14 Offside 4 2 Corner Kicks 5 3 Misconduct Summary: DAL -- Zach Loyd (caution; reckless foul) 33 DAL -- Zach Loyd (ejection; second caution, tactical foul) 43 Scoring Summary: SKC -- Krisztian Nemeth 6 (Kevin Ellis 1, Graham Zusi 3) 19 SKC -- Benny Feilhaber 4 (Krisztian Nemeth 2, Jalil Anibaba 3) 51 SKC -- Kevin Ellis 1 (Graham Zusi 4) 57 SKC -- Graham Zusi 1 (Connor Hallisey 1, Jalil Anibaba 4) 64 June 21, 2015: Real Salt Lake 2-1 Sporting KC MLS Regular Season | Rio Tinto Stadium | Sandy, UT Attendance: 19,155 Weather: 86 degrees and partly cloudy Sporting KC (6-3-6, 24 pts) Real Salt Lake (5-5-6, 21 pts)

1 2 1 0 1 1

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Sporting KC: Tim Melia; Jalil Anibaba, Kevin Ellis, Matt Besler (c), Amadou Dia (Saad Abdul-Salaam 91+); Soni Mustivar, Benny Feilhaber, Roger Espinoza; Graham Zusi, Dom Dwyer, Krisztian Nemeth (Jacob Peterson 75) Subs not used: Jon Kempin, Servando Carrasco, Marcel de Jong, Connor Hallisey, Chance Myers Real Salt Lake: Nick Rimando; Tony Beltran, Justen Glad, Aaron Maund, Demar Phillips; Luke Mulholland (Luis Gil 70), Kyle Beckerman (c), Javier Morales; Sebastian Jaime (Jordan Allen 69), Devon Sandoval, Joao Plata (Olmes Garcia 83) Subs not used: Jeff Attinella, John Stertzer, Phanuel Kavita, Sebastian Saucedo Stats Summary SKC RSL Shots (on goal) 11 (5) 15 (7) Saves 4 4 Fouls 15 9 Offside 0 3 Corner Kicks 4 16 Misconduct Summary: SKC -- Soni Mustivar (caution; reckless tackle) 8 SKC -- Matt Besler (caution; reckless foul) 14 RSL -- Javier Morales (caution; reckless foul) 15 RSL -- Demar Phillips (caution; reckless tackle) 18 RSL -- Kyle Beckerman (caution; reckless foul) 47 RSL -- Sebastian Jaime (caution; reckless foul) 51 RSL -- Olmes Garcia (caution; unsporting behavior) 93+ Scoring Summary: RSL -- Sebastian Jaime 1 (Javier Morales 4) 15 SKC -- Dom Dwyer 5 (Benny Feilhaber 8) 30 RSL -- Olmes Garcia 1 (Javier Morales 5) 93+

June 6, 2015: Sporting KC 1-0 Seattle Sounders FC MLS Regular Season | Sporting Park | Kansas City, KS Attendance: 21,505 (61st straight sellout) Weather: 85 degrees and partly cloudy 1 2 Sporting KC (6-2-6, 24 pts) 0 1 Seattle Sounders FC (8-4-2, 26 pts) 0 0

F 1 0

Sporting KC: Tim Melia; Jalil Anibaba, Kevin Ellis, Matt Besler (c), Amadou Dia; Soni Mustivar, Roger Espinoza, Benny Feilhaber; Connor Hallisey (Saad Abdul-Salaam 85), Graham Zusi, Marcel de Jong (Dom Dwyer 58) Subs not used: Jon Kempin, Chance Myers, Servando Carrasco, Jimmy Medranda, James Rogers Seattle Sounders FC: Stefan Frei; Dylan Remick, Zach Scott (c), Chad Marshall, Tyrone Mears; Gonzalo Pineda, Micheal Azira (Darwin Jones 86), Marco Pappa (Thomas 80), Andy Rose, Cristian Roldan (Leo Gonzalez 77); Lamar Neagle Subs not used: Troy Perkins, Damion Lowe, Oniel Fisher, Aaron Kovar Stats Summary SKC SEA Shots (on goal) 16 (4) 6 (6) Saves 6 3 Fouls 7 9 Offside 1 3 Corner Kicks 3 5 Misconduct Summary: SEA -- Stefan Frei (caution; dissent) 82

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Sporting KC: Tim Melia; Chance Myers (Saad AbdulSalaam 56), Kevin Ellis, Matt Besler (c), Amadou Dia (Marcel de Jong 81); Soni Mustivar, Benny Feilhaber, Roger Espinoza; Connor Hallisey (Jacob Peterson 68), Dom Dwyer, Graham Zusi Subs not used: Jon Kempin, Jalil Anibaba, Servando Carrasco, Jimmy Medranda Saint Louis FC: Mark Pais; Jacob Bushue, Chad Vandegriffe, Sam Fink, Patrick Doody; Parker Maher, Brandon Barklage (c), Jamiel Hardware (Jordan Roberts 79), Brian Ciesulka (Charles Renken 68); Jermie Lynch (Kingsley Bryce 80), Mike Ambersley Subs not used: Alex Riggs, Oskar Gasecki, Kentaro Takada, Nick Bibbs

Scoring Summary: SKC -- Graham Zusi 1 (Benny Feilhaber 1) 70

June 27, 2015: Sporting KC 2-0 Colorado Rapids MLS Regular Season | Sporting Park | Kansas City, KS Attendance: 19,835 (62nd straight sellout) Weather: 83 degrees and partly cloudy 1 2 1 1 0 0

Sporting KC Saint Louis FC

Stats Summary SKC STL Shots (on goal) 12 (5) 2 (0) Saves 0 4 Fouls 3 10 Offside 4 1 Corner Kicks 4 0 Misconduct Summary: STL -- Brandon Barklage (caution; reckless foul) 54 STL -- Charles Renken (caution; reckless foul) 86

Scoring Summary: SKC -- Benny Feilhaber (penalty kick) 84

Sporting KC (7-3-6, 27 pts) Colorado Rapids (2-6-9, 15 pts)

June 16, 2015: Sporting KC 1-0 Saint Louis FC U.S. Open Cup 4th Round | Sporting Park | Kansas City, KS Attendance: 19,298 (sellout) Weather: 77 degrees and cloudy

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July 1, 2015: Sporting KC 6-2 FC Dallas U.S. Open Cup Round of 16 | Sporting Park | Kansas City, KS Attendance: 19,113 (sellout) Weather: 82 degrees and cloudy Sporting KC FC Dallas

1 2 4 2 0 2

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Sporting KC: Tim Melia; Marcel de Jong (Saad AbdulSalaam 78), Matt Besler (c), Kevin Ellis, Chance Myers (Amadou Dia 90); Soni Mustivar, Roger Espinoza, Benny Feilhaber; Krisztian Nemeth (Jacob Peterson 71), Dom Dwyer, Graham Zusi Subs not used: Jon Kempin, Servando Carrasco, Connor Hallisey, Jalil Anibaba

Sporting KC: Tim Melia; Amadou Dia, Matt Besler (c), Kevin Ellis, Jalil Anibaba; Soni Mustivar, Roger Espinoza, Benny Feilhaber (Paulo Nagamura 62); Krisztian Nemeth (Connor Hallisey 75), Dom Dwyer, Jacob Peterson (Saad Abdul-Salaam 50) Subs not used: Alex Riggs, Erik Palmer-Brown, Servando Carrasco, Jimmy Medranda

Colorado Rapids: Clint Irwin; Bobby Burling, James Riley, Jared Watts, Joseph Greenspan; Marcelo Sarvas, Lucas Pittinari (Dillon Powers 73), Sam Cronin (c), Dillon Serna (Kevin Doyle 69), Gabriel Torres (Vicente Sanchez 74); Luis Solignac Subs not used: Shane Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Neill, Zac MacMath, Marc Burch, Charles Eloundou

FC Dallas: Chris Seitz; Moises Hernandez (Victor Ulloa 46), Matt Hedges (c) (Kellyn Acosta 60), Walker Zimmerman, Atiba Harris; Ryan Hollingshead (Alex Zendejas 68), Michel, Je-Vaughn Watson, Michael Barrios; Rolando Escobar, David Texeira Subs not used: Jesse Gonzalez, Zach Loyd, Danny Garcia

Stats Summary SKC COL Shots (on goal) 9 (4) 6 (2) Saves 2 3 Fouls 15 14 Offside 0 5 Corner Kicks 6 3 Misconduct Summary: COL -- Jared Watts (caution; tactical foul) 52 COL -- Joseph Greenspan (caution; reckless tackle) 61 COL -- Kevin Doyle (caution; reckless foul) 70 SKC -- Dom Dwyer (caution; reckless foul) 80 SKC -- Jacob Peterson (caution; delaying a restart) 92+ Scoring Summary: SKC -- Krisztian Nemeth 7 (C. Myers 1, B. Feilhaber 9) 32 SKC -- Sam Cronin (own goal) 64

Stats Summary SKC DAL Shots (on goal) 11 (10) 9 (5) Saves 3 2 Fouls 10 12 Offside 3 0 Corner Kicks 7 3 Misconduct Summary: DAL -- Michel (caution; reckless tackle) 15 DAL -- Walker Zimmerman (caution; reckless foul) 68 Scoring Summary: SKC -- Dom Dwyer 1 (Benny Feilhaber 2) 5 SKC -- Dom Dwyer 2 (Benny Feilhaber 3) 30 SKC -- Dom Dwyer 3 (Penalty Kick) 41 SKC -- Krisztian Nemeth 1 (J. Peterson 1, B. Feilhaber 4) 46+ SKC -- Krisztian Nemeth 2 (Saad Abdul-Salaam 1) 59 FCD -- Michael Barrios 3 (David Texeira 1) 62 SKC -- Dom Dwyer 4 (unassisted) 69 FCD -- Kellyn Acosta 1 (unassisted) 73

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes SPORTING KANSAS CITY 2015 BOX SCORES (CONTINUED) July 12, 2015: Vancouver Whitecaps FC 0-1 Sporting KC MLS Regular Season | BC Place | Vancouver, Canada Attendance: 21,000 Weather: 68 degrees and fair

July 18, 2015: Sporting KC 2-1 Montreal Impact MLS Regular Season | Sporting Park | Kansas City, KS Attendance: 19,070 (63rd straight sellout) Weather: 92 degrees and fair

1 2 F Sporting KC (8-3-6, 30 pts) 0 1 1 Vancouver Whitecaps (10-8-2, 32 pts) 0 0 0

1 2 F Sporting KC (9-3-6, 33 pts) 2 0 2 Montreal Impact (6-8-3, 21 pts) 0 1 1

Sporting KC: Tim Melia; Amadou Dia, Matt Besler (c), Kevin Ellis, Saad Abdul-Salaam; Soni Mustivar, Roger Espinoza, Benny Feilhaber; Krisztian Nemeth, Dom Dwyer, Jacob Peterson (Connor Hallisey 83) Subs not used: Jon Kempin, Erik Palmer-Brown, Paulo Nagamura, Servando Carrasco, Jimmy Medranda

Sporting KC: Tim Melia; Saad Abdul-Salaam, Matt Besler (c), Kevin Ellis, Amadou Dia; Soni Mustivar, Roger Espinoza, Benny Feilhaber (Paulo Nagamura 74); Krisztian Nemeth (Connor Hallisey 63), Dom Dwyer, Jacob Peterson (Chance Myers 79) Subs not used: Jon Kempin, Erik Palmer-Brown, Marcel de Jong, Servando Carrasco

Vancouver Whitecaps FC: David Ousted; Steven Beitashour (Robert Earnshaw 84), Kendall Waston, Tim Parker, Jordan Harvey; Matias Laba, Gershon Koffie (Deybi Flores 59), Mauro Rosales (c), Cristian Techera, Kekuta Manneh (Erik Hurtado 80); Octavio Rivero Subs not used: Paolo Tornaghi, Christian Dean, Kianz Froese, Nicolas Mezquida Stats Summary SKC VAN Shots (on goal) 13 (5) 13 (7) Saves 6 4 Fouls 12 16 Offside 1 3 Corner Kicks 2 6 Misconduct Summary: SKC -- Benny Feilhaber (caution; reckless foul) 20 SKC -- Soni Mustivar (caution; tactical foul) 58 VAN -- Kendall Waston (caution; dissent) 73 SKC -- Krisztian Nemeth (caution; delaying a restart) 86 SKC -- Dom Dwyer (caution; unsporting behavior) 88 Scoring Summary: SKC -- Kevin Ellis 2 (Krisztian Nemeth 3) 52 July 24, 2015: Real Salt Lake 2-1 Sporting KC MLS Regular Season | Rio Tinto Stadium | Sandy, UT Attendance: 20,809 Weather: 81 degrees and clear

SKC MTL Stats Summary Shots (on goal) 10 (4) 6 (2) Saves 1 2 Fouls 15 10 Offside 3 4 Corner Kicks 5 1 Misconduct Summary: MTL -- Marco Donadel (caution; reckless tackle) 84 Scoring Summary: SKC -- Benny Feilhaber 6 (K. Nemeth 4, R. Espinoza 3) 4 SKC -- Dom Dwyer 6 (Benny Feilhaber 10) 34 MTL -- Ignacio Piatti 6 (Calum Mallace 2) 59 Aug. 1, 2015: Sporting KC 1-1 Houston Dynamo MLS Regular Season | Sporting Park | Kansas City, KS Attendance: 19,882 (64th straight sell out) Weather: 90 degrees and partly cloudy

Sporting KC Houston Dynamo

1 2 0 3 0 1

F 3 1

Sporting KC: Tim Melia; Chance Myers, Kevin Ellis, Matt Besler (c), Amadou Dia; Soni Mustivar, Benny Feilhaber, Roger Espinoza (Paulo Nagamura 90); Connor Hallisey (Jacob Peterson 54), Dom Dwyer, Krisztian Nemeth (Saad Abdul-Salaam 91+) Subs not used: Jon Kempin, Marcel de Jong, Erik PalmerBrown, Bernardo Anor Houston Dynamo: Joe Willis; Kofi Sarkodie, David Horst, A.J. Cochran, Taylor Hunter; Leonel Miranda, Nathan Sturgis (Zach Steinberger 64), Ricardo Clark, Luis Garrido, Brad Davis (c); Will Bruin (Erick Torres 64) Subs not used: Tyler Deric, Raul Rodriguez, Chandler Hoffman Stats Summary Shots (on goal) Saves Fouls Offside Corner Kicks

SKC 16 (6) 1 11 1 6

HOU 5 (3) 2 15 5 7

Misconduct Summary: HOU -- Luis Garrido (ejection; serious foul play) 30 SKC -- Soni Mustivar (caution; tactical foul) 34 HOU -- Ricardo Clark (caution; reckless foul) 57 HOU -- Brad Davis (caution; unsporting behavior) 68 SKC -- Roger Espinoza (caution; unsporting behavior) 68 Scoring Summary: HOU -- Will Bruin 1 (unassisted) 59 SKC -- Benny Feilhaber 1 (Matt Besler 1) 71 SKC -- Dom Dwyer 5 (K. Nemeth 1, Amadou Dia 1) 86 SKC -- Krisztian Nemeth 3 (Dom Dwyer 1, R. Espinoza 1) 88 Aug. 8, 2015: Toronto FC 1-3 Sporting KC MLS Regular Season | BMO Field | Toronto, Canada Attendance: 24,326 Weather: 70 degrees and partly cloudy

1 2 F Sporting KC (9-4-7, 34 pts) 1 0 1 Houston Dynamo (7-8-7, 28 pts) 0 1 1

Sporting KC (10-4-7, 37 pts) Toronto FC (9-8-4, 31 pts)

Sporting KC: Tim Melia; Marcel de Jong (Amadou Dia 46), Matt Besler (c), Erik Palmer-Brown, Saad Abdul-Salaam; Soni Mustivar (Benny Feilhaber 46), Roger Espinoza, Paulo Nagamura; Krisztian Nemeth, Dom Dwyer, Jacob Peterson (Connor Hallisey 79) Subs not used: Jon Kempin, Amobi Okugo, Chance Myers, Jimmy Medranda

Sporting KC: Tim Melia; Amadou Dia, Matt Besler (c), Kevin Ellis, Chance Myers (Saad Abdul-Salaam 79); Soni Mustivar, Roger Espinoza (Paulo Nagamura 90), Benny Feilhaber; Krisztian Nemeth, Dom Dwyer, Graham Zusi (Jacob Peterson 94+) Subs not used: Jon Kempin, Marcel de Jong, Amobi Okugo, Connor Hallisey

Sporting KC: Tim Melia; Jimmy Medranda, Matt Besler (c), Kevin Ellis, Chance Myers (Amadou Dia 88); Soni Mustivar, Paulo Nagamura (Amobi Okugo 57), Benny Feilhaber; Krisztian Nemeth (Saad Abdul-Salaam 76), Jacob Peterson, Connor Hallisey Subs not used: Jon Kempin, Marcel de Jong, Erik PalmerBrown, Graham Zusi

Real Salt Lake: Jeff Attinella; Abdoulie Mansally, Elias Vasquez, Aaron Maund, Tony Beltran; Luke Mulholland, Luis Gil (John Stertzer 87), Javier Morales (c); Joao Plata (Sebastian Saucedo 94+), Devon Sandoval (Olmes Garcia 61), Sebastian Jaime Subs not used: Eduardo Fernandez, Justen Glad, Boyd Okwuonu, Wellington Paeckart

Houston Dynamo: Tyler Deric; Sheanon Williams, David Horst, Raul Rodriguez, DaMarcus Beasley; Alex (Leonel Miranda 68), Nathan Sturgis, Ricardo Clark (Luis Garrido 80), Giles Barnes, Brad Davis (c); Will Bruin (Erick Torres 62) Subs not used: Joe Willis, Kofi Sarkodie, Mauro Manotas, Rasheed Olabiyi

Toronto FC: Joe Bendik, Ashtone Morgan (Daniel Lovitz 69), Ahmed Kantari, Eriq Zavaleta, Jackson; Collen Warner, Marco Delgado, Jonathan Osorio (Justin Morrow 69), Michael Bradley (c); Sebastian Giovinco, Jozy Altidore Subs not used: Chris Konopka, Nick Hagglund, Jay Chapman, Chris Mannella, Robbie Findley

Stats Summary SKC RSL Shots (on goal) 6 (3) 7 (5) Saves 4 1 Fouls 19 12 Offside 2 3 Corner Kicks 3 1 Misconduct Summary: SKC -- Matt Besler (caution; tactical foul) 20 HOU -- Tyler Deric (caution; unsporting behavior) 45 SKC -- Dom Dwyer (caution; unsporting behavior) 45 SKC -- Kevin Ellis (caution; delaying a restart) 65 SKC -- Chance Myers (caution; reckless tackle) 76 HOU -- Erick Torres (caution; reckless foul) 80 HOU -- Nathan Sturgis (ejection; serious foul play) 86

Stats Summary SKC TOR Shots (on goal) 11 (4) 12 (5) Saves 4 1 Fouls 16 11 Offside 2 4 Corner Kicks 4 5 Misconduct Summary: TOR -- Collen Warner (caution; reckless foul) 88

Sporting KC (9-4-6, 33 pts) Real Salt Lake (7-8-8, 29 pts)

