August 4, 2024 – Major League Soccer (MLS)
Sporting Kansas City News Release
Sporting Kansas City will continue the club’s Leagues Cup 2024 campaign with a rematch against 10-time LIGA MX champions Deportivo Toluca FC at 8 p.m. CT on Monday at Children’s Mercy Park.
Tickets, which are included for Sporting Kansas City Season Ticket Members, are available to purchase online via SeatGeek and college students can take advantage of the Sporting U Pass offering $15 Supporters’ Stand tickets. Sporting Kansas City will wear the club’s new third kits and ticket holders can pre-order items from the adidas x MLS Archive Collection online at SportingStyle.com for matchday pickup.
Sporting Kansas City and Deportivo Toluca FC have previously played on two occasions. In 2019, Sporting cruised to a 5-0 win on aggregate in a home-and-away series during the Concacaf Champions League Round of 16. In 2023, Toluca FC prevailed with a 4-1 victory at Children’s Mercy Park in the Leagues Cup Round of 32.
Willy Agada scored for Sporting in the defeat and now a year later leads SKC with 11 goals this season in all competitions, including goals in each of his last three matches. Most recently, the 24-year-old Nigerian capped off Sporting’s 2-1 comeback over Chicago last weekend with a game-winning goal on a diving header in the 76th minute.
Deportivo Toluca FC also came from behind to defeat Chicago with a 3-1 victory on Thursday courtesy of a Jesus Angulo equalizer and a Marcel Ruiz brace. With victories over Chicago in each team’s opening match of Leagues Cup 2024, Sporting KC and Deportivo Toluca FC have both advanced to the Round of 32 and Monday’s match-up will now determine the Group 4 winner in the West Region.
LEAGUES CUP 2024 WEST REGION GROUP 4
July 28: Sporting KC 2, Chicago Fire FC 1
Aug. 1: Deportivo Toluca FC 3, Chicago Fire FC 1
Aug. 5: Sporting KC vs. Deportivo Toluca FC
Monday’s winner — to be determined by a penalty shootout if tied after 90 minutes — will play the first-place team in Group 8 of the West Region (Atlas FC, Houston Dynamo FC or Real Salt Lake) in the Round of 32, while Monday’s loser will visit reigning MLS Cup champions Columbus Crew on Aug. 9 at Lower.com Field to begin the Knockout Stage.
Leagues Cup 2024 features all 47 clubs from MLS (29 teams) and LIGA MX (18 teams) in a World Cup-style tournament with the top three teams qualifying for the 2025 Concacaf Champions Cup. The single-elimination Knockout Stage begins with the Round of 32 from Aug. 7-9…
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