Major League Soccer released its full 2016 regular-season schedule on Thursday afternoon, with the Seattle Sounders opening against Sporting Kansas City on March 6 and closing versus Real Salt Lake on Oct. 23.
Here are my top 10 most intriguing Sounders games to circle on your calendar:
10. Sporting Kansas City at Sounders: Sunday, March 6 at 4 p.m. PST on Fox Sports 1
If recent meetings are any indication, this won’t be the most aesthetically pleasing of season-openers. But it will provide an early litmus test about how each team bounces back after ending 2015 on the wrong end of a penalty shootout.