MLS 2002 : Results, rankings and all statistics

Tier : 1

Type of clubs : A

Country : United States

Games played : 157

Goals scored : 472 (3.01 goals per match )

Yellow cards : 622

Red cards : 48

55%
Home victories

15%
Draws

29%
Away victories

Players age average : 26.89 years

Number of players participating : 228

Relegated to lower tier : Miami Fusion 1997-2001, Tampa Bay Mutiny

MLS 2002's fixtures and results

MLS Cup - Final

October 20, 2002

13:30

New England

0 1a.e.t.

LA Galaxy

113'Carlos Ruiz

General rankingLast updated on 20/10/2002

		pts	m	v	d	l	GF	GA	diff
1	LA Galaxy	51	28	16	3	9	44	33	+11
2	San Jose	45	28	14	3	11	45	35	+10
3	Dallas Burn	43	28	12	7	9	44	43	+1
4	Colorado Rapids	43	28	13	4	11	43	48	-5
5	New England	38	28	12	2	14	49	49	0
6	Columbus Crew	38	28	11	5	12	44	43	+1
7	Chicago Fire	37	28	11	4	13	43	38	+5
8	Kansas City	36	28	9	9	10	37	45	-8
9	Metrostars	35	28	11	2	15	41	47	-6
10	D.C. United	32	28	9	5	14	31	40	-9

Latest transfers

September 30, 2002
Christof Lindenmayer ( Virginia Beach)		Columbus
Miguel Saavedra ( Milwaukee)		Chicago

September 18, 2002
Jeff Cassar ( Atlanta)		Red Bulls
Dipsy Selolwane ( Vejle)		Chicago

September 15, 2002
Hérculez Gomez ( SD Gauchos)		LA Galaxy

August 16, 2002
Henry Zambrano ( Millonarios)		D.C. United

August 15, 2002
Leonard Krupnik ( Menace)		Red Bulls

August 12, 2002
McKinley Tennyson ( Portland)		LA Galaxy

August 01, 2002
Scott Bower ( Portland)		San Jose

July 30, 2002
Winston Griffiths ( LA Galaxy)		New England

July 23, 2002
Brian Piesner ( Atlanta)		Red Bulls

July 22, 2002
Eliseo Quintanilla ( Aguila)		D.C. United

July 19, 2002
Dustin Sheppard ( Rutgers U.)		Red Bulls
Daouda Kante ( Free)		New England

All transfers

One match scorers

Ante Razovhas scored 3 goals during the match New England 1-3 Chicago Fire (19/05/2002)

Bobby Rhinehas scored 3 goals during the match Dallas Burn 4-1 Colorado Rapids (08/06/2002)

Mamadou Diallohas scored 4 goals during the match Metrostars 5-0 LA Galaxy (15/06/2002)

Chris Carrierihas scored 3 goals during the match Colorado Rapids 3-2 Chicago Fire (04/07/2002)

Carlos Ruizhas scored 3 goals during the match LA Galaxy 3-0 Metrostars (31/08/2002)

Taylor Twellmanhas scored 3 goals during the match New England 3-0 D.C. United (07/09/2002)

Individual rankingsLast updated on 12/04/2025 at 12:34

Scorers

Assists

Games

clean sheets

Fair play

Scorers as subs

Scorers + Assists

Newcomers

Player	Goals	pen.	eff.	Min.p.	M.p.	Start	Home	Away	1H	2H	Team %	Last goal
Carlos Ruiz	32	4	92	2940	32	32	21	11	11	17	54%	20/10/2002
Taylor Twellman	25	3	119	2976	34	32	15	10	16	9	44%	02/10/2002
Jeff Cunningham	16	1	150	2394	32	26	7	9	10	6	32%	22/09/2002
Ante Razov	16	3	149	2389	28	27	9	7	5	11	37%	29/09/2002
Ariel Graziani	15	0	164	2465	30	28	11	4	8	7	34%	28/09/2002
Jason Kreis	14	0	184	2572	30	29	9	5	4	9	29%	25/09/2002
Mamadou Diallo	12	3	135	1617	24	21	9	3	7	5		31/07/2002
Rodrigo Faria	12	2	190	2284	28	25	2	10	5	7	30%	14/09/2002
Chris Carrieri	12	0	189	2272	30	23	10	2	2	10	25%	28/09/2002
Mark Chung	12	2	238	2859	32	32	8	4	5	6	25%	02/10/2002
Chris Henderson	11	1	260	2858	33	33	8	3	7	4	23%	01/09/2002
Edson Buddle	10	0	154	1541	24	16	2	8	4	5	20%	25/09/2002
Preki	10	2	240	2400	28	27	4	6	4	6	22%	02/10/2002
Landon Donovan	8	0	233	1863	22	20	5	3	2	6	18%	25/09/2002
Chris Klein	8	0	304	2432	28	28	1	7	5	3	18%	02/10/2002

