The Sporting Kansas City roster has undergone another shuffling of jersey numbers.
A few weeks after confirming jersey number updates for six players—three newcomers and three returnees—Sporting announced five more updates today.
At the forefront, Chilean midfielder and 2019 leading scorer Felipe Gutierrez will wear No. 10 after donning No. 21 during his first two seasons in Kansas City. The No. 21 shirt will instead be worn by a different Felipe in 2020 with 21-year-old Homegrown midfielder Felipe Hernandez upgrading from No. 85.
Elsewhere, newly acquired left back Amadou Dia will wear his preferred lucky No. 13. In turn, Sporting KC Academy product and U.S. youth international Gianluca Busio will switch from No. 13 to No. 27. Lastly, newly acquired Israeli midfielder Gadi Kinda will wear No. 17.
Below is the full list of Sporting’s jersey number updates ahead of the 2020 season.
Sporting KC jersey number updates for 2020
- #1 Richard Sanchez (newcomer)
- #3 Andreu Fontas (wore #4 in 2019)
- #4 Roberto Puncec (newcomer)
- #9 Alan Pulido (newcomer)
- #10 Felipe Gutierrez (wore #21 in 2019)
- #11 Khiry Shelton (wore #14 in 2018)
- #13 Amadou Dia (newcomer)
- #15 Roger Espinoza (wore #17 in 2019)
- #17 Gadi Kinda (newcomer)
- #21 Felipe Hernandez (wore #85 in 2019)
- #27 Gianluca Busio (wore #13 in 2019)
Sporting Kansas City will kick off the 2020 MLS regular season on Feb. 29 at Vancouver Whitecaps FC before hosting the Houston Dynamo on March 7 in the club's highly anticipated home opener at Children's Mercy Park.
The best way to guarantee tickets for 2020 home matches at Children’s Mercy Park is to join the Sporting Kansas City family and become a Season Ticket Member. Several multi-game ticket packages for the 2020 season are also on sale now at SportingKC.com, including the limited-time Holiday Pack that bundles the home opener versus Houston Dynamo on March 7 with two flex matches. Single-game tickets for the first half of Sporting’s home schedule will go on sale to the general public in early 2020.