1 2 F 0 1 1 1 1 2

Montreal Impact: Evan Bush; Victor Cabrera, Donny Toia, Ambroise Oyongo, Laurent Ciman; Dilly Duka (Maxim Tissot 84), Ignacio Piatti (c), Calum Mallace (Nigel ReoCoker 68), Marco Donadel, Andres Romero; Dominic Oduro (Anthony Jackson-Hamel 74) Subs not used: Eric Kronberg, Wandrille Lefevre, Eric Miller, Patrice Bernier

July 21, 2015: Sporting KC 3-1 Houston Dynamo U.S. Open Cup Quarterfinal | Sporting Park | Kansas City, KS Attendance: 17,589 Weather: 78 degrees and clear

Stats Summary SKC RSL Shots (on goal) 12 (6) 14 (6) Saves 4 5 Fouls 13 9 Offside 2 2 Corner Kicks 3 6 Misconduct Summary: SKC -- Tim Melia (caution; reckless foul) 72 SKC -- Erik Palmer-Brown (caution; reckless tackle) 77 SKC -- Benny Feilhaber (caution; unsporting behavior) 91+ RSL -- Joao Plata (caution; delaying a restart) 91+ RSL -- Elias Vasquez (caution; persistent infringement) 92+ Scoring Summary: RSL -- Javier Morales 5 (Sebastian Jaime 1) 34 SKC -- Benny Feilhaber 7 (Roger Espinoza 4) 50 RSL -- Joao Plata 2 (penalty kick) 73

Scoring Summary: SKC -- Dom Dwyer 7 (Benny Feilhaber 11) 6 HOU -- Ricardo Clark 5 (Brad Davis 6) 78

1 2 F 2 1 3 1 0 1

Scoring Summary: SKC -- Benny Feilhaber 8 (penalty kick) 22 TOR -- Michael Bradley 3 (Sebastian Giovinco 11) 22 SKC -- Krisztian Nemeth 8 (Benny Feilhaber 12) 29 SKC -- Jacob Peterson 1 (Amobi Okugo 1) 87

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes SPORTING KANSAS CITY 2015 BOX SCORES (CONTINUED) Aug. 12, 2015: Sporting KC 3-1 Real Salt Lake U.S. Open Cup Semifinal | Sporting Park | Kansas City, KS Attendance: 16,117 Weather: 82 degrees and clear Sporting KC Real Salt Lake

1 2 1 2 1 0

F 3 1

Aug. 15, 2015: Sporting KC 4-3 Vancouver Whitecaps MLS Regular Season | Sporting Park | Kansas City, KS Attendance: 19,969 (65th straight sellout) Weather: 88 degrees and sunny

Aug. 19, 2015: Sporting KC 0-5 San Jose Earthquakes MLS Regular Season | Sporting Park | Kansas City, KS Attendance: 18,866 (66th straight sellout) Weather: 73 degrees and sunny

1 2 F Sporting KC (11-4-7, 40 pts) 0 4 4 Vancouver Whitecaps (13-9-3, 42 pts) 2 1 3

1 2 F Sporting KC (11-5-7, 40 pts) 0 0 0 San Jose Earthquakes (9-10-5, 32 pts) 3 2 5

Sporting KC: Tim Melia; Amadou Dia, Matt Besler (c), Kevin Ellis, Saad Abdul-Salaam (Marcel de Jong 92+); Soni Mustivar, Benny Feilhaber, Paulo Nagamura; Krisztian Nemeth (Chance Myers 87), Dom Dwyer, Jacob Peterson (Connor Hallisey 64) Subs not used: Jon Kempin, Erik Palmer-Brown, Jimmy Medranda, Mikey Lopez

Sporting KC: Tim Melia; Jimmy Medranda (Amadou Dia 34), Matt Besler (c), Kevin Ellis, Saad Abdul-Salaam (Chance Myers 73); Soni Mustivar, Paulo Nagamura, Benny Feilhaber; Krisztian Nemeth, Dom Dwyer, Connor Hallisey (Jacob Peterson 46) Subs not used: Jon Kempin, Marcel de Jong, Erik PalmerBrown, Amobi Okugo

Sporting KC: Tim Melia; Chance Myers, Kevin Ellis, Matt Besler (c), Amadou Dia (Marcel de Jong 46); Amobi Okugo (Mikey Lopez 46), Paulo Nagamura (Graham Zusi 68), Benny Feilhaber; Jacob Peterson, Dom Dwyer, Krisztian Nemeth Subs not used: Jon Kempin, Erik Palmer-Brown, Saad Abdul-Salaam, Connor Hallisey

Real Salt Lake: Nick Rimando; Demar Phillips, Elias Vasquez, Aaron Maund, Tony Beltran; Luke Mulholland (Abdoulie Mansally 88), Kyle Beckerman, Javier Morales; Olmes Garcia, Devon Sandoval (Luis Gil 77), Sebastian Jaime Subs not used: Jeff Attinella, Justen Glad, Pecka, John Stertzer, Sebastian Saucedo

Vancouver Whitecaps FC: David Ousted (c); Jordan Harvey, Pa Modou Kah, Tim Parker, Steven Beitashour; Gershon Koffie, Matias Laba, Kekuta Manneh (Darren Mattocks 74), Nicolas Mezquida (Pedro Morales 65), Cristian Techera (Mauro Rosales 60); Octavio Rivero Subs not used: Paolo Tornaghi, Christian Dean, Russell Teibert, Robert Earnshaw

San Jose Earthquakes: David Bingham; Marvell Wynne, Victor Bernardez, Clarence Goodson, Shaun Francis; Anibal Godoy, Fatai Alashe (Marc Pelosi 82), Chris Wondolowski (c); Cordell Cato, Quincy Amarikwa (Adam Jahn 73), Shea Salinas (Sanna Nyassi 88) Subs not used: Bryan Meredith, Leandro Barrera, JJ Koval, Tommy Thompson

Stats Summary SKC RSL Shots (on goal) 17 (11) 7 (3) Saves 2 7 Fouls 12 13 Offside 0 2 Corner Kicks 5 5 Misconduct Summary: SKC -- Paulo Nagamura (caution; tactical foul) 30 SKC -- Soni Mustivar (caution; tactical foul) 75 RSL -- Tony Beltran (caution; tactical foul) 76 RSL -- Olmes Garcia (ejection; serious foul play) 93+

SKC VAN Stats Summary Shots (on goal) 17 (6) 10 (7) Saves 4 2 Fouls 14 11 Offside 2 3 Corner Kicks 7 5 Misconduct Summary: SKC -- Amadou Dia (caution; reckless foul) 61 VAN -- Matias Laba (caution; reckless foul) 64 SKC -- Paulo Nagamura (caution, unsporting behavior) 95+

SKC SJ Stats Summary Shots (on goal) 10 (2) 17 (9) Saves 4 2 Fouls 14 9 Offside 0 5 Corner Kicks 6 4 Misconduct Summary: SKC -- Benny Feilhaber (ejection; professional foul) 71 SKC -- Krisztian Nemeth (caution; reckless foul) 74

Scoring Summary: RSL -- Olmes Garcia 1 (Tony Beltran 1) 24 SKC -- Soni Mustivar 1 (Benny Feilhaber 5) 35 SKC -- Benny Feilhaber 2 (unassisted) 80 SKC -- Krisztian Nemeth 4 (unassisted) 85

Aug. 22, 2015: Columbus Crew SC 3-2 Sporting KC MLS Regular Season | MAPFRE Stadium | Columbus, OH Attendance: 20,018 Weather: 77 degrees and clear 1 2 F Sporting KC (11-6-7, 40 pts) 1 1 2 Columbus Crew SC (10-8-8, 38 pts) 1 2 3 Sporting KC: Tim Melia; Jimmy Medranda (Amadou Dia 57), Kevin Ellis, Matt Besler (c), Saad Abdul-Salaam; Graham Zusi, Mikey Lopez, Paulo Nagamura; Marcel de Jong (Krisztian Nemeth 90), Dom Dwyer, Jacob Peterson (Chance Myers 78) Subs not used: Jon Kempin, Seth Sinovic, Erik PalmerBrown, Connor Hallisey Columbus Crew SC: Steve Clark; Waylon Francis, Tyson Wahl, Michael Parkhurst (c), Harrison Afful (Hector Jimenez 70); Justin Meram (Jack McInerney 64), Tony Tchani, Wil Trapp, Ethan Finlay, Federico Higuain; Kei Kamara (Cedrick Mabwati 72) Subs not used: Brad Stuver, Chris Klute, Kevan George, Mohammed Saeid Stats Summary Shots (on goal) Saves Fouls Offside Corner Kicks

SKC 5 (2) 4 14 2 3

CLB 13 (7) 0 10 2 8

Misconduct Summary: SKC -- Dom Dwyer (caution; reckless tackle) 33 SKC -- Jimmy Medranda (caution; reckless foul) 39 SKC -- Mikey Lopez (caution; reckless tackle) 79 CLB -- Jack McInerney (caution; delaying a restart) 92+ Scoring Summary: SKC -- Marcel de Jong 1 (Saad Abdul-Salaam 1, Dom Dwyer 2) 14 CLB -- Ethan Finlay 8 (Kei Kamara 7) 35 SKC -- Graham Zusi 2 (Matt Besler 3) 62 CLB -- Tony Tchani 5 (Tyson Wahl 1, Federico Higuain 6) 80 CLB -- Jack McInerney 5 (unassisted) 88

Scoring Summary: VAN -- Kekuta Manneh 5 (unassisted) 9 VAN -- Kekuta Manneh 6 (Steven Beitashour 5) 41 SKC -- Kevin Ellis 3 (Soni Mustivar 1) 53 VAN -- Pedro Morales 5 (unassisted) 75 SKC -- Dom Dwyer 8 (Krisztian Nemeth 5) 81 SKC -- Paulo Nagamura 2 (C. Myers 2, B. Feilhaber 13) 87 SKC -- Paulo Nagamura 3 (Soni Mustivar 2) 94+ Aug. 29, 2015: Colorado Rapids 2-1 Sporting KC MLS Regular Season | Dickâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sporting Goods Park Commerce City, CO | Attendance: 16,480 Weather: 82 degrees and partly cloudy

Scoring Summary: SJ -- Cordell Cato 2 (Shea Salinas 3) 3 SJ -- Chris Wondolowski 10 (penalty kick) 17 SJ -- Anibal Godoy 1 (Quincy Amarikwa 3) 27 SJ -- Cordell Cato 3 (Shea Salinas 4) 58 SJ -- Chris Wondolowski 11 (Fatai Alashe 1) 61

Sept. 9, 2015: Portland Timbers 0-0 Sporting KC MLS Regular Season | Providence Park | Portland, OR Attendance: 21,144 Weather: 80 degrees and sunny

1 2 F Sporting KC (11-7-7, 40 pts) 0 1 1 Colorado Rapids (8-9-9, 33 pts) 0 2 2

1 2 F Sporting KC (11-7-8, 41 pts) 0 0 0 Portland Timbers (11-9-8, 41 pts) 0 0 0

Sporting KC: Tim Melia; Seth Sinovic, Matt Besler (c), Kevin Ellis, Chance Myers (Saad Abdul-Salaam 24); Benny Feilhaber, Paulo Nagamura, Mikey Lopez (Jordi Quintilla 77); Graham Zusi (Jacob Peterson 84), Dom Dwyer, Krisztian Nemeth Subs not used: Jon Kempin, Erik Palmer-Brown, Marcel de Jong, Amadou Dia

Sporting KC: Tim Melia; Seth Sinovic, Matt Besler (c), Kevin Ellis, Saad Abdul-Salaam (Jalil Anibaba 62); Soni Mustivar, Paulo Nagamura, Benny Feilhaber (Jordi Quintilla 95+); Graham Zusi, Dom Dwyer, Jacob Peterson (Bernardo Anor 75) Subs not used: Jon Kempin, Amadou Dia, Connor Hallisey, Mikey Lopez

Colorado Rapids: Clint Irwin; Maynor Figueroa, Drew Moor, Axel Sjoberg, Sean St Ledger; Marcelo Sarvas, Sam Cronin, Juan Ramirez (Dominique Badji 62), Dillon Powers (Lucas Pittinari 80), Vicente Sanchez (Nick LaBrocca 89); Kevin Doyle Subs not used: Zac MacMath, James Riley, Marlon Hairston, Gabriel Torres

Portland Timbers: Adam Kwarasey; Jorge Villafana, Norberto Paparatto, Nat Borchers, Taylor Peay; Jack Jewsbury (c), George Fochive (Rodney Wallace 83), Lucas Melano (Maximiliano Urruti 83), Diego Valeri, Darlington Nagbe; Fanendo Adi (Dairon Asprilla 73) Subs not used: Jake Gleeson, Jeanderson, Anthony Manning, Michael Nanchoff

Stats Summary Shots (on goal) Saves Fouls Offside Corner Kicks

SKC 11 (5) 2 9 0 4

COL 10 (4) 4 18 1 11

Misconduct Summary: SKC -- Saad Abdul-Salaam (caution; tactical foul) 34 COL -- Axel Sjoberg (caution; persistent infringement) 58 SKC -- Seth Sinovic (caution; tactical foul) 60 COL -- Marcelo Sarvas (caution; tactical foul) 72 COL -- Drew Moor (caution; delaying a restart) 90 Scoring Summary: SKC -- Dom Dwyer 9 (Krisztian Nemeth 6) 47 COL -- Maynor Figueroa 1 (Vicente Sanchez 3) 53 COL -- Kevin Doyle 4 (Vicente Sanchez 4) 76 13

SKC 8 (2) 7 19 3 3

POR 18 (8) 2 17 4 6

Misconduct Summary: SKC -- Paulo Nagamura (caution; tactical foul) 40 POR -- Lucas Melano (caution; reckless foul) 46+ SKC -- Jacob Peterson (caution; tactical foul) 48+ SKC -- Benny Feilhaber (caution; tactical foul) 68 SKC -- Bernardo Anor (caution; reckless tackle) 94+ Scoring Summary: None

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes SPORTING KANSAS CITY 2015 BOX SCORES (CONTINUED) Sept. 13, 2015: Orlando City SC 3-1 Sporting KC MLS Regular Season | Citrus Bowl | Orlando, FL Attendance: 22,241 Weather: 78 degrees and fair

Sept. 18, 2015: Sporting KC 3-1 FC Dallas MLS Regular Season | Sporting Park | Kansas City, KS Attendance: 18,861 (67th straight sellout) Weather: 79 degrees and cloudy

1 2 F Sporting KC (11-8-8, 41 pts) 0 1 1 Orlando City SC (8-13-8, 32 pts) 1 2 3

1 2 F Sporting KC (12-8-8, 44 pts) 0 3 3 FC Dallas (14-9-5, 47 pts) 0 1 1

Sporting KC: Jon Kempin; Seth Sinovic, Matt Besler (c), Kevin Ellis, Saad Abdul-Salaam; Soni Mustivar, Benny Feilhaber (Jordi Quintilla 73), Graham Zusi; Krisztian Nemeth, Dom Dwyer, Jacob Peterson (Bernardo Anor 46) Subs not used: Trey Mitchell, Marcel de Jong, Jalil Ani baba, Amadou Dia, Mikey Lopez

Sporting KC: Jon Kempin; Seth Sinovic, Matt Besler (c), Kevin Ellis, Chance Myers (Saad Abdul-Salaam 70); Soni Mustivar, Benny Feilhaber, Paulo Nagamura (Jalil Anibaba 92+); Krisztian Nemeth (Bernardo Anor 82), Dom Dwyer, Graham Zusi Subs not used: Trey Mitchell, Marcel de Jong, Jalil Ani baba, Amadou Dia, Mikey Lopez

Orlando City SC: Tally Hall; Luke Boden, Aurelien Collin, David Mateos, Rafael Ramos; Servando Carrasco, Cristian Higuita, Adrian Winter (Eric Avila 73), Lewis Neal, Carlos Rivas (Brek Shea 61); Cyle Larin (Bryan Rochez 57) Subs not used: Earl Edwards, Seb Hines, Tommy Redding, Danny Mwanga Stats Summary Shots (on goal) Saves Fouls Offside Corner Kicks

SKC 9 (3) 1 11 4 5

ORL 8 (4) 2 13 2 3

Misconduct Summary: SKC -- Matt Besler (caution; tactical foul) 83 ORL -- Brek Shea (caution; dissent) 83 SKC -- Dom Dwyer (ejecton; violent conduct) 87 Scoring Summary: ORL -- Adrian Winter 1 (Luke Boden 4) 3 SKC -- Krisztian Nemeth 9 (Benny Feilhaber 14) 59 ORL -- Bryan Rochez 1 (Brek Shea 2, David Mateos 1) 66 ORL -- Adrian Winter 2 (Lewis Neal 1) 72

FC Dallas: Jesse Gonzalez; Je-Vaughn Watson, Matt Hedges, Zach Loyd (Blas Perez 71), Walker Zimmerman; Atiba Harris, Michel, Victor Ulloa, Ezequiel Cirigliano (Tesho Akindele 64); Michael Barrios, David Texeira (Fabian Castillo 46) Subs not used: Chris Seitz, Moises Hernandez, Ryan Hollingshead, Rolando Escobar Stats Summary Shots (on goal) Saves Fouls Offside Corner Kicks

SKC 18 (9) 3 7 2 6

DAL 8 (4) 6 12 0 3

Misconduct Summary: SKC -- Bernardo Anor (caution; unsporting behavior) 86 Scoring Summary: SKC -- Benny Feilhaber 9 (unassisted) 65 SKC -- Benny Feilhaber 10 (penalty kick) 76 DAL -- Victor Ulloa 1 (Fabian Castillo 7) 80 SKC -- Dom Dwyer 10 (Paulo Nagamura 1) 83

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes SPORTING KC MISCELLANEOUS STATS

SPORTING KC IN 2015 (MLS REGULAR SEASON)

Regular Season Record By Month

2015 Record When... Scoring first goal Conceding first goal Leading at halftime Tied at halftime Trailing at halftime Scoring 0 goals Scoring 1 goal Scoring 2 goals Scoring 3 goals Scoring 4+ goals Allowing 0 goals Allowing 1 goal Allowing 2 goals Allowing 3 goals Allowing 4+ goals Wearing Sporting blue Wearing dark indigo Wearing white Leading at 75’ Tied at 75’ Trailing at 75’ Outshooting opponent Outshot by opponent Shots even One-goal games On ESPN/2 On FOX Sports 1 On KMCI-TV Day games (before 5 p.m.) Games 5 p.m. CT or later With red card for With red card against Temperature 75 & up Temperature below 75 In Pacific time zone In Mountain time zone In Central time zone In Eastern time zone vs. Eastern Conference vs. Western Conference On grass On turf With zero subs With one sub With two subs with three subs

9-2-3 3-6-1 6-0-1 4-5-6 2-3-1 0-1-4 4-6-3 2-1-0 3-0-0 3-0-1 6-0-4 3-0-3 2-4-0 1-3-0 0-1-1 6-7-6 4-1-0 2-0-2 9-1-1 1-3-6 2-4-1 9-3-5 2-4-3 1-1-0 7-5-0 2-0-0 1-2-1 9-6-7 2-0-0 10-8-8 0-2-1 2-0-2 6-5-4 6-3-4 1-1-2 0-3-0 9-2-5 2-2-1 6-2-2 6-6-6 11-7-6 1-1-2 0-0-0 1-0-0 1-3-1 10-5-6

March 2015 March all-time April 2015 April all-time May 2015 May all-time June 2015 June all-time July 2015 July all-time Aug. 2015 Aug. all-time Sept. 2015 Sept. all-time Oct. 2015 Oct. all-time

Quickest Goals...

