Sporting KC Reserve Schedule Released

Today, MLS released this year's reserve schedule for all teams. Once again Sporting is in the Central Conference, where they will play each of the other 5 teams home and away to give them a total of 10 games. Sporting though, has already announced one other reserve game, on their schedule on their team site.

The Swope Park Rangers open their season against Creighton University, 3 days after the season opener against DC United. They then kick off their "league" season a week later in Salt Lake against RSL. They play their next 4 games at home, all at LiveSTRONG Sporting Park.

The full team will then travel to Chicago on the weekend of May 12th, because the day after the first team plays the Fire, the reserves play the next morning. Double the games for a Cauldron road trip, as long as at least 1 bus is willing to leave Chicago around noon.

After the Chicago game, the Rangers play only 1 game in June, 1 in August, and 2 in September. Certainly a front loaded schedule for the reserves. Hopefully some other games get scheduled in there as well.

The best part of the schedule for me though, has to do with the times of the games in Kansas City. Of the 6 reserve games that they've announced, 5 of them are at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park, and will be played in the evening. That means, should the games be open to the public (and I have no reason to believe that they won't, there's a greater likelihood of fans being able to attend.

Here is the team's schedule.

Date	Opponent	Local Time	Location
Tuesday, March 13	CREIGHTON UNIV.	7:30pm	LIVESTRONG Sporting Park
Tuesday, March 20	at Real Salt Lake	11:00am	RSL Training Field
Tuesday, March 27	HOUSTON DYNAMO	7:30pm	LIVESTRONG Sporting Park
Tuesday, April 10	CHICAGO FIRE	7:30pm	LIVESTRONG Sporting Park
Tuesday, April 24	COLORADO RAPIDS	7:30pm	LIVESTRONG Sporting Park
Tuesday, May 1	FC DALLAS	7:30pm	LIVESTRONG Sporting Park
Sunday, May 13	at Chicago Fire	10:00am	Toyota Park Practice Field
Saturday, June 9	at Colorado Rapids	11:00am	DSG Park Field 20
Tuesday, August 14	at Houston Dynamo	10:00am	Houston Amateur Sports Park
Tuesday, September 11	REAL SALT LAKE	11:00am	Sporting Club Training Center
Tuesday, September 25	at FC Dallas	7:30pm	FC Dallas Stadium