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FC Kansas City 2014 soccer season

FC Kansas City

2014 season

Owner

Brian Budzinski, Chris Likens, Brad Likens, Greg Likens

Head coach

Vlatko Andonovski

Stadium

Durwood Soccer Stadium

NWSL

2nd

NWSL Playoffs

Champions

Top goalscorer

League: Amy Rodriguez (13)
All: Amy Rodriguez (16)

Highest home attendance

3,107
(Apr 12 vs. SBFC)

Lowest home attendance

1,212
(Aug 6 vs. BOS)

Average home league attendance

2,018

Home colors

Away colors

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The 2014 season was FC Kansas City's second season of existence. The team competed in the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), the top division of women's soccer in the United States. FC Kansas City won its first NWSL championship in 2014, defeating Seattle Reign FC in the NWSL Playoffs final.

Club

Roster

As of July 1, 2014

No.	Pos.	Player	Nation
1	GK	Sara Keane	United States
2	FW	Melissa Henderson	United States
4	DF	Becky Sauerbrunn	United States
5	FW	Liz Bogus	United States
6	MF	Jen Buczkowski	United States
7	MF	Jenna Richmond	United States
8	FW	Amy Rodriguez	United States
9	MF	Merritt Mathias	United States
10	FW	Frances Silva	United States
11	MF	Morgan Marlborough	United States
12	FW	Lauren Holiday	United States
13	DF	Leigh Ann Robinson	United States
14	DF	Kassey Kallman	United States
15	MF	Erika Tymrak	United States
16	DF	Nia Williams	United States
17	DF	Amy LePeilbet	United States
18	GK	Nicole Barnhart	United States
19	FW	Katrina Gorry	Australia
20	MF	Molly Dreska	United States
22	GK	Cecilia Santiago	Mexico
23	DF	Nikki Phillips	United States
24	FW	Sarah Hagen	United States
25	MF	Mandy Laddish	United States
28	MF	Missy Geha	United States

Team management

FC Kansas City's ownership group is composed of Chris, Brad and Greg Likens, and Brian Budzinski. The group also owns the Missouri Comets of the Major Indoor Soccer League. Budzinski is also owner of the Kansas City Soccerdome. Vlatko Andonovski, a former professional player and head coach of the Kansas City Kings of the PASL and Missouri Olympic Development Program (ODP), was head coach for the 2013 season.

Match results

Win Draw Loss

Preseason

FC Kansas City v Chicago Red Stars

March 22, 2014 (2014-03-22) 1	FC Kansas City	1–1	Chicago Red Stars	Fenton, Missouri
19:00 CDT	Henderson 83'	Report	Mautz 51'	Stadium: St. Louis Soccer Park Attendance: 2,300

Kansas Jayhawks v FC Kansas City

March 29, 2014 (2014-03-29) 2	Kansas Jayhawks	1–3	FC Kansas City	Lawrence, Kansas
	Ashley Williams 31'	Report	Rodriguez 12' Holiday 15', 51' (pen.)	Stadium: Jayhawk Soccer Complex

Oklahoma State Cowgirls v FC Kansas City

April 5, 2014 (2014-04-05) 3	Oklahoma State Cowgirls	0–10	FC Kansas City	Kansas City, Missouri
16:00 CDT		http://www.fckansascity.com/2014/04/05/fc-kansas-city-finishes-exhibition-season-big-win/ Report	Williams 14' Mathias 23', 25', 58' Tymrak 30' Bogus 33' (pen.), 40' Silva 48', 68' Henderson 60' (pen.)	Stadium: Swope Park

NWSL

Main article: 2014 NWSL season

Regular season

Kickoff times are in CDT (UTC-05)

FC Kansas City v Sky Blue FC

April 12, 2014 (2014-04-12) 1	FC Kansas City	1–1	Sky Blue FC	Kansas City, Missouri
	Rodriguez 42' (Kallman)	Report	Freels 48'	Stadium: Durwood Soccer Stadium Attendance: 3,107 Referee: Dimitar Chavdarov

Washington Spirit v FC Kansas City

April 19, 2014 (2014-04-19) 2	Washington Spirit	3–1	FC Kansas City	Boyds, Maryland
	Matheson 4', 38' (Dunn) Nairn 45'	Report	Rodriguez 29' Kallman 32'	Stadium: Maryland SoccerPlex Attendance: 2,577 Referee: Matthew Franz

Portland Thorns FC v FC Kansas City

April 26, 2014 (2014-04-26) 3	Portland Thorns FC	3–1	FC Kansas City	Portland, Oregon
	Long 44' (pen.) McDonald 84' (Long), 88' (Shim)	Report	Mathias 63' Holiday 56' (pen.)	Stadium: Providence Park Attendance: 14,124 Referee: Katja Koroleva

