Twenty years ago today, Sporting Kansas City secured its first major title in club history by winning the Supporters’ Shield on the final day of the 2000 MLS regular season. With a come-from-behind 2-2 road draw against the Tampa Bay Mutiny at Raymond James Stadium, Sporting—then known as the Kansas City Wizards—finished level with the Chicago Fire on 57 points but owned the head-to-head tiebreaker via goal differential, thus claiming the honor bestowed to the MLS team with the best regular season record. Kansas City reached even greater heights a month later by defeating the Chicago Fire 1-0 in MLS Cup, completing a remarkable worst-to-first turnaround after going 8-24 in 1999.
How the Kansas City Wizards won the 2000 Supporters' Shield | An Oral History