1-1-2 13-9-6 1-1-2 39-31-14 3-0-2 33-39-23 2-1-0 38-29-21 2-1-0 46-33-24 2-3-1 39-48-15 1-1-1 29-36-14 0-0-0 18-12-14

Quickest Goals Against... Game-winning goals after 75’...

2nd min, Krisztian Nemeth, 4/25 at HOU 4th min, Benny Feilhaber, 7/18 vs MTL 6th min, Dom Dwyer, 8/1 vs HOU 12th min, Ike Opara, 3/28 at NYC

3rd min, own goal (Jacob Peterson), 4/05 vs PHI 3rd min, Cordell Cato, 8/19 vs SJ 3rd min, Adrian Winter, 9/13 at ORL 9th min, Baggio Husidic, 4/18 at LA 9th min, Kekuta Manneh, 8/15 vs VAN 94th min, Krisztian Nemeth, 4/05 vs PHI 84th min, Benny Feilhaber, 6/6 vs SEA 94th min, Paulo Nagamura, 8/15 vs VAN 76th min, Benny Feilhaber, 9/18 vs DAL

Game-tying goals after 75’...

95th min, Benny Feilhaber, 4/25 at HOU

Game-winning goals against after 75’...

Regular Season Team-By-Team (in 2015) 14-25-11 (1-0-0) vs. Chicago Fire vs. Colorado Rapids 23-18-13 (1-1-0) vs. Columbus Crew 24-22-6 (0-1-0) vs. D.C. United 20-20-12 (0-0-1) vs. FC Dallas 22-20-10 (2-1-0) vs. Houston Dynamo 5-7-10 (0-0-2) vs. LA Galaxy 19-24-11 (0-1-0) vs. Montreal Impact 6-3-1 (1-0-0) vs. NE Revolution 24-16-11 (1-0-0) vs. New York City FC 1-0-0 (1-0-0) vs. New York Red Bulls 19-20-13 (0-0-1) vs. Orlando City SC 0-1-0 (0-1-0) vs. Philadelphia Union 5-4-4 (1-0-0) vs. Portland Timbers 3-2-2 (0-0-2) vs. Real Salt Lake 8-7-5 (0-2-1) vs. SJ Earthquakes 21-22-7 (0-1-0) vs. Seattle Sounders FC 2-7-2 (1-0-1) vs. Toronto FC 13-4-5 (1-0-0) vs. Vancouver Whitecaps 4-1-2 (2-0-0) Regular Season Home and Away Overall All-time 2015 at home All-time at home 2015 on road All-time on road

255-237-131 9-1-4 165-86-60 3-7-4 90-151-71

94th min, Omar Gonzalez, 4/18 at LA 93rd min, Olmes Garcia, 6/21 at RSL 88th min, Jack McInerney, 8/22 at CLB 76th min, Kevin Doyle, 8/29 at COL

Game-tying goals against after 75’...

78th min, Ricardo Clark, 8/1 vs HOU

Own Goals...

3rd min, Jacob Peterson, 4/05 vs PHI

Own Goals Against...

64th min, Sam Cronin, 6/27 vs COL

Red Cards...

70th min, Matt Besler, 3/8 vs NYR 71st min, Benny Feilhaber, 8/19 vs SJ 87th min, Dom Dwyer, 9/13 at ORL

Red Cards Against...

79th min, Jermaine Taylor, 4/25 at HOU 89th min, David Accam, 5/3 vs CHI 43rd min, Zach Loyd, 5/29 vs DAL 86th min, Nathan Sturgis, 8/1 vs HOU

Penalty Kicks...

79th min, Dom Dwyer (saved), 3/14 at DAL 80th min, Benny Feilhaber (goal), 4/25 at HOU 43rd min, Benny Feilhaber (goal), 5/20 vs NE 84th min, Benny Feilhaber (goal), 6/6 vs SEA 22nd min, Benny Feilhaber (goal), 8/8 at TOR 76th min, Benny Feilhaber (goal), 9/18 at DAL

Penalty Kicks Against...

73rd min, Joao Plata (goal), 7/24 at RSL 17th min, Chris Wondolowski (goal), 8/19 vs SJ

Youngest Goalscorer... Oldest Goalscorer... Youngest Starter... Youngest to play in a game... Oldest Starter... Oldest to play in a game...

23 years, 333 days, Kevin Ellis, 5/29 vs DAL 32 years, 166 days, Paulo Nagamura, 8/15 vs VAN 18 years, 15 days, Erik Palmer-Brown, 5/9 at DC 17 years, 318 days, Erik Palmer-Brown, 3/8 vs NY 32 years, 200 days, Paulo Nagamura, 9/18 at DAL 32 years, 200 days, Paulo Nagamura, 9/18 at DAL

2015 MLS REGULAR SEASON TEAM STATS GOALS 1 2 Total SPORTING KC 18 26 44 OppONENT 18 21 39

SHOTS 1 2 Total SPORTING KC 171 164 335 OppONENT 137 150 287

SHOTS ON GOAL SPORTING KC OppONENT

1 53 53

2 60 71

Total 113 124

FOULS 1 2 Total SPORTING KC 166 196 362 OppONENT 166 166 332

OFFSIDES 1 2 Total SPORTING KC 26 23 49 OppONENT 52 41 93

CORNER KICKS 1 2 Total SPORTING KC 66 60 126 OppONENT 75 74 149

CAUTIONS 1 2 Total SPORTING KC 20 31 51 OppONENT 10 35 45

EJECTIONS 1 2 Total SPORTING KC 0 3 3 OppONENT 1 3 4

PK’S (converted) 1 2 Total SPORTING KC 2 (2) 4 (3) 6 (5) OppONENT 1 (1) 1 (1) 2 (2)

Sporting kc all-time win/loss records IN COMPETITIVE MATCHES overall Competition MLS Reg. Season MLS Playoffs U.S. Open Cup International TOTAL

W L T 255 237 131 17 19 7 23 14 5 9 10 8 304 280 151

home GF GA 876 845 57 57 85 50 33 37 1051 989

Competition MLS Reg. Season MLS Playoffs U.S. Open Cup International TOTAL

W 165 14 17 5 201

L 86 3 7 3 99

away T 60 3 2 5 70

GF GA 519 374 35 15 59 26 16 10 629 425

Competition MLS Reg. Season MLS Playoffs U.S. Open Cup International TOTAL

W L 90 151 2 15 6 7 4 7 102 180

T 71 4 3 2 80

Neutral site MLS Cup Playoffs International TOTAL

W L T 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 1

GF GA 357 471 19 39 26 24 17 27 419 561 GF GA 3 3 0 0 3 3

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes SPORTING KANSAS CITY 2015 GOAL CHART 18

6 1

35 38 33

37 9

15 13 40

26 30 12 20

19 23

41 39

LEGEND + Free Kick * Corner Kick ^ Penalty Kick # Throw-In ~ Own Goal

42 11

Penalty kicks: 10, 16, 22, 31, 43

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Left-footed

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GOAL INFORMATION 1 - Ike Opara 1 (Benny Feilhaber 1), Mar. 8 vs NYR, 50th min 2 - Roger Espinoza 1 (Benny Feilhaber 2), Mar. 14 at FCD, 44th min 3 - Ike Opara 2 (Matt Besler 1), Mar. 28 at NYC, 12th min # 4 - Dom Dwyer 1 (Benny Feilhaber 3), Apr. 5 vs PHI, 16th min * 5 - Jalil Anibaba 1 (Roger Espinoza 1), Apr. 5 vs PHI, 91st min 6 - Krisztian Nemeth 1 (Matt Besler 2, Benny Feilhaber 4), Apr. 5 vs PHI, 94th min * 7 - Krisztian Nemeth 2 (Benny Feilhaber 5, Dom Dwyer 1), Apr. 18 at LA, 22nd min 8 - Krisztian Nemeth 3 (Marcel de Jong 1), Apr. 25 at HOU, 2nd min 9 - Dom Dwyer 2 (unassisted), Apr. 25 at HOU, 74th min 10 - Benny Feilhaber 1 (penalty kick), Apr. 25 at HOU, 80th min ^ 11 - Benny Feilhaber 2 (Graham Zusi 1), Apr. 25 at HOU, 95th min 12 - Paulo Nagamura 1 (Jalil Anibaba 1, Graham Zusi 2), May 3 vs CHI, 75th min 13 - Dom Dwyer 3 (Roger Espinoza 2), May 9 at DC, 45th min 14 - Dom Dwyer 4 (Krisztian Nemeth 1, Jalil Anibaba 2), May 20 vs NE, 29th min 15 - Krisztian Nemeth 4 (Benny Feilhaber 6), May 20 vs NE, 39th min + 16 - Benny Feilhaber 3 (penalty kick), May 20 vs NE, 43rd min ^ 17 - Krisztian Nemeth 5 (Jacob Peterson 1, Benny Feilhaber 7), May 20 vs NE, 46th min 18 - Krisztian Nemeth 6 (Kevin Ellis 1, Graham Zusi 3), May 29 vs DAL, 19th min + 19 - Benny Feilhaber 4 (Krisztian Nemeth 2, Jalil Anibaba 3), May 29 vs DAL, 51st min 20 - Kevin Ellis 1 (Graham Zusi 4), May 29 vs DAL, 57th min * 21 - Graham Zusi (Connor Hallisey 1, Jalil Anibaba 4), May 29 vs DAL, 64th min 22 - Benny Feilhaber 5 (penalty kick), June 6 vs SEA, 84th min ^

23 - Dom Dwyer 5 (Benny Feilhaber 8), June 21 at RSL, 30th min 24 - Krisztian Nemeth 7 (Chance Myers 1, Benny Feilhaber 9), June 27 vs COL, 32nd min 25 - Own goal (Sam Cronin), June 27 vs COL, 64th min 26 - Kevin Ellis 2 (Krisztian Nemeth 3), July 12 at VAN, 52nd min 27 - Benny Feilhaber 6 (Krisztian Nemeth 4, Roger Espinoza 3), July 18 vs MTL, 4th min 28 - Dom Dwyer 6 (Benny Feilhaber 10), July 18 vs MTL, 34th min 29 - Benny Feilhaber 7 (Roger Espinoza 4), July 24 at RSL, 50th min 30 - Dom Dwyer 7 (Benny Feilhaber 11), Aug. 1 vs HOU, 6th min + 31 - Benny Feilhaber 8 (penalty kick), Aug. 8 at TOR, 22nd min ^ 32 - Krisztian Nemeth 8 (Benny Feilhaber 12), Aug. 8 at TOR, 29th min + 33 - Jacob Peterson 1 (Amobi Okugo 1), Aug. 8 at TOR, 87th min 34 - Kevin Ellis 3 (Soni Mustivar 1), Aug. 15 vs VAN, 53rd min 35 - Dom Dwyer 8 (Krisztian Nemeth 5), Aug. 15 vs VAN, 81st min 36 - Paulo Nagamura 2 (Chance Myers 2, Benny Feilhaber 13), Aug. 15 vs VAN, 87th min 37 - Paulo Nagamura 3 (Soni Mustivar 2), Aug. 15 vs VAN, 94th min 38 - Marcel de Jong 1 (Saad Abdul-Salaam 1, Dom Dwyer 2), Aug. 22 at CLB, 14th min 39 - Graham Zusi 2 (Matt Besler 3), Aug. 22 at CLB, 62nd min 40 - Dom Dwyer 9 (Krisztian Nemeth 6), Aug. 29 at COL, 47th min 41 - Krisztian Nemeth 9 (Benny Feilhaber 14), Sept. 13 at ORL, 59th min 42 - Benny Feilhaber 9 (unassisted), Sept. 18 vs DAL, 65th min + 43 - Benny Feilhaber 10 (penalty kick), Sept. 18 vs DAL, 76th min ^ 44 - Dom Dwyer 10 (Paulo Nagamura 1), Sept. 18 vs DAL, 83rd min

SPORTING KANSAS CITY 2015 MLS RECORD WHEN... Saad Abdul-Salaam Jalil Anibaba Bernardo Anor Matt Besler Marcel de Jong Amadou Dia Dom Dwyer Kevin Ellis Roger Espinoza Benny Feilhaber Connor Hallisey Jon Kempin Mikey Lopez Jimmy Medranda Tim Melia Soni Mustivar Chance Myers Paulo Nagamura Krisztian Nemeth Amobi Okugo Ike Opara Erik Palmer-Brown Jacob Peterson Jordi Quintilla Seth Sinovic Graham Zusi

STARTS Overall Home Away 3-3-1 2-0-0 1-3-1 6-2-5 5-0-2 1-2-3 0-0-1 0-0-1 0-0-0 12-7-8 9-1-4 3-6-4 3-4-3 3-0-2 0-4-1 5-3-3 4-1-2 1-2-1 9-8-7 7-1-4 2-7-3 10-7-4 8-1-1 2-6-3 7-4-6 6-0-4 1-4-2 12-6-8 9-1-4 3-5-4 4-0-0 3-0-0 1-0-0 1-1-0 1-0-0 0-1-0 0-2-0 0-0-0 0-2-0 4-1-2 2-0-1 2-1-1 9-5-4 7-1-1 2-4-3 10-3-4 8-0-1 2-3-3 3-2-1 2-1-1 1-1-0 5-5-2 3-1-1 2-4-1 9-7-5 7-1-3 2-6-2 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-0-0 2-1-3 1-0-3 1-1-0 0-1-1 0-0-0 0-1-1 5-4-4 3-1-1 2-3-3 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 3-2-3 2-0-1 1-2-2 6-6-6 5-0-3 1-6-3

COMES ON AS A SUB Overall Home Away 6-2-2 5-0-1 1-2-1 1-0-1 1-0-0 0-0-1 2-3-3 1-0-2 1-3-1 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 1-1-0 1-1-0 0-0-0 4-3-2 3-0-0 1-3-2 1-0-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-1 0-0-1 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-1-0 0-0-0 0-1-0 3-1-3 2-0-0 1-1-3 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 2-0-2 1-0-1 1-0-1 2-1-0 2-0-0 0-1-0 2-0-2 2-0-2 0-0-0 1-1-1 1-0-0 0-1-1 1-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-1 0-0-1 0-0-0 4-4-2 3-0-2 1-4-0 0-2-1 0-0-0 0-2-1 1-0-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 0-1-1 0-1-0 0-0-1

SCORES A GOAL Overall Home Away 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-1-0 0-1-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 5-2-3 5-0-1 0-2-2 3-0-0 2-0-0 1-0-0 0-1-0 0-0-0 0-1-0 6-1-1 5-0-0 1-1-1 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 5-2-1 4-0-0 1-2-1 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-1 0-0-1 1-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 1-1-0 1-0-0 0-1-0

RECORDS AN ASSIST Overall Home Away 0-1-0 0-0-0 0-1-0 3-0-0 3-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 2-1-0 1-0-0 1-1-0 0-0-1 0-0-0 0-0-1 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-2-0 0-0-0 0-2-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 2-1-1 2-0-0 0-1-1 6-4-2 5-0-2 1-4-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 2-0-0 2-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 5-1-0 4-0-0 1-1-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 1-0-0 1-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 0-0-0 2-0-1 2-0-0 0-0-1

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes SPORTING KANSAS CITY 2015 GAME-BY-GAME LINEUPS MLS // // OPEN CUP* NEW YORK RED BULLS March 8, 2015 (T 1-1) GK Marin D Dia D Opara D Besler D Sinovic M Feilhaber M Espinoza M Nemeth (Peterson (77’) F Zusi (Palmer-Brown (85’) F Dwyer F Anor (Nagamura 61’)

at FC Dallas March 14, 2015 (L 1-3) GK Marin D Dia D Opara D Ellis D de Jong M Nagamura M Feilhaber M Espinoza F Zusi (Peterson 88’) F Dwyer F Nemeth (Anor 76’)

PORTLAND TIMBERS March 21, 2015 (T 0-0) GK Marin D Anibaba D Opara D Besler D de Jong M Nagamura M Feilhaber (Carrasco (84’) M Espinoza (Mustivar 89’) F Zusi F Dwyer F Medranda (Anor 56’)

at New York City FC March 28, 2015 (W 1-0) GK Marin D Anibaba D Opara D Besler D Sinovic M Nagamura (Mustivar 78’) M Carrasco M Feilhaber F Zusi (Anor 39’) F Dwyer F Medranda (Peterson 67’)

PHILADELPHIA UNION April 5, 2015 (W 3-2) GK Marin D Anibaba D Opara D Besler D de Jong (Sinovic 46’) M Feilhaber M Carrasco (Mustivar 77’) M Espinoza F Peterson F Dwyer F Medranda (Nemeth 64’)

REAL SALT LAKE April 11, 2015 (T 0-0) GK Marin D Anibaba D Opara (Ellis 84’) D Besler D de Jong M Feilhaber M Carrasco M Espinoza F Peterson (Anor 77’) F Dwyer F Nemeth

at LA Galaxy April 18, 2015 (L 1-2) GK Marin D Anibaba D Ellis D Besler D de Jong (Dia 75’) M Feilhaber M Carrasco M Espinoza F Zusi (Peterson (90’) F Dwyer F Nemeth (Anor 75’)

at Houston Dynamo April 25, 2015 (T 4-4) GK Marin D Anibaba D Ellis (Hallisey 90’) D Besler D de Jong (Dia 63’) M Feilhaber M Carrasco (Mustivar 55’) M Espinoza F Zusi F Dwyer F Nemeth

CHICAGO FIRE May 3, 2015 (W 1-0) GK Melia D Anibaba D Ellis D Besler D Sinovic (Dia 77’) M Feilhaber M Mustivar (Peterson 85’) M Espinoza (Nagamura 65’) F Zusi F Dwyer F Nemeth

at D.C. United May 9, 2015 (T 1-1) GK Melia D Anibaba D Palmer-Brown D Besler D Sinovic M Feilhaber M Mustivar M Espinoza F Zusi (Dia 89’) F Dwyer (Nemeth 71’) F Peterson (Hallisey 85’)

NE REVOLUTION May 20, 2015 (W 4-2) GK Melia D Anibaba D Ellis D Besler D Dia M Feilhaber M Mustivar M Nagamura (Carrasco 86’) F Peterson (Hallisey 79’) F Dwyer F Nemeth (Abdul-Salaam 89’)

at Seattle Sounders FC May 23, 2015 (T 0-0) GK Melia D Anibaba D Ellis D Besler D Dia M Feilhaber M Mustivar M Carrasco (Zusi 77’) F Peterson (Hallisey 56’) F Nemeth F Medranda (Abdul-Salaam 58’)

FC DALLAS May 29, 2015 (W 4-0) GK Melia D Anibaba D Ellis D Besler D Dia M Feilhaber M Mustivar M Espinoza(Carrasco 71’) F Zusi (Abdul-Salaam 83’) F Nemeth F Hallisey (de Jong 65’)

