Colorado Rapids : Ask Biography

Football club information

Full name

Colorado Rapids

Founded

1996

Stadium

Dick's Sporting Goods Park
Commerce City, Colorado (capacity : 19680)

Chairman

Stan Kroenke

Manager

Gary Smith

League

Major League Soccer

2010

Western Conference: 5th
Overall: 7th
Playoffs: Champions

Current season

2011 Colorado Rapids season

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The Colorado Rapids are an American professional soccer club based in the Denver suburb of Commerce City, Colorado which competes in Major League Soccer (MLS), the top professional soccer league in the United States and Canada. It is one of the ten charter clubs of MLS, having competed in the league since its inception.

Colorado is the reigning MLS Cup champion, having won the competition for the first time in 2010. The Rapids reached the final once before, in 1997, which it lost to D.C. United; they also reached the final of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup in 1999.

Colorado played its home games at the Mile High Stadium in Denver from 1996 � 2001, and then at Invesco Field at Mile High in 2002, before moving to their current home � Dick's Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City � prior to the beginning of the 2007 season. Colorado's current head coach is Englishman Gary Smith.