The Kansas City Attack, previously the Atlanta Attack and later known as the Kansas City Comets, were an

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team based for most of its existence in

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. In its various incarnations the franchise played in the National Professional Soccer League from 1989–2001 and the second Major Indoor Soccer League from 2001–2005. They played their home games at the Municipal Auditorium and later

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History

The franchise originated as the Atlanta Attack, which joined the

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as an

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based in

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in 1989. In 1990 the league changed its name to the National Professional Soccer League. In 1991 the team relocated to

, which had just lost its prolific Major Indoor Soccer League team, becoming the Kansas City Attack. The Attack played their first season at the Municipal Auditorium and moved into

in 1992. The 1992–93 season was also the first of two national NPSL championship years for the Attack with Rookie Eddie Carmean scoring the game winning goal in the semi-final overtime to send the Attack to finals for the first time. Kansas City was one of the more successful of the NPSL's teams, though the league itself declined in the late 1990s. In 2001 the league disbanded, and Kansas City and the NPSL's five other remaining teams formed a new league, the second Major Indoor Soccer League. At this time the team renamed itself the Kansas City Comets, after the city's original indoor soccer team. In 2005 the franchise announced that it would not play in the 2005–2006 and 2006–2007 seasons, but hoped to reform thereafter. However, the team did not reorganize by the time the second MISL folded in 2008. In 2010, the

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, based in nearby

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, joined the third Major Indoor Soccer League as an expansion team, carrying on the Comets name.

Year-by-year

Honors

Championships * 1992–1993 NPSL Champions * 1996–1997 NPSL Champions Division Titles * 1995–1996 National Division * 1999–2000 Midwest Division

Head coaches

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1991–1992 * Zoran Savic 1992–1996 *

Jim Schwab Jim Schwab is a retired American soccer defender who played professionally in the Major Indoor Soccer League and National Professional Soccer League. He coached the Kansas City Attack to the 1997 NPSL championship and has coached the Johnson ...

1996–2000 * Zoran Savic 2000–2005

Arenas

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1989–1991 * Municipal Auditorium 1991–1992 *

1992–2005

External links

Official Team Site
{{National Professional Soccer League (1984–2001) Defunct indoor soccer clubs in the United States National Professional Soccer League (1984–2001) teams A Soccer clubs in Missouri Sports in the Kansas City metropolitan area Association football clubs established in 1989 1989 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) Association football clubs disestablished in 2005 2005 disestablishments in Missouri