Major League Soccer has announced the home openers for 2019. Sporting Kansas City opens the MLS season with a trip to face Los Angeles Football Club on Sunday, March 3 and then returns home to play the Philadelphia Union Sunday, March 10.
Sporting KC played LAFC twice last year and beat the expansion side both times. SKC won 2-0 on the road and then beat Bob Bradley’s team 2-1 at Children’s Mercy Park to close out the regular season. LAFC finished third in the Western Conference in their inaugural season with 16-9-9 record.