Sporting KC Contracts: End of 2019

With Sporting Kansas City’s 2019 MLS season officially over, we at The Blue Testament thought it might be helpful to know where the roster stands at the end of the season. Below we’ve compiled all 29 rostered players with the date they joined, the year they are signed through and the years the team hold options on.

As we touched on during the rough summer, a rebuild of epic proportions may not be in the cards. Sure, SKC and Yohan Croizet “mutually parted ways” but getting a player like Andreu Fontas to do that while he’s injured and guaranteed through 2022 (!) is easier said than done. Other mechanisms exist to alter the roster, but the wholesale changes many fans want may still be a year away.

As Bobby Warshaw said a few weeks back, Peter Vermes may bring back most of this team just to prove 2019 was a “collection of flukes.”

As you can see below only 12 players are out of contract after this season with many of them on the cheaper portion of the roster. Only two of those 12 (Hasler and Wallace) don’t have option years. Nine more are out of contract in 2020 including the teams two biggest stars (Gutierrez and Russell). It’s easy to see how a full-scale rebuild may be a year away.

Bookmark (favorite?) this page as a quick reference for something you’ll have a while to think about in this five month (!) offseason.