GENERAL
Stadium: Community America Ball Park
Capacity: 10,385
Built: 2003 / $12M USD
Head office: 8900 State Line Rd. Leawood, KS
Phone: (913) 387-3400
Fax: (913) 387-3401
Website: www.mlsnet.com/t105
E-Mail:
Radio flagship: KCZZ 1480 AM |
Local television: Metro Sports
Corporate partners/sponsors: Adidas, Arrow, Best Buy, Bolle, Buweiser, Dave & Busters, John Deer, Field Turf, Focus, Henry Wurst, Hooters, Hyatt Rengency, M&I Bank, The National, the Parking Spot, Pepsi, Planet Sub, Providence Med Centre, Quintiles, Sprint, Toshiba, Time Warner Cable, US Engineering, US youth Soccer
Established:1995 |
BUSINESS OF WINNING
MLS Cups: 1 (2000)
Conference Championships: 2 (2000, 2004)
ATTENDANCE
2011-2012 COMING SOON
Home Dates: 41
Home Attendance Average: N/A
Home Attendance Total: N/A
KANSAS MARKET
MARKET SIZE
City Population: 444,314
Metropolitan Area Population: 1,776,062
Greater Metro Area Population: 1,985,429
City size ranking: #41 in US
Metro area size ranking: 26# in US
Greater Metro area size ranking: #26 in US
Designated Market Area (DMA): 937,970 TV homes / 0.819% of US
DMA ranking: #31 in US / #14 in AL / #28 in MLB
Source: Nielsen 2008, US Census Bureau 2005 and 2007 |
FRANCHISE FINANCIALS
2009 Franchise value: $22M USD
2009 Franchise value ranking: #15 MLS
2008 Revenues: $5M USD
2008 Operating Income: $-2.9M USD
OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
Owner: On Goal
Acquisition date/price:
General Manager: Greg Cotton
Head Coach: Peter Vermes
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MARKET ECONOMICS
Economic Description: General and diversified; trading centre for hard red winter wheat (major ingredient in bread).
Major companies: Four Fortune 500 companies – Sprint Nextel, H & R Block, Embarq Corporation, YRC Worldwide, Inc.; other companies – Hallmark Cards; Sanofi-Aventis drug manufacturer, AMC Theaters, DST Systems, Interstate Bakeries, Great Plains Energy, Aquila.
City per capita income (ranking): $20,753 USD (tied #9)
Metro area per capita income (ranking): $39,402 (#63 US)
State per capita income (ranking): $32,789 (#31 US)
MARKET DEMOGRAPHICS
Ethnicity (City of Kansas City, Missouri): Race – White 54.68%, Black 31.23%, Other 8%.
Language: Approximately 99% English.
Median Age: 34 years.
Political Leadership: Mayor of Kansas City – Mark Funkhouser (Democrat); Governor of Missouri – Matt Blunt (Republican); U.S. Senators – Christopher (Kit) Bond (R), Claire McCaskill (D); U.S. Representatives – Five Republican, Four Democrat: William Lacy Clay, Jr. (D), W. Todd Akin (R), Russ Carnahan (D), Ike Skelton (D), Emanuel Cleaver (D), Sam Graves (R), Roy Blunt (R ), Jo Ann Emerson (R ), Blaine Luetkemeyer (R ).
Source: Team Marketing Report, ESPN.com, Forbes.com and TheSportMarket.biz
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