MLS Opening Game Results since 1996

MLS opening day is Thursday night with the Seattle Sounders playing their first ever game against New York. I put together an opening game results chart before last season (I can't believe I've been doing this for over a year now), and this is the updated version to include the 2008 first game results.

Team	W	D	L	Points
Kansas City Wizards	7	3	3	24
San Jose/Houston Dynamo	5	4	4	19
Columbus Crew	5	3	5	18
FC Dallas	4	6	3	18
DC United	5	2	6	17
Los Angeles Galaxy	4	5	4	17
New York Red Bulls	4	5	4	17
Chicago Fire	4	4	3	16
New England Revolution	3	5	5	14
Colorado Rapids	2	5	6	11
Chivas USA	2	1	1	7
Real Salt Lake	0	3	1	3
Toronto FC	0	0	2	0
"New" San Jose	0	0	1	0

I've counted the Shootout Results as Draws




This chart shows the average points per opening game:

Team	Avg. Points per Game
Kansas City Wizards	1.85
Chivas USA	1.75
San Jose/Houston Dynamo	1.46
Chicago Fire	1.46
FC Dallas	1.39
Columbus Crew	1.39
Los Angeles Galaxy	1.31
DC United	1.31
New York Red Bulls	1.31
New England Revolution	1.08
Colorado Rapids	0.85
Real Salt Lake	0.75
Toronto FC	0.00
"New" San Jose	0.00

Here's the opening game matchups for this season:

NY@SEA
CLB@HOU
CHI@DAL
TOR@KC
COL@CHV
NE@SJ
DC@LA