Colorado Rapids

The Colorado Rapids are an American soccer team that plays in Major League Soccer. They are one of the founding clubs of the MLS. The hometown of Rapids is Denver, Colorado. The club was formed in 1996.

Colorado Rapids

Founded	June 6, 1995; 30 years ago (1995-06-06)
Stadium	Dick's Sporting Goods Park Commerce City, Colorado
Capacity	18,061 (expandable to 19,680)[1]
Owner	Kroenke Sports & Entertainment
Head coach	Robin Fraser
League	Major League Soccer
2020	Western Conference: 5th Overall: 10th Playoffs: First round
Website	https://www.coloradorapids.com
Home colors Away colors
Current season

Stadium

Dick's Sporting Goods Park, Colorado's home stadium since 2007

• Mile High Stadium; Denver, Colorado (1996–2001)
• Invesco Field at Mile High; Denver, Colorado (2002–2006)
• North Area Athletic Complex; Arvada, Colorado (2003) 1 game in US Open Cup
• Dick's Sporting Goods Park; Commerce City, Colorado (2007–present)

The Rapids play their home games at Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado (ca. 8 miles north of the center of Denver). The stadium capacity is 19,680 and cost $131 million to construct. It is a stadium for football only. The soccer stadium opened on April 7, 2007. Before moving to DSG Park in 2007, Colorado Rapids shared Mile High Stadium and then Invesco Field at Mile High with the Denver Broncos an American football team.

Honors

• MLS Cup
  • Winners (1): 2010
  • Runners-up (1): 1997
• MLS Eastern Conference
  • Winners (Playoff) (1): 2010
• MLS Western Conference
  • Winners (Playoff) (1): 1997
• Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup
  • Runners-up (1): 1999
• Minor Trophies
  • MLS Reserve Division (2) 2006, 2007
  • Rocky Mountain Cup (2) 2005, 2006

Team records

Year-by-year results

Season	Regular Season	MLS Playoffs	U.S. Open Cup	CONCACAF Champions' League
1996	5th, West (11–21)	Did not qualify	Semifinals	Did not qualify
1997	4th, West (14–18)	Final	3rd Round
1998	3rd, West (16–16)	Quarterfinals	Did not enter	Qualifying Round
1999	4th, West (20–12)	Quarterfinals	Final	Did not qualify
2000	3rd, West (13–15–4)	Quarterfinals	2nd Round
2001	4th, West (5–13–8)	Did not qualify	2nd Round	Not held
2002	4th, West (13–11–4)	Semifinals	Quarterfinals	Did not qualify
2003	3rd, West (11–12–7)	Quarterfinals	Quarterfinals
2004	3rd, West (10–9–11)	Quarterfinals	4th Round
2005	3rd, West (13–13–6)	Semifinals	4th Round
2006	4th, West (11–13–8)	Semifinals	Quarterfinals
2007	4th, West (9–13–8)	Did not qualify	2nd Round
2008	4th, West (11–14–5)		Did not qualify
2009	6th, West (10–10–10)
2010	5th, West (12–8–10)	Champions
2011	5th, West (12–9–13)	Quarterfinals		Group stage
2012	7th, West (11–19–4)	Did not qualify	4th Round	Did not qualify
2013	5th, West (14–11–9)	Knock Out Round	3rd Round
2014	8th, West (8–18–8)	Did not qualify	5th Round
2015	10th, West (9–15–10)	Did not qualify	5th Round
2016	2nd, West (15–6–13)	Semifinals	5th Round
2017	11th, West (9–19–6)	Did not qualify	5th Round	Not held
2018	11th, West (8–19–7)	Did not qualify	4th Round	Group stage

Year-by-year stats

Sources: ^{[2] [3]}

Season	League Record							Top Scorer
	Points	GP	W	L	D	GF	GA	Name	Goals
1996	29	32	11	21	0	44	59	Jean Harbor	11
1997	38	32	14	18	0	50	59	Paul Bravo	8
1998	44	32	16	16	0	62	69	Wolde Harris	13
1999	48	32	20	12	0	38	39	Jorge Dely Valdés	10
2000	43	32	13	15	4	43	59	Junior Agogo	10
2001	23	26	5	13	8	36	47	John Spencer	14
2002	43	28	13	11	4	43	48	C. Carrieri, M. Chung & C. Henderson	11
2003	40	30	11	12	7	40	45	John Spencer	14
2004	41	30	10	9	11	29	32	Jean Philippe Peguero	7
2005	45	32	13	13	6	40	37	Jeff Cunningham	12
2006	41	32	11	13	8	36	49	Kyle Beckerman & Nicolás Hernández	7
2007	35	30	9	13	8	29	34	Jovan Kirovski	6
2008	38	30	11	14	5	44	45	Conor Casey	11
2009	40	30	10	10	10	42	38	Conor Casey	16
2010	46	30	12	8	10	44	32	Omar Cummings	14
2011	49	34	12	9	13	44	41	Jeff Larentowicz	7
2012	37	34	11	19	4	44	50	Jaime Castrillon	8
2013	51	34	14	11	9	45	38	Deshorn Brown	10
2014	32	34	8	18	8	43	62	Deshorn Brown	10
2015	37	34	9	15	10	33	43	Kevin Doyle	5
2016	58	34	15	6	13	39	32	Shkëlzen Gashi	9
2017	33	34	9	19	6	31	51	Dominique Badji	7
2018	31	34	8	19	7	36	63	Dominique Badji	7
Total	922	730	265	314	151	935	1,072	Conor Casey	50

Note: MLS did not allow ties prior to the 2000 season as games were decided by shootout when tied at full-time.

By opponent

Regular season record ^[4]

Team	W	L	D	Total
Sporting Kansas City	22	25	13	60
FC Dallas	22	32	14	68
San Jose	19	28	15	62
Tampa Bay 1	5	10	0	15
New York Red Bulls	18	16	7	41
Columbus	16	15	10	41
New England	20	15	9	44
D.C. United	12	19	10	41
Los Angeles	24	37	10	71
Chicago	14	18	9	41
Miami 1	3	6	0	9
Real Salt Lake	12	16	10	38
Chivas USA 2	14	7	7	28
Houston	9	9	7	24
Toronto FC	6	8	1	15
Seattle	5	13	2	20
Philadelphia	3	2	5	10
Portland	6	8	3	17
Vancouver	9	6	3	14
Montreal	3	1	1	5
New York City FC	0	1	1	2
Orlando City SC	0	2	1	3

As of July 3, 2017

1. Dissolved after 2001 season.
2. Dissolved after 2014 season.

International tournaments

• 1998 CONCACAF Champions' Cup

Qualifying Play-off v. Club León – 1:0, 2:4 (León advances 4:3 on aggregate)

• 2011–12 CONCACAF Champions League:
  • Group Stage v. Isidro Metapán – 3:2
  • Group Stage v. Real España – 1:1
  • Group Stage v. Santos Laguna – 1:4
  • Group Stage v. Real España – 1:2
  • Group Stage v. Isidro Metapán – 1:3
  • Group Stage v. Santos Laguna – 2:0
• 2018 CONCACAF Champions League:
  • TBD