List of D.C. United seasons

D.C. United is an American professional soccer club based in Washington, D.C. which competes in Major League Soccer (MLS), the top tier professional soccer league in the United States of America and Canada. It is one of the ten charter clubs of MLS, having competed in the league since its inception, in 1996. Over the club's history, D.C. United has been considered to be the flagship franchise of MLS winning 12 international and domestic titles. Domestically, United has won the U.S. Open Cup twice, and holds an MLS record for most MLS Cup and MLS Supporters' Shields apiece, winning each honor four times. United was the also the first club to win both the Supporters' Shield and MLS Cup consecutively.[1]

On the international stage, D.C. United has competed in both the CONCACAF Champions League and its predecessor the CONCACAF Champions' Cup. The club is also the only American soccer club to ever compete in a CONMEBOL competition, participating in the 2005 and 2007 editions of the Copa Sudamericana. In 1998, the club won the CONCACAF Champions' Cup.[2][3] Subsequently, United won the now-defunct Copa Interamericana, a competition between the CONCACAF on CONMEBOL champion that year to determine the best soccer club in the Americas. In the 1998, and final edition of the Copa Interamericana, D.C. United defeated Vasco da Gama of Brazil to take the title.[4]

Key

Champions Runners-up Third place Wooden Spoon
Key to regular season record
  • GP = Games played
  • W = Won
  • T = Tied
  • L = Lost
  • GF = Goals for
  • GA = Goals against
  • Pts = Points
  • Pos = Final overall position
Key to leagues, divisions and cups
Key to playoff rounds
  • Conf. SF = Conference Semifinals
  • Conf. F = Conference Finals
Key to U.S. Open Cup rounds
  • QR1 = First Qualifying Round
  • QR2 = Second Qualifying Round
  • QR3 = Third Qualifying Round
  • R4 = Fourth Round
  • R3 = Third Round
  • QF = Quarterfinals
  • SF = Semifinals

Seasons

Season Regular Season[5] MLS Cup[5] U.S. Open
Cup[6]		 CONCACAF[3] Top goalscorer(s)[7]
League GP W T L GF GA Pts Pos Name Goals
1996 MLS 32 16 0 16 62 56 46 3rd Champions Champions Raúl Díaz Arce 23
1997 MLS 32 21 0 11 70 53 55 1st Champions Runners-up Champions Cup – SF Jaime Moreno 16
1998 MLS 32 24 0 8 74 48 58 2nd Runners-up Champions Cup – Champions Roy Lassiter 18
1999 MLS 32 23 0 9 65 43 57 1st Champions Champions Cup – Third place Roy Lassiter 18
2000 MLS 32 8 6 18 44 63 30 11th QF Champions Cup – SF Jaime Moreno 12
2001 MLS 32 8 18 6 44 63 30 10th SF Giants Cup – Runners-up Abdul Thompson Conteh 14
2002 MLS 28 9 5 14 31 40 32 10th Ali Curtis
Bobby Convey		 5
2003 MLS 30 10 9 11 38 36 39 7th Conf. SF SF Dema Kovalenko
Marco Etcheverry		 6
2004 MLS 32 11 9 10 43 42 42 4th Champions R4 Alecko Eskandarian 10
2005 MLS 32 16 6 10 58 37 54 3rd Conf. SF QF Champions Cup – SF Jaime Moreno 16
2006 MLS 32 15 10 7 52 38 55 1st Conf. F SF Christian Gómez 14
2007 MLS 30 16 7 7 56 34 22 1st Conf. SF R3 Champions Cup – SF Luciano Emilio 20
2008 MLS 30 11 4 15 43 51 37 10th Champions Champions Cup – SF
Champions League – GS		 Luciano Emilio 11
2009 MLS 30 9 13 8 43 44 40 10th Runners-up Champions League – GS Gordon Wallace 13
2010 MLS 30 6 4 20 21 47 22 16th SF Danny Allsopp
Andy Najar		 5
2011 MLS 33 9 11 12 48 50 38 12th QR2 Dwayne De Rosario 15

Note: Before 2000, MLS matches that ended tied went into a golden goal overtime.

References

General
Notes
  1. ^ "History & Tradition". D.C. United. http://www.dcunited.com/club. Retrieved 12 July 2011. 
  2. ^ "SOCCER -- CONCACAF CUP; D.C. United Wins Tournament". The New York Times. August 17, 1998. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B03E2DD163DF934A2575BC0A96E958260. Retrieved July 12, 2011. 
  3. ^ a b Torres
  4. ^ "D.C. United downs Vasco da Gama to take InterAmerican Cup". CNN/SI. December 7, 1998. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soccer/news/1998/12/05/interamerican_cup/index.html. Retrieved July 12, 2011. 
  5. ^ a b Litterer
  6. ^ Hikala
  7. ^ Statistics
History
History · Seasons · 1996–99 · 2000–03 · 2004–07 · 2008–present
Overview
Key Personnel
Owner: D.C. United Holdings · General Manager: Dave Kasper · Manager: Ben Olsen
Stadium and facilities
RFK Stadium(1996–present) · D.C. United Stadium (TBD)
Reserve facilities
RFK Stadium Auxiliary Fields (Reserve team) · Maryland SoccerPlex (Academy teams)
Rosters
Culture
Rivalries
Major Honors (11)
MLS Cup (4)
1996 • 1997 • 1999 • 2004
Supporters' Shield (4)
1997 • 1999 • 2006 • 2007
U.S. Open Cup (2)
CONCACAF Champions' Cup (1)
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