FC 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 one of the ten charter clubs of MLS. Prior to 2005, the club was known as the Dallas Burn.
FC Dallas has been successful in MLS regular season and the MLS playoffs, as well as in the U.S. Open Cup. FC Dallas' best regular-season finish was in 2016 when they won their first Supporters' Shield. In the 2010 MLS Cup they were runners-up to the Colorado Rapids. The team has won the U.S. Open Cup twice (in 1997 and again in 2016).
Dallas plays its home games at the 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. The team is owned by Hunt Sports Group (led by Clark Hunt, who with other members of the Hunt family, also owns the NFL's Kansas City Chiefs). The head coach since 2014 is former FC Dallas player Óscar Pareja.
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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