- Sporting Kansas City defeated first place Vancouver Whitecaps FC 1-0 at BC Place on Sunday.
- BC Place hosted the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Final one week ago.
- With the win, Sporting KC remains in sixth place in the West just two points behind the conference leaders.
- Sporting KC leads all MLS teams with 1.76 points per game and have at least two games in hand on all teams above them in the Western Conference standings.
- First round SuperDraft pick Saad Abdul-Salaam made the first MLS start of his career on Sunday. Sporting KC started rookies at left and right back with Abdul-Salaam and Amadou Dia on each flank.
- Dia led all players in passing accuracy (91.3%) on Sunday.
- Jalil Anibaba (quad) and Seth Sinovic (concussion) missed the match due to injury and Graham Zusi (USA) and Marcel de Jong (Canada) were each with their respective national teams.
- Zusi and the U.S. Men's National Team will face Panama at Sporting Park on Monday in the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
- The Whitecaps were without Pedro Morales and Pa-Modou Kah due to calf strains, as well as Russell Teibert (Canada) and Darren Mattocks (Jamaica) because of international duty.
- Sporting KC is tied for first in MLS with nine clean sheets through 17 matches this season.
- Tim Melia (6-1-2) is the only MLS goalkeeper to boast a win/loss record five games above .500 this season.
- Melia leads the League with a 0.56 goals against average in 2015.
- Melia tied his career high with six saves on Sunday.
- Kevin Ellis scored the lone goal for Sporting KC on Sunday, his second in 2015.
- Sporting KC leads the League with nine headed goals in 2015.
- Krisztian Nemeth earned the assist on the goal, his third of 2015.
- Sporting KC's Soni Mustivar posted a MLS season high with 19 interceptions on Sunday, the most by an MLS player in a single match since 2013 (Chris Schuler, 19 vs. San Jose).
- Mustivar also led all players in successful passes (46) and recoveries (17).
- Matt Besler led all players in clearances with 13.
- Sporting KC is 251-232-128 all-time and 89-147-70 on the road all-time.
- Sporting KC is 2-3-3 on the road in 2015, earning their first away win against a Western Conference opponent this season.
- Sporting KC is undefeated when scoring the first goal in 2015 (6-0-2).
- With the win, Sporting KC moved to 45-32-24 all-time during the month of July.
- Sporting KC returns to Sporting Park to host the Montreal Impact at 7:30 p.m. CT.