SEATTLE SOUNDERS FC June 6, 2015 (W 1-0) GK Melia D Anibaba D Ellis D Besler D Dia M Feilhaber M Mustivar M Espinoza F de Jong (Dwyer 58’) F Zusi F Hallisey (Abdul-Salaam 85’)

SAINT LOUIS FC * June 16, 2015 (W 1-0) GK Melia D Myers (Abdul-Salaam 56’) D Ellis D Besler D Dia (de Jong 81’) M Feilhaber M Mustivar M Espinoza F Zusi F Dwyer F Hallisey (Peterson 68’)

at Real Salt Lake June 21, 2015 (L 1-2) GK Melia D Anibaba D Ellis D Besler D Dia (Abdul-Salaam 90’) M Feilhaber M Mustivar M Espinoza F Zusi F Dwyer F Nemeth (Peterson 75’)

COLORADO RAPIDS June 27, 2015 (W 2-0) GK Melia D Myers (Dia 89’) D Ellis D Besler D de Jong (Abdul-Salaam 78’) M Feilhaber M Mustivar M Espinoza F Zusi F Dwyer F Nemeth (Peterson 71’)

FC DALLAS * July 1, 2015 (W 6-2) GK Melia D Anibaba D Ellis D Besler D Dia M Feilhaber (Nagamura 62’) M Mustivar M Espinoza F Peterson (Abdul-Salaam 50’) F Dwyer F Nemeth (Hallisey 75’)

at Vancouver Whitecaps FC July 12, 2015 (W 1-0) GK Melia D Abdul-Salaam D Ellis D Besler D Dia M Feilhaber M Mustivar M Espinoza F Peterson (Hallisey 83’) F Dwyer F Nemeth

MONTREAL IMPACT July 18, 2015 (W 2-1) GK Melia D Abdul-Salaam D Ellis D Besler D Dia M Feilhaber (Nagamura 74’) M Mustivar M Espinoza F Peterson (Myers 79’) F Dwyer F Nemeth (Hallisey 63’)

HOUSTON DYNAMO * July 21, 2015 (W 3-1) GK Melia D Myers D Ellis D Besler D Dia M Feilhaber M Mustivar M Espinoza (Nagamura 90’) F Hallisey (Peterson 54’) F Dwyer F Nemeth (Peterson 91’)

at Real Salt Lake July 24, 2015 (L 1-2) GK Melia D Abdul-Salaam D Palmer-Brown D Besler D de Jong (Dia 46’) M Nagamura (Feilhaber 46’) M Mustivar M Espinoza F Peterson (Hallisey 79’) F Dwyer F Nemeth

HOUSTON DYNAMO Aug. 1, 2015 (T 1-1) GK Melia D Myers (Abdul-Salaam 79’) D Ellis D Besler D Dia M Feilhaber M Mustivar M Espinoza (Nagamura 90’) F Zusi (Peterson 94’) F Dwyer F Nemeth

at Toronto FC Aug. 8, 2015 (W 3-1) GK Melia D Myers (Dia 88’) D Ellis D Besler D Medranda M Feilhaber M Mustivar M Nagamura (Okugo 57’) F Hallisey F Peterson F Nemeth (Abdul-Salaam 76’)

REAL SALT LAKE * Aug. 12, 2015 (W 3-1) GK Melia D Abdul-Salaam (de Jong 92’) D Ellis D Besler D Dia M Feilhaber M Mustivar M Nagamura F Peterson (Hallisey 64’) F Dwyer F Nemeth (Myers 87’)

VANCOUVER WHITECAPS FC Aug. 15, 2015 (W 4-3) GK Melia D Abdul-Salaam (Myers 73’) D Ellis D Besler D Medranda (Dia 34’) M Feilhaber M Mustivar M Nagamura F Hallisey (Peterson 46’) F Dwyer F Nemeth

SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES Aug. 19, 2015 (L 0-5) GK Melia D Myers D Ellis D Besler D Dia (de Jong 46’) M Feilhaber M Okugo (Lopez 46’) M Nagamura (Zusi 68’) F Peterson F Dwyer F Nemeth

at Columbus Crew SC Aug. 22, 2015 (L 2-3) GK Melia D Abdul-Salaam D Ellis D Besler D Medranda (Dia 57’) M Lopez M Nagamura M Zusi F Peterson (Myers 78’) F Dwyer F de Jong (Nemeth 90’)

at Colorado Rapids Aug. 29, 2015 (L 1-2) GK Melia D Myers (Abdul-Salaam 24’) D Ellis D Besler D Sinovic M Lopez (Quintilla 77’) M Feilhaber M Nagamura F Zusi (Peterson 84’) F Dwyer F Nemeth

at Portland Timbers Sept. 9, 2015 (T 0-0) GK Melia D Abdul-Salaam (Anibaba 62’) D Ellis D Besler D Sinovic M Feilhaber (Quintilla 95’) M Mustivar M Nagamura F Peterson (Anor 75’) F Dwyer F Zusi

at Orlando City SC Sept. 13, 2015 (L 1-3) GK Kempin D Abdul-Salaam D Ellis D Besler D Sinovic M Feilhaber (Quintilla 73’) M Mustivar M Zusi F Peterson (Anor 46’) F Dwyer F Nemeth

FC DALLAS Sept. 18, 2015 (W 3-1) GK Kempin D Myers D Ellis D Besler D Sinovic (Abdul Salaam 70’) M Feilhaber M Mustivar M Nagamura (Anibaba 92’) F Zusi F Dwyer F Nemeth (Anor 82’) 17

#23 | D | Jalil Anibaba | @jalil_anibaba4

Ht: 6-4 Wt. 185 DOB: 9/8/1991 Hometown: Gahanna, Ohio College: Akron Acquired: 2015 MLS SuperDraft 1st Round (#12)

Ht: 6-0 Wt. 185 DOB: 10/19/1988 Hometown: Fullerton, California College: North Carolina Last Club: Seattle Sounders FC Acquired: Trade with Orlando City SC on 12/12/2014

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 0 Assists 1, Aug. 22, 2015, KC at CLB Shots on Goal 1, 2 times, last: Sept. 9, 2015, KC at POR Shots 1, 4 times, last: Sept. 9, 2015, KC at POR Fouls Committed 2, 2 times, last: Sept. 9, 2015, KC at POR Fouls Suffered 3, 2 times, last: Sept. 9, 2015, KC at POR Last Regular Season... Appearance Sept. 18, 2015, KC vs DAL Goal N/A Assist Aug. 22, 2015, KC at CLB 2015 Record when: he starts 3-3-1 he scores 0-0-0

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 2, Oct. 22, 2011, CHI vs CLB Assists 2, May 29, 2015, KC vs DAL Shots on Goal 2, 2 times, last: Oct. 27, 2012, CHI vs DC Shots 3, 4 times, last: Mar. 21, 2015, KC vs POR Fouls Committed 3, 8 times, last: May 3, 2015, KC vs CHI Fouls Suffered 3, 4 times, last: Apr. 5, 2014, SEA at POR Last Regular Season... Appearance Sept. 18, 2015, KC vs DAL Goal Apr. 5, 2015, KC vs PHI Assist May 29, 2015, KC vs DAL 2015 Record when: he starts 6-2-5 he scores 1-0-0

Rookie defender Saad Abdul-Salaam was selected by Sporting KC with the 12th overall pick in the 2015 MLS SuperDraft. He made his Sporting KC debut with a substitute appearance in a 4-2 win over New England on May 20 after starting five games on loan for the reigning North American Soccer League champion San Antonio Scorpions. He has made 21 appearances in all competitions this season (14 in MLS) and recorded his first professional assist in a 6-2 U.S. Open Cup win over FC Dallas on July 1. He earned his first MLS start on July 12, a 1-0 win over Vancouver in which Abdul-Salaam received Team of the Week honors from Bleacher Report. Abdul-Salaam played three seasons at the University of Akron (2012-2014), recording three goals and 12 assists in 54 college games. The right back helped Akron win MAC regular season titles in each of his three college seasons. He enjoyed a breakout junior campaign in 2013 with five assists in 19 starts before earning All-MAC First Team honors as a senior in 2014, notching two goals and a team-high six assists while starting all 21 games for the Zips.

Fifth-year MLS defender Jalil Anibaba joined Sporting KC ahead of the 2015 season. He made 112 regular season appearances over four years with the Chicago Fire (2011-2013) and Seattle Sounders FC (2014), recording four goals and six assists. He made his Sporting KC debut on March 21 and scored his first goal for the club in second half stoppage time of a 3-2 win over Philadelphia on April 5. His first of four Sporting KC assists during the month of May was a game-winner to Paulo Nagamura on May 3, and he was named to the fan ballot for the 2015 AT&T MLS All-Star Game. Capable of playing as a centerback or right back, Anibaba made 16 MLS appearances in 2014 and helped Seattle win the Supporters’ Shield title. He also featured in four matches during the club’s run to the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open championship. The 26-year-old spent his first three professional seasons in Chicago, where he played in 96 of the team’s 102 regular season contests from 2011-2013. The defender was named a finalist for Major League Soccer’s Fair Play Award in 2013, starting every regular season match of the campaign. As a youth, Anibaba represented the United States at the under-18 and under-20 national team levels.

#11 | M | Bernardo Anor | @BernardoAnor

#5 | D | Matt Besler | @MattBesler

Ht: 6-1 Wt. 178 DOB: 5/24/1988 Hometown: Caracas, Venezuela College: South Florida Last Club: Columbus Crew SC Acquired: Trade with Columbus Crew SC on 12/8/2014

Ht: 6-0 Wt. 170 DOB: 2/11/1987 Hometown: Overland Park, Kansas College: Notre Dame Acquired: 2009 MLS SuperDraft 1st Round (#8)

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 2, 2 times, last: July 19, 2014, CLB vs MTL Assists 1, 3 times, last: Oct. 11, 2014, CLB at PHI Shots on Goal 3, May 4, 2014, CLB at KC Shots 5, 3 times, last: July 19, 2014, CLB vs MTL Fouls Committed 5, 2 times, last: July 7, 2013, CLB vs POR Fouls Suffered 4, 3 times, last: July 26, 2014, CLB at NE Last Regular Season... Appearance Sept. 18, 2015, KC vs DAL Goal Oct. 26, 2014, CLB vs PHI Assist Oct. 11, 2014, CLB at PHI 2015 Record when: he starts 0-0-1 he scores 0-0-0

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 1, 2 times, last: Oct. 22, 2011, KC at DC Assists 1, 10 times, last: Aug. 22, 2015, KC at CLB Shots on Goal 2, Oct. 9, 2010, KC vs SEA Shots 2, 4 times, last: Mar. 16, 2013, KC vs CHI Fouls Committed 5, Aug. 4, 2012, KC at NE Fouls Suffered 4, Sept. 26, 2009, KC vs COL Last Regular Season... Appearance Sept. 18, 2015, KC vs DAL Goal Oct. 22, 2011, KC at DC Assist Aug. 22, 2015, KC at CLB 2015 Record when: he starts 12-7-8 he scores 0-0-0

Bernardo Anor joined Sporting KC from Columbus Crew SC in December 2014 to become the club’s first offseason acquisition. The 27-year-old native of Venezuela appeared in 72 matches over four seasons with Columbus, scoring 12 goals and adding three game-winning assists since being drafted out of the University of South Florida in 2011. He made his Sporting KC debut with a start on March 8 before being sidelined from May through August with multiple injuries. Anor played 13 MLS matches as a rookie and 11 games in 2012 before suffering a season-ending ACL injury. He returned in 2013 to make 19 MLS starts and earn the club’s Comeback Player of the Year award. He netted a career-high six goals in 2014, helping Columbus earn a postseason berth for the first time since 2011. Anor was South Florida’s top scorer for three seasons during his collegiate career (2007-2010) in which he recorded 21 goals and seven assists. His younger brother, Juan Pablo, plays professionally for Malaga CF in Spain’s La Liga, and his father, Bernardo, represented Venezuela at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Sporting KC captain Matt Besler is in his seventh season at his hometown club. He has earned MLS Best XI (2012, 2013), MLS All-Star (2011, 2013-2015), MLS Defender of the Year (2012) and MLS Breakout Player of the Year (2012) honors and was named the 2014 KC Sportsman of the Year by the Kansas City Sports Commission. He was named to the MLS All-Star Fan XI ahead of the 2015 AT&T MLS All-Star Game on July 29. Besler signed a long-term Designated Player contract with the club in July 2014. His 212 appearances for Sporting KC in all competitions lead the current roster and rank eighth most all-time. A regular staple of the team’s backline, he has started 172 of his 177 MLS regular season appearances and landed Sporting KC Defender of the Year honors three times (2011-2013). Besler has earned 26 caps for the United States Men’s National Team since debuting in January 2013. He was on the U.S. roster for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil alongside teammate Graham Zusi, becoming the first Kansan to play in the World Cup. He started all four matches in the tournament as the U.S. finished Group G runners-up behind eventual champion Germany and advanced to the Round of 16. He helped lead the U.S. to the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup title, starting all three matches in the knockout stage. 18

Sporting KC Player Bios | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes #71 | D | Marcel de Jong

#13 | D | Amadou Dia | @amadou_iT11

Ht: 5-9 Wt. 170 DOB: 10/15/1986 Hometown: Valkenswaard, Netherlands Last Club: FC Augsburg (Germany) Acquired: Signed on 3/2/2015

Ht: 5-10 Wt. 150 DOB: 6/8/1993 Hometown: Highlands Ranch, Colorado College: Clemson Acquired: 2015 MLS SuperDraft 1st Round (#20)

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 1, Aug. 22, 2015, KC at CLB Assists 1, Apr. 25, 2015, KC at HOU Shots on Goal 1, 3 times, last: Aug. 22, 2015, KC at CLB Shots 5, June 6, 2015, KC vs SEA Fouls Committed 1, 3 times, last: Aug. 19, 2015, KC vs SJ Fouls Suffered 2, 3 times, last: Apr. 18, 2015, KC at LA Last Regular Season... Appearance Aug. 22, 2015, KC at CLB Goal Aug. 22, 2015, KC at CLB Assist Apr. 25, 2015, KC at HOU 2015 Record when: he starts 3-4-3 he scores 0-1-0

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 0 Assists 0 Shots on Goal 1, 3 times, last: June 6, 2015, KC vs SEA Shots 2, Mar. 8, 2015, KC vs NYR Fouls Committed 6, Aug. 1, 2015, KC vs HOU Fouls Suffered 3, June 6, 2015, KC vs SEA Last Regular Season... Appearance Aug. 22, 2015, KC at CLB Goal N/A Assist N/A 2015 Record when: he starts 5-3-3 he scores 0-0-0

Sporting KC signed defender Marcel de Jong ahead of the 2015 campaign. After logging more than 225 club appearances over his past 10 professional seasons in Netherlands and Germany, he made his MLS and Sporting KC debut on March 14 with a 90-minute performance at FC Dallas. He scored his first MLS goal in a 3-2 loss at Columbus on Aug. 22. A dual citizen of Canada and Netherlands, de Jong began his youth career with PSV Eindhoven before signing professionally with Helmond Sport 2004. After two years in the Dutch second division, he joined Roda JC in the top flight Eredivisie in 2006. De Jong moved to Germany in 2010, signing for FC Augsburg. His first season there ended with promotion to the Bundesliga for the first time since the team was founded in 1907. De Jong has made 38 appearances for the Canada Men’s National Team with two goals since his international debut at age 21 in 2007, recently starting in all three group stage matches at the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup in July. He has represented his country at each of the past four Gold Cup tournaments, as well as 2010, 2014 and 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifying.

Rookie defender Amadou Dia was selected by Sporting KC with the 20th overall pick in the 2015 MLS SuperDraft. On March 8, the 21-year-old became the first rookie to start in a Sporting KC season opener since 2011 and recorded seven interceptions, third most among MLS players in Week 1. He has started 11 of 20 MLS appearances this year and 15 of 24 in all competitions, recording his first assist for the club in the U.S Open Cup quarterfinals against Houston. Dia appeared in 70 games during a four-year collegiate career at Clemson, contributing four goals and six assists. As a senior in 2014, he led the Tigers to the school’s first ACC soccer championship since 2001 en route to reaching the Round of 16 in the NCAA Division I Men’s Soccer Championship. Dia has represented the United States at the under-14 (2007), under-18 (2009, 2010) and under-20 (2012) levels and also holds dual citizenship in his native France. As a youth, he was an NSCAA All-American and Colorado’s Gatorade Boys Soccer Player of the Year in 2010.

#14 | F | Dom Dwyer | @Ddwyer14

#4 | D | Kevin Ellis | @Kev_Ellis4

Ht: 5-9 Wt. 180 DOB: 7/30/1990 Hometown: London, England College: South Florida Acquired: 2012 MLS SuperDraft 1st Round (#16)

Ht: 5-9 Wt. 160 DOB: 6/30/1991 Hometown: Kansas City, Missouri College: Barton County Community College Acquired: Signed as Homegrown on 2/18/2011

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 2, 5 times, last: Aug. 16, 2014, KC vs TOR Assists 1, 5 times, last: Aug. 22, 2015, KC at CLB Shots on Goal 5, Aug. 29, 2015, KC at COL Shots 7, Sept. 27, 2013, KC vs PHI Fouls Committed 5, 4 times, last: Aug. 22, 2015, KC at CLB Fouls Suffered 9, Apr. 19, 2014, KC vs MTL Last Regular Season... Appearance Sept. 18, 2015, KC vs DAL Goal Sept. 18, 2015, KC vs DAL Assist Aug. 22, 2015, KC at CLB 2015 Record when: he starts 9-8-7 he scores 5-2-3

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 1, 3 times, last: Aug. 15, 2015, KC vs VAN Assists 1, 4 times, last: May 29, 2015, KC vs DAL Shots on Goal 1, 6 times, last: Aug. 15, 2015, KC vs VAN Shots 2, 2 times, last: May 23, 2015, KC vs CHI Fouls Committed 4, April 25, 2015, KC at HOU Fouls Suffered 3, Aug. 8, 2015, KC at TOR Last Regular Season... Appearance Sept. 18, 2015, KC vs DAL Goal Aug. 15, 2015, KC vs VAN Assist May 29, 2015, KC vs DAL 2015 Record when: he starts 10-7-4 he scores 3-0-0

Now in his fourth season at Sporting KC, Dom Dwyer is coming off a breakout 2014 campaign in which he garnered Sporting KC Offensive Player of the Year and co-MVP honors. The Englishman set a single season club record with 22 goals, second most in MLS, and his 43 career goals in all competitions are tied for fourth in team history. Dwyer, who was an MLS All-Star in 2014 for the first time in his career, has scored 65 goals in all competitions since the start of 2013—43 for Sporting KC and 22 for former USL PRO affiliate Orlando City SC. He signed a contract extension with the club ahead of the 2015 campaign and leads the team this year with 15 goals in all competitions, including a club-record four goals in a 6-2 U.S. Open Cup win over FC Dallas on July 1. After making three appearances across all competitions during his rookie season, he notched 15 goals in 13 regular season games while on loan with Orlando City SC in 2013 to set USL PRO’s single-season scoring record at the time. He added four goals in the USL PRO final to earn championship MVP honors. Dwyer won two national championships at Tyler (Texas) Junior College (2009, 2010), where he was the national junior college player of the year after scoring 37 goals as a sophomore. Moving on to South Florida in 2011, he scored 16 goals in 21 games.

