A large, open, American-style sports stadium, viewed from above.
United played at RFK Stadium in Washington, D.C., from 1996 through the 2017 season. The stadium is pictured in 2004.

D.C. United is an American professional soccer club based in Washington, D.C. that competes in Major League Soccer (MLS), the top tier 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, in 1996. Over the club's history, D.C. United has been considered to be the flagship franchise of MLS winning 13 international and domestic titles. Domestically, United has won the U.S. Open Cup thrice, and holds an MLS record for most MLS Cup and MLS Supporters' Shields apiece, winning each honor four times.[1] United was also the first club to win both the Supporters' Shield and MLS Cup consecutively.[2]

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.[3][4] 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.[5]

Key

Key to competitions

Seasons

Season League Position Playoffs USOC Continental Inter-
continental 		Average
attendance 		Top goalscorer(s)
Pld W L D GF GA GD Pts PPG Conf. Overall CCL LC Other(s) Name(s) Goals
1996 32 16 16 0 62 56 +6 46 1.44 2nd 3rd W W DNE NH -- DNQ 15,262 El Salvador Raúl Díaz Arce 24
1997 32 21 11 0 70 53 +17 55 1.72 1st 1st W RU SF 16,698 Bolivia Jamie Moreno 17
1998 32 24 8 0 74 48 +26 58 1.81 1st 2nd RU DNQ W Copa Interamericana (W) 16,077 United States Roy Lassiter 18
1999 32 23 9 0 65 43 +22 57 1.78 1st 1st W Ro16 3rd DNQ 17,419 United States Roy Lassiter 18
2000 32 8 18 6 44 63 –19 30 0.94 4th 11th DNQ QF 4th 18,580 Bolivia Jamie Moreno 12
2001 26 8 16 2 42 50 –8 26 1.00 4th 10th SF NH Giants Cup (RU) 21,518 Sierra Leone Abdul Conteh 14
2002 28 9 14 5 31 40 –9 32 1.14 5th 10th DNQ Ro16 -- 16,519 United States Ali Curtis
United States Bobby Convey 		5
2003 30 10 11 9 38 36 +2 39 1.30 4th 7th QF SF DNQ 15,565 United States Dema Kovalenko
Bolivia Marco Etcheverry 		6
2004 30 11 10 9 43 42 +1 42 1.31 2nd 4th W Ro16 17,232 United States Alecko Eskandarian 14
2005 32 16 10 6 58 37 +21 54 1.69 2nd 3rd QF QF SF Copa Sudamericana (Ro16) 16,664 Bolivia Jamie Moreno 17
2006 32 15 7 10 52 38 +14 55 1.72 1st 1st SF SF DNQ DNQ 18,251 Argentina Christian Gómez 16
2007 30 16 7 7 56 34 +22 55 1.83 1st 1st QF Ro16 SF SuperLiga (SF) Copa Sudamericana (Ro16) 20,967 Brazil Luciano Emilio 24♦[6]
2008 30 11 15 4 43 51 –8 37 1.23 6th 10th DNQ W SF SuperLiga (GS) DNQ 19,835 Brazil Luciano Emilio 16
2009 30 9 8 13 43 44 –1 40 1.33 4th 10th RU GS -- 10,053 Brazil Luciano Emilio 13
2010 30 6 20 4 21 47 –26 22 0.73 8th 16th SF GS 14,532 Australia Danny Allsopp 8
2011 34 9 13 12 49 52 –3 39 1.15 6th 13th QR2 DNQ 15,181 Canada Dwayne De Rosario 13♦[7]
2012 34 17 10 7 53 43 +10 58 1.71 2nd 3rd SF Ro16 13,846 United States Chris Pontius 12
2013 34 3 24 7 22 59 –37 16 0.47 10th 19th DNQ W 13,646 Canada Dwayne de Rosario 8
2014 34 17 9 8 52 37 +15 59 1.74 1st 3rd QF R3 17,030 Argentina Fabian Espindola 8
2015 34 15 13 6 43 45 –2 51 1.50 4th 8th QF Ro16 QF 19,371 Costa Rica Jairo Arrieta 9
2016 34 11 10 13 53 47 +6 46 1.35 4th 10th R1 Ro16 QF 17,081 United States Lamar Neagle 9
2017 34 9 20 5 31 60 –29 32 0.94 11th 21st DNQ Ro16 DNQ 17,904 Argentina Luciano Acosta 5
2018 34 14 11 9 60 50 +10 51 1.50 4th 9th R1 Ro16 17,635 England Wayne Rooney 12
2019 34 13 11 10 42 38 +4 50 1.47 5th 10th R1 Ro16 DNE 17,744 England Wayne Rooney 13
2020 23 5 12 6 25 41 –16 21 0.91 13th 24th DNQ NH Ro16 / NH 17,058 Norway Ola Kamara 5
2021 34 14 15 5 56 54 +2 47 1.38 8th 16th NH DNQ 12,791 Norway Ola Kamara 19
2022 34 7 21 6 36 71 −35 27 0.87 14th 28th R4 DNQ -- -- 16,256 Greece Taxiarchis Fountas 12
2023 34 10 14 10 45 49 −4 40 1.18 TBD TBD R4 Ro32 -- -- 17,540 Belgium Christian Benteke 14
Total 787 316 313 158 1172 1154 +18 1070 1.36 – – – – – – – – – Bolivia Jamie Moreno 162

^ 1. Avg. attendance include statistics from league matches only.
^ 2. Top goalscorer(s) includes all goals scored in League, MLS Cup Playoffs, U.S. Open Cup, MLS is Back Tournament, CONCACAF Champions League, FIFA Club World Cup, and other competitive continental matches.

References

  1. ^ "D.C. United Stats and History".
  2. ^ "History & Tradition". D.C. United. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  3. ^ "SOCCER -- CONCACAF CUP; D.C. United Wins Tournament". The New York Times. August 17, 1998. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  4. ^ Torres
  5. ^ "D.C. United downs Vasco da Gama to take InterAmerican Cup". CNN/SI. December 7, 1998. Retrieved July 12, 2011.
  6. ^ Emilio won the MLS Golden Boot (20 goals)
  7. ^ De Rosario won the MLS Golden Boot (1 goal for Toronto, 2 goals for Red Bulls, 13 goals for D.C.)
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