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Full name | Kansas City Attack |
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Nickname(s) | Attack |
Founded | 1989 |
Dissolved | 2005 |
Ground | Kemper Arena; Municipal Auditorium |
League | MISL; NPSL |
The Kansas City Attack, previously the Atlanta Attack and later known as the Kansas City Comets, were an indoor soccer team based for most of its existence in Kansas City, Missouri. In its various incarnations the franchise played in the National Professional Soccer League from 1989β2001 and the second Major Indoor Soccer League from 2001β2005. They played their home games at the Municipal Auditorium and later Kemper Arena.
The franchise originated as the Atlanta Attack, which joined the American Indoor Soccer Association as an expansion team based in Atlanta, Georgia in 1989. In 1990 the league changed its name to the National Professional Soccer League. In 1991 the team relocated to Kansas City, Missouri, which had just lost its prolific Major Indoor Soccer League team, becoming the Kansas City Attack. The Attack played their first season at the Municipal Auditorium and moved into Kemper Arena in 1992.
The 1992β93 season was also the first of two national NPSL championship years for the Attack with Rookie Eddie Carmean scoring the game winning goal in the semi-final overtime to send the Attack to finals for the first time.
Kansas City was one of the more successful of the NPSL's teams, though the league itself declined in the late 1990s. In 2001 the league disbanded, and Kansas City and the NPSL's five other remaining teams formed a new league, the second Major Indoor Soccer League. At this time the team renamed itself the Kansas City Comets, after the city's original indoor soccer team. In 2005 the franchise announced that it would not play in the 2005β2006 and 2006β2007 seasons, but hoped to reform thereafter. However, the team did not reorganize by the time the second MISL folded in 2008.
In 2010, the Missouri Comets, based in nearby Independence, joined the third Major Indoor Soccer League as an expansion team, carrying on the Comets name.
Year | Division | League | Reg. season | Playoffs | Avg. attendance |
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1989β90 | 2 | AISA | 2nd, American (23β17) | Lost Semifinals | |
1990β91 | 2 | NPSL | 2nd, American (25β15) | Lost in the 1st round | 3,715 |
1991β92 | 2 | NPSL | 2nd, National (26β14) | Lost Semifinals | 3,009 |
1992β93 | 1 | NPSL | 2nd, National (26β14) | Champions | 4,644 |
1993β94 | 1 | NPSL | 6th, National (14β26) | Did not qualify | 4,240 |
1994β95 | 1 | NPSL | 2nd, National (29β11) | Lost 2nd Round | 3,870 |
1995β96 | 1 | NPSL | 1st, National (32β8) | Lost Finals | 4,865 |
1996β97 | 1 | NPSL | 2nd(t), National Midwest (26β14) | Champions | 5,619 |
1997β98 | 1 | NPSL | 3rd, National Midwest (20β20) | Lost Conference Semifinals | 5,214 |
1998β99 | 1 | NPSL | 2nd, National Midwest (19β21) | Lost Conference Semifinals | 5,990 |
1999β00 | 1 | NPSL | 1st, National Midwest (24β20) | Lost Conference Semifinals | 5,127 |
2000β01 | 1 | NPSL | 4th, National (14β26) | Lost Conference Semifinals | 5,324 |
2001β02 | 1 | MISL | 3rd, MISL (24β20) | Lost Semifinals | 4,661 |
2002β03 | 1 | MISL | 2nd, Western (17β19) | Lost Conference Finals | 5,414 |
2003β04 | 1 | MISL | 2nd, Central (17β19) | Lost Semifinals | 5,374 |
2004β05 | 1 | MISL | 5th, MISL (18β21) | Did not qualify | 4,789 |
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