The 2022 season has Sporting Kansas City and its fans staring at 2019 again.
After finishing 11th in the 12-team MLS Western Conference, Sporting Kansas City missed the playoffs in 2019, the first such occurrence since the 2010 season. A rebound in the 2020 COVID-19 shortened season saw them top the Western Conference. Then, 2021 saw Sporting at the top or near the top of the West all season and a third-place finish in the conference. A return to playoff normalcy after 2019 had been established.
Fifteen games into the 34-match season, things are anything but “normal”.