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Sporting Kansas City will venture sout FC Dallas on Saturday night at Toyota Stadium in the club's season finale.
A match-up of MLS charter clubs, Sporting Kansas City has a chance to sweep FC Dallas in a season series for the first time after earning a 3-2 win on July 7 in MLS play and a 2-1 victory three days later in the U.S. Open Cup quarterfinals.
All seven Western Conference matches will kick off at 8:15 p.m. CT on Decision Day and fans can watch all the action on Apple TV with an MLS Season Pass subscription. Pub partners in the Sporting Pub Network will also show DALvSKC, including a watch party at No Other Pub in the KC Power & Light District. In addition, radio coverage will air locally on Sports Radio 810 WHB as well as La Grande 1340 AM with live audio streams in the Sporting KC App.
Head-to-Head
- Sporting and Dallas are poised for their third meeting this season in all competitions. Sporting beat Dallas twice in the space of four days at Children’s Mercy Park, prevailing 3-2 in the regular season on July 7 and 2-1 in extra time in the 2024 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup quarterfinals.
- Sporting forward Willy Agada scored three goals across the two previous matches against Dallas this season, bagging a brace in the 3-2 win on July 7 and striking late in the 2-1 Open Cup win on July 10.
- Dallas forward Petar Musa also scored in both previous meetings this season, a 65th-minute equalizer to make the score 2-2 on July 7 and an 87th-minute equalizer to make the score 1-1 on July 10.
- Sporting midfielder Memo Rodriguez scored a late winner in the 3-2 regular season victory on July 7. Rodriguez has three goals and five total goal contributions (two assists) in 14 regular season appearances against Dallas, both of which are his most against any MLS opponent.
- Sporting has won each of the last three meetings with Dallas in all competitions, all at Children’s Mercy Park. Dallas last beat Sporting by a 2-1 scoreline in Kansas City’s last visit to Toyota Stadium on March 18, 2023.
- Sporting is visiting FC Dallas on Decision Day for the third time in the last six seasons, having lost both previous meetings. Sporting fell 6-0 to conclude the 2019 campaign and 2-1 to end the 2022 campaign.
- The three seasons in which Sporting has failed to make the playoffs since 2011 have all ended with road matches against Dallas at Toyota Stadium (2019, 2022, 2024).
- Sporting has won four straight home meetings against Dallas in all competitions since 2022. Sporting had previously gone winless in six home meetings against Dallas (0-4-2) from 2018-2021.
- The home team in the series is unbeaten in the last seven meetings across all competitions since the start of 2022.
- Dallas owns a narrow edge in the all-time regular season series, posting a 30-29-14 record through 73 meetings. Sporting’s 30 regular season losses against Dallas are their most versus any MLS opponent.
- Sporting has three regular season road wins at Dallas since 2018, more than any other MLS team during that time.
- Sporting earned two road victories over Dallas in 2021, becoming the first team since 2003 to win twice at Dallas in a single regular season.
- Sporting forward Daniel Salloi has eight goals and two assists in 16 MLS appearances against Dallas. His eight regular season goals versus Dallas are his most against any MLS opponent and the most by any Sporting player in the all-time series.
- Sporting forward Johnny Russell has six goals and one assist in 12 MLS appearances against Dallas.
- Dallas forward Jesus Ferreira has six goals and two assists in 11 MLS appearances against Sporting.
- Dallas midfielder Paul Arriola has two goals and three assists in six MLS appearances against Sporting.
Sporting Kansas City
- 2024 MLS record: 8-18-7, 31 points (13th in West | 50 GF, 64 GA)
- 2024 MLS away record: 2-11-3 (17 GF, 33 GA)
- Last five MLS matches: 1-4-0 (T-L-W-L-L-L)
- Sporting will miss the MLS Cup Playoffs for just the third time in the last 14 seasons since 2011—having previously missed the postseason in 2019 and 2022—and for the ninth time in 29 seasons as an MLS charter member.
- Sporting’s 1.52 goals per match during the 2024 regular season are the club’s fourth most since the Peter Vermes era began in 2009 (Sporting had more goals per match in 2018, 2020 and 2021).
- Sporting has won each of its last seven matches in all competitions when scoring at least twice, dating back to June 29.
- Sporting has scored 14 goals from set pieces this season in all competitions (10 in MLS, three in the Open Cup and one in Leagues Cup). That accounts for 22% of the club’s goal scoring (14 of 64).
- Sporting leads MLS with 13 goals from outside the box during the 2024 regular season.
- Sporting is the only MLS team without a penalty kick goal during the 2024 regular season.
- Sporting suffered a 3-1 extra-time loss to LAFC on Sept. 25 in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles. It was Sporting’s first cup final defeat since losing the 2004 MLS Cup to D.C. United and dropped Kansas City’s record in cup finals to six wins and two losses.
