In the beginning, the MLS franchise in Kansas City wore perhaps the most abstract of the abstract noun names in vogue for the new league — the Wiz. Within a year, however, legal action from New ...

dating all the way back to the team’s early days as the Kansas City Wiz when the league was founded in 1996. Opened in June 2011, Sporting Park hosted the MLS All-Star Game earlier this year in ...

Hunt also owned the Dallas and Columbus franchises in MLS’s early years. KC began play in 1996 as the Kansas City Wiz, at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri. This name lasted just one year ...