Sporting KC’s second Homegrown Player in club history, defender Kevin Ellis is coming off a 2014 campaign in which he made 21 MLS appearances, including his playoff debut. He finished 2014 with three assists in league play, tied for third most in the team, while splitting time between the right back and center back positions. The 24-year-old has continued his unlikely rise in 2015, registering career highs in MLS with 21 starts and three goals, tied for most among MLS defenders this season. Now in his fifth season with the club, Ellis developed in the Sporting KC Academy while attending Oak Park High School before playing collegiately at Barton County Community College in 2009-10. He scored his first competitive goal for the club last March, sparking a 1-0 win over Cruz Azul (Mexico) in the 2013-14 CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal first leg at Sporting Park.

Sporting KC Player Bios | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes #27 | M | Roger Espinoza

#10 | M | Benny Feilhaber | @b_feilhaber22

Ht: 5-11 Wt. 170 DOB: 10/25/1986 Hometown: Aurora, Colorado College: Ohio State Last Club: Wigan Athletic FC (England) Acquired: Signed on 1/6/2015

Ht: 5-9 Wt. 160 DOB: 1/19/1985 Hometown: Irvine, California College: UCLA Last Club: New England Revolution Acquired: Trade with NE Revolution on 12/11/2012

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 1, 3 times, last: Mar. 14, 2015, KC at DAL Assists 1, 15 times, last: July 24, 2015, KC at RSL Shots on Goal 2, 3 times, last: May 12, 2012, KC at CHI Shots 5, 2 times, last: Mar. 17, 2012, KC vs NE Fouls Committed 4, 6 times, last: Mar. 21, 2015, KC vs POR Fouls Suffered 6, Sept. 17, 2011, KC at RSL Last Regular Season... Appearance Aug. 1, 2015, KC vs HOU Goal Mar. 14, 2015, KC at DAL Assist July 24, 2015, KC at RSL 2015 Record when: he starts 7-4-6 he scores 0-1-0

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 2, 2 times, last: Sept. 18, 2015, KC vs DAL Assists 2, 4 times, last: May 20, 2015, KC vs NE Shots on Goal 3, Sept. 18, 2015, KC vs DAL Shots 5, 2 times, last: May 29, 2015, KC vs DAL Fouls Committed 6, Aug. 10, 2014, KC at VAN Fouls Suffered 6, May 12, 2012, NE vs VAN Last Regular Season... Appearance Sept. 18, 2015, KC vs DAL Goal Sept. 18, 2015, KC vs DAL Assist Sept. 13, 2015, KC at ORL 2015 Record when: he starts 12-6-8 he scores 6-1-1

Roger Espinoza returns to Sporting KC in 2015 after a two-year stint in the English Premier League and Championship. He began his pro career in Kansas City (2008-2012) before moving abroad to Wigan Athletic FC. He tallied a career-high four MLS assists in 2015 with one goal before suffering a sesamoid fracture in his left foot on Aug. 1. In his last year with the Sporting KC, Espinoza was an MLS All-Star and helped lead the club to the 2012 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup title. He has made 150 appearances for the team in all competitions, recording three goals and 17 assists over six seasons. In the 2011 and 2012 seasons combined (including playoffs), he ranked in the top 10 among MLS players with 358 duels won (fifth) and 128 tackles won (seventh). Espinoza has earned 46 caps for the Honduras Men’s National Team, scoring four goals since debuting in 2009. He is the only active MLS player to have competed in the 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cups and the 2012 Summer Olympics. He leads the Sporting KC roster with five career World Cup starts. Espinoza made 57 appearances and scored three goals in all competitions for Wigan Athletic, including eight in the 2013-14 UEFA Europa League. He also recorded a 90-minute shift in Wigan’s 1-0 win over Manchester City in the 2013 FA Cup Final.

Now in his fifth Major League Soccer season, Benny Feilhaber has reached MLS career-highs with 10 goals and 14 assists in 2015. A regular fixture in Sporting KC’s midfield, he earned his first career MLS All-Star selection after being named to the Fan XI for the 2015 AT&T MLS All-Star Game on July 29. He was named Etihad Airways MLS Player of the Month for April and has recorded a single-season club record 19 assists in all competitions. Feilhaber turned professional in 2005 with Hamburg (Germany) after two seasons at UCLA. He moved to Derby County of the English Premier League in 2007 and Danish club AGF Aarhus in 2008 before signing with the New England Revolution in 2011. Acquired by Sporting KC prior to the 2013 season, he has made 105 appearances in all competitions for the club with 20 goals and 35 assists. A member of the United States Men’s National Team, Feilhaber has earned 41 caps with two goals since debuting in 2007. He scored the game-winning goal on a volley in the 2007 Gold Cup final against Mexico before competing at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He helped lead the U.S. to the final of the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup and also made three appearances at the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.

#22 | M | Connor Hallisey | @c_hallisey

#21 | GK | Jon Kempin | @JonKempin21

Ht: 5-9 Wt. 158 DOB: 2/9/1993 Hometown: Granite Bay, California College: California Acquired: 2015 MLS SuperDraft 1st Round (#10)

Ht: 6-1 Wt. 170 DOB: 4/8/1993 Hometown: Leawood, Kansas Last Club: Sporting Kansas City Academy Acquired: Signed as Homegrown on 8/31/2010

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 0 Assists 1, May 29, 2015, KC vs DAL Shots on Goal 1, 3 times, last: Aug. 8, 2015, KC at TOR Shots 3, June 6, 2015, KC vs SEA Fouls Committed 1, Aug. 15, 2015, KC vs VAN Fouls Suffered 1, May 29, 2015, KC vs DAL Last Regular Season... Appearance Aug. 15, 2015, KC vs VAN Goal N/A Assist May 29, 2015, KC vs DAL 2015 Record when: he starts 4-0-0 he scores 0-0-0

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals Allowed 3, 3 times, last: Sept. 13, 2015, KC at ORL Saves 3, Sept. 18, 2015, KC vs DAL Last Regular Season... Appearance Sept. 18, 2015, KC vs DAL Shutout N/A 2015 Record when: he starts 1-1-0 Goalkeeper Jon Kempin became Sporting KC’s first ever Homegrown Player upon signing for the club in 2010. He enjoyed a breakthrough year in 2014, entering the record books as the youngest goalkeeper to start an MLS match in club history. He earned back-to-back MLS Save of the Week honors in his first two MLS appearances and was MVP of the 2014 MLS Chipotle Homegrown Game. After making his Sporting KC debut in the 2012 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, Kempin went on loan to then-USL PRO affiliate Orlando City SC (nine games played) in 2013. He then spent half of 2014 on loan at OKC Energy FC (13 games played), the club’s current USL PRO affiliate managed by former Sporting KC goalkeeper Jimmy Nielsen. In April 2015, Kempin joined the NASL’s San Antonio Scorpions on loan and played two matches before returning to Sporting KC in May. He earned his season debut for the club on Sept. 13 against Orlando City SC and picked up his first win of the campaign five days later vs. FC Dallas. Kempin was named to the United States Men’s National Team roster for the first time in his career to take part in manager Jurgen Klinsmann’s January Camp at the beginning of this year. He previously represented the U.S. at the under-14 through under-23 levels.

Rookie midfielder Connor Hallisey was selected by Sporting KC with the 10th overall pick in the 2015 MLS SuperDraft out of the University of California. He made his MLS debut with a late substitute appearance in a 4-4 draw at the Houston Dynamo on April 25. He has made 11 MLS appearances this season and earned his first professional start on May 29, a 4-0 win over FC Dallas in which he recorded his first MLS assist. A former member of the United State Under-18 Men’s National Team, Hallisey played four seasons at Cal (2011-2014), recording 12 goals and 19 assists in 72 career matches. As a senior in 2014, Hallisey was an NCAA Division I Men’s Second Team All-American, starting 19 games with nine goals and 12 assists. He was named to the 2014 Capital One/CoSIDA All-District 8 Team, earned All-Pac-12 first team honors, landed a Pac-12 All-Academic second team nod, and was a MAC Hermann Trophy Semifinalist.

#94 | M | Jimmy Medranda | @jimmymedranda

Ht: 5-8 Wt. 160 DOB: 2/20/1993 Hometown: Mission, Texas College: North Carolina Acquired: 2013 MLS SuperDraft 1st Round (#14)

Ht: 5-5 Wt. 150 DOB: 2/7/1994 Hometown: Mosquera, Nariño, Colombia Last Club: Deportivo Pereira (Colombia) Acquired: Signed on 2/13/2014

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 0 Assists 0 Shots on Goal 2, Aug. 1, 2014, KC vs PHI Shots 2, 3 times, last: Aug. 1, 2014, KC vs PHI Fouls Committed 4, Aug. 22, 2015, KC at CLB Fouls Suffered 3, Oct. 26, 2014, KC vs NY Last Regular Season... Appearance Aug. 29, 2015, KC at COL Goal N/A Assist N/A 2015 Record when: he starts 0-2-0 he scores 0-0-0

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 0 Assists 0 Shots on Goal 1, Sept. 7, 2013, KC vs CLB Shots 3, Mar. 15, 2014, KC vs DAL Fouls Committed 3, 2 times, last: Aug. 8, 2015, KC at TOR Fouls Suffered 4, Mar. 15, 2014, KC vs DAL Last Regular Season... Appearance Aug. 22, 2015, KC at CLB Goal N/A Assist N/A 2015 Record when: he starts 4-1-2 he scores 0-0-0

Mikey Lopez was drafted in the first round of the 2013 MLS SuperDraft as a Generation adidas signing. He made his club debut in the 2013 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup before playing his first MLS match in July 2014 for the first of eight MLS appearances and five starts. He spent the first half of last year on loan at affiliates Orlando City SC and OKC Energy FC, playing 14 total matches in USL PRO. Lopez was a regular fixture for the U.S. Under-20 Men’s National Team, playing at the 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Turkey and the 2013 Toulon Tournament in France. He has also participated in training camps at the U-15 and U-18 levels. Lopez made his 2015 debut for Sporting KC on Aug. 19 and started his first MLS match three days later. He previously made eight appearances and played 434 minutes for USL affiliate OKC Energy FC, coached by former Sporting KC captain Jimmy Nielsen.

Jimmy Medranda joined Sporting KC in August 2013 on loan from Deportivo Pereira (Colombia), making his MLS debut on Sept. 7, 2013 in a 3-0 win over Columbus Crew SC. The Colombian midfielder signed permanently for the club last February, making six appearances across all competitions in 2014. He made his first appearance of 2015 with a start on March 21 against Portland and has started six more matches since. He played his first MLS match as a defender in a 3-1 win at Toronto FC on Aug. 8, leading all players with six tackles while also notching five interceptions and five recoveries. Medranda joined Deportivo Pereira’s youth system at age 12 before climbing the ladder to the senior team. He made 16 first team appearances for the club in two seasons, scoring twice.

#29 | GK | Tim Melia | @TimMelia28

#93 | M | Soni Mustivar | @billydougie

Ht: 6-1 Wt. 190 DOB: 5/15/1986 Hometown: Great River, New York College: Lynn University Last Club: Chivas USA Acquired: Signed on 12/23/2014

Ht: 5-10 Wt. 170 DOB: 2/12/1990 Hometown: Aubervilliers, France Last Club: Petrolul Ploiesti (Romania) Acquired: Signed on 2/13/2015

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals Allowed 5, 2 times, last: Aug. 19, 2015, KC vs SJ Saves 7, Sept. 9, 2015, KC at POR Last Regular Season... Appearance Sept. 9, 2015, KC at POR Shutout Sept. 9, 2015, KC at POR 2015 Record when: he starts 9-5-4

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 0 Assists 2, Aug. 15, 2015, KC vs VAN Shots on Goal 0 Shots 2, Aug. 8, 2015, KC at TOR Fouls Committed 4, Sept. 13, 2015, KC at ORL Fouls Suffered 3, July 12, 2015, KC at VAN Last Regular Season... Appearance Sept. 18, 2015, KC vs DAL Goal N/A Assist Aug. 15, 2015, KC vs VAN 2015 Record when: he starts 10-3-4 he scores 0-0-0

Sporting KC signed goalkeeper Tim Melia in December 2014. He enters his sixth MLS season in 2015 after previously representing Real Salt Lake (2010-2011) and Chivas USA (2012-2014), where he backed up MLS All-Stars Nick Rimando (RSL) and Dan Kennedy (Chivas USA). He made his Sporting KC debut on May 3, shutting out Chicago in a 1-0 result for the first clean sheet and first win of his MLS career. After recording six saves in a 1-0 win over Seattle on June 6, he became the first goalkeeper in Kansas City history to go unbeaten in his first six MLS appearances for the club. On July 12, he then became the first keeper in MLS history to record six shutouts in his first nine MLS matches for a new club. He boasts a 13-5-4 record for Sporting KC in all competitions this season. Melia’s professional career began in 2008 with the Rochester Rhinos in the USL First Division. In 2010, he joined Real Salt Lake and spent part of the season on loan in the USL Second Division with the Charleston Battery. He helped lead Charleston to a first place finish in the regular season standings and eventually the league title with eight saves in the championship match. Melia was a member of Chivas USA from 2012-2014, making 18 saves in six MLS appearances. He most recently served as a League Pool Goalkeeper, earning emergency call-ups from MLS Cup Playoff participants Sporting KC (August), FC Dallas (October) and D.C. United (November) in late 2014.

Sporting KC signed defensive midfielder Soni Mustivar ahead of the 2015 season. The 25-year-old made his MLS debut on March 21 against Portland before earning his first start on May 3 vs. Chicago. He has a 14-3-4 record as a starter in all competitions and made 19 interceptions in a 1-0 win over Vancouver on July 12, the most in an MLS match during the Opta era (2011-present). He scored his first goal for the club in the U.S. Open Cup on Aug. 12 and recorded the first two assists of his MLS career in a 4-3 win over Vancouver on Aug. 15. Mustivar began his professional career as a teenager with SC Bastia in France’s Ligue 2 during the 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons. He then moved to FC Petrolul Ploiesti and played each of the past three seasons in Romania’s Liga I. He recorded 61 league appearances with two goals in addition to playing eight matches in the UEFA Europa League. He started in Petrolul’s triumph in the 2012-13 Romanian Cup Final. Mustivar has earned six caps for the Haiti Men’s National Team. Prior to making his international debut with Haiti in 2013, he was a youth international for France at the U-20 level.

#6 | M | Paulo Nagamura | @paulinhonag

Ht: 6-0 Wt. 165 DOB: 12/7/1987 Hometown: Thousand Oaks, California College: UCLA Acquired: 2008 MLS SuperDraft 1st Round (#1)

Ht: 5-8 Wt. 155 DOB: 3/2/1983 Hometown: Sao Paulo, Brazil Last Club: Chivas USA Acquired: Trade with Chivas USA on 11/29/2011

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 2, Apr. 27, 2013, KC vs POR Assists 1, 15 times, last: Aug. 15, 2015, KC vs VAN Shots on Goal 2, 2 times, last: Apr. 27, 2013, KC vs POR Shots 3, 3 times, last: July 3, 2013, KC vs VAN Fouls Committed 4, 5 times, last: Apr. 1, 2012, KC at CHV Fouls Suffered 4, May 12, 2012, KC at CHI Last Regular Season... Appearance Sept. 18, 2015, KC vs DAL Goal Apr. 27, 2013, KC vs POR Assist Aug. 15, 2015, KC vs VAN 2015 Record when: he starts 3-2-1 he scores 0-0-0

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 2, 2 times, last: Aug. 15, 2015, KC vs VAN Assists 1, 20 times, last: Sept. 18, 2015, KC vs DAL Shots on Goal 4, May 13, 2006, LA vs RSL Shots 6, Aug. 15, 2015, KC vs VAN Fouls Committed 6, Sept. 13, 2007, CHV vs LA Fouls Suffered 6, May 13, 2006, LA vs RSL Last Regular Season... Appearance Sept. 18, 2015, KC vs DAL Goal Aug. 15, 2015, KC vs VAN Assist Sept. 18, 2015, KC vs DAL 2015 Record when: he starts 5-5-2 he scores 2-0-0

Eighth-year veteran Chance Myers enters 2015 as Sporting KC’s longest tenured player. The No. 1 overall selection in the 2008 MLS SuperDraft has played 157 matches for the club in all competitions, recording four goals and 17 assists from the wing back position. He made his 2015 debut on June 16 in the U.S. Open Cup fourth round, recording his first appearance since May 2014 after recovering from an Achilles injury. He tallied the game-winning assist in his first MLS match of the season on June 27, landing MLSsoccer.com Team of the Week honors. Myers eclipsed 30 MLS appearances in both 2011 and 2012 as a regular starter, and after making a career-high 31 MLS starts in 2013 (including playoffs), was the top-rated outside back on the MLS Castrol Index. He led MLS with 91 successful crosses from open play (including playoffs) between 2011 and 2013 before missing most of 2014 through injury. Myers signed a new contract with the club last year after joining the U.S. Men’s National Team for the first time in his career as a member of Jurgen Klinsmann’s January Camp in 2014. He previously played for the U.S. U-18, U-20 and U-23 youth national teams.

Sporting KC’s most experienced MLS player with 253 league appearances (including playoffs), Paulo Nagamura is in his fourth season with the club. Since arriving ahead of the 2012 campaign, he has recorded seven goals and seven assists in 99 games across all competitions. Nagamura scored the game-tying and game-winning goals in the 87th and 94th minutes of a 4-3 win over Vancouver Whitecaps FC on Aug. 15 as Sporting KC came from two goals behind after the 80th minute to complete one of the greatest regular season comebacks in MLS history. A veteran presence in the midfield, he converted penalty kicks in shootouts following the 2012 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final and 2013 MLS Cup Final. The Brazilian began his career with Sao Paulo FC and Arsenal FC in England before coming to the United States to play for the LA Galaxy in 2005, winning the MLS Cup and Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup in his first season. He has also played for Toronto FC (2007) and Chivas USA (2007-2011) in MLS, becoming an MLS All-Star in 2009.