FC Kansas City v Chicago Red Stars

April 30, 2014 (2014-04-30) 4	FC Kansas City	1–0	Chicago Red Stars	Kansas City, Missouri
21:00 CDT (UTC-05)	Rodriguez 9' (Buczkowski)	Report		Stadium: Durwood Soccer Stadium Attendance: 1,679 Referee: Josh Wilkens

Houston Dash v FC Kansas City

May 3, 2014 (2014-05-03) 5	Houston Dash	0–4	FC Kansas City	Houston, Texas
19:00	Ohale 58' Hein 72'	Box Report	Bogus 13' Rodriguez 48' (Holiday) Tymrak 80' Silva 89' (Holiday)	Stadium: BBVA Compass Stadium Attendance: 5,198 Referee: Juliana Duncan

Western New York Flash v FC Kansas City

May 7, 2014 (2014-05-07) 6	Western New York Flash	2–1	FC Kansas City	Rochester, New York
18:00	Kerr 38' (Adriana) Spencer 45+4' (Kerr)	Box Report	Marlborough 57'	Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium Attendance: 2,463 Referee: Mark Allatin

FC Kansas City v Washington Spirit

May 11, 2014 (2014-05-11) 7	FC Kansas City	2–1	Washington Spirit	Kansas City, Missouri
18:00	Rodriguez 36' (Buczkowski), 64' (Holiday)	Report	Gayle 50' Adams 63' (Matheson)	Stadium: Durwood Soccer Stadium Attendance: 1,797 Referee: Matt Mercier

Seattle Reign FC v FC Kansas City

May 14, 2014 (2014-05-14) 8	Seattle Reign FC	3–2	FC Kansas City	Seattle, Washington
21:00	Fletcher 16' Little 20' (pen.) Fishlock 52' Winters 76' (Dallstream)	Box Report	Holiday 44' (pen.) Tymrak 61' (Richmond)	Stadium: Memorial Stadium Attendance: 2,875 Referee: Timon Berry

FC Kansas City v Houston Dash

May 18, 2014 (2014-05-18) 9	FC Kansas City	2–2	Houston Dash	Kansas City, Missouri
17:00	Holiday 2' (Tymrak) Tymrak 36' Phillips 80'	Box Report	Jackson 20' (Burger) Burger 65' McCarty 78' (Masar) Ohale 90'	Stadium: Durwood Soccer Stadium Attendance: 1,483 Referee: Elvis Mahmutovic

FC Kansas City v Seattle Reign FC

May 21, 2014 (2014-05-21) 10	FC Kansas City	1–1	Seattle Reign FC	Kansas City, Missouri
20:00	Richmond 18' Rodriguez 42' (Bogus)	Box KC report	Winters 34' Little 45+1' (pen.) Barnes 78'	Stadium: Durwood Soccer Stadium Attendance: 2,011 Referee: Dimitar Chavdarov

Boston Breakers v FC Kansas City

May 25, 2014 (2014-05-25) 11	Boston Breakers	0–2	FC Kansas City	Boston, Massachusetts
19:00		Box Report Report	Phillips 62' Rodriguez 82' (Buczkowski)	Stadium: Harvard Stadium Attendance: 2,622 Referee: Katja Koroleva

FC Kansas City v Western New York Flash

June 4, 2014 (2014-06-04) 12	FC Kansas City	1–0	Western New York Flash	Kansas City, Missouri
19:00	Rodriguez 45' (Robinson)	Report	Losada 11'	Stadium: Durwood Soccer Stadium Attendance: 2,674 Referee: Chris Spivey

FC Kansas City v Boston Breakers

June 7, 2014 (2014-06-07) 13	FC Kansas City	2–0	Boston Breakers	Kansas City, Missouri
19:00	Holiday 14' (pen.), 35' (pen.)	Report		Stadium: Durwood Soccer Stadium Attendance: 1,457 Referee: Greg Dopka

Houston Dash v FC Kansas City

June 14, 2014 (2014-06-14) 14	Houston Dash	1–2	FC Kansas City	Houston, Texas
20:00	Edwards 79' (Ochs)	Report	Richmond 66' (Tymrak) Silva 90+4' (Tymrak)	Stadium: BBVA Compass Stadium Attendance: 3,852 Referee: Bernard Hosu

FC Kansas City v Chicago Red Stars

June 21, 2014 (2014-06-21) 15	FC Kansas City	1–0	Chicago Red Stars	Kansas City, Missouri
19:00 CDT (UTC-05)	Buczkowski 76' (Mathias)	Report	van Egmond 83'	Stadium: Durwood Soccer Stadium Attendance: 1,493 Referee: Christina Unkel

