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.

## Stadium

- 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

### 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|rowspan=2|_Did not qualify_||
|1997|4th, West (14–18)|bgcolor=silver|Final|3rd Round|||
|1998|3rd, West (16–16)|Quarterfinals|_Did not enter_|Qualifying Round|||
|1999|4th, West (20–12)|Quarterfinals|bgcolor=silver|Final|rowspan=2|_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|rowspan=9|_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)|rowspan=3|_Did not qualify_|2nd Round|||
|2008|4th, West (11–14–5)|rowspan=4|_Did not qualify_||||
|2009|6th, West (10–10–10)||||||
|2010|5th, West (12–8–10)|bgcolor=gold|Champions||||
|2011|5th, West (12–9–13)|Quarterfinals|Group stage||||
|2012|7th, West (11–19–4)|_Did not qualify_|4th Round|rowspan=5|_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|bgcolor=silver|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:_

|Season|colspan=7|League Record|colspan=2|Top Scorer||||||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||**Points**|width=40|**GP**|width=40|**W**|width=40|**L**|width=40|**D**|width=40|**GF**|width=40|**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

|Team|W|L|D|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|22|25|13|60||
|22|32|14|68||
|19|28|15|62||
|5|10|0|15||
|18|16|7|41||
|16|15|10|41||
|20|15|9|44||
|12|19|10|41||
|24|37|10|71||
|14|18|9|41||
|3|6|0|9||
|12|16|10|38||
|14|7|7|28||
|9|9|7|24||
|6|8|1|15||
|5|13|2|20||
|3|2|5|10||
|6|8|3|17||
|9|6|3|14||
|3|1|1|5||
|0|1|1|2||
|0|2|1|3||

1. Dissolved after 2001 season.
1. 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

## Other websites

- http://www.coloradorapids.com Official Homepage

## Infobox (football club)

- **clubname**: Colorado Rapids
- **upright**: 0.75
- **capacity**: 18,061 (expandable to 19,680)
- **owntitle**: Owner
- **owner**: Kroenke Sports & Entertainment
- **mgrtitle**: Head coach
- **manager**: Robin Fraser
- **league**: Major League Soccer
- **season**: 2020 Major League Soccer season, 2020
- **position**: Western Conference (MLS), Western Conference: 5th
Overall: 10th
2020 MLS Cup Playoffs, Playoffs: First round
- **current**: 2021 Colorado Rapids season
- **website**: https://www.coloradorapids.com
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