MLS Colorado Rapids

20 Years Since Colorado Was Named a Major League Soccer Franchise

Published on June 5, 2015 under Major League Soccer (MLS)
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This weekend marks a number of anniversaries. It will be six years since the Colorado Rapids first played Real Salt Lake at Rio Tinto Stadium (June 6, 2009). On the same day, it will be 20 years since Major League Soccer landed in Colorado.

Next year will be 20 years since MLS's inaugural season, and the Colorado Rapids - as one of 10 charter members - is very much a part of the history.

The Rapids played their first match in MLS at Kansas City Wiz on April 13, 1996, but it was ten months earlier that the soccer world first learned that Colorado would be in at the very beginning.

June 6, 1995 was the day on which Colorado, Dallas and Kansas City were awarded MLS franchises, joining seven others that had been unveiled as soccer cities some 12 months earlier.

It took a further four months before the new soccer set-up in the Centennial State had a name when, at The Palladium in New York City on October 17, MLS unveiled the names, logos, and uniforms of the 10 charter teams that would begin play the following spring.

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