F.C. Dallas
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| Full name | FC Dallas |
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| Founded | June 6, 1995 as Dallas Burn |
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Toyota Stadium Frisco, Texas |
| Capacity | 20,500 |
| Owner | Clark Hunt |
| Head Coach | Óscar Pareja |
| League | Major League Soccer |
| 2016 | Western Conference: 1st Overall: 1st Playoffs: Conference Semi-Finals |
| Website | Club home page |
FC Dallas is an American professional soccer club based in the Dallas suburb of Frisco, Texas. The club competes as a member of Major League Soccer (MLS), the top league in the United States and Canada. The franchise began play in 1996 as a charter club of the league. FC Dallas was founded in 1995, then being known as the Dallas Burn.
Dallas plays its home games at their 20,295-capacity (16,215 beginning with the 2016 season due to the United States Soccer Hall of Fame construction in the south end) soccer-specific Toyota Stadium, where they have played since 2005. In the club's early years, Dallas played their home games in the Cotton Bowl. The team is owned by the Hunt Sports Group led by brothers Clark Hunt and Dan Hunt, who is the team's president. The Hunt family also owns the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs and part of the Chicago Bulls. The head coach since 2014 is former FC Dallas player Óscar Pareja.
FC Dallas in 2016 won their first Supporters' Shield. In 2010 they were runners-up in the MLS Cup, losing to the Colorado Rapids. The team has won the U.S. Open Cup on two occasions (in 1997 and again in 2016).
Dallas was awarded a Major League Soccer franchise on June 6, 1995, the same day as teams were awarded to Kansas City and Colorado. The team was given its name for the burning in the Texan oilfields and the state's hot weather. On October 17, former Mexico international Hugo Sánchez was designated to the team as their first player. Initially not attracting investors, the Burn was financed by the league itself.
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