#9 | F | Krisztian Nemeth | @KNemeth_Nemo

#20 | D/M | Amobi Okugo | @amobisays

Ht: 5-11 Wt. 165 DOB: 1/5/1989 Hometown: Gyor, Hungary Last Club: Roda JC Kerkrade (Netherlands) Acquired: Signed on 12/18/2014

Ht: 6-0 Wt. 175 DOB: 3/13/1991 Hometown: Sacramento, California College: UCLA Last Club: Orlando City SC Acquired: Trade with Orlando City SC on 7/20/2015

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 2, May 20, 2015, KC vs NE Assists 1, 6 times, last: Aug. 29, 2015, KC at COL Shots on Goal 2, 3 times, last: Sept. 18, 2015, KC vs DAL Shots 6, May 20, 2015, KC vs NE Fouls Committed 2, 6 times, last: Aug. 19, 2015, KC vs SJ Fouls Suffered 7, May 29, 2015, KC vs DAL Last Regular Season... Appearance Sept. 18, 2015, KC vs DAL Goal Sept. 13, 2015, KC at ORL Assist Aug. 29, 2015, KC at COL 2015 Record when: he starts 9-7-5 he scores 5-2-1

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 1, 5 times, last: Oct. 2, 2014, PHI vs CHI Assists 1, 7 times, last: Aug. 8, 2015, KC at TOR Shots on Goal 2, April 30, 2011, PHI vs SJ Shots 4, June 7, 2014, PHI vs VAN Fouls Committed 4, 7 times, last: Oct. 26, 2014, PHI at CLB Fouls Suffered 4, Oct. 26, 2013, PHI vs KC Last Regular Season... Appearance Aug. 19, 2015, KC vs SJ Goal Oct. 2, 2014, PHI vs CHI Assist Aug. 8, 2015, KC at TOR 2015 Record when: he starts 0-1-0 he scores 0-0-0

Now in his first MLS season, Krisztian Nemeth signed for Sporting KC last December. He made his league debut on March 8 at Sporting Park before scoring his first MLS goal in the 94th minute of a 3-2 win over Philadelphia on April 5. He has notched 13 goals and seven assists across all competitions in 2015 and was named MLS Player of the Month for May after recording three goals and two assists during the month. Nemeth’s professional career began at age 15 when he signed with MTK Budapest in 2005. He was signed by Rafael Benitez to join Liverpool FC in 2007 and featured extensively for the Liverpool Reserves, becoming the Barclays Premier Reserve League’s top scorer with nine goals during his first season. His career continued in Greece with AEK Athens (2009-10), Olympiacos (2010) and Olympiacos Volos (2011) before he moved to Dutch club RKC Waalwijk in 2012. He most recently played for Roda JC Kerkrade in the Dutch Eredivisie, recording eight goals during the 2013-14 season. Internationally, Nemeth starred for the Hungary under-17 and under-19 youth national teams before leading his country to a third place finish at the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He earned his first of 19 caps for Hungary’s senior team in 2010 and most recently featured in 2016 UEFA EURO qualifiers in June and September.

Sporting KC acquired 24-year-old Amobi Okugo from Orlando City SC on July 20 of this year. He has played 134 MLS matches as a central defender and holding midfielder in six professional seasons since being selected sixth overall by the Philadelphia Union in the 2010 MLS SuperDraft. He made his Sporting KC debut in a 3-1 win at Toronto FC on Aug. 8, assisting a late goal to seal the result. In 2011, Okugo was a member of Major League Soccer’s Generation adidas roster that was led by Sporting KC Manager Peter Vermes during a tour of the Netherlands. Between 2012-2014, he led all MLS players with 70 blocks and was fourth in the league with 276 interceptions. Okugo was included on MLSsoccer.com’s “24 under 24” rankings of the league’s top youth talent each of the past two seasons (8th in 2013, 13th in 2014) and joined Orlando City SC for their inaugural MLS campaign in 2015. Okugo represented the United States extensively at the youth national team levels. He went on to appear at the 2009 and 2011 CONCACAF U-20 Championships before playing for the U.S. U-23’s at the 2012 CONCACAF Men’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament.

#2 | D | Erik Palmer-Brown | @ErikBrown14

Ht: 6-2 Wt. 180 DOB: 2/21/1989 Hometown: Durham, North Carolina College: Wake Forest Last Club: San Jose Earthquakes Acquired: Trade with San Jose Earthquakes on 12/12/2012

Ht: 6-1 Wt. 175 DOB: 4/24/1997 Hometown: Lee’s Summit, Missouri Acquired: Signed as Homegrown on 8/2/2013

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 1, 8 times, last: Mar. 28, 2015, KC at NYC Assists 0 Shots on Goal 2, 3 times, last: Mar. 22, 2014, KC vs SJ Shots 3, 2 times, last: Mar. 22, 2014, KC vs SJ Fouls Committed 4, 2 times, last: May 28, 2011, SJ at CHI Fouls Suffered 2, 4 times, last: May 19, 2013, KC at DC Last Regular Season... Appearance Apr. 11, 2015, KC vs RSL Goal Mar. 28, 2015, KC at NYC Assist N/A 2015 Record when: he starts 2-1-3 he scores 1-0-1

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 0 Assists 0 Shots on Goal 0 Shots 1, May 9, 2015, KC at DC Fouls Committed 3, May 18, 2014, KC at CHI Fouls Suffered 1, 2 times, last: Mar. 8, 2014, KC vs NYR Last Regular Season... Appearance July 24, 2015, KC at RSL Goal N/A Assist N/A 2015 Record when: he starts 0-1-1 he scores 0-0-0

Defender Ike Opara is in his sixth season in MLS and third season as a member of Sporting KC. After sitting out almost a year through injury, he returned to the pitch on March 8 and scored Sporting KC’s first goal of the season. He led MLS through Week 6 with 30 interceptions and was nominated for Eithad Airways MLS Player of the Month for March after scoring twice and anchoring a backline that posted two shutouts. He then suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon injury in his right ankle on April 11. The club’s 2013 Newcomer of the Year, Opara appeared in a career-best 18 MLS matches with 15 starts during the club’s MLS Cup-winning campaign. He scored four goals in 2013 across all competitions (all headers) and featured in three of Sporting KC’s playoff matches. A season-ending ankle injury limited him to three MLS appearances in 2014 and two starts in the 2014-15 CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinals. Opara represented the United States at the 2009 FIFA U-20 World Cup, playing all three matches at the tournament, and at the U-23 level during the 2012 CONCACAF Men’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament. He was drafted by the San Jose Earthquakes in the 2010 MLS SuperDraft as a Generation adidas signing and played 36 MLS matches for the club over three seasons.

One of the youngest players under contract in MLS, Erik Palmer-Brown became a homegrown player in August 2013 at age 16. On March 8, he became the youngest MLS player to appear in a team’s regular season opener since 2010 and recorded his first MLS minutes at Sporting Park. The 18-year-old earned his first start of 2015 on May 9 at D.C. Palmer-Brown made his league debut with a start in May 2014, becoming the youngest player in MLS history to start a match as a defender, for the first of six appearances in all competitions (including debuts in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup and CONCACAF Champions League). He has played in each of the last two Chipotle MLS Homegrown Games. The Lee’s Summit, Mo. native joined the Sporting KC Academy at age 13 and has represented United States youth national teams at the U-15, U-17, U-18 and U-20 levels. This year, he competed with the U-20s at training camps in England (March 23-30) and Austria (April 18-26) before joining the U.S. Under-20 Men’s National Team for the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He started one match in the tournament as the U.S. advanced to the quarterfinals before losing a penalty kick shootout to Serbia. He then captained the U-20s for the 2015 Stevan Vilotic-Cele Tournament in September.

#37 | F | Jacob Peterson | @jacob_peterson

#96 | M | Jordi Quintilla | @JordiQuintilla

Ht: 5-10 Wt. 165 DOB: 1/27/1986 Hometown: Portage, Michigan College: Indiana Last Club: San Jose Earthquakes Acquired: Signed on 1/19/2012

Ht: 5-9 Wt. 154 Hometown: Lleida, Spain Last Club: AC Ajaccio (France) Acquired: Signed on 8/6/2015

DOB: 10/25/1993

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 1, 16 times, last: Aug. 8, 2015, KC at TOR Assists 1, 15 times, last: May 20, 2015, KC vs NE Shots on Goal 3, June 28, 2007, COL at DC Shots 5, July 21, 2012, KC vs NE Fouls Committed 3, May 12, 2013, KC at HOU Fouls Suffered 5, Oct. 16, 2010, TOR vs CLB Last Regular Season... Appearance Sept. 13, 2015, KC at ORL Goal Aug. 8, 2015, KC at TOR Assist May 20, 2015, KC vs NE 2015 Record when: he starts 5-4-4 he scores 1-0-0

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 0 Assists 0 Shots on Goal 0 Shots 1, Sept. 13, 2015, KC at ORL Fouls Committed 2, Sept. 13, 2015, KC at ORL Fouls Suffered 0 Last Regular Season... Appearance Sept. 13, 2015, KC at ORL Goal N/A Assist N/A 2015 Record when: he starts 0-0-0 he scores 0-0-0

A nine-year MLS veteran, Peterson has 16 goals and 15 assists in 222 regular season appearances over the course of his professional career. Now in his fourth season with Sporting KC, he has contributed nine goals and eight assists in 107 games across all competitions for the club. Peterson is one of only two players in MLS history, alongside former Kansas City defender Nick Garcia, to be a member of teams that won each of the following: NCAA Division I National Championship (2003, 2004), Canadian Championship (2010, 2011), U.S. Open Cup (2012) and MLS Cup (2013). As a youth, Peterson represented the United States at the 2003 FIFA U-17 World Championships and 2005 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Four seasons with the Colorado Rapids (2006-09) were followed by stints with Toronto FC (2010-11) and the San Jose Earthquakes (2011) before he was acquired by Sporting KC in 2012. His 222 regular season appearances are second most on the team, behind only Paulo Nagamura (238).

Sporting KC signed 21-year-old midfielder Jordi Quintilla on Aug. 6, 2015. Currently the youngest Spaniard in Major League Soccer, he made his club debut as a second-half substitute at the Colorado Rapids on Aug. 29. Quintilla developed as a youth at UE Lleida before moving to FC Barcelona’s famed La Masia academy, where he trained alongside former Sporting KC midfielder Oriol Rosell. In 2012, he began his professional career as an 18-year-old with Barcelona B in Spain’s second division and later went on loan to CF Badalona and CE L’Hospitalet. Most recently, Quintilla spent the 2014/15 season with AC Ajaccio in the French Ligue 2 and played in 20 games across all competitions for the club.

#8 | M | Graham Zusi | @gzusi

Ht: 5-10 Wt. 170 DOB: 1/28/1987 Hometown: Leawood, Kansas College: Creighton Last Club: New England Revolution Acquired: Signed on 5/10/2011

Ht: 5-10 Wt. 160 DOB: 8/18/1986 Hometown: Longwood, Florida College: Maryland Acquired: 2009 MLS SuperDraft 2nd Round (#23)

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 0 Assists 1, 7 times, last: Sept. 6, 2014, KC at NY Shots on Goal 2, Mar. 15, 2014, KC vs DAL Shots 3, 2 times, last: Sept. 3, 2014, KC at NE Fouls Committed 5, Sept. 9, 2015, KC at POR Fouls Suffered 3, 7 times, last: Aug. 29, 2015, KC at COL Last Regular Season... Appearance Sept. 18, 2015, KC vs DAL Goal N/A Assist Sept. 6, 2014, KC at NY 2015 Record when: he starts 3-2-3 he scores 0-0-0

Regular Season Game Highs: Goals 2, 3 times, last: Sept. 28, 2012, KC vs CHI Assists 2, 5 times, last: May 29, 2015, KC vs DAL Shots on Goal 3, 3 times, last: Oct. 10, 2014, KC vs CHI Shots 5, 5 times, last: Oct. 24, 2012, KC vs PHI Fouls Committed 4, 2 times, last: Mar. 30, 2013, KC vs MTL Fouls Suffered 6, Oct. 26, 2013, KC at PHI Last Regular Season... Appearance Sept. 18, 2015, KC vs DAL Goal Aug. 22, 2015, KC at CLB Assist May 29, 2015, KC vs DAL 2015 Record when: he starts 6-6-6 he scores 1-1-0

Sporting KC’s 2014 Defender of the Year, Seth Sinovic is in his sixth MLS season and fifth campaign at his hometown club. A regular fixture at left back, he is the only player on the team to start at least 30 regular season games in each of the last three seasons. Sinovic missed more than three months in 2015 with a concussion before returning to the lineup on Aug. 29. Drafted in 2010 by the New England Revolution, he joined Sporting KC in 2011 and has started 149 of his 151 total appearances for the club in all competitions. He scored his first professional goal in the 2012 MLS Cup Playoffs and registered the second of his career in the 2013 postseason against his former team, helping Sporting KC prevail in the decisive leg of the 2013 Eastern Conference Semifinals. Sinovic received his first call-up to the United States Men’s National Team ahead of the 2014 USMNT January camp.

A seventh-year veteran for Sporting KC, Graham Zusi has garnered MLS All-Star (20122015), MLS Best XI (2012-2013) and MLS Breakout Player of the Year (2011) honors in addition to receiving a 2012 MLS MVP nomination. The winger is the only MLS player with at least five goals and at least seven assists in each of the last four regular seasons. He has earned Sporting KC MVP honors each of the last three years (twice a co-MVP) and has led the club in assists every year since 2011. He was named to the All-Star Fan XI ahead of the 2015 AT&T MLS All-Star Game on July 29 and is the only player to appear in each of the last four MLS All-Star games. Zusi signed a long-term Designated Player contract with the team in July 2014. Since 2011, he is third in MLS with 396 chances created and second with 382 successful crosses/corners (including playoffs). His 53 career assists in all competitions are third most in club history. Zusi has earned 32 caps for the United States Men’s National Team since debuting in January 2012, recording three goals and six assists. He was on the U.S. roster for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, playing in all four matches at the tournament. In the group stage, he provided the game-winning assist in a 2-1 win over Ghana before adding another assist in a 2-2 draw with Portugal. He played in his first CONCACAF Gold Cup this summer, starting two matches as the U.S. finished in fourth place.

Sporting KC Coach Bios | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes Manager | Peter Vermes

Assistant Coach | Kerry Zavagnin Assistant Coach Kerry Zavagnin first joined Kansas City in 2000 as a holding midfielder and was an integral part of the club’s midfield for the next nine seasons, during which time he helped lead the Wizards to MLS Cup (2000) and U.S. Open Cup (2004) Championships. He was named to the MLS All-Star team and the Best XI in 2004. Zavagnin’s primary duties as an assistant include: scouting, developing Sporting Kansas City’s younger players, breaking down film and assisting with training sessions, among others.

Peter Vermes enters his seventh season as Sporting Kansas City Manager in 2015. He is the team’s second-longest serving manager and his 111 coaching victories in all competitions are the most club history. During his tenure, he has won two major trophies – the 2012 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup and the 2013 MLS Cup championship – as well as two MLS Eastern Conference regular season titles (2011, 2012). He is the second coach to lead Sporting KC to four straight postseason appearances, as well as the only person to ever win the MLS Cup as both a player and a coach with the same team. His 88 regular season wins top the club’s all-time chart and rank eighth most in MLS history. He passed his former coach Bob Gansler as the winningest manager in team history with a 3-1 win over Real Salt Lake on Aug. 12, 2015, his 109th victory in all competitions. Vermes oversees all soccer operations for Sporting KC, including the active roster and the Sporting KC Juniors program. Vermes, an original member of Major League Soccer, retired from the League in 2002, closing out his playing career in Kansas City after stints with the New York/New Jersey MetroStars and Colorado Rapids.

He started his professional career with the New York/New Jersey MetroStars, where he played in 39 games over two seasons. After spending one season with the Lehigh Valley Steam (USL-1), Zavagnin came to Kansas City in 2000. He played 237 games (228 starts) and logged 20,516 minutes for Kansas City, setting team records in both categories. He scored eight goals and added 22 assists in his nine seasons in Kansas City blue. Zavagnin was named Team Defender of the Year in 2001.

Following a standout high school career in which he was named New Jersey Player of the Year, Vermes was a star forward and All-American at Rutgers University. After college, Vermes represented the United States in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, Korea, and was named 1988 Chevrolet U.S. Male Soccer Athlete of the Year for his efforts.

On top of his club success in Kansas City, Zavagnin also appeared 21 times for the United States National Team. He recorded one assist for the Red, White and Blue. The U.S. team went 15-2-4 when Zavagnin appeared. Zavagnin married his wife Mirriam prior to the 2009 season, when he became an assistant coach at the club.

Vermes was an integral part of a young U.S. team at the 1990 World Cup in Italy, where he nearly scored a sensational goal against the host Azzurri. It was the first time the U.S. had qualified for the World Cup in 40 years and set the stage for the progress of the U.S. National Team. In 1989 and 1990, Vermes became the first American to play in the Hungarian and Dutch First Divisions, playing for Raba ETO and FC Volendam, respectively. He later spent five years with Figueras of the Spanish Second Division.

Assistant Coach | Zoran Savic Assistant Coach Zoran Savic joined Sporting Kansas City late in the 2009 season after a 30-year career at all levels of the game in the United States. A native of Gornji Milanovac, Yugoslavia, Savic began his journey through American soccer with the Buffalo Stallions of the Major Indoor Soccer League in 1980. Savic would go on to star for several MISL teams, with his most prosperous period coming with the Kansas City Comets, with whom he scored 70 goals in just over 100 appearances from 1982-1984.

For MLS’s inaugural season in 1996, Vermes served as captain of the New York/New Jersey MetroStars. In 1997, he was traded to the Colorado Rapids for current Sporting KC Assistant Coach Kerry Zavagnin and played in Denver through the 1999 season, leading the Rapids to the 1997 MLS Cup Final.

After retiring as a player in 1991, Savic turned his attention to coaching in the indoor game. Savic led the Kansas City Attack from 1992-1996, winning Coach of the Year honors for the 1994-1995 season while also serving as the team’s General Manager. Savic later coached the Kansas City Comets from 2000-2005.

Vermes joined Kansas City in 2000 for what would be the most successful seasons of his MLS career. During his first year in Kansas City, he anchored one of the best defenses in league history and won MLS Defender of the Year honors in helping lead the Wizards to the 2000 MLS Cup Championship. He retired in 2002 after appearing in 184 MLS matches and playing more than 16,000 minutes. He was nominated on the players’ ballot for the National Soccer Hall of Fame from 2007-2012. In 2013, Vermes was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame. Year

PETER VERMES HEAD COACHING RECORD AT SPORTING KC MLS Playoffs Open Cup International Total

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 TOTAL

3-6-3 --- 11-13-6 --- 13-9-12 2-1-0 18-7-9 1-1-0 17-10-7 2-1-2 14-13-7 0-1-0 12-8-8 88-66-52 5-4-2

--- 0-1-0 3-1-0 4-0-1 1-1-0 1-1-0 4-0-0 13-4-1

--- --- --- --- 2-0-2 3-2-1 --- 5-2-3

In 2007 Savic switched to the outdoor game, joining Chivas USA as an assistant to then-head coach Preki before moving into the commentary booth for Kansas City matches in 2008 and 2009. Savic’s career as a commentator was cut short, however, when newly installed Manager Peter Vermes tabbed Savic to be part of his coaching staff late in the 2009 season.

3-6-3 11-14-6 18-11-12 23-8-10 22-12-11 18-17-8 16-8-8 111-76-58

Assistant Coach | John Pascarella Assistant Coach John Pascarella played professionally for nine seasons before beginning his coaching career in 1998 at the University of Maryland. Pascarella played club soccer with Sporting Kansas City Technical Director Peter Vermes. His playing experience took him to Peru before he returned to the United States to play in the A-League and MLS.

Fitness Coach | Mateus Manoel

Once his playing career was over, Pascarella began coaching as a member of Sasho Cirovski’s staff at Maryland. He then went on to work in Northern Virginia youth soccer circles as a high school coach and Olympic Development Program coach before becoming the Head Coach and Technical Director of the Northern Virginia Royals of the USL’s Premier Development League for two seasons.

Mateus Manoel is in his sixth season with Sporting Kansas City as Head Fitness Coach. His responsibilities cover all aspects of sport performance and science for the team, including strength and conditioning, injury prevention, field practices, nutrition, fitness monitoring (training load and readiness), player re-adaptation following rehab and recovery.

Pascarella joined Kansas City’s technical staff in 2009 and was a goalkeeper and fitness coach until 2011, when he became an assistant.