- Sporting had won each of its first four Open Cup finals prior to Sept. 25, claiming the tournament title in 2004, 2012, 2015 and 2017.
- Sporting has fielded 33 different starting lineups in its last 33 matches across all competitions. Sporting has utilized 37 different starting lineups in 41 total matches this season.
- Sporting has used 25 different players during the 2024 regular season. Only the Colorado Rapids and LAFC (24 each) have used fewer.
- Forward Stephen Afrifa scored a long-range goal in Sporting’s 3-1 road loss at St. Louis City SC on Sept. 28. Afrifa ranks fourth on the team with six goals this season in all competitions.
- Midfielder Jake Davis assisted Afrifa’s goal against St. Louis and now has six goal contributions in his last seven matches across all competitions (one goal, five assists).
- Davis, who ranks seventh in MLS with 73 tackles, was named Sporting’s team MVP on Oct. 10. At 22 years old, he becomes the youngest team MVP in Sporting history and the second Sporting KC Academy product to earn the award after Daniel Salloi in 2021.
- In addition to scoring three goals, Davis ranks second on the team with eight assists this season in all competitions. He has 11 total goal contributions this year after recording just two in his first three seasons from 2021-2023.
- Midfielder Erik Thommy scored a 60th-minute equalizer in the Open Cup Final against LAFC on Sept. 25. Thommy has three goals in his last four matches across all competitions and is tied with Alan Pulido for second on the team with eight goals this season in all competitions.
- Thommy has 13 goal contributions (five assists) this season in all competitions, tied with Alan Pulido for third most on the team behind William Agada (15) and Johnny Russell (14).
- Forward Johnny Russell leads Sporting with nine assists this season in all competitions. His 14 total goal contributions (five goals) are second most on the team behind William Agada (15).
- Forward Alan Pulido is tied for second on the team with eight goals this season in all competitions. His 13 total goal contributions this season (five assists) are tied with Erik Thommy for third most on the team behind William Agada (15) and Johnny Russell (14).
- Forward Daniel Salloi has three assists in his last five matches across all competitions.
- Forward William Agada leads Sporting with 11 goals this season in all competitions—nine in the MLS regular season, one in the Open Cup and one in Leagues Cup. He also has a team-leading 15 total goal contributions in all competitions, adding four assists.
- Ten of Agada’s 11 goals this season have come at home.
- Agada leads MLS in expected goals per 90 minutes (0.75) while ranking third in non-penalty expected goals per 90 minutes (0.66) and sixth in shots per 90 minutes (4.44).
- Midfielder Memo Rodriguez leads Sporting with six assists in MLS regular season play, while Pulido, Russell, Salloi and Davis are tied for second with five apiece.
FC Dallas
- 2024 MLS record: 10-15-8, 38 points (11th in West | 52 GF, 55 GA)
- 2024 MLS home record: 9-5-2 (32 GF, 24 GA)
- Last five MLS matches: 1-3-1 (L-W-L-L-T)
- Dallas will miss the playoffs for the first time since 2021 and for the ninth time in 29 seasons as an MLS charter member.
- Dallas had a 1-10-6 road record during the 2024 regular season, tied with St. Louis City SC for the fewest away wins in MLS. The team’s lone road win was a 4-3 result at D.C. United on Aug. 24.
- Dallas has scored 31 of its 52 regular season goals in the first half, a clip of 60%.
- Dallas is 7-3-1 when scoring first and 3-12-3 when conceding first during the 2024 regular season. Similarly, the team is 6-0-1 when leading at halftime and 1-7-1 when trailing at halftime.
- Forward Petar Musa leads Dallas with 15 goals during the regular season, 10 more than any other player on the team.
- Midfielder Paul Arriola and forward Jesus Ferreira are tied for second on the team with five goals apiece during the regular season, with Arriola adding seven assists and Ferreira recording six assists.
- Midfielder Sebastian Lletget and forward Logan Farrington are tied for the team lead with eight assists apiece during the regular season.
- Goalkeeper Maarten Paes and defender Sebastien Ibeagha lead Dallas in starts (30) and minutes played (2,700) during the regular season.
Milestones and Miscellany
- Forward Johnny Russell is tied with Dom Dwyer for second in club history with 67 goals in all competitions, 14 behind leader and current Seattle assistant coach Preki.
- Forward Daniel Salloi has 84 goal contributions for Sporting (47 goals, 37 assists) in the regular season, tied with Chris Klein for fourth most in club history.
- Midfielder Nemanja Radoja is one shy of his 50th regular season appearance for Sporting and one shy of his 50th MLS start for Sporting (including playoffs).
- Midfielder Jake Davis is one shy of his 50th regular season start for Sporting.