FC Kansas City v Portland Thorns FC

June 28, 2014 (2014-06-28) 16	FC Kansas City	1–0	Portland Thorns FC	Kansas City, Missouri
19:00	Holiday 41' (Rodriguez)	Report	Brooks 50'	Stadium: Durwood Soccer Stadium Attendance: 2,421 Referee: Josh Wilkens

Sky Blue FC v FC Kansas City

July 6, 2014 (2014-07-06) 17	Sky Blue FC	0–5	FC Kansas City	Piscataway, New Jersey
18:00	Nadim 78'	Report	Tymrak 2' (Robinson) Holiday 9' Hagen 20' (Tymrak), 42' (Holiday) Rodriguez 90+1' (Bogus)	Stadium: Yurcak Field Attendance: 1,349 Referee: Margaret Domka

Portland Thorns FC v FC Kansas City

July 13, 2014 (2014-07-13) 18	Portland Thorns FC	7–1	FC Kansas City	Portland, Oregon
19:00	Boquete 3' (Morgan), 74' (pen.) Morgan 15' (Catley) Long 43' (Sinclair), 62' (Boquete) Heath 70' Sinclair 80' (Boquete) Brooks 88' (Shim)	Report	Gorry 30' (Rodriguez) Richmond 40' LePeilbet 42' Buczkowski 87'	Stadium: Providence Park Attendance: 9,672 Referee: Christina Unkel

Western New York Flash v FC Kansas City

July 18, 2014 (2014-07-18) 19	Western New York Flash	1–1	FC Kansas City	Rochester, New York
19:30	Kerr 22' (Lloyd) Lloyd 41'	Report	Hagen 17' (Holiday) 84' Sauerbrunn 90'	Stadium: Sahlen's Stadium Attendance: 2,916 Referee: Elvis Mahmutovic

FC Kansas City v Sky Blue FC

July 27, 2014 (2014-07-27) 20	FC Kansas City	2–1	Sky Blue FC	Kansas City, Missouri
17:00	Rodriguez 34' (Holiday) Holiday 70' (Silva)	Box KC report	Foord 69' Nadim 87'	Stadium: Durwood Soccer Stadium Attendance: 1,852 Referee: Josh Wilkens

Washington Spirit v FC Kansas City

July 30, 2014 (2014-07-30) 21	Washington Spirit	2–1	FC Kansas City	Boyds, Maryland
17:00	Garefrekes 49' (De Vanna) Nairn 67' (De Vanna)	Report	Sauerbrunn 18' (Hagen)	Stadium: Maryland SoccerPlex Attendance: 2,744 Referee: Kristen Salazar

FC Kansas City v Seattle Reign FC

August 2, 2014 (2014-08-02) 22	FC Kansas City	1–1	Seattle Reign FC	Kansas City, Missouri
19:00	Rodriguez 6' (Holiday) LePeilbet 46'	Report	Rapinoe 68' Nogueira 86'	Stadium: Durwood Soccer Stadium Attendance: 3,029 Referee: Bernard Hosu

FC Kansas City v Boston Breakers

August 6, 2014 (2014-08-06) 23	FC Kansas City	2–1	Boston Breakers	Kansas City, Missouri
19:00	Rodriguez 8' (Richmond) Hagen 26' (Rodriguez)	Report	O'Reilly 16' (pen.)	Stadium: Durwood Soccer Stadium Attendance: 1,212 Referee: David Mon

Chicago Red Stars v FC Kansas City

August 9, 2014 (2014-08-09) 24	Chicago Red Stars	2–1	FC Kansas City	Lisle, Illinois
19:00	Tancredi 9' Press 40' (Hemmings)	Report	Marlborough 43' (Mathias)	Stadium: Benedictine U. Sports Complex Stadium Attendance: 2,111 Referee: Katja Koroleva

Regular-season standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Seattle Reign FC	24	16	6	2	50	20	+30	54	NWSL Shield
2	FC Kansas City (C)	24	12	5	7	39	32	+7	41	NWSL Playoffs
3	Portland Thorns FC	24	10	6	8	39	35	+4	36
4	Washington Spirit	24	10	5	9	36	43	−7	35
5	Chicago Red Stars	24	9	8	7	32	26	+6	35
6	Sky Blue FC	24	9	7	8	30	37	−7	34
7	Western New York Flash	24	8	4	12	42	38	+4	28
8	Boston Breakers	24	6	2	16	37	53	−16	20
9	Houston Dash	24	5	3	16	23	44	−21	18

Source: NWSL
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(C) Champions

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
24	12	5	7	39	32	+7	41	8	4	0	17	8	+9	4	1	7	22	24	−2

