The Kansas City Attack , previously the Atlanta Attack and later known as the Kansas City Comets , were an indoor soccer team based for most of its existence in Kansas City, Missouri . 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 Kemper Arena .
12-807: The franchise originated as the Atlanta Attack, which joined the American Indoor Soccer Association as an expansion team based in Atlanta, Georgia in 1989. In 1990 the league changed its name to the National Professional Soccer League . In 1991 the team relocated to Kansas City, Missouri , which had just lost its prolific Major Indoor Soccer League team, becoming the Kansas City Attack. The Attack played their first season at
24-479: A total of 30 franchises in 32 cities were part of the league at one time or another. During the summer of 2001, the league disbanded and the six surviving teams formed the second incarnation of the Major Indoor Soccer League . When the league began in 1984, game rules were almost identical compared to the larger and more popular Major Indoor Soccer League . Beginning with the 1988–89 season,
36-594: The Municipal Auditorium and moved into Kemper Arena 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
48-617: The 1994–1995 season, the three-point line was changed to a 45-foot arc. Eventually, power play goals were worth either two or three points, but penalty shootouts were still kept at one point. Several NPSL teams had become and merged with the NISL , MASL , and XSL , and the WISL National Indoor Soccer League The National Indoor Soccer League (NISL) was an indoor soccer league that began play in 2021 and
60-463: The AISA changed their scoring system. Goals were now worth 1, 2, or 3 points depending upon distance or game situation. Basically, all non-power play goals scored from inside the yellow line were worth 2 points while non-powerplay goals from outside the yellow line (50 feet from the goal line) were worth 3 points. Any power play goal was worth 1 point, as was any goal scored during a penalty shootout. Before
72-671: The American Indoor Soccer Association's charter franchises were Chicago , Milwaukee , Kalamazoo and Fort Wayne; however, a Fort Wayne team did not materialize until the league's third season. Three other teams, Louisville , Canton and Columbus , all joined the league before the first season began in November 1984. In 1990, the league changed its name to the National Professional Soccer League. Over its 17 seasons,
84-484: 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
96-616: The league's second team. On August 17, 2021, the Columbus Rapids became the third franchise to join the league. On December 16, 2021, 10 days before the season opener, the Rome (Ga.) Gladiators, a travel team, became the fourth and final team to join the league for its inaugural season. On July 7 it was announced that an expansion team was coming to Tampa . On March 29, 2024, the league announced its merger with Major League Indoor Soccer . This article related to sports in
108-519: The time the second MISL folded in 2008. In 2010, the Missouri Comets , based in nearby Independence , joined the third Major Indoor Soccer League as an expansion team, carrying on the Comets name. Championships Division titles American Indoor Soccer Association The National Professional Soccer League was a professional indoor soccer league in the U.S. and Canada. It
120-620: Was based in the Southeast United States. The league fielded men's and women's divisions. On March 24, 2021, the league announced its partnership with Nike . On March 29, 2024, the league announced a merger with Major League Indoor Soccer . On April 29, 2021, the Memphis Americans were officially announced as a charter team in the new NISL On June 7. 2021, the Fayetteville Fury were announced as
132-473: Was intended to be a sort of farm system, or developmental league, for the well established Major Indoor Soccer League . He added that groups in Indianapolis, Peoria, and Michigan cities, Saginaw and Flint; Kentucky cities, Lexington and Louisville; Ohio cities, Columbus Toledo and Dayton; Erie, PA; and Green Bay, Wisconsin, were all interested in joining the league. Officially starting on April 18, 1984,
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#1732793376099144-400: Was originally called the American Indoor Soccer Association . In November 1983, a Kalamazoo, Michigan –based group called Soccer Leagues Unlimited unveiled a plan for an indoor league composed exclusively of American players. The group's president, Bob Lemieux (later AISA commissioner), announced that Kalamazoo, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Springfield, Illinois, were on board in what was he said
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