2006 Kansas City Wizards season

Kansas City Wizards

2006 season
Manager	Bob Gansler Brian Bliss
Major League Soccer	East: 5th Overall: 11th
USOC	Fourth Round
Top goalscorer	League: Scott Sealy (10) All: Scott Sealy (11)
Average home league attendance	11,083
Home colors Away colors
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2006 marked the end of the Bob Gansler run as manager- despite the many favorable results of playing in two MLS Cups, winning one- winning the Supporters' Shield and USOC many KCW fans were happy to see Bunker Bob leave.

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 Bo Oshoniyi 3 DF Nick Garcia 4 DF Shavar Thomas 5 MF Kerry Zavagnin 6 DF Jose Burciaga Jr. 7 FW Eddie Johnson 9 MF Sasha Victorine 11 MF Dave van den Bergh 12 DF Jimmy Conrad 13 FW Will John 14 MF Jack Jewsbury 15 FW Josh Wolff 16 DF Brian Roberts 17 FW Yura Movsisyan

No. Position Player 18 GK Will Hesmer 19 FW Scott Sealy 20 DF Tyson Wahl 21 MF Lance Watson 22 FW Davy Arnaud 23 MF Alex Zotinca 24 GK Eric Kronberg 25 MF Matt Groenwald 26 MF Ryan Raybould 27 MF Jermaine Hue 28 Stephen Shirley 29 FW Ryan Pore 33 MF Sergei Raad 35 MF Ryan McMahen

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Competitions

Major League Soccer

Overall

Pos	Club	Pts	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD
1	D.C. United (E1)	55	32	15	7	10	52	38	+14
2	FC Dallas (W1)	52	32	16	12	4	48	44	+4
3	New England Revolution (E2)	48	32	12	8	12	39	35	+4
4	Chicago Fire (E3)	47	32	13	11	8	43	41	+2
5	Houston Dynamo (W2)	46	32	11	8	13	44	40	+4
6	Chivas USA (W3)	43	32	10	9	13	45	42	+3
7	Colorado Rapids	41	32	11	13	8	36	49	–13
8	New York Red Bulls	39	32	9	11	12	41	41	0
9	Los Angeles Galaxy	39	32	11	15	6	37	37	0
10	Real Salt Lake	39	32	10	13	9	45	49	–4
11	Kansas City Wizards	38	32	10	14	8	43	45	–2
12	Columbus Crew	33	32	8	15	9	30	42	–12

	MLS Supporters' Shield, 2006 MLS Cup Playoffs
	MLS Supporters' Shield runner up, 2006 MLS Cup Playoffs
	2006 MLS Cup Playoffs

Conference

Eastern Conference
Pos	Club	Pts	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD
1	D.C. United	55	32	15	7	10	52	38	+14
2	New England Revolution	48	32	12	8	12	39	35	+4
3	Chicago Fire	47	32	13	11	8	43	41	+2
4	New York Red Bulls	39	32	9	11	12	41	41	0
5	Kansas City Wizards	38	32	10	14	8	43	45	–2
6	Columbus Crew	33	32	8	15	9	30	42	–12

	MLS Supporters' Shield, 2006 MLS Cup Playoffs
	2006 MLS Cup Playoffs

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
32	10	8	14	43	45	−2	38	7	5	4	31	24	+7	3	3	10	12	21	−9

