The Kansas City Comets are an American professional indoor soccer team based in the Kansas City metropolitan area that competes in the Major Arena Soccer League (MASL). Originally called the Missouri Comets, the team joined the Major Indoor Soccer League as an expansion team in the 2010âÂÂ2011 season. The team plays its home games at Cable Dahmer Arena.
The team is named after the original Kansas City Comets, who played in the original Major Indoor Soccer League from 1981âÂÂ1991. Kim Røntved, a former Kansas City Comets star, was named the head coach on August 16, 2010. Assistant Coach Vlatko Andonovski was promoted to Head Coach on August 29, 2013, succeeding Røntved.
The first couple of seasons saw the Missouri Comets establish themselves in the MISL. They finished third with an 8âÂÂ12 record in 2010âÂÂ11, falling to the Milwaukee Wave in three games in the playoffs. In 2011âÂÂ12 the Comets finished second in the Central Division with a 15âÂÂ9 record but were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs again by the Milwaukee Wave. The Comets finished 2012âÂÂ13 in third place with a 13âÂÂ13 record but made it all the way to the championship series, where the Baltimore Blast swept the series in two games.
In his first season as head coach, Vlatko Andonovski brought the Comets their first championship, defeating the Baltimore Blast in a three-game series in the final season of the MISL. In all four seasons as members of the MISL the Comets reached the playoffs, and won the championship on their fourth playoff appearance. This would be the final MISL championship.
After the 2013âÂÂ2014 season, the team announced that it was leaving the MISL along with five other teams and join the MASL. In the debut season of the MASL in 2014âÂÂ15 the Comets went undefeated with a 20âÂÂ0 record, ending the regular season with a league-best 239 goals and a +149 goal differential, but were swept by the Baltimore Blast in the second round of the playoffs. The Comets won the following season's Central Division with a 17âÂÂ3 record before falling once again to the Baltimore Blast in the postseason.
Before the 2016âÂÂ17 season, the team announced that they would be rebranded as the Kansas City Comets. As Goran Karodzov took the reins as head coach, the Comets still managed to finish second in the Central with a 15âÂÂ5 record before the Milwaukee Wave swept the first series in the playoffs. Following the 2016âÂÂ17 season, the organization's future was in limbo.
With player turnover and the return of Kim Røntved as head coach, the Comets ended the 2017âÂÂ18 season with a 7âÂÂ12 record and missed the playoffs for the first time in franchise history. Røntved and the Comets returned in 2018âÂÂ19 with greater improvements and the return of several veterans alongside former owner Brian Budzinski. In 2018âÂÂ19 they returned to the playoffs with a 13âÂÂ11 record in the South Central Division before being swept by the Milwaukee Wave in two games in the first round of the playoffs. Kansas City faced some inconsistent results throughout 2019âÂÂ20 and were eliminated from playoff contention before the season was abandoned due to COVID-19, ending the season with a 10âÂÂ11 record.
The Comets organization persevered throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to help host the first-ever MASL all-star game in December 2020. After the all-star game, the Comets claimed the first inaugural Central Cup championship with wins over the Dallas Sidekicks, St. Louis Ambush and Wichita Wings.
In 2022âÂÂ23, the Comets hired Kansas City native Jenna Winebrenner as an assistant coach, making her the first female coach in MASL history.
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