Sports Kansas City, Missouri

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1 sports

1.1 professional football
1.2 professional baseball
1.3 professional soccer
1.4 college athletics
1.5 professional rugby





sports


the kansas city royals, 1985 , 2015 world series champions.



arrowhead stadium, home of kansas city chiefs.


professional sports teams in kansas city include kansas city chiefs in national football league (nfl), kansas city royals in major league baseball (mlb), sporting kansas city in major league soccer (mls), , fc kansas city in national women s soccer league.


professional football

the chiefs – member of nfl s american football conference (afc) – started play in 1960 dallas texans , moved kansas city in 1963. team lost super bowl green bay packers. came in 1969 become last ever afl champions , win super bowl iv against nfl champions minnesota vikings score of 23-7.


professional baseball

the athletics baseball franchise played in city 1955, after moving philadelphia, 1967, when team relocated oakland, california. city s current major league baseball franchise, royals, started play in 1969, , major league sports franchise in kansas city has neither relocated nor changed name. royals first american league expansion team reach playoffs, in 1976, reach world series in 1980, , win world series in 1985. royals returned world series in 2014 , won in 2015.


professional soccer

sporting kansas city plays new england revolution @ children s mercy park.


the kansas city wiz became charter member of major league soccer in 1996. renamed wizards in 1997. in 2011, team renamed sporting kansas city , moved new stadium children s mercy park in kansas city, kansas. sporting s reserve team, swope park rangers, plays @ swope soccer village in swope park. fc kansas city began play in 2013 expansion team of national women s soccer league; team s home games held @ swope soccer village well.


college athletics

in college athletics, kansas city has lately been home of big 12 college basketball tournaments. men s tournament has been played @ sprint center since march 2008. women s tournament played @ municipal auditorium.


in addition serving chiefs home stadium, arrowhead stadium serves venue various intercollegiate football games. has hosted big 12 championship game 5 times. on last weekend in october, miaa fall classic rivalry game between northwest missouri state university , pittsburg state university took place @ stadium.


professional rugby

kansas city represented on rugby pitch kansas city blues rfc, former member of rugby super league , current division 1 club. team works closely sporting kansas city , splits home-games between sporting s training pitch , rockhurst university s stadium.




view of downtown penn valley park



the rose garden in loose park, kansas city s third largest public park.







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