Kansas City Spurs

The Kansas City Spurs (1967 Chicago Spurs ) were an American football team. In 1967, the franchise in Chicago founding member of the " Pirates League " National Professional Soccer League, joined the merger of the league with the United Soccer Association to the North American Soccer League for a second Chicago-based team, the Chicago Mustangs to Kansas City, Missouri.

In NPSL season the club of 32 games won ten games, lost eleven times and missed so as Third Division play- offs. In the first NASL game time you could with 16 victories in eleven games and lost five qualifying draw for the play- offs. There, however, the club was eliminated in the Western Conference Finals against the San Diego Toros.

After the first season, the NASL almost collapsed, as all gone up to five franchises. As a last resort, campaigned during the league play-free summer the British professional leagues to the squad of five clubs for the first half of the season 1969. For the Spurs ran the Wolverhampton Wanderers, who had already started in the U.S. as Los Angeles Wolves, on. This International Cup said part of the season as Wolves won the Spurs, the boss handed then also for the existing of two interconnected surfaces season championship in 1969.

In the 1970 season, the club missed the Second Division play- offs and ran the club in serious financial difficulties, so that the franchise was expelled from the league in early 1971 and was dissolved.

Venues

Both in Chicago, and after moving to Kansas City carried the Spurs their home game in large non- fillable at football matches, American football stadiums, first at Chicago's Soldier Field (then Capacity ~ 100,000 ), and later in Kansas City Municipal Stadium (then capacity ~ 37,000 ). In contrast, the actually achieved average attendance was 2,600 in Chicago - with a league worst record of 870 in a game against Los Angeles - and 2400-8000 in Kansas City. In the meantime, the success of the 1969 playing for Spurs Wolverhampton Wolves was visiting the Games of the real Spurs do not increase significantly, but he fell from over 8,000 before the International Cup in 4200 after that - which is still the best cut in the NASL this season had.

Known player

  • Horst Szymaniak German national team
  • Eric Barber, Joe Haverty, Irish international
  • Willy Roy, American national team
  • Bob Gansler, captain of the U.S. national team
North American Soccer League (1968–84) Kansas City (Missouri) Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C.
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