2003 Kansas City Wizards season

Kansas City Wizards

2003 season
Head coach	Bob Gansler
Major League Soccer	West: 2nd Overall: 4th
USOC	Fourth Round
Playoffs	Conference Finals
Top goalscorer	League: Preki (12) All: Preki (12)
Average home league attendance	15,573
Home colors Away colors
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Squad

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   USA Tony Meola 3 DF   USA Nick Garcia 4 DF   USA Carey Talley 5 MF   USA Kerry Zavagnin 6 DF   USA Jose Burciaga Jr. 7 MF   USA Diego Gutierrez 8 MF   USA Chris Brown 9 FW   ARG Darío Fabbro 9 FW   ARG Jorge Vázquez 10 MF   USA Francisco Gomez 11 MF   USA Preki 12 DF   USA Jimmy Conrad 13 FW   JAM Wolde Harris 14 MF   USA Jack Jewsbury

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 FW   USA Josh Wolff 16 FW   ENG Stephen Armstrong 17 MF   USA Chris Klein 18 DF   USA Chris Brunt 19 MF   USA Eric Quill 20 FW   RUS Igor Simutenkov 21 DF   USA Kevin Friedland 22 FW   USA Davy Arnaud 23 MF   ROU Alex Zotinca 25 GK   USA Bo Oshoniyi 26 DF   USA Taylor Graham 28 FW   USA Byron Carmichael 30 GK   USA Taly Goode

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Competitions

Major League Soccer

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	San Jose Earthquakes	30	14	7	9	45	35	+10	51	MLS Cup Playoffs
2	Kansas City Wizards	30	11	10	9	48	44	+4	42
3	Colorado Rapids	30	11	12	7	40	45	−5	40
4	Los Angeles Galaxy	30	9	12	9	35	35	0	36
5	Dallas Burn	30	6	19	5	35	64	−29	23

Source: MLS

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
30	11	9	10	48	44	+4	42	8	3	4	32	25	+7	3	6	6	16	19	−3

Last updated: 2003.
Source: Major League Soccer

Date	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
April 12, 2003	D.C. United	H	3–2 (OT)	Preki Klein Brown
April 19, 2003	San Jose Earthquakes	A	1–1	Own Goal
April 26, 2003	Chicago Fire S.C.	H	2–3	Simutenkov Conrad
May 3, 2003	Columbus Crew	H	2–2	Preki Quill
May 10, 2003	Dallas Burn	A	3–1	Quill Brown Klein
May 14, 2003	New England Revolution	H	1–1	Simutenkov
May 17, 2003	D.C. United	A	1–1	Preki
May 24, 2003	Los Angeles Galaxy	H	2–1	Simutenkov Preki
May 31, 2003	New England Revolution	A	2–2	Preki 2
June 7, 2003	MetroStars	H	2–1	Arnaud Wolff
June 14, 2003	Los Angeles Galaxy	A	1–2	Wolff
June 21, 2003	Chicago Fire S.C.	H	4–2	Conrad Gomez Zotinca Preki
June 28, 2003	San Jose Earthquakes	A	0–0
July 4, 2003	Colorado Rapids	A	2–3	Preki Armstrong
July 12, 2003	Dallas Burn	H	5–1	Brunt Simutenkov 2 Quill Armstrong
July 19, 2003	Columbus Crew	A	1–0	Simutenkov
July 26, 2003	Chicago Fire S.C.	A	0–2
August 8, 2003	San Jose Earthquakes	H	0–1
August 13, 2003	MetroStars	A	0–0
August 16, 2003	Dallas Burn	A	2–3	Preki Gomez
August 22, 2003	Colorado Rapids	H	2–2	Arnaud Preki
August 31, 2003	Columbus Crew	A	0–1
September 6, 2003	MetroStars	H	1–2	Preki
September 13, 2003	Colorado Rapids	A	0–1
September 20, 2003	San Jose Earthquakes	H	1–4	Arnaud
September 27, 2003	Los Angeles Galaxy	A	2–1	Klein 2
October 4, 2003	Colorado Rapids	H	4–2	Conrad Klein 2 Gomez
October 11, 2003	Los Angeles Galaxy	H	2–1 (OT)	Zavagnin Simutenkov
October 18, 2003	Dallas Burn	H	1–0	Conrad
October 25, 2003	D.C. United	A	1–1	Preki

U.S. Open Cup

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
August 5, 2003	Fourth Round	Colorado Rapids	A	2–3	Simutenkov 2

MLS Cup Playoffs

Date	Round	Opponents	H / A	Result F – A	Scorers	Attendance
November 4, 2003	Conference Semifinals	Colorado Rapids	A	1–1	Harris
November 8, 2003	Conference Semifinals	Colorado Rapids	H	2–0	Simutenkov Klein
November 15, 2003	Conference Finals	San Jose Earthquakes	A	2–3 (ASDET)	Simutenkov Klein

Squad statistics

No.	Pos.	Name	MLS		USOC		Playoffs		Total		Minutes		Discipline
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	League	Total
12	DF	Jimmy Conrad	30	4	1	0	3	0	34	4	2777	3164	0	0
11	FW	Preki	30	12	1	0	3	0	34	12	2678	3001	0	0
1	GK	Tony Meola	30	0	0	0	3	0	33	0	2797	3094	0	0
3	DF	Nick Garcia	29	0	1	0	3	0	33	0	2689	3076	0	0
5	MF	Kerry Zavagnin	29	1	0	0	3	0	32	1	2487	2784	0	0
17	MF	Chris Klein	27	6	1	0	3	2	31	8	2527	2914	0	0
19	FW	Eric Quill	27	3	1	0	3	0	31	3	2261	2537	0	0
10	MF	Francisco Gomez	26	3	1	0	0	0	27	3	1644	1734	0	0
16	FW	Stephen Armstrong	22	2	1	0	3	0	27	2	1102	1296	0	0
20	FW	Igor Simutenkov	21	7	1	2	2	2	24	11	1435	1667	0	0
4	DF	Carey Talley	20	0	1	0	3	0	24	0	1344	1731	0	0
7	MF	Diego Gutierrez	20	0	0	0	3	0	23	0	1559	1856	0	0
23	MF	Alex Zotinca	20	1	1	0	2	0	23	1	1239	1411	0	0
22	FW	Davy Arnaud	18	3	1	0	3	0	22	3	818	884	0	0
8	MF	Chris Brown	18	2	0	0	0	0	18	2	1189	1189	0	0
15	FW	Josh Wolff	13	2	0	0	1	0	14	2	872	918	0	0
13	FW	Wolde Harris	10	0	0	0	3	1	13	1	560	821	0	0
9	FW	Darío Fabbro	8	0	1	0	0	0	9	0	179	239	0	0
18/28	--	Chris Brunt	4	1	1	0	0	0	5	1	166	174	0	0
6	DF	Jose Burciaga Jr.	4	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	347	347	0	0
25	GK	Bo Oshoniyi	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	8	98	0	0
14	MF	Jack Jewsbury	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	61	61	0	0
26	DF	Taylor Graham	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	10	10	0	0

Final Statistics

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