In the summer of 2010, Manoel was an Assistant Fitness Coach for the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team during the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. He had formerly served as the Head Fitness Coach for the Mexican Men’s National Team in 2009, working with renowned coach Sven-Goran Eriksson. During 2007 and 2008, Manoel held a position with Athletes’ Performance in the Home Depot Center in Los Angeles, where he worked with professional athletes from a variety of sports, including NFL, NHL, MLB and MLS (Chivas USA and LA Galaxy). Previously, he had assisted with strength and conditioning for D.C. United from the MLS, while concurrently holding the position of Sports Performance Director with Velocity Sports Performance in Alexandria, Virginia. Manoel holds a Master’s degree in Exercise Physiology from George Washington University, where he was also responsible for the strength and conditioning needs of the Colonials Men’s Varsity Soccer Team. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from the University of Maryland - College Park and is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Manoel was born in Brazil and is fluent in both Portuguese and Spanish.

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes ALL-TIME MLS STATISTICS SAAD ABDUL-SALAAM

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

754

MLS - TOTAL

754

JALIL ANIBABA

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

1199

MLS - Regular Season

127

120

10918

MLS - Postseason

MLS - TOTAL

129

121

10994

BERNARDO ANOR

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

256

MLS - Regular Season

4724

132

MLS - Postseason

MLS - TOTAL

4741

134

MATT BESLER

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

177

172

15526

159

KC - Postseason

1050

MLS - TOTAL

188

183

16576

173

MARCEL DE JONG

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

793

MLS - TOTAL

793

AMADOU DIA

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

1137

MLS - TOTAL

1137

DOM DWYER

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

5572

221

127

148

KC - Postseason

372

MLS - TOTAL

5944

240

139

157

KEVIN ELLIS

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

3546

KC - Postseason

MLS - TOTAL

3636

ROGER ESPINOZA

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

130

110

9734

115

185

167

KC - Postseason

455

MLS - TOTAL

137

116

10189

119

192

174

BENNY FEILHABER

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

6707

121

108

167

101

MLS - Regular Season

137

124

10900

199

175

308

172

KC - Postseason

484

MLS - TOTAL

142

129

11384

213

182

322

172

CONNOR HALLISEY

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

381

MLS - TOTAL

381

MIKEY LOPEZ

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

694

MLS - TOTAL

694

JIMMY MEDRANDA

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

558

MLS - TOTAL

558

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes ALL-TIME MLS STATISTICS SONI MUSTIVAR

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

1541

MLS - TOTAL

1541

CHANCE MYERS

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

132

104

9600

141

KC - Postseason

960

MLS - TOTAL

142

114

10560

150

104

PAULO NAGAMURA

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

6048

101

104

MLS - Regular Season

238

213

18816

241

350

276

KC - Postseason

487

MLS - Postseason

1396

MLS - TOTAL

253

227

20212

261

371

305

KRISZTIAN NEMETH

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

1810

MLS - TOTAL

1810

AMOBI OKUGO

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

MLS - Regular Season

134

111

10045

142

MLS - TOTAL

134

111

10045

142

IKE OPARA

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

2083

MLS - Regular Season

4245

KC - Postseason

MLS - Postseason

MLS - TOTAL

4339

ERIK PALMER-BROWN

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

420

MLS - TOTAL

420

JACOB PETERSON

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

4223

MLS - Regular Season

222

127

11509

198

123

KC - Postseason

253

MLS - Postseason

414

MLS - TOTAL

230

132

11923

199

127

JORDI QUINTILLA

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

MLS - TOTAL

SETH SINOVIC

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

122

120

10638

142

MLS - Regular Season

142

138

12218

155

KC - Postseason

1045

MLS - TOTAL

153

149

13263

170

103

GRAHAM ZUSI

MIN

SHT

SOG

OFF

GWG

GWA

KC - Regular Season

168

133

12270

254

148

215

577

KC - Postseason

1139

MLS - TOTAL

179

144

13409

275

166

234

629

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes ALL-TIME MLS STATISTICS JON KEMPIN

MIN

SHT

SVS

GAA

KC - Regular Season

495

2.00

MLS - TOTAL

495

2.00

TIM MELIA

MIN

SHT

SVS

GAA

KC - Regular Season

1620

1.28

MLS - Regular Season

2059

118

1.62

MLS - TOTAL

2059

118

1.62

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes ALL-TIME STATISTICS (ALL COMPETITIONS WITH SPORTING KC) SAAD ABDUL-SALAAM

MIN

ROGER ESPINOZA

MIN

MLS Regular Season

754

MLS Regular Season

130

110

9734

MLS Postseason

455

U.S. Open Cup

164

U.S. Open Cup

1024

International

142

ALL COMPETITIONS

918

ALL COMPETITIONS

150

126

11355

JALIL ANIBABA

MIN

BENNY FEILHABER

MIN

MLS Regular Season

1199

MLS Regular Season

6707

MLS Postseason

484

U.S. Open Cup

480

International

592

ALL COMPETITIONS

1289

ALL COMPETITIONS

105

8263

BERNARDO ANOR

MIN

CONNOR HALLISEY

MIN

MLS Regular Season

256

MLS Regular Season

381

MLS Postseason

U.S. Open Cup

163

International

ALL COMPETITIONS

256

ALL COMPETITIONS

544

MATT BESLER

MIN

MIKEY LOPEZ

MIN

MLS Regular Season

177

172

15526

MLS Regular Season

694

MLS Postseason

1050

MLS Postseason

U.S. Open Cup

1084

U.S. Open Cup

International

885

International

ALL COMPETITIONS

212

205

18545

ALL COMPETITIONS

770

MARCEL DE JONG

MIN

JIMMY MEDRANDA

MIN

MLS Regular Season

793

MLS Regular Season

558

MLS Postseason

U.S. Open Cup

International

564

ALL COMPETITIONS

803

ALL COMPETITIONS

AMADOU DIA

MIN

SONI MUSTIVAR

MIN

MLS Regular Season

1137

MLS Regular Season

1541

MLS Postseason

U.S. Open Cup

351

U.S. Open Cup

360

International

ALL COMPETITIONS

1488

ALL COMPETITIONS

1901

DOM DWYER

MIN

CHANCE MYERS

MIN

MLS Regular Season

5572

MLS Regular Season

132

104

9600

MLS Postseason

372

MLS Postseason

960

U.S. Open Cup

566

U.S. Open Cup

1064

International

314

International

ALL COMPETITIONS

6824

ALL COMPETITIONS

157

127

11714

KEVIN ELLIS

MIN

PAULO NAGAMURA

MIN

MLS Regular Season

3546

MLS Regular Season

6048

MLS Postseason

487

U.S. Open Cup

657

U.S. Open Cup

593

International

360

International

413

ALL COMPETITIONS

4653

ALL COMPETITIONS

7541

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes ALL-TIME STATISTICS (ALL COMPETITIONS WITH SPORTING KC) KRISZTIAN NEMETH

MIN

JON KEMPIN

MIN

GAA

W-L-T

MLS Regular Season

1810

MLS Regular Season

495

2.00

2-3-0

MLS Postseason

U.S. Open Cup

251

U.S. Open Cup

2.00

1-0-0

International

1.00

0-0-1

ALL COMPETITIONS

2061

ALL COMPETITIONS

675

1.87

3-3-1

AMOBI OKUGO

MIN

TIM MELIA

MIN

GAA

W-L-T

MLS Regular Season

1620

1.28

9-5-4

MLS Postseason

U.S. Open Cup

360

1.00

4-0-0

International

ALL COMPETITIONS

1980

1.23

13-5-4

IKE OPARA

MIN

MLS Regular Season

2083

MLS Postseason

U.S. Open Cup

International

450

ALL COMPETITIONS

2639

ERIK PALMER BROWN

MIN

MLS Regular Season

420

MLS Postseason

U.S. Open Cup

180

International

ALL COMPETITIONS

660

JACOB PETERSON

MIN

MLS Regular Season

4223

MLS Postseason

253

U.S. Open Cup

744

International

359

ALL COMPETITIONS

107

5579

JORDI QUINTILLA

MIN

MLS Regular Season

MLS Postseason

U.S. Open Cup

International

ALL COMPETITIONS

SETH SINOVIC

MIN

MLS Regular Season

122

120

10638

MLS Postseason

1045

U.S. Open Cup

820

International

810

ALL COMPETITIONS

151

149

13313

GRAHAM ZUSI

MIN

MLS Regular Season

168

133

12270

MLS Postseason

1049

U.S. Open Cup

758

International

690

ALL COMPETITIONS

197

160

14767

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes SINGLE SEASON RECORDS (FIELD PLAYERS)

ALL-TIME RECORDS (FIELD PLAYERS)

Stat

Player

Stat

Player

Games

C.J. Sapong (2011)

Games

Davy Arnaud

240

Minutes

Nick Garcia (2000) & Peter Vermes (2000)

2916

Minutes

Kerry Zavagnin

20515

Goals

Dom Dwyer (2014)

Goals

Preki

Assists

Preki (1997 & 2003)

Assists

Preki

Shots

Preki (1996)

140

Shots

Preki

693

Shots on goal

Preki (1996)

Shots on goal

Preki

283

Fouls Committed

Chris Henderson (2000)

Fouls Committed

Davy Arnaud

329

Fouls Suffered

Davy Arnaud (2004)

111

Fouls Suffered

Davy Arnaud

528

Offsides

Eddie Johnson (2007)

Offsides

Eddie Johnson

126

Corner Kicks

Graham Zusi (2012)

150

Corner Kicks

Graham Zusi

577

Cautions

Aurelien Collin (2013)

Cautions

Kerry Zavagnin

Ejections

Davy Arnaud (2010)

Ejections

Nick Garcia

SINGLE SEASON RECORDS (GOALKEEPERS)

ALL-TIME RECORDS (GOALKEEPERS)

Stat

Player

Stat

Player

Games

Jimmy Nielsen (2012 & 2013)

Games

Jimmy Nielsen

128

Minutes

Jimmy Nielsen (2012 & 2013)

3060

Minutes

Jimmy Nielsen

11497

Wins

Mike Ammann (1997)

Wins

Jimmy Nielsen

Losses

Mike Amman (1998)

Losses

Tony Meola

Draws

Bo Oshoniyi (2005)

Draws

Jimmy Nielsen

Shutouts

Tony Meola (2000)

Shutouts

Jimmy Nielsen

Goals Against Avg.

Jimmy Nielsen (2012)

0.79

Goals Allowed

Tony Meola

154

Goals Allowed

Mike Amman (1997) & Kevin Hartman (2007)

Saves

Tony Meola

507

Saves

Tony Meola (2000)

129

Goals Against Avg.

Jimmy Nielsen

0.99

SINGLE GAME RECORDS (FIELD PLAYERS)

SINGLE SEASON TEAM RECORDS

Stat

Player

Stat

Player

Goals

Digital Takawira (1998), Preki (1998), Davy Arnaud (2004), Eddie Johnson (twice in 2007), Birahim Diop (2010)

Goals

1996

Assists

2000

2012

542

Assists

Chris Henderson (1999)

Shots

Preki (1997)

Shots on goal

1996

250

2013

511

Shots on goal

Preki (1996), Eddie Johnson (2007)

Fouls Committed

Davy Arnaud (2010), Oriol Rosell (2013)

Fouls Suffered

2000

541

1997

117

Fouls Suffered

Davy Arnaud (2006)

Offsides

Alex Bunbury (1999)

Corner Kicks

2012

199

Cautions

2013

Ejections

2011

Points

2012

Corner Kicks

Alex Zotinca (2006)

SINGLE GAME RECORDS (GOALKEEPERS) Stat

Player

Wins

1997

Goals Allowed

Bo Oshoniyi

Losses

1999

Saves

Garth Lagerwey (1996), Mike Ammann (1997 & 1998), Tony Meola (2000, three times in 2003), Bo Oshoniyi (2002 & 2004)

Ties

2005 & 2011

Shutouts

2000

Goals Allowed

1996

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes SPORTING KANSAS CITY INDIVIDUAL ALL-TIME CHARTS (MLS REGULAR SEASON) GAMES PLAYED Player GP 1. Davy Arnaud 240 2. Kerry Zavagnin 237 3. Nick Garcia 224 4. Preki 218 5. Jimmy Conrad 204 6. Chris Klein 200 7. Jack Jewsbury 195 8. Matt Besler* 177 9. Graham Zusi* 168 10. Michael Harrington 149 10. Mo Johnston 149 GAMES STARTED Player GS 1. Kerry Zavagnin 228 224 2. Nick Garcia 3. Davy Arnaud 213 4. Jimmy Conrad 203 5. Preki 199 6. Chris Klein 183 172 7. Matt Besler* 8. Jack Jewsbury 142 8. Mo Johnston 142 133 10. Graham Zusi* MINUTES PLAYED Player MP 1. Kerry Zavagnin 20,515 20,157 2. Nick Garcia 3. Davy Arnaud 19,399 4. Jimmy Conrad 18,194 5. Preki 17,817 6. Chris Klein 16,380 15,526 7. Matt Besler* 13,275 8. Jack Jewsbury 9. Mo Johnston 12,599 10. Graham Zusi* 12,270 GAMES PLAYED IN GOAL Player GP 1. Jimmy Nielsen 128 125 2. Tony Meola 3. Bo Oshoniyi 96 4. Kevin Hartman 90 5. Mike Ammann 60 6. Chris Snitko 26 7. Eric Kronberg 25 8. Garth Lagerwey 23 18 9. Tim Melia* 10. Andy Gruenebaum 11

GOALS G Player GP 1. Preki 218 71 2. Davy Arnaud 240 43 2. Josh Wolff 144 43 4. Chris Klein 200 39 5. Kei Kamara 113 38 75 34 6. Dom Dwyer* 6. Mo Johnston 149 31 7. Scott Sealy 88 28 7. Vitalis Takawira 103 28 10. Graham Zusi* 168 24 ASSISTS Player GP A 1. Preki 218 98 2. Chris Klein 200 45 168 43 3. Graham Zusi* 4. Davy Arnaud 240 35 5. Mo Johnston 149 28 6. Josh Wolff 144 26 7. Mark Chung 94 25 8. Benny Feilhaber* 85 24 9. Kerry Zavagnin 237 22 10. Jack Jewsbury 195 20 10. Kei Kamara 113 20 SHOTS SH Player GP 1. Preki 218 693 2. Davy Arnaud 240 452 3. Kei Kamara 113 370 4. Chris Klein 200 312 149 274 5. Mo Johnston 6. Josh Wolff 144 265 168 254 7. Graham Zusi* 8. Dom Dwyer* 75 221 9. Jack Jewsbury 195 216 10. Mark Chung 94 203 SHOTS ON GOAL SOG Player GP 1. Preki 218 283 2. Davy Arnaud 240 176 149 138 3. Mo Johnston 3. Chris Klein 200 138 3. Josh Wolff 144 138 6. Kei Kamara 113 126 7. Vitalis Takawira 103 102 8. Mark Chung 94 95 9. Jack Jewsbury 195 90 75 86 10. Dom Dwyer*

SAVES Player GP SV 1. Tony Meola 125 507 2. Bo Oshoniyi 96 354 3. Kevin Hartman 90 332 4. Jimmy Nielsen 128 304 5. Mike Amman 60 206 6. Chris Snitko 26 95 23 83 7. Garth Lagerwey 8. Tim Melia* 18 60 9. Eric Kronberg 25 58 10. Andy Gruenebaum 11 34

FOULS COMMITTED FC Player GP 1. Davy Arnaud 240 329 2. Kerry Zavagnin 237 326 3. Matt McKeon 144 309 224 234 4. Nick Garcia 5. Mo Johnston 149 226 6. Jimmy Conrad 204 210 7. Aurelien Collin 107 191 8. Diego Gutierrez 119 190 130 184 9. Roger Espinoza* 10. Jack Jewsbury 195 175

SHUTOUTS SO Player GP 128 45 1. Jimmy Nielsen 2. Tony Meola 125 37 3. Kevin Hartman 90 22 3. Bo Oshoniyi 96 22 5. Mike Ammann 60 10 6. Eric Kronberg 25 8 7. Tim Melia* 18 7 8. Luis Marin 8 3 8. Andy Gruenebaum 11 3 8. Garth Lagerwey 23 3 26 3 8. Chris Snitko

FOULS SUFFERED Player GP FS 1. Davy Arnaud 240 528 2. Preki 218 362 3. Kerry Zavagnin 237 354 4. Nick Garcia 224 250 5. Graham Zusi* 168 215 6. Mark Chung 94 204 7. Diego Gutierrez 119 196 195 187 8. Jack Jewsbury 9. Josh Wolff 144 183 10. Kei Kamara 113 176

GOALKEEPER WINS GW Player GP 1. Jimmy Nielsen 128 57 125 49 2. Tony Meola 3. Mike Ammann 60 33 3. Bo Oshoniyi 96 33 5. Kevin Hartman 90 30 6. Garth Lagerwey 23 12 7. Tim Melia* 18 9 7. Eric Kronberg 25 9 9. Andy Gruenebaum 11 6 10. Chris Snitko 26 5

CAUTIONS (YELLOW CARDS) YC Player GP 1. Kerry Zavagnin 237 44 2. Davy Arnaud 240 43 3. Nick Garcia 224 37 107 31 4. Aurelien Collin 5. Diego Gutierrez 119 30 5. Matt McKeon 144 30 7. Jack Jewsbury 195 28 7. Mo Johnston 149 28 9. Jimmy Conrad 204 27 10. Preki 218 23 32

CORNER KICKS Player GP CK 1. Graham Zusi* 168 577 2. Preki 218 452 3. Claudio Lopez 57 188 4. Jose Burciaga Jr. 115 175 5. Francisco Gomez 114 157 6. Chris Henderson 61 154 7. Chris Klein 200 152 8. Davy Arnaud 240 144 9. Benny Feilhaber* 85 101 10. Carlos Marinelli 41 91 GAME-WINNING GOALS Player GP GWG 1. Preki 218 13 2. Chris Klein 200 12 3. Kei Kamara 113 11 3. Josh Wolff 144 11 240 10 5. Davy Arnaud 6. Dom Dwyer* 75 8 6. Graham Zusi* 168 8 6. Vitalis Takawira 103 8 110 7 9. C.J. Sapong 9. Scott Sealy 88 7 GAME-WINNING ASSISTS GWA Player GP 1. Preki 218 23 168 18 2. Graham Zusi* 3. Chris Klein 200 16 4. Davy Arnaud 240 10 4. Josh Wolff 144 10 6. Jack Jewsbury 195 8 6. Mo Johnston 149 8 6. Kei Kamara 113 8 6. Kerry Zavagnin 237 8 132 7 10. Chance Myers* 10. Francisco Gomez 114 7 10. Chris Henderson 61 7 MULTI-GOAL GAMES Player GP MGG 1. Vitalis Takawira 103 8 2. Preki 218 7 75 5 3. Dom Dwyer* 3. Kei Kamara 113 5 3. Scott Sealy 88 5 3. Josh Wolff 144 5 7. Mo Johnston 149 4 7. Chris Klein 200 4 168 3 10. Graham Zusi* 10. Davy Arnaud 240 3 10. Teal Bunbury 89 3 10. Eddie Johnson 43 3 PENALTY KICK GOALS PKG Player GP 1. Preki 218 21 2. Dom Dwyer* 75 7 3. Benny Feilhaber* 85 5 3. Kei Kamara 113 5 5. Claudio Lopez 57 4 6. Claudio Bieler 41 3 6. Jose Burciaga Jr. 115 3 6. Jack Jewsbury 195 3 6. Josh Wolff 144 3 10. Omar Bravo 27 2 10. Matt McKeon 144 2 Player 1. Dom Dwyer* 2. Kei Kamara 3. Preki 4. Scott Sealy 5. Josh Wolff 6. Vitalis Takawira 7. Mark Chung 8. Mo Johnston 9. Chris Klein 10. C.J. Sapong *Minimum 20 goals

