2007 Kansas City Wizards season
The 2007 Kansas City Wizards season was the 12th for the club in Major League Soccer. The Wizards finished fifth in the Eastern Conference and eighth overall with 40 points (11W 12L 7D), their best points total since 2004 and, resultantly, as an Eastern Conference team.
| 2007 season | |||
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| Head coach | Curt Onalfo | ||
| Major League Soccer | East: 5th Overall: 8th | ||
| Playoffs | Conference Finals | ||
| Top goalscorer | League: Eddie Johnson (15) All: Eddie Johnson (15) | ||
| Average home league attendance | 11,586 | ||
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Curt Onalfo took over as head coach this season. The club also acquired Kevin Hartman from the LA Galaxy, where the goalkeeper had made a name for himself in the league. For Kansas City, 2007 was mostly defined on-field by Eddie Johnson, who scored 15 league goals including back to back hat tricks to end May and begin June, a feat never before accomplished in the league. Johnson's achievements would be overshadowed by the overall chaos of the 2007 MLS season which included the introduction of the Designated Player Rule, enabling teams to sign far more prolific attackers than previous seasons. Despite Johnson's stellar play and the improvement of the Wizards (who made their first playoff as an Eastern team and lost the re-classified Western Conference Finals to eventual champions Houston Dynamo), more high-profile forwards such as DPs Luciano Emilio and Juan Pablo Ángel were given MLS Best XI consideration over the USMNT player.
This was the last season the Wizards played all their home matches at Arrowhead Stadium, as new ownership began a process of relocation and rebranding that would end up with the club opening its own new stadium in 2011.
Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Competitions
Major League Soccer
| Overall | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||
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| Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
| 30 | 11 | 7 | 12 | 45 | 45 | 0 | 40 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 22 | 18 | +4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 23 | 27 | −4 |
Last updated: 2007.
Source: Major League Soccer
| Date | Opponents | H / A | Result F – A |
Scorers | Attendance |
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| April 14, 2007 | D.C. United | A | 4–2 | Harrington Victorine Johnson Sealy |
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| April 21, 2007 | Chicago Fire S.C. | A | 1–2 | Marinelli | |
| April 25, 2007 | Toronto FC | H | 3–0 | Johnson Zavagnin Movsisyan |
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| April 28, 2007 | Toronto FC | A | 1–0 | Johnson | |
| May 5, 2007 | Columbus Crew | H | 1–0 | Burciaga Jr. | |
| May 12, 2007 | FC Dallas | H | 1–2 | Harrington | |
| May 19, 2007 | Colorado Rapids | A | 1–1 | Arnaud | |
| May 26, 2007 | New England Revolution | A | 4–3 | Johnson 3 Arnaud |
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| June 2, 2007 | New York Red Bulls | H | 3–2 | Johnson 3 | |
| June 16, 2007 | New York Red Bulls | A | 3–3 | Movsisyan 2 Zavagnin |
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| June 20, 2007 | Columbus Crew | A | 1–2 | Jewsbury | |
| June 24, 2007 | Houston Dynamo | H | 0–1 | ||
| July 1, 2007 | Toronto FC | H | 1–1 | Harrington | |
| July 4, 2007 | D.C. United | H | 0–1 | ||
| July 7, 2007 | Los Angeles Galaxy | A | 2–2 | Movsisyan Arnaud |
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| July 14, 2007 | Real Salt Lake | H | 1–0 | Johnson | |
| July 22, 2007 | Colorado Rapids | H | 2–2 | Johnson 2 | |
| July 29, 2007 | Chivas USA | H | 3–2 | Zavagnin Arnaud Movsisyan |
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| August 2, 2007 | New England Revolution | A | 0–2 | ||
| August 19, 2007 | New England Revolution | H | 0–1 | ||
| August 22, 2007 | Chicago Fire S.C. | H | 3–2 | Victorine Sealy Burciaga Jr. |
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| August 25, 2007 | Chicago Fire S.C. | A | 0–2 | ||
| August 29, 2007 | Real Salt Lake | A | 1–3 | Johnson | |
| September 1, 2007 | Houston Dynamo | A | 1–1 | Johnson | |
| September 15, 2007 | Columbus Crew | H | 3–2 | Sealy 2 Johnson |
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| September 22, 2007 | Chivas USA | A | 1–2 | Colombano | |
| September 27, 2007 | Los Angeles Galaxy | H | 0–1 | ||
| October 5, 2007 | D.C. United | H | 1–1 | Sealy | |
| October 13, 2007 | New York Red Bulls | A | 1–2 | Jewsbury | |
| October 20, 2007 | FC Dallas | A | 2–0 | Sealy 2 |
U.S. Open Cup qualification
| Date | Round | Opponents | H / A | Result F – A |
Scorers | Attendance |
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| April 18, 2007 | Semifinal Qualification | Real Salt Lake | A | 1–2 (AET) |
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MLS Cup Playoffs
| Date | Round | Opponents | H / A | Result F – A |
Scorers | Attendance |
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| October 27, 2007 | Conference Semi-finals | Chivas USA | H | 1–0 | Arnaud | |
| November 3, 2007 | Conference Semi-finals | Chivas USA | A | 0–0 | ||
| November 10, 2007 | Conference Finals | Houston Dynamo | A | 0–2 |
Squad statistics
| No. | Pos. | Name | MLS | Playoffs | USOC | Total | Minutes | Discipline | ||||||
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| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | League | Total | |||||
| 1 | GK | Kevin Hartman | 30 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 2700 | 3090 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | MF | Kerry Zavagnin | 29 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 3 | 2564 | 2850 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | DF | Michael Harrington | 29 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 3 | 2422 | 2812 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | MF | Sasha Victorine | 29 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 3 | 2135 | 2402 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | FW | Davy Arnaud | 28 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 5 | 2489 | 2807 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | MF | Jack Jewsbury | 28 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 2 | 2316 | 2642 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | DF | Nick Garcia | 27 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 2420 | 2810 | 0 | 0 |
| 12 | DF | Jimmy Conrad | 25 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 2172 | 2562 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | FW | Eddie Johnson | 24 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 15 | 2149 | 2464 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | Carlos Marinelli | 26 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 1674 | 1777 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | MF | Kurt Morsink | 21 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 895 | 1267 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | DF | Jose Burciaga Jr. | 23 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 2 | 1826 | 1824 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | FW | Scott Sealy | 18 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 7 | 1194 | 1487 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | FW | Ryan Pore | 17 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 456 | 512 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | FW | Yura Movsisyan | 18 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 5 | 666 | 786 | 0 | 0 |
| 26 | MF | Ryan Raybould | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 424 | 545 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | FW | Eloy Colombano | 10 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 310 | 334 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | DF | Tyson Wahl | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 415 | 415 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | DF | Aaron Hohlbein | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 360 | 360 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | FW | Will John | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 26 | 146 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | MF | Lance Watson | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 23 | 24 | 0 | 0 |
Final Statistics