Sporting Kansas City will host its inaugural Faith and Family Day on Sunday at Children’s Mercy Park when the team faces Seattle Sounders FC at 3 p.m. CT.
Tickets for the match are available via SeatGeek.com or by calling 888-4KC-GOAL to purchase the Coca-Cola Sunday Family Four Pack, consisting of four tickets, four Coke products, four hot dogs and four bags of chips. The first 2,500 fans through the stadium gates will also receive a commemorative Faith and Family Day bookmark.
Faith and Family Day programming will feature discounted South Stand tickets for $30 apiece as well as pre-game speeches from Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Chris Conley and former University of Kansas All-American and NBA champion Wayne Simien. Conley and Simien will speak on the Toyota Plaza at 2:30 p.m. CT prior to kickoff.
Rock band 7eventh Time Down will perform a concert in the Ameritas Shield Club immediately after the match before Simien takes the stage to conduct a postgame Q&A with Sporting KC defenders Matt Besler, Ike Opara and Seth Sinovic. The Shield Club will be open to all fans after the game ends.
Sitting atop the Western Conference standings, Sporting Kansas City (4-1-1, 13 points) enters Sunday on a five-game unbeaten run. Manager Peter Vermes’ men are coming off a 2-0 win at the LA Galaxy in which Daniel Salloi and Johnny Russell scored second-half goals and goalkeeper Tim Melia made a club-record 10 saves to land Alcatel MLS Player of the Week honors.
