2004 Kansas City Wizards season

Kansas City Wizards 2004 season- Winners of Open Cup- runners up to MLS cup.

Kansas City Wizards

2004 season
Manager	Bob Gansler
Major League Soccer	West: 1st Overall: 2nd
USOC	Champions
Playoffs	MLS Cup 2004 Runners Up
Top goalscorer	League: Josh Wolff (10) All: Davy Arnaud (14)
Average home league attendance	14,819
Home colors Away colors

Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  USA Tony Meola 2 DF  SCG Vuk Rasovic 3 DF  USA Nick Garcia 4 DF  JAM Shavar Thomas 5 MF  USA Kerry Zavagnin 6 DF  USA Jose Burciaga Jr. 7 MF  USA Diego Gutierrez 8 MF  BRA Diego Walsh 10 MF  USA Francisco Gomez 11 MF  USA Preki 12 DF  USA Jimmy Conrad 13 FW  JAM Wolde Harris 14 MF  USA Jack Jewsbury 15 FW  USA Josh Wolff

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 DF  USA Brian Roberts 17 MF  USA Chris Klein 19 FW  USA Matt Taylor 20 FW  RUS Igor Simutenkov 21   Jay Alberts 22 FW  USA Davy Arnaud 23 MF  ROU Alex Zotinca 24 MF  JAM Khari Stephenson 25 GK  USA Bo Oshoniyi 26 DF  USA Taylor Graham 27 FW  USA Justin Detter 29   Ryan Barber 30 GK  USA Will Hesmer

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Competitions

Major League Soccer

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
30	14	7	9	38	30	+8	49	9	3	3	22	12	+10	5	4	6	16	18	−2

Last updated: 2004.
Source: Major League Soccer

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance
April 3, 2004	Chicago Fire S.C.	H	0–0
April 17, 2004	Columbus Crew	H	1–0	Arnaud
April 24, 2004	Dallas Burn	A	0–1
May 1, 2004	Colorado Rapids	H	2–0	Klein Wolff
May 8, 2004	Chicago Fire S.C.	H	2–2	Klein Arnaud
May 15, 2004	D.C. United	A	0–1
May 22, 2004	Dallas Burn	H	2–0	Jewsbury Wolff
May 30, 2004	MetroStars	A	0–1
June 2, 2004	New England Revolution	H	2–3	Wolff Arnaud
June 5, 2004	Los Angeles Galaxy	A	2–1	Gomez Gutierrez
June 9, 2004	Colorado Rapids	A	1–0	Wolff
June 12, 2004	Columbus Crew	A	2–2	Conrad Thomas
June 19, 2004	New England Revolution	A	3–1	Arnaud Thomas 2
June 26, 2004	San Jose Earthquakes	A	1–1	Burciaga Jr.
July 3, 2004	Dallas Burn	H	5–1	Arnaud 3 Klein Wolff
July 10, 2004	D.C. United	H	1–0	Thomas
July 17, 2004	Dallas Burn	A	1–0	Gutierrez
July 24, 2004	Los Angeles Galaxy	H	2–2	Arnaud Jewsbury
July 28, 2004	MetroStars	H	1–2	Klein
August 14, 2004	San Jose Earthquakes	H	0–2
August 18, 2004	Columbus Crew	A	1–2	Graham
August 21, 2004	New England Revolution	A	2–1	Wolff Arnaud
September 1, 2004	Chicago Fire S.C.	A	1–3	Wolff
September 4, 2004	MetroStars	H	1–0	Wolff
September 10, 2004	Colorado Rapids	A	1–3	Wolff
September 18, 2004	San Jose Earthquakes	H	1–0	Gutierrez
September 25, 2004	Colorado Rapids	H	1–0	Simutenkov
October 2, 2004	Los Angeles Galaxy	A	1–1	Own Goal
October 9, 2004	San Jose Earthquakes	A	0–0
October 16, 2004	Los Angeles Galaxy	H	1–0	Josh Wolff

U.S. Open Cup

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
July 20, 2004	Fourth Round	Atlanta Silverbacks	A	4–1	Arnaud 2 Gomez Gutierrez
August 4, 2004	Quarterfinals	Dallas Burn	H	4–0	Klein Arnaud Detter Zotinca
August 24, 2004	Semifinals	San Jose Earthquakes	H	1–0	Simutenkov
September 22, 2004	Finals	Chicago Fire S.C.	H	1–0 (ASDET)	Simutenkov

MLS Cup Playoffs

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
October 24, 2004	Conference Semifinals	San Jose Earthquakes	A	0–2
October 30, 2004	Conference Semifinals	San Jose Earthquakes	H	3–0	Stephenson Own Goal Jewsbury
November 5, 2004	Conference Finals	Los Angeles Galaxy	H	2–0	Arnaud 2
November 14, 2004	MLS Cup 2004	D.C. United	N	2–3	Burciaga Jr. Wolff

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	MLS		USOC		Playoffs		Total		Minutes		Discipline
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	League	Total
22	FW	Davy Arnaud	30	9	4	3	4	2	38	14	2626	3346	0	0
12	DF	Jimmy Conrad	29	1	4	0	4	0	37	1	2610	3335	0	0
7	MF	Diego Gutierrez	28	3	4	1	4	0	36	4	2520	3245	0	0
3	DF	Nick Garcia	26	0	4	0	4	0	34	0	2295	3020	0	0
15	FW	Josh Wolff	26	10	3	0	4	1	33	11	2252	2844	0	0
23	MF	Alex Zotinca	25	0	4	1	4	0	33	1	1779	2365	0	0
5	MF	Kerry Zavagnin	24	0	4	0	4	0	32	0	2160	2881	0	0
6	DF	Jose Burciaga Jr.	24	1	4	0	4	1	32	2	1876	2601	0	0
14	MF	Jack Jewsbury	22	2	3	0	4	1	29	3	1406	1860	0	0
4	DF	Shavar Thomas	25	1	1	0	0	0	26	1	1880	1970	0	0
10	MF	Francisco Gomez	23	1	3	1	0	0	26	2	1097	1262	0	0
1	GK	Tony Meola	21	0	3	0	0	0	24	0	1890	2146	0	0
26	DF	Taylor Graham	17	1	3	0	2	0	22	1	750	944	0	0
17	MF	Chris Klein	19	5	2	1	0	0	21	6	1694	1874	0	0
19	FW	Matt Taylor	17	3	1	0	1	0	19	3	524	562	0	0
8	MF	Diego Walsh	15	0	0	0	3	0	18	0	688	711	0	0
25	GK	Bo Oshoniyi	9	0	2	0	4	0	15	0	810	1279	0	0
20	FW	Igor Simutenkov	9	1	2	2	3	0	14	3	456	669	0	0
24	MF	Khari Stephenson	3	0	3	0	4	1	9	1	44	270	0	0
27	FW	Justin Detter	6	0	3	1	0	0	9	1	162	275	0	0
11	FW	Preki	2	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	90	125	0	0
2	DF	Vuk Rasovic	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	45	45	0	0

Final Statistics

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