Last updated: 2006.
Source: Major League Soccer

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
April 1, 2006	Columbus Crew	H	3–1	Arnaud Jewsbury Johnson
April 8, 2006	Houston Dynamo	A	2–1	Victorine Burciaga Jr.
April 15, 2006	New England Revolution	H	1–0	Conrad
April 23, 2006	FC Dallas	A	1–2	Zotinca
April 29, 2006	Columbus Crew	A	1–0	Wolff
May 6, 2006	Chicago Fire S.C.	H	1–1	Johnson
May 13, 2006	D.C. United	A	1–2	Victorine
May 20, 2006	Real Salt Lake	A	1–2	Pore
May 27, 2006	D.C. United	H	1–3	Sealy
June 3, 2006	New York Red Bulls	H	1–1	Burciaga Jr.
June 10, 2006	Columbus Crew	A	1–0	Burciaga Jr.
June 17, 2006	Chicago Fire S.C.	H	3–2	Sealy 2 Burciaga Jr.
June 24, 2006	D.C. United	A	0–1
June 28, 2006	D.C. United	H	2–3	Garcia Burciaga Jr.
July 1, 2006	Los Angeles Galaxy	H	0–2
July 4, 2006	Chicago Fire S.C.	A	0–1
July 8, 2006	Colorado Rapids	A	0–1
July 15, 2006	Houston Dynamo	H	2–3	Wolff Conrad
July 22, 2006	New York Red Bulls	A	0–1
July 29, 2006	New England Revolution	H	1–1	Wolff
August 9, 2006	New England Revolution	A	0–0
August 12, 2006	Columbus Crew	H	4–0	Arnaud Sealy Victorine Pore
August 16, 2006	Chicago Fire S.C.	A	0–3
August 19, 2006	Chivas USA	A	1–1	Burciaga Jr.
August 27, 2006	FC Dallas	H	1–0	Sealy
August 30, 2006	New York Red Bulls	H	2–2	Sealy Wolff
September 2, 2006	Los Angeles Galaxy	A	1–2	Thomas
September 9, 2006	Colorado Rapids	H	4–1	Sealy van den Bergh Arnaud 2
September 23, 2006	New England Revolution	A	1–1	Sealy
September 30, 2006	Real Salt Lake	H	3–3	Wolff Sealy Burciaga Jr.
October 7, 2006	Chivas USA	H	2–1	van den Bergh Burciaga Jr.
October 14, 2006	New York Red Bulls	A	2–3	van den Bergh Sealy

U.S. Open Cup

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
July 12, 2006	Third Round	Des Moines Menace	H	2–1	Pore Sealy
August 14, 2006	Fourth Round	Chicago Fire S.C.	A	0–2

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	MLS		USOC		Total		Minutes		Discipline
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	League	Total
22	FW	Davy Arnaud	32	4	0	0	32	4	2785	2785	0	0
9	MF	Sasha Victorine	31	3	1	0	32	3	2701	2717	0	0
6	DF	Jose Burciaga Jr.	30	8	0	0	30	8	2590	2590	0	0
19	FW	Scott Sealy	29	10	1	1	30	11	1762	1852	0	0
1	GK	Bo Oshoniyi	29	0	0	0	29	0	2610	2610	0	0
3	DF	Nick Garcia	29	1	0	0	29	1	2519	2519	0	0
14	MF	Jack Jewsbury	28	1	1	0	29	1	1817	1907	0	0
4	DF	Shavar Thomas	26	1	1	0	27	1	2147	2237	0	0
5	MF	Kerry Zavagnin	25	0	1	0	26	0	2069	2159	0	0
23	MF	Alex Zotinca	24	1	0	0	24	1	1303	1303	0	0
7	FW	Eddie Johnson	19	2	2	0	21	2	1480	1505	0	0
25	MF	Matt Groenwald	19	0	2	0	21	0	1221	1287	0	0
29	FW	Ryan Pore	19	2	2	1	21	3	563	728	0	0
15	FW	Josh Wolff	19	5	1	0	20	5	1587	1608	0	0
12	DF	Jimmy Conrad	15	2	0	0	15	2	1252	1252	0	0
11	MF	Dave van den Bergh	13	3	0	0	13	2	991	991	0	0
21	MF	Lance Watson	11	0	1	0	12	0	450	530	0	0
17	FW	Yura Movsisyan	10	0	2	0	12	0	221	335	0	0
20	DF	Tyson Wahl	10	0	1	0	11	0	607	697	0	0
26	MF	Ryan Raybould	8	0	1	0	9	0	583	673	0	0
18	GK	Will Hesmer	3	0	2	0	5	0	270	450	0	0
16	DF	Brian Roberts	1	0	2	0	3	0	17	197	0	0
13	FW	Will John	1	0	2	0	3	0	3	138	0	0
33	MF	Sergei Raad	1	0	2	0	3	0	22	136	0	0
28	--	Stephen Shirley	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	180	0	0
35	MF	Ryan McMahen	0	0	2	0	2	0	0	164	0	0
27	MF	Jermaine Hue	2	0	0	0	2	0	51	51	0	0

Final Statistics

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