FC Wichita

FC Wichita is a soccer club based in Wichita, Kansas that plays in The League for Clubs's Central Region. Previously a member of the National Premier Soccer League, FC Wichita played joined the USL League Two in 2021 and played there until the 2023 season. For the 2025 season, FC Wichita joined the inaugural season of The League for Clubs, an amateur league associated with the Women's Premier Soccer League.

On January 7, 2017, FC Wichita announced the creation of a women's team.^[1] The team played in the WPSL before joining the United Women's Soccer League for the 2021 and 2022 seasons. After an independent season in 2023, the team returned to the WPSL and in 2025 joined the professional league WPSL PRO.^[2]

On January 19, 2021, FC Wichita announced it was joining USL League Two ^[3] after five seasons In the NPSL. After not playing in the USL League Two in 2024, the team announced it was joining the new amateur soccer league The League for Clubs.^[4]

FC Wichita played its home matches from 2015 to 2017 seasons on the 2,200 capacity Tommy Peckham Championship Field at Stryker Soccer Complex in Wichita, Kansas.^[5]

For the 2018 season, FC Wichita was forced to relocate for one season to Trinity Academy.^[6] Stryker Soccer Complex underwent a $22 million renovation.^[7]

FC Wichita returned to Stryker Stadium for their season opener on May 25, 2019. The updated Stryker Stadium seats more than 6,000 fans.

2015

• campeones de la conferencia NPSL South Central
• Plaza para Lamar Hunt en la US Open Cup
• Gol del año de NPSL Staples “Make More Happen” – Kevin Ten Eyck ^{[ 12 ]}
• Primer equipo All-NPSL – Kevin Ten Eyck y Matt Clare ^{[ 13 ]}
• Equipo ideal de los aficionados de la NPSL 2015: Kevin Ten Eyck y Matt Clare ^{[ 13 ]}
• Jugador Nacional de la Semana de Mitre para la semana 12 de la NPSL – Matt Clare ^{[ 14 ]}

2016

• Gol del año 2016 de la NPSL Staples “Make More Happen” – Mark Weir
• Plaza para la US Open Cup 201 Lamar Hunt ^{[ 15 ]}
• Primer equipo All-Conference 2016: Kevin Ten Eyck, James Togbah, Leo Sosa
• Mención honorífica de la conferencia 2016: Jeffrey Kyei, Richard Osterloh
• Invitación al evento NPSL Showcase 2016 – James Togbah

2017

• Campeones de la Conferencia Heartland 2017
• Campeones del torneo de la Conferencia Heartland 2017
• Plaza Lamar Hunt para la US Open Cup 2017 ^{[ 16 ]}
• Jugador Nacional de la Semana de Mitre para la semana 16 de la NPSL - Matt Clare ^{[ 17 ]}
• Primer equipo All-Conference 2017: Deri Corfe , James Togbah, Mark Weir
• Mención honorífica All-Conference 2017: Matt Clare, Leo Sosa

2018

• Tercera ronda de la US Open Cup 2018: Victorias sobre OKC Energy U-23 y Tulsa Roughnecks (ahora FC Tulsa) .
• Campeones de la Conferencia Heartland 2018
• Primer equipo de todas las conferencias de 2018: Nelson Landaverde, Leo Sosa, Uzi Tayou, James Togbah ^{[ 18 ]}
• Mención honorífica All-Conference 2018 – Franck Tayou, Thomas Wells, Mark Weir ^{[ 18 ]}

2019

• Primer equipo All-Conference 2019 — Thomas Wells ^{[ 19 ]}

2020 No se otorgaron premios debido a la ausencia de liga en 2020.

Larry Inlow fue nombrado primer entrenador del club en septiembre de 2014. ^{[ 20 ]}

• Larry Inlow (2015)
• John Markey (2016)
• Steve Ralos (2017)
• Blake Shumaker (2018–2019)
• Bryan Pérez (2019–2021)
• Gonzalo Carranza (2022-2023)
• Mauricio Vargas (2025-presente)

As stated above, the FC Wichita women were announced as the first professional women's club in Wichita first competing in the Women's Premier Soccer League from 2017 through 2019.

Inlow introduced University of Kansas alum, Whitney Berry; Northern Iowa's Jami Reichenberger; Oklahoma State's Peyton Vincze; and Kansas State's Brookelynn Entz, who at the time was a high school player for Newton High.^[1]

On January 18, 2021, FC Wichita announced they would join the United Women's Soccer League.

After not playing in a league for the 2023 season, FC Wichita returned to the WPSL for the 2024 season. In 2025, FC Wichita will field a professional team in the newly formed WPSL PRO, and will be one of the 12 inaugural teams taking part.

Inlow announced in the introductory press conference Hutchinson Community College women's soccer head coach, Sammy Lane, would lead the inaugural season for FC Wichita.

• Sammy Lane (2017-2018)
• Gonzalo Carranza (2019-2021)
• Ashley Cordeiro (2022)
• Kieran Laking (2023)

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