1996 Kansas City Wiz season

The 1996 Kansas City Wiz season was the first in team and MLS history. Played at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri.The Wizards were at first named the Wiz and played under that name through 1996 before having it changed for the 1997 season. MLS did not allow matches to end in ties in 1996 and thus Shootouts were used to decide draws, the stats that follow do not include shootout goals scored and the teams actually point total in the regular season was 41 even though it is shown below as 51. Shootout win= 1 point, Shootout loss= 0 points.

Kansas City Wiz

1996 season
Manager	Ron Newman
Major League Soccer	West: 3rd Overall: 5th
USOC	Quarterfinals
Playoffs	Conference Finals
Top goalscorer	League: Preki (18) All: Preki (22)
Average home league attendance	12,878
Home colors Away colors

Squad

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 0 GK  USA Mike Ammann 1 GK  CAN Pat Harrington 2 DF  USA Tommy Reasoner 3 FW  ENG Paul Wright 4 MF  USA Scott Uderitz 5 MF  USA David Moxom 6 DF  USA Sean Bowers 7 FW  LBR Nyanforth Peters 8 FW  USA Eric Eichmann 9 FW  JAM Peter Isaacs 10 MF  USA Mike Sorber 11 MF  USA Preki 12 FW  ZIM Vitalis Takawira

No. Pos. Nation Player 13 MF  USA Mark Chung 14 FW  USA Frank Klopas 15 DF  CMR Samuel Ekeme 16 MF  USA Diego Gutiérrez 17 MF  USA Kevin Koetters 18 MF  USA Billy Baumhoff 18 MF  USA Yari Allnut 19 DF  LBR Dionysius Sebwe 20 DF  NGA Uche Okafor 21 MF  USA Matt McKeon 22 GK  USA Chris Snitko 23 FW  USA Alan Prampin 23 FW  USA Stephen Martines 25 GK  USA Garth Lagerwey 26 FW  SCO Mo Johnston

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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	17	0	15	61	63	−2	51	11	0	5	40	28	+12	6	0	10	21	35	−14

Last updated: 1996.
Source: Major League Soccer

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
April 13, 1996	Colorado Rapids	H	3–0	Takawira 2 Klopas
April 18, 1996	Dallas Burn	A	0–3
April 21, 1996	San Jose Clash	A	2–2 (W)	Okafor Prampin
May 2, 1996	Columbus Crew	H	6–4	Chung Johnston 2 Preki 2 Sorber
May 5, 1996	Colorado Rapids	A	0–4
May 8, 1996	Tampa Bay Mutiny	A	0–2
May 11, 1996	Dallas Burn	H	2–3	Preki 2
May 19, 1996	Los Angeles Galaxy	A	0–2
May 22, 1996	NY/NJ MetroStars	H	2–1	Prampin Preki
May 29, 1996	San Jose Clash	A	1–2	Allnut
June 1, 1996	New England Revolution	H	2–1	Preki Johnston
June 5, 1996	Tampa Bay Mutiny	H	1–3	Preki
June 8, 1996	Columbus Crew	A	3–3 (W)	Takawira Uderitz Preki
June 15, 1996	New England Revolution	A	1–1 (L)	Preki
June 20, 1996	D.C. United	H	5–1	Preki Takawira 2 Chung Sorber
June 26, 1996	NY/NJ MetroStars	A	0–2
June 29, 1996	Dallas Burn	A	1–0	Sorber
July 6, 1996	Los Angeles Galaxy	H	3–1	Uderitz Preki Takawira
July 10, 1996	Colorado Rapids	H	2–0	Klopas Okafor
July 18, 1996	Tampa Bay Mutiny	A	2–3	Johnston Prampin
July 20, 1996	Dallas Burn	H	1–2	Preki
July 27, 1996	New England Revolution	H	4–2	Takawira 2 Chung Preki
July 31, 1996	D.C. United	A	3–2	Own goal Preki Chung
August 4, 1996	D.C. United	A	4–2	Chung 2 Takawira 2
August 7, 1996	Colorado Rapids	A	2–4	Preki Sorber
August 11, 1996	Los Angeles Galaxy	H	2–2 (W)	Preki Chung
August 15, 1996	San Jose Clash	H	4–1	Johnston Preki Takawira 2
August 21, 1996	Los Angeles Galaxy	A	1–1 (W)	Chung
August 24, 1996	Columbus Crew	A	1–2	Johnston
September 1, 1996	NY/NJ MetroStars	H	2–2 (W)	Own goal Takawira
September 7, 1996	Columbus Crew	H	1–5	Preki
September 21, 1996	San Jose Clash	H	0–0 (L)

U.S. Open Cup

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
September 15, 1996	Quarterfinals	Colorado Rapids	H	2–3	Bowers Takawira

MLS Cup Playoffs

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
September 23, 1996	Conference Semi-Finals	Dallas Burn	H	3–2	Johnston McKeon Preki
September 29, 1996	Conference Semi-Finals	Dallas Burn	A	1–2	Preki
October 2, 1996	Conference Semi-Finals	Dallas Burn	A	2–2 (W)	Chung Takawira
October 10, 1996	Conference Finals	Los Angeles Galaxy	A	1–2	Preki
October 13, 1996	Conference Finals	Los Angeles Galaxy	H	1–1 (L)	Preki

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	MLS		USOC		Playoffs		Total		Minutes		Discipline
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	League	Total
11	MF	Preki	32	18	1	0	5	4	38	22	2880	3420	0	0
13	MF	Mark Chung	32	8	1	0	5	1	38	9	2847	3386	0	0
6	DF	Sean Bowers	31	0	1	0	5	1	37	1	2769	3309	0	0
26	FW	Mo Johnston	29	6	1	0	5	1	35	7	2573	3113	0	0
20	DF	Uche Okafor	30	2	1	0	4	0	35	2	2593	2880	0	0
12	FW	Vitalis Takawira	28	13	1	1	5	1	34	15	2233	2762	0	0
16	MF	Diego Gutiérrez	28	0	1	0	5	0	34	0	2069	2609	0	0
4	MF	Scott Uderitz	28	2	0	0	5	0	33	2	2115	2546	0	0
10	MF	Mike Sorber	23	4	1	0	5	0	29	4	1960	2429	0	0
25	GK	Garth Lagerwey	23	0	0	0	5	0	28	0	1959	2409	0	0
14	FW	Frank Klopas	22	2	1	0	3	0	26	2	1235	1316	0	0
15	DF	Samuel Ekeme	23	0	0	0	2	0	25	0	1693	1723	0	0
4	FW	Paul Wright	17	0	1	0	5	0	23	0	690	1125	0	0
21	MF	Matt McKeon	12	0	1	0	5	1	18	1	823	1189	0	0
17	MF	Kevin Koetters	15	0	1	0	0	0	16	0	744	768	0	0
23	FW	Alan Prampin	15	3	1	0	0	0	16	3	337	386	0	0
8	FW	Eric Eichmann	15	0	0	0	0	0	15	0	480	480	0	0
2	DF	Tommy Reasoner	13	0	0	0	0	0	13	0	645	645	0	0
1	GK	Pat Harrington	8	0	0	0	0	0	8	0	630	630	0	0
0	GK	Mike Ammann	4	0	1	0	0	0	5	0	291	336	0	0
22	GK	Chris Snitko	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	45	45	0	0
18	MF	Yari Allnut	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	45	45	0	0

Final Statistics

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