Sporting Kansas City Releases 2024 Schedule; Messi coming to Kansas City

Sporting Kansas City announced their 2024 schedule on Wednesday, revealing the dates for matchups with Lionel Messi and Inter Miami, defending MLS Cup Champions Columbus Crew and three bouts with rivals St. Louis City SC.

Sporting KC will open 2024 against the team that closed 2023 as they travel to the Houston Dynamo on Saturday, February 24. Their first home match will be against the Philadelphia Union a week later on March 2. On March 30 Sporting KC will take on Toronto FC for the first time since 2019.

Inter Miami will come to Children’s Mercy Park on April 13, providing fans the opportunity to see Lionel Messi in person for the first time in Kansas City. The week after will be Sporting’s first 2024 match against St. Louis City SC, whom Sporting KC met five times in 2023, beating them three times including in the MLS Cup playoffs.

The league will take a break from the regular season from July 20 to August 24 for the second edition of the Leagues Cup, which will pit MLS and Liga MX teams against each other. That schedule is forthcoming.

Sporting KC will then end the regular season at FC Dallas.  Sporting will play every Western Conference team at least twice, once home and once away, and will play Minnesota United FC and St. Louis City SC a third time. They will also face six Eastern Conference opponents.

The full schedule is below, alongside times subject to change.