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Kansas City Spurs Soccer

Kansas City Spurs

The Kansas City Spurs soccer team enjoyed a three-year run and a few moments of greatness during the early days of the North American Soccer League (NASL). Semi-finalists in 1968, the Spurs won the NASL championship the following year in 1969. The Spurs were also the top attendance draw in the NASL in 1968. By 1970, however, the Spurs had surrendered Municipal Stadium to the newly arrived Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball and played their final season in a high school football stadium.

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