2000 Kansas City Wizards season

Kansas City Wizards

2000 season
Manager	Bob Gansler
Major League Soccer	West: 1st Overall: 1st
USOC	Second Round
Playoffs	Champions
Top goalscorer	League: Miklos Molnar (12) All: Miklos Molnar (17)
Average home league attendance	9,112
Home colors Away colors
← 1999 2001 →

In 2000 the Kansas City Wizards earned their first ever honor winning the MLS Supporters' Shield by finishing atop the regular season point total (57). The Wizards continued good play took them through the playoffs and into MLS Cup 2000 versus the Chicago Fire where they finished their season in a 1-0 victory earning the club the MLS Double. 2000 was the first season that MLS games could finish in a draw, but to do so tied matches had an additional ten-minute overtime.

Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Tony Meola 2 MF Matt McKeon 3 DF Nick Garcia 4 DF Brandon Prideaux 5 FW Brian Johnson 6 DF Peter Vermes 7 FW Miklos Molnar 8 MF Chris Brown 9 FW Alex Bunbury 10 FW Mo Johnston 11 MF Preki 12 FW Peter Byaruhanga

No. Position Player 13 MF Vicente Figueroa 14 DF Michael Green 15 MF Kerry Zavagnin 16 DF John Wilson 17 MF Chris Klein 18 DF Tahj Jakins 19 MF Chris Henderson 20 DF Uche Okafor 21 MF Francisco Gomez 22 FW Gary Glasgow 23 FW Ihor Dotsenko 25 GK Bo Oshoniyi

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Competitions

Major League Soccer

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
32	16	9	7	47	29	+18	57	11	1	4	27	14	+13	5	8	3	20	15	+5

Last updated: 2000.
Source: Major League Soccer

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
March 25, 2000	Chicago Fire S.C.	H	4–3	Molnar Klein Henderson Preki
April 1, 2000	Colorado Rapids	H	3–0	Molnar Johnston Klein
April 8, 2000	Miami Fusion	A	0–0
April 15, 2000	San Jose Earthquakes	H	2–0	Henderson Molnar
April 19, 2000	MetroStars	A	2–1	Molnar 2
April 22, 2000	Tampa Bay Mutiny	H	1–0	Johnston
April 29, 2000	Colorado Rapids	A	5–0	Johnston Klein Preki McKeon Henderson
May 6, 2000	Los Angeles Galaxy	A	0–0
May 13, 2000	MetroStars	H	2–0	McKeon Henderson
May 17, 2000	D.C. United	H	2–0	Zavagnin Molnar
May 20, 2000	San Jose Earthquakes	H	2–0	Vermes Molnar
May 27, 2000	Tampa Bay Mutiny	A	2–1	Vermes Molnar
June 4, 2000	Chicago Fire S.C.	A	2–3	Glasgow Henderson
June 10, 2000	D.C. United	A	0–0
June 17, 2000	Dallas Burn	A	1–4	McKeon
June 21, 2000	Dallas Burn	H	0–0
June 24, 2000	Los Angeles Galaxy	H	2–0	Klein Glasgow
July 4, 2000	San Jose Earthquakes	A	0–0
July 8, 2000	MetroStars	H	0–1
July 15, 2000	Columbus Crew	A	0–2
July 19, 2000	New England Revolution	H	0–1
July 22, 2000	Columbus Crew	H	3–1	Klein Henderson 2
August 2, 2000	Colorado Rapids	H	3–1	Zavagnin Molnar Glasgow
August 5, 2000	Los Angeles Galaxy	H	1–5	Johnston
August 12, 2000	Los Angeles Galaxy	A	1–1	Klein
August 16, 2000	San Jose Earthquakes	A	3–0	Gomez Figueroa Henderson
August 18, 2000	Miami Fusion	H	1–2	Gomez
August 23, 2000	MetroStars	A	0–0
August 26, 2000	Colorado Rapids	A	1–1	Preki
September 2, 2000	Tampa Bay Mutiny	H	1–0	Molnar
September 6, 2000	New England Revolution	A	1–0	Molnar
September 9, 2000	Tampa Bay Mutiny	A	2–2	Henderson Molnar

U.S. Open Cup

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
June 14, 2000	Second Round	Chicago Sockers	A	0–0 PK (6-7)

MLS Cup Playoffs

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
September 16, 2000	Conference Semifinals	Colorado Rapids	H	1–0	Molnar
September 20, 2000	Conference Semifinals	Colorado Rapids	A	0–0
September 24, 2000	Conference Semifinals	Colorado Rapids	H	3–2	Henderson Molnar Gomez
September 29, 2000	Conference Finals	Los Angeles Galaxy	H	0–0
October 3, 2000	Conference Finals	Los Angeles Galaxy	A	1–2	McKeon
October 6, 2000	Conference Finals	Los Angeles Galaxy	H	2–0	Molnar 2
October 15, 2000	MLS Cup 2000	Chicago Fire S.C.	N	1–0	Molnar

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	MLS		USOC		Playoffs		Total		Minutes		Discipline
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	League	Total
6	DF	Peter Vermes	32	2	1	0	7	0	40	2	2916	3695	0	0
3	DF	Nick Garcia	32	0	1	0	7	0	40	0	2916	3695	0	0
15	MF	Kerry Zavagnin	31	2	1	0	7	0	39	2	2743	3522	0	0
19	MF	Chris Henderson	31	9	1	0	7	1	39	10	2694	3406	0	0
11	MF	Preki	31	3	1	0	7	0	39	3	2485	3138	0	0
1	GK	Tony Meola	31	0	0	0	7	0	38	0	2826	3485	0	0
4	DF	Brandon Prideaux	31	0	0	0	7	0	38	0	2809	3468	0	0
2	MF	Matt McKeon	30	3	0	0	7	1	37	4	2631	3202	0	0
17	MF	Chris Klein	27	6	1	0	7	0	35	6	2205	2883	0	0
10	FW	Mo Johnston	25	4	1	0	5	0	30	4	1982	2451	0	0
8	MF	Chris Brown	22	0	1	0	4	0	27	0	1116	1442	0	0
7	FW	Miklos Molnar	17	12	0	0	7	5	24	17	1353	2012	0	0
5	FW	Brian Johnson	18	0	1	0	3	0	22	0	586	619	0	0
21	MF	Francisco Gomez	14	2	1	0	6	1	21	3	709	1001	0	0
20	DF	Uche Okafor	14	0	1	0	1	0	16	0	298	434	0	0
22	FW	Gary Glasgow	11	3	1	0	0	0	12	3	479	599	0	0
13	--	Vicente Figueroa	8	1	1	0	0	0	9	1	322	400	0	0
9	FW	Alex Bunbury	5	0	1	0	0	0	6	0	259	326	0	0
12	--	Peter Byaruhanga	6	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	170	170	0	0
16	DF	John Wilson	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	103	103	0	0
25	GK	Bo Oshoniyi	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	90	210	0	0
18	DF	Tahj Jakins	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	118	118	0	0
23	FW	Ihor Dotsenko	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	90	90	0	0

Final Statistics

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