GOALS PER GAME GP 75 113 218 88 144 103 94 149 200 110

GLS AVG 34 0.45 38 0.34 71 0.33 28 0.32 43 0.30 28 0.27 20 0.21 31 0.21 39 0.20 20 0.18

BOLD* - denotes player on current roster

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes SPORTING KANSAS CITY INDIVIDUAL SINGLE-SEASON CHARTS (MLS REGULAR SEASON) GAMES PLAYED Year Player GP 2011 C.J. Sapong 34 2012 Jimmy Nielsen 34 2013 Jimmy Nielsen 34 2012 Kei Kamara 33 2014 Dom Dwyer 33

Year Player 2014 Dom Dwyer 1996 Preki 2007 Eddie Johnson 1996 Vitalis Takawira 1997 Preki 2000 Miklos Molnar 2003 Preki

GAMES STARTED Year Player GS 2012 Jimmy Nielsen 34 2013 Jimmy Nielsen 34 8 players tied with 32

ASSISTS Year Player GP ASSISTS 1997 Preki 27 17 2003 Preki 30 17 2000 Preki 31 15 2012 Graham Zusi 32 15 2015 Benny Feilhaber* 27 14 1996 Preki 32 13 1998 Preki 25 13

MINUTES PLAYED MIN Year Player 2012 Jimmy Nielsen 3060 2013 Jimmy Nielsen 3060 2000 Nick Garcia 2915 2000 Peter Vermes 2915 1996 Preki 2880 2005 Bo Oshoniyi 2880 2011 Matt Besler 2880

Year Player 1996 Preki 2012 Kei Kamara 2014 Dom Dwyer 1999 Preki 2000 Preki

GAMES PLAYED IN GOAL Year Player GP 2012 Jimmy Nielsen 34 2013 Jimmy Nielsen 34 32 2005 Bo Oshoniyi 2000 Tony Meola 31 2011 Jimmy Nielsen 31 Year Player 2000 Tony Meola 2003 Tony Meola 2008 Kevin Hartman 2005 Bo Oshoniyi 2007 Kevin Hartman

SHOTS GP SHOTS 32 140 33 134 33 113 30 97 31 95

SHOTS ON GOAL GP SOG Year Player 1996 Preki 32 61 33 49 2012 Kei Kamara 1996 Vitalis Takawira 28 48 2014 Dom Dwyer 33 48 1997 Preki 27 44 2002 Preki 25 44

SAVES GP SV 31 129 30 121 30 117 32 112 30 110

FOULS COMMITTED GP FC Year Player 2000 Chris Henderson 31 79 2001 Matt McKeon 26 76 1997 Matt McKeon 31 75 2000 Matt McKeon 30 75 2013 Oriol Rosell 31 66

SHUTOUTS Year Player GP SO 2000 Tony Meola 31 16 2012 Jimmy Nielsen 34 15 2013 Jimmy Nielsen 34 13 2008 Kevin Hartman 30 10 2010 Jimmy Nielsen 29 10

FOULS SUFFERED Year Player GP FS 2004 Davy Arnaud 30 111 2005 Davy Arnaud 31 85 1999 Preki 30 77 2006 Davy Arnaud 32 76 2014 Benny Feilhaber 31 73

GOALKEEPER WINS GP GW Year Player 1997 Mike Ammann 29 21 2012 Jimmy Nielsen 34 18 2013 Jimmy Nielsen 34 17 2000 Tony Meola 31 15 1996 Garth Lagerwey 23 12 2011 Jimmy Nielsen 31 12 GOALS AGAINST AVERAGE GP GA Year Player 2012 Jimmy Nielsen 34 27 2013 Jimmy Nielsen 34 30 31 29 2000 Tony Meola 2004 Tony Meola 21 22 2014 Eric Kronberg 19 20 *Minimum 1,000 minutes played

GOALS GP GOALS 33 22 32 18 24 15 28 13 27 12 17 12 30 12

GAA 0.79 0.88 0.92 1.05 1.05

CAUTIONS (YELLOW CARDS) Year Player GP YC 2013 Aurelien Collin 29 13 2011 Aurelien Collin 23 10 2013 Oriol Rosell 31 10 1997 Mo Johnston 29 9 2005 Jose Burciaga Jr. 31 9 EJECTIONS (RED CARDS) Year Player GP RC 2010 Davy Arnaud 27 3 7 players tied with 2

CORNER KICKS GP CK Year Player 2012 Graham Zusi 32 150 2013 Graham Zusi 27 128 2014 Graham Zusi 25 125 2009 Claudio Lopez 29 123 2011 Graham Zusi 32 97 OFFSIDES GP OFF Year Player 2007 Eddie Johnson 24 50 1996 Vitalis Takawira 28 44 1997 Vitalis Takawira 28 43 2014 Dom Dwyer 33 38 2000 Chris Henderson 31 36 GAME-WINNING GOALS Year Player GP GWG 2000 Miklos Molnar 17 6 2007 Eddie Johnson 24 6 2014 Dom Dwyer 33 6 1997 Preki 27 5 2012 C.J. Sapong 31 5 GAME-WINNING ASSISTS Year Player GP GWA 2000 Chris Henderson 31 5 2000 Matt McKeon 30 5 2003 Preki 30 5 2004 Davy Arnaud 30 5 2004 Josh Wolff 26 5 2012 Graham Zusi 32 5 2013 Graham Zusi 27 5 PENALTY KICK GOALS GP PKG Year Player 1996 Preki 32 7 2014 Dom Dwyer 33 7 2015 Benny Feilhaber* 27 5 2003 Preki 30 5 1997 Preki 27 3 1998 Preki 25 3 2006 Jose Burciaga Jr. 30 3 2013 Claudio Bieler 28 3 GOALS PER GAME GP GLS AVG Year Player 2000 Miklos Molnar 17 12 0.71 2014 Dom Dwyer 33 22 0.67 2007 Eddie Johnson 24 15 0.63 1996 Preki 32 18 0.56 2013 Kei Kamara 15 7 0.47 *Minimum 5 goals

BOLD* - denotes current season

Sporting KC Game Notes | Sept. 23, 2015 at Houston Dynamo | SportingKC.com/Game-Notes SPORTING KANSAS CITY INDIVIDUAL HIGHS (MLS REGULAR SEASON) GOALS Career: 71 Preki Season: 22 Dom Dwyer (2014) Game: 3 6 times Half: 3 Vitalis Takawira (05/16/1998 at NE, 2nd) Half: 3 Eddie Johnson (06/02/2007 vs. NY, 2nd)

SHOTS ON GOAL Career: 283 Preki Season: 61 Preki (1996) Game: 6 Preki (05/19/1996 at LA) Game: 6 Eddie Johnson (06/02/007 vs. NY) Half: 4 6 times

CORNER KICKS Career: 577 Graham Zusi Season: 150 Graham Zusi (2012) Game: 12 Alex Zotinca (07/22/2006 at NY) Half: 8 Chris Henderson (04/10/1999 vs. SJ, 2nd) Half: 8 Chris Henderson (05/20/2000 vs. SJ, 1st)

ASSISTS Career: 98 Preki Season: 17 Preki (1997) Season: 17 Preki (2003) Game: 4 Chris Henderson (06/20/1999 vs. MET) Half: 3 Chris Henderson (06/20/1999 vs. MET, 1st) Half: 3 Preki (06/21/2003 vs. CHI, 1st)

FOULS COMMITTED Career: 329 Davy Arnaud Season: 79 Chris Henderson (2000) Game: 8 Davy Arnaud (05/29/2010 at RSL) Game: 8 Oriol Rosell (07/27/2013 at MTL) Half: 7 Scott Uderitz (05/11/1996 vs. DAL, 1st)

GOALS ALLOWED Career: 154 Tony Meola Season: 45 Mike Ammann (1997) Season: 45 Kevin Hartman (2007) Game: 7 Bo Oshoniyi (07/04/201 vs. CHI) Half: 4 6 times

FOULS SUFFERED Career: 528 Davy Arnaud Season: 111 Davy Arnaud (2004) Game: 10 Davy Arnaud (10/14/2006 at NY) Half: 6 7 times

SAVES Career: 507 Tony Meola Season: 129 Tony Meola (2000) Game: 9 9 times Half: 7 Tony Meola (08/23/2000 at MET, 1st) Half: 7 Bo Oshoniyi (06/13/2001 at LA, 2nd) Half: 7 Tony Meola (08/08/2003 vs. SJ, 1st)

SHOTS Career: 693 Preki Season: 140 Preki (1996) Game: 12 Preki (04/12/1997 at TB) Half: 8 Preki (04/12/1997 at TB, 2nd) Half: 8 Onandi Lowe (08/12/2001 at COL, 2nd) Half: 8 Preki (07/06/2002 vs. DAL, 2nd)

SPORTING KANSAS CITY TEAM HIGHS (MLS REGULAR SEASON) GOALS Season: 61 in 1996 Game: 6 05/02/1996 vs. CLB Game: 6 06/21/1997 vs. DC Game: 6 06/20/1999 vs. MET 2-Tms: 10 05/02/1996 vs. CLB Half: 5 05/02/1996 vs. CLB (2nd) Half: 5 06/21/1997 vs. DC (2nd) ASSISTS Season: 67 in 2000 Game: 10 06/20/1999 vs. MET 2-Tms: 12 07/04/2001 vs. CHI Half: 8 06/20/1999 vs. MET (1st) SHOTS Season: 542 in 2012 Game: 27 8 times 2-Tms: 44 08/14/1999 at MET 2-Tms: 44 08/05/2000 vs. LA 2-Tms: 44 06/09/2001 at MIA Half: 19 07/28/2012 vs. CLB (2nd)

SHOTS ON GOAL Season: 250 in 1996 Game: 14 08/23/1998 vs. MIA Game: 14 06/21/2003 vs. CHI 2-Tms: 22 05/02/1996 vs. CLB 2-Tms: 22 04/18/1997 vs. DAL Half: 11 08/23/1998 vs. MIA (1st) FOULS COMMITTED Season: 511 in 2013 Game: 27 07/04/1997 at CLB 2-Tms: 52 05/17/2000 vs. DC Half: 16 04/05/1997 vs. LA (1st) Half: 16 07/04/1997 at CLB (2nd) Half: 16 03/08/2014 at SEA (1st) FOULS SUFFERED Season: 541 in 2000 Game: 30 08/16/2003 at DAL 2-Tms: 51 05/17/2000 vs. DC Half: 20 07/27/1996 vs. NE (2nd)

CORNER KICKS Season: 199 in 2012 Game: 15 04/10/1999 vs. SJ 2-Tms: 22 08/14/1999 at MET Half: 10 04/10/1999 vs. SJ (2nd) GOALS ALLOWED Season: 63 in 1996 Game: 7 07/04/2001 vs. CHI 2-Tms: 10 05/02/1996 vs. CLB Half: 4 7 times SAVES Season: 133 in 1999 Game: 9 10 times 2-Tms: 18 04/18/1997 vs. DAL 2-Tms: 18 09/02/2000 vs. TB Half: 7 08/23/2000 at MET (1st) Half: 7 06/13/2001 at LA (2d) Half: 7 08/08/2003 vs. SJ (1st)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 20 21 22 23 27 29 37 71 93 94 96

Player

Luis Marin Erik Palmer-Brown Ike Opara Kevin Ellis Matt Besler Paulo Nagamura Chance Myers Graham Zusi Krisztian Nemeth Benny Feilhaber Bernardo Anor Mikey Lopez Amadou Dia Dom Dwyer Seth Sinovic Servando Carrasco Saad Abdul-Salaam James Rogers Amobi Okugo Jon Kempin Connor Hallisey Jalil Anibaba Roger Espinoza Tim Melia Jacob Peterson Marcel de Jong Soni Mustivar Jimmy Medranda Jordi Quintilla

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 DAL POR NYC PHI RSL LA HOU CHI DC NE SEA DAL SEA RSL COL 1-3 0-0 1-0 3-2 0-0 1-2 4-4 1-0 1-1 4-2 0-0 4-0 1-0 1-2 2-0 90G 90G 90G 90G 90G 90G 90G 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 84D 90D 6 90D 89D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90M 90M 78M 25 86M 89D 88F 90F 39F 89F 90F 90F 89F 13 83F 90F 90F 90F 76F 26 90F 75F 90F 90F 19 89F 90F 90F 75F 71F 90M 84M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M 90M 14 34 51 13 15

85F 90D 90D 90M 90M 90M 90G 90G 90G 15 19 58F 78D 90M 90M 90M

90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 16 90M 1 57M 11 79D 88D 89F 90F 63F 90F 90F 76F 90M 74M 45 90M 90M

27 90M 90M 90G 90G 83F 79F 90M 90M

73D

90F 45F

45M

90M 89M 90G 90G 90G 90G 90G 79F 1 90F 45 90F 45D 45 45M 90M 90M 90M 90D 34D

57D 13

90D 90D 88M 70D 90F 82F 90M 8

90F 90D

90G 90G

62D 90D 20

90G 90G 90G 78F 6 75F 45F 89F 90M 90M 90M

90D 66

90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90M 68M 90M 90M 90M 17 90D 12 24D 22 90M 84F 90F 90M 90F 90F 1 90F 90F 90M 71M 90M 89M 73M 15 45 45 90M 77M 56 45D 33 90F 90F 90F 90F 90F 87F 90D 90D 90D

17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 VAN MTL RSL HOU TOR VAN SJ CLB COL POR ORL DAL 1-0 2-1 1-2 1-1 3-1 4-3 0-5 2-3 1-2 0-0 1-3 3-1

SPORTING KANSAS CITY 1 NYR 1-1 90G 5 90D 70D 29 85M 77M 90M 61M

11 34 65F 90D 90D 90D 71M 90G 90G 90G 79F 56M 25 90M 90M 90M 58M

90D 90D 15 27 13 1 90D 90D 90D 90D 89D 1 90D 90D 45 90D 2 90F 90F 90F 90F 90F 90F 90F 90F 90F 71F 90F 32 90F 90F 90F 90F 90F 90F 90D 90D 45 77D 90D 90M 77M 90M 90M 55M 4 77M 19 1 32 7 5 1 12 90D 90D 90D 11 14 6

1 5 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90D 90M 90M 89M 90M 90M 90M 90M 65M 90M 90G 90G 13 2 23 90F 77F 1 5 85F 90D 90D 45D 90D 75D 63D 1 12 13 35 85M 90M 56F 67F 64F

Played for other teams: Amobi Okugo played 812 minutes for ORL "00" = 100 minutes played F/M/D/G = starting position

T L T W W T L T W T W

Opara 1 (Feilhaber 1) 50 Espinoza 1 (Feilhaber 2) 44 Opara 2 (Besler 1) 12 Dwyer 1 (Feilhaber 3) 16; Anibaba 1 (Espinoza 1)

Nemeth 9 (Feilhaber 14) 59 Feilhaber 9 (unassisted) 65;

Feilhaber 4 (Nemeth 2, Anibaba 3) 64

64 4; Dwyer 6 (Feilhaber 10)

32; own goal (Cronin) 3)

51; Ellis 1 (Zusi 4)

76; Dwyer 10 (Nagamura 1)

94+

95+

Nemeth 8 (Feilhaber 12) 29; Peterson 1 (Okugo 1) 87 8 (Nemeth 5) 81; Nagamura 2 (Myers 2, Feilhaber 13) 87; Nagamura 3 (Mustivar 2) 14; Zusi 2 (Besler 3)

Feilhaber 10 (penalty kick)

de Jong 1 (Abdul-Salaam 1, Dwyer 2) Dwyer 9 (Nemeth 6) 47

Nemeth 6 (Ellis 1, Zusi 3) 19; Zusi 1 (Hallisey 1, Anibaba 4) Feilhaber 5 (penalty kick) 84 Dwyer 5 (Feilhaber 8) 30 Nemeth 7 (Myers 1, Feilhaber 9) Ellis 2 (Nemeth 3) 52 Feilhaber 6 (Nemeth 4, Espinoza Feilhaber 7 (Espinoza 4) 50 Dwyer 7 (Feilhaber 11) 6 Feilhaber 8 (penalty kick) 22; Ellis 3 (Mustivar 1) 53; Dwyer

Nemeth 2 (Feilhaber 5, Dwyer 1) 22 Nemeth 3 (de Jong 1) 2; Dwyer 2 (unassisted) 74; Feilhaber 1 (penalty kick) 80; Feilhaber 2 (Zusi 1) Nagamura 1 (Anibaba 1, Zusi 2) 75 Dwyer 3 (Espinoza 2) 45 Dwyer 4 (Nemeth 1, Anibaba 2) 29; Nemeth 4 (Feilhaber 6) 39; Feilhaber 3 (penalty kick) 43; Nemeth 5 (Peterson 1, Feilhaber 7) 46

91+; Nemeth 1 (Besler 2, Feilhaber 4)

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NYR 1 DAL 3 POR 0 NYC 0 PHI 2 RSL 0 LA 2 HOU 4 CHI 0 DC 1 NE 2

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90D 90D

75F 62M

90D 90F

89F 90M 1

89D

90D 90F

87F 90M

90D 90D 90M 3

90M

90D 90F

90D

81D 90F

54F

90D 90D 28

89M 90G 36

56D 90M

68F

15 90D 90M 90G 50F 90M

W W

Zusi (Feilhaber) 70 Dwyer (Feilhaber) 5; Dwyer (Feilhaber) 30; Dwyer (penalty kick) 41; Nemeth (Peterson) 46+; Nemeth (Abdul-Salaam) 59; Dwyer (unassisted) 69 Feilhaber (Besler) 71; Dwyer (Nemeth) 86; Nemeth (Dwyer) 88 Mustivar (Feilhaber) 35; Feilhaber (unassisted) 80; Nemeth (unassisted) 85

90G 63F 1 90M

90M

1 vs STLOUS 0 6 vs DAL 2 W W

90M 90G 22 9 90F

KC KC 3 vs HOU 1 3 vs RSL 1

Erik Palmer-Brown Ike Opara Kevin Ellis Matt Besler Paulo Nagamura Chance Myers Graham Zusi Krisztian Nemeth Benny Feilhaber Bernardo Anor Mikey Lopez Amadou Dia Dom Dwyer Seth Sinovic Servando Carrasco Saad Abdul-Salaam James Rogers Jon Kempin Connor Hallisey Jalil Anibaba Roger Espinoza Tim Melia Jacob Peterson Marcel de Jong Soni Mustivar Jimmy Medranda

U.S. OPEN CUP 4R 06/16/2015 5R 07/01/2015 KC KC

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 21 22 23 27 29 37 71 93 94

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