Last updated: July 19, 2014.
Source: Match reports

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24
Stadium	H	A	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	A	A	H	A	H	H	A
Result	D	L	L	W	W	L	W	L	D	D	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	L	D	W	L	D	W	L

Updated to match(es) played on August 30, 2014. Source: Match reports
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

NWSL Championship Playoffs

Semi-final

August 23, 2014 (2014-08-23)12:00 (CDT)Semi-final

FC Kansas City	2–0	Portland Thorns FC
Rodriguez 65' (Holiday) Phillips 84' Holiday 87' (Hagen)	Report	Menges 22'

Durwood Soccer Stadium, Kansas City, MissouriAttendance: 2,997Referee: Chris Spivey

Championship

August 31, 2014 (2014-08-31)12:00 (PDT)Final

Seattle Reign FC	1–2	FC Kansas City
Rapinoe 86' (Winters) Solo 90+3'	Report Report Report	Rodriguez 23' (Holiday), 56' (Holiday) LePeilbet 79'

Starfire Sports Stadium, Tukwila, WashingtonAttendance: 4,252Referee: Margaret Domka

Squad statistics

Note: only regular season squad statistics displayed.

Key to positions: FW – Forward, MF – Midfielder, DF – Defender, GK – Goalkeeper

N	Pos	Player	GP	GS	Min	G	A	WG	Shot	SOG	Cro	CK	Off	Foul	FS	YC
5	FW	Liz Bogus	13	8	598	1	2	1	12	7	0	0	2	2	5	0
6	MF	Jen Buczkowski	24	24	2087	1	3	1	11	5	1	0	1	22	15	2
20	MF	Molly Dreska	1	0	52	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
28	MF	Missy Geha	1	0	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	FW	Katrina Gorry	9	3	376	1	0	0	17	8	0	3	1	5	2	0
22	FW	Sarah Hagen	9	7	529	4	1	1	16	10	0	0	5	3	8	1
2	FW	Melissa Henderson	5	3	185	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	3	0	1	0
12	MF	Lauren Holiday	21	21	1766	8	7	3	56	35	5	96	11	14	36	0
14	DF	Kassey Kallman	18	18	1479	0	1	0	4	2	1	0	1	12	9	1
25	MF	Mandy Laddish	2	0	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
17	DF	Amy LePeilbet	11	4	512	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	1	2
11	FW	Morgan Marlborough	9	2	247	2	0	0	6	5	0	0	5	2	2	0
9	MF	Merritt Mathias	20	16	1436	0	2	0	21	10	1	2	4	17	15	1
23	DF	Nikki Phillips	23	23	1970	1	0	1	2	2	0	0	0	14	2	1
7	MF	Jenna Richmond	22	20	1754	1	4	0	14	7	1	0	0	17	12	2
13	MF	Leigh Ann Robinson	23	23	2012	0	2	0	8	5	2	0	2	5	4	0
8	FW	Amy Rodriguez	22	21	1808	13	3	3	71	38	1	0	19	15	16	0
4	DF	Becky Sauerbrunn	22	22	1935	1	0	0	4	3	1	2	0	5	3	1
10	FW	Frances Silva	18	5	568	2	1	1	10	5	0	2	3	5	14	0
15	FW	Erika Tymrak	21	18	1540	4	4	1	43	20	1	5	2	7	33	0
16	DF	Nia Williams	5	2	260	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	4	3	0

N	Pos	Goal keeper	GP	GS	Min	W	L	T	Shot	SOG	Sav	GA	GA/G	Pen	PKF	SO
18	GK	Nicole Barnhart	22	22	1935	11	6	5	210	100	71	29	1.318	5	5	8
1	GK	Sarah Keane	2	2	180	1	1	0	19	11	9	3	1.500	0	0	0

References

"FC Kansas City beats Seattle Reign to win NWSL championship". Sports Illustrated. August 31, 2014. Retrieved June 19, 2023.
"FC Kansas City Roster". Archived from the original on July 1, 2014.
"New Kansas City women's soccer team releases logo". Kansas City Business Journal. January 10, 2013. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
McDowell, Sam (July 30, 2013). "Joco's pro women's soccer team, FC Kansas City, seeks longevity where others have failed". Kansas City Star. Retrieved December 1, 2013.
"FC Kansas City Coaching Staff Announced". FC Kansas City. Retrieved January 26, 2013.

FC Kansas City

Founded 2012 - Folded 2017
Based in Kansas City, Missouri

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Key personnel

Head coach: Vlatko Andonovski

Major honors (2)
NWSL Championship	2014 2015

Seasons (5)
NWSL	2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

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Cups

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Club competitions

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