Sporting KC (3-2-5, 14 points) begins a two-game home stand at 7:30 p.m. Saturday with the Colorado Rapids at Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kan.
It will be Sporting KC’s 100th match at Sporting Park since the stadium opened June 9, 2011.
The match will be shown live locally on KMCI-TV 38 the Spot and across the Midwest on SKCTV with coverage beginning at 7 p.m. Following the match, a Special Olympics Unified Sports exchange game will be held at Sporting Park between Special Olympics Kansas and Special Olympics Colorado.
Peter Vermes’ side has yet to lose at Sporting Park this season and faces a Rapids club that has one win in its last 24 MLS matches dating back to July 2014.
Despite sitting at the bottom of the Western Conference, Colorado (1-2-7, 10 points) has avoided defeat in eight of its first 10 games en route to a league-leading seven draws. Pablo Mastroeni’s team has recorded four consecutive 1-1 draws entering Saturday and opened the season with three straight 0-0 stalemates in March.
Gabriel Torres (four goals) and Dillon Powers (four assists) lead the Rapids going forward, while Clint Irwin is tied for second in MLS with four clean sheets.
Recent history in the head-to-head matchup favors Sporting KC, who are unbeaten in 10 straight MLS matches against Colorado dating back to 2009 with a 5-0-5 record (including postseason). In addition, Kansas City has not lost to the Rapids at home since September 2002, a run of 13 straight MLS matches without a defeat (9-0-4 record including postseason).
A limited number of tickets are available via Ticketmaster.com and the first 5,000 fans inside the stadium will receive cooling neck wraps courtesy of Providence Medical Center.
– Information from Sporting KC