Major League Soccer · USA · Round 1

Sporting Kansas City
2 - 0 Full time
Austin FC

Children's Mercy Park · Kansas City, Kansas

Lineups

Sporting Kansas City4-3-3
TM29Melia
KP24Pierre
DR5Rosero
RV4Voloder
TL14⚽Leibold
JD17↓62'Davis
NR6Radoja
ET26Thommy
JR7↓90'Russell
AP9↓79'Pulido
MT77↓62'Tzionis
BS1Stuver
JG17↓70'Gallagher
BH4Hines-Ike
LV15Väisänen
GB29Biro
OW33Wolff
AR8Ring
JO11↓84'Obrian
SD10Driussi
EF13↓59'Finlay
DR14↓59'Rubio
Austin FC4-2-3-1

Sporting Kansas City substitutes

8 Memo Rodríguez 6.3 ↑62'
30 Stephen Afrifa 7.8 ⚽↑62'
23 William Agada 5.8 ↑79'
22 Zorhan Bassong ↑90'
1 John Pulskamp
3 Andreu Fontàs
28 Chris Rindov
11 Khiry Shelton
20 Alenis Vargas

Coach: Peter Vermes · Unavailable: Robert Castellanos (injury), Dániel Sallói (injury), Rémi Walter (injury)

Austin FC substitutes

5 Jhojan Valencia 6.0 ↑59'
9 Gyasi Zardes 6.1 ↑59'
16 Hector Jimenez 6.7 ↑70'
26 Jimmy Farkarlun ↑84'
20 Matt Bersano
30 Stefan Cleveland
2 Matt Hedges
23 Žan Kolmanič

Coach: Josh Wolff · Unavailable: Daniel Pereira (internationalDuty), Julio Cascante (internationalDuty)

Match events

26'Tim Leibold assist: Kayden Pierre 1 - 0⚽
29'Owen Wolff
34'Diego Rubio
34'Jacob Davis
45+3'Alan Pulido
Second half
59'↑ Jhojan Valencia ↓ Ethan Finlay⇄
59'↑ Gyasi Zardes ↓ Diego Rubio⇄
62'↑ Stephen Afrifa ↓ Marinos Tzionis⇄
62'↑ Memo Rodríguez ↓ Jacob Davis⇄
64'Jhojan Valencia
69'Stephen Afrifa assist: Johnny Russell 2 - 0⚽
70'↑ Hector Jimenez ↓ Jon Gallagher⇄
79'↑ William Agada ↓ Alan Pulido⇄
84'↑ Jimmy Farkarlun ↓ Jáder Obrian⇄
90+2'Johnny Russell
90+4'↑ Zorhan Bassong ↓ Johnny Russell⇄

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Match details

CompetitionMajor League Soccer
Kick-off (UTC)Sunday, 30 June 2024, 00:30 UTC — shown in your local time at the top of this page
StatusFinished

Line-ups, match events and the head-to-head record for this fixture are shown on this page where the data feed publishes them.

Head to head

3Sporting Kansas City wins1Draws7Austin FC wins

11 past meetings on record. Biggest Sporting Kansas City win: Sporting Kansas City 4–1 Austin FC (2023). Biggest Austin FC win: Sporting Kansas City 0–2 Austin FC (2022).

17 May 2026Austin FC 1 - 2 Sporting Kansas CityMajor League Soccer
8 Sep 2025Sporting Kansas City 1 - 2 Austin FCMajor League Soccer
23 Feb 2025Austin FC 1 - 0 Sporting Kansas CityMajor League Soccer
19 May 2024Austin FC 3 - 2 Sporting Kansas CityMajor League Soccer
16 Jul 2023Austin FC 2 - 1 Sporting Kansas CityMajor League Soccer
11 Jun 2023Sporting Kansas City 4 - 1 Austin FCMajor League Soccer
14 Aug 2022Austin FC 4 - 3 Sporting Kansas CityMajor League Soccer
31 Jul 2022Sporting Kansas City 0 - 2 Austin FCMajor League Soccer
4 Nov 2021Austin FC 3 - 1 Sporting Kansas CityMajor League Soccer
12 Jun 2021Sporting Kansas City 1 - 1 Austin FCMajor League Soccer
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10 May 2021Sporting Kansas City 2 - 1 Austin FCMajor League Soccer