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Sporting Park: History & Measurement

Sporting Park is a soccer-specific stadium in Kansas City, Kansas, United States, and is the team home for Sporting Kansas City of Major League Soccer (MLS). The stadium is located near Kansas Speedway, on the far west side of Wyandotte County, Kansas. It opened during the 2011 MLS season on June 9, 2011, with a match against the Chicago Fire. The…

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Sporting Park topic overview

The analysis highlights History and Measurement as prominent areas in the source structure around Sporting Park.

Related topics
70
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
75
Extracted relationships
51
Related term clusters
43
Bridge connections
75

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 33 topics
Overview · 25 topics
International matches · 5 topics
Attendance records · 4 topics
Stadium naming rights · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Owner
Kansas Unified Development, LLC.
Location
Kansas City, Kansas, U.S.
Address
One Sporting Way
Architect
Populous
Capacity
18,467 (soccer) 25,000 (concerts)
Cost
$200 million ($286 million in 2025 dollars)

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Overview

History

International matches

Stadium naming rights

Attendance records

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How Sporting Park connects Entity context

The extracted context around Sporting Park shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Sporting Park → All-Stars, CONCACAF, CONCACAF Champions League, Houston Dynamo, Jamaica, MLS, MLS All-Star Game, MLS All-Stars, MLS Cup Finals, Real Salt Lake, Roma, Seattle Sounders, Sporting, Sporting KC, United States, US Open Cup, World Cup Another extracted example is Sporting Park → Canada, CONCACAF Gold Cup, FIFA Women's World Cup, Group, Guadeloupe, Panama, United States, USA. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Sporting Park

Top relations

related to 2012–present · 17
Sporting Park → All-Stars, CONCACAF, CONCACAF Champions League, Houston Dynamo, Jamaica, MLS, MLS All-Star Game, MLS All-Stars, MLS Cup Finals, Real Salt Lake, Roma, Seattle Sounders, Sporting, Sporting KC, United States, US Open Cup, World Cup
related to International matches · 8
Sporting Park → Canada, CONCACAF Gold Cup, FIFA Women's World Cup, Group, Guadeloupe, Panama, United States, USA
related to Kansas Jayhawks football · 7
Sporting Park → Arrowhead Stadium, Big XII, David Booth Kansas Memorial, Due, Kansas, Stadium, University
Address · 1
Sporting Park → One Sporting Way
Architect · 1
Sporting Park → Populous
Capacity · 1
Sporting Park → 18,467 (soccer) 25,000 (concerts)
Cost · 1
Sporting Park → $200 million ($286 million in 2025 dollars)
Field size · 1
Sporting Park → 120 yd × 75 yd (110 m × 69 m)
Former names · 1
Sporting Park → Livestrong Sporting Park (2011–2013) Children's Mercy Park (2015–2025)
General contractor · 1
Sporting Park → Turner Construction

Important terminology

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Important terminology

kansas sporting stadium city park mls team season played 21 cup home attendance 2013 2011 match united states record nwsl

Sporting Park relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 51 structured relationships around Sporting Park. Examples in this analysis include Sporting Park → Address → One Sporting Way and Sporting Park → Architect → Populous. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Sporting ParkAddressOne Sporting Way1.00infobox
Sporting ParkArchitectPopulous1.00infobox
Sporting ParkCapacity18,467 (soccer) 25,000 (concerts)1.00infobox
Sporting ParkCost$200 million ($286 million in 2025 dollars)1.00infobox
Sporting ParkField size120 yd × 75 yd (110 m × 69 m)1.00infobox
Sporting ParkFormer namesLivestrong Sporting Park (2011–2013) Children's Mercy Park (2015–2025)1.00infobox
Sporting ParkGeneral contractorTurner Construction1.00infobox
Sporting ParkGroundbreakingJanuary 20, 20101.00infobox
Sporting ParkLocationKansas City, Kansas, U.S.1.00infobox
Sporting ParkOpenedJune 9, 20111.00infobox
Sporting ParkOperatorSporting Kansas City1.00infobox
Sporting ParkOwnerKansas Unified Development, LLC.1.00infobox
Sporting ParkProject managerLANE4 Property Group1.00infobox
Sporting ParkPublic transitKCATA 1011.00infobox
Sporting ParkRecord attendance21,650 Sporting Kansas City vs. Real Salt Lake, MLS Cup 20131.00infobox
Sporting ParkScoreboardThree Daktronics Video Boards 20 by 126 feet (6.1 m × 38.4 m) 12 by 24 feet (3.7 m × 7.3 m) 14.5 by 24 feet (4.4 m × 7.3 m)1.00infobox
Sporting ParkServices engineersM-E Engineers, Inc./FSC Inc.1.00infobox
Sporting ParkSurfaceNatural Grass1.00infobox
Sporting Parkis asoccer-specific stadium in Kansas City0.90text

Related concept clusters Related term clusters

The concept neighborhoods around Sporting Park bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Sporting, Attendance and Home. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Sporting Park
    • Sporting
    • Attendance
    • Home
    • Kansas
    • Season
    • Played
    • City
    • Kc
    • Stadium
    • Record
    • Cup
    • Mls
  • sporting park
    • Sporting
    • Announced
    • Attendance
    • Stadium
    • Home
    • Kansas
    • Season
    • Matches
    • States
    • United
    • Played
    • City
  • kansas city, kansas
    • City
    • Kansas
    • Stadium
    • Team
    • Home
    • Sporting
    • Nwsl
    • Fc
    • Soccer
    • Season
    • Rights
    • Park
  • sporting kansas city
    • City
    • Kansas
    • Stadium
    • Team
    • Attendance
    • Home
    • Sporting
    • Nwsl
    • Season
    • Played
    • Kc
    • Record
  • kansas speedway
    • City
    • Stadium
    • Team
    • Home
    • Sporting
    • Nwsl
    • Fc
    • Soccer
    • Park
    • Season
    • Rights
    • Matches
  • 2011 mls season
    • Rights
    • Cup
    • Nwsl
    • States
    • United
    • Sporting
    • Matches
    • Kc
    • Park
    • Stadium
    • Attendance
    • Team
  • 2026 mls season
    • Rights
    • Cup
    • Nwsl
    • States
    • United
    • Sporting
    • Matches
    • Kc
    • Park
    • Stadium
    • Attendance
    • Team
  • salt lake city, utah
    • Kansas
    • Stadium
    • Team
    • Sporting
    • Nwsl
    • Home
    • Season
    • Rights
    • Fc
    • Soccer
    • Matches
    • New

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Sporting Park, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Sporting Park with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Sporting Park — History · splits 42 ⟂ 34
Sporting Park — Overview · splits 50 ⟂ 26
Sporting Park — International matches · splits 70 ⟂ 6
Sporting Park — Attendance records · splits 71 ⟂ 5
Sporting Park — Stadium naming rights · splits 72 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Sporting Park

Nodes76
Edges75
Triples51
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.026316
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Sporting Park to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History & Measurement, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Sporting Park · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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