Major League Soccer · USA · Round 1

Austin FC
1 - 0 Full time
Sporting Kansas City

Q2 Stadium · Austin, Texas

Lineups

Austin FC4-4-2
BS1Stuver
MD3↓89'Desler
BH4Hines-Ike
JC18Cascante
GB29Biro
JO7↓72'Obrian
DP8Pereira
IS6↓79'Sanchez
OB11âš½Bukari
OW33↓79'Wolff
BV9Vazquez
JP1Pulskamp
JD17Davis
JF24↓72'Fernández
RV4Voloder
LN18Ndenbe
NR6↓76'Radoja
JB16↓46'Bartlett
MR8↓72'Rodriguez
DS10Salloi
WA23↓46'Agada
ET26↓84'Thommy
Sporting Kansas City4-3-3

Austin FC substitutes

17 Jon Gallagher 6.2 ↑72'
14 Besard Sabovic 6.1 ↑79'
21 Diego Rubio 6.3 ↑79'
19 CJ Fodrey ↑89'
30 Stefan Cleveland
15 Leo Väisänen
5 Oleksandr Svatok
23 Zan Kolmanic
20 Nicolas Dubersarsky

Coach: Nico Estevez

Sporting Kansas City substitutes

21 Manu Garcia 6.6 ↑46'
9 Dejan Joveljic 6.1 ↑46'
5 Dany Rosero 7.0 ↑72'
22 Zorhan Bassong 6.2 ↑72'
14 Tim Leibold ↑76'
93 Magomed-Shapi Suleymanov ↑84'
36 Ryan Schewe
2 Ian James
30 Stephen Afrifa

Coach: Peter Vermes

Match events

35'Joaquin Fernández
36'Mikkel Desler
Second half
46'↑ Dejan Joveljic ↓ William Agada⇄
46'↑ Manu Garcia ↓ Jacob Bartlett⇄
58'Ilie Sanchez
59'Nemanja Radoja
62'Brandon Vazquez
72'↑ Zorhan Bassong ↓ Memo Rodriguez⇄
72'↑ Dany Rosero ↓ Joaquin Fernández⇄
72'↑ Jon Gallagher ↓ Jader Obrian⇄
76'↑ Tim Leibold ↓ Nemanja Radoja⇄
76'Osman Bukari assist: Owen Wolff 1 - 0âš½
79'↑ Diego Rubio ↓ Owen Wolff⇄
79'↑ Besard Sabovic ↓ Ilie Sanchez⇄
84'↑ Magomed-Shapi Suleymanov ↓ Erik Thommy⇄
85'Dejan Joveljic
89'↑ CJ Fodrey ↓ Mikkel Desler⇄
90+4'Jacob Davis

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Match details

CompetitionMajor League Soccer
Kick-off (UTC)Sunday, 23 February 2025, 01:30 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

6Austin FC wins1Draws3Sporting Kansas City wins

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

8 Sep 2025Sporting Kansas City 1 - 2 Austin FCMajor League Soccer
30 Jun 2024Sporting Kansas City 2 - 0 Austin FCMajor 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
10 May 2021Sporting Kansas City 2 - 1 Austin FCMajor League Soccer