Rankings

Form

Home

Away

Second legs

Attendances

Offense

Defense

First half

Second half

Fair play

1	LA Galaxy	V 3-2 Kansas City25/09/2002	LKansas City 4-1 28/09/2002	V 5-2 Kansas City02/10/2002	V 4-0 Colorado Rapids05/10/2002	VColorado Rapids 0-1 09/10/2002	VNew England 0-1 20/10/2002
2	D.C. United	LMetrostars 1-0 25/08/2002	V 4-2 San Jose31/08/2002	LNew England 3-0 07/09/2002	VMetrostars 0-1 12/09/2002	V 2-1 Metrostars14/09/2002	L 3-4 Dallas Burn19/09/2002
3	Columbus Crew	LChicago Fire 2-1 22/09/2002	VSan Jose 1-2 25/09/2002	V 2-1 San Jose28/09/2002	DNew England 0-0 06/10/2002	L 0-1 New England09/10/2002	DNew England 2-2 12/10/2002
4	New England	LChicago Fire 2-1 29/09/2002	V 2-0 Chicago Fire02/10/2002	D 0-0 Columbus Crew06/10/2002	VColumbus Crew 0-1 09/10/2002	D 2-2 Columbus Crew12/10/2002	L 0-1 LA Galaxy20/10/2002
5	Kansas City	V 2-1 Chicago Fire31/08/2002	L 1-2 Colorado Rapids14/09/2002	DColorado Rapids 1-1 20/09/2002	LLA Galaxy 3-2 25/09/2002	V 4-1 LA Galaxy28/09/2002	LLA Galaxy 5-2 02/10/2002
6	Colorado Rapids	D 1-1 Kansas City20/09/2002	LDallas Burn 4-2 25/09/2002	V 1-0 Dallas Burn28/09/2002	VDallas Burn 1-2 02/10/2002	LLA Galaxy 4-0 05/10/2002	L 0-1 LA Galaxy09/10/2002
7	Chicago Fire	L 1-2 LA Galaxy07/09/2002	LColumbus Crew 2-0 14/09/2002	V 2-1 Columbus Crew22/09/2002	LNew England 2-0 26/09/2002	V 2-1 New England29/09/2002	LNew England 2-0 02/10/2002
8	Dallas Burn	L 1-3 Metrostars05/09/2002	L 1-2 New England14/09/2002	VD.C. United 3-4 19/09/2002	V 4-2 Colorado Rapids25/09/2002	LColorado Rapids 1-0 28/09/2002	L 1-2 Colorado Rapids02/10/2002
9	Metrostars	V 1-0 D.C. United25/08/2002	LLA Galaxy 3-0 31/08/2002	VDallas Burn 1-3 05/09/2002	L 0-1 D.C. United12/09/2002	LD.C. United 2-1 14/09/2002	LNew England 3-0 21/09/2002
10	San Jose	LD.C. United 4-2 31/08/2002	V 4-3 Columbus Crew07/09/2002	LLA Galaxy 1-0 14/09/2002	L 0-1 LA Galaxy21/09/2002	L 1-2 Columbus Crew25/09/2002	LColumbus Crew 2-1 28/09/2002

Longest streaksLast updated on 12/04/2025 at 12:34

Winning streak

Loosing streak

Drawing streak

Drawless streak

Unbeaten streak

Winless streak

Invincibility streak

Goalless streak

Conceding streak

Scoring streak

	Series	Running
LA Galaxy	5	4
New England	4
Chicago Fire	2
Metrostars	2
San Jose	2
Columbus Crew	2
D.C. United	2
Colorado Rapids	2
Dallas Burn	2
Kansas City	2

Ranking matchday by matchdayLast updated on 12/04/2025 at 12:34

Team \ Rd	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31

Goals per quarterLast updated on 12/04/2025 at 12:34

Minutes	Goals
0 - 15	58
Best scorer : Taylor Twellman - 7 Goals
16 - 30	63
Best scorer : Jeff Cunningham - 5 Goals
31 - 45+	79
Best scorer : Taylor Twellman - 7 Goals
46 - 60	72
Best scorer : Ante Razov - 5 Goals
61 - 75	87
Best scorer : Carlos Ruiz - 6 Goals
76 - 90+	97
Best scorer : Carlos Ruiz - 11 Goals

Most frequent scoresLast updated on 12/04/2025 at 12:34

Score	Frequence
0 - 0	5 times
1 - 0	24 times
1 - 1	13 times
2 - 0	21 times
2 - 1	35 times
2 - 2	6 times
3 - 0	8 times
3 - 1	12 times
3 - 2	13 times

Score	Frequence
4 - 0	5 times
4 - 1	3 times
4 - 2	4 times
4 - 3	3 times
5 - 0	1 times
5 - 1	1 times
5 - 2	2 times
5 - 4	1 times

Goals scored per matchdayLast updated on 12/04/2025 at 12:34

General statistics by teamLast updated on 12/04/2025 at 12:34

	Participants	Different First XI	Different Scorers	Best scorer
Metrostars	30	24	10	Rodrigo Faria (12 goals)
Chicago Fire	28	26	15	Ante Razov (16 goals)
D.C. United	26	26	12	Bobby Convey (5 goals)
New England	26	29	14	Taylor Twellman (25 goals)
Colorado Rapids	23	24	6	Mark Chung (12 goals)
Dallas Burn	23	22	12	Jason Kreis (14 goals)
Columbus Crew	23	29	12	Jeff Cunningham (16 goals)
LA Galaxy	22	27	13	Carlos Ruiz (32 goals)
Kansas City	21	28	11	Preki (10 goals)
San Jose	20	22	10	Ariel Graziani (15 goals)

Teams ages statisticsLast updated on 12/04/2025 at 12:34

	Average age	Oldest player	Youngest player
Metrostars	25.8	Tab Ramos (35 years)	Nelson Akwari (19 years)
D.C. United	26	Roy Lassiter (32 years)	Justin Mapp (17 years)
LA Galaxy	26.6	Mauricio Cienfuegos (33 years)	Jesus Ochoa (20 years)
Columbus Crew	26.6	Robert Warzycha (38 years)	Edson Buddle (20 years)
Chicago Fire	26.6	Piotr Nowak (37 years)	Craig Capano (16 years)
San Jose	26.7	Jeff Agoos (33 years)	Devin Barclay (18 years)
New England	26.8	Jim Rooney (33 years)	Taylor Twellman (21 years)
Dallas Burn	27	Percy Olivares (33 years)	Eddie Johnson (17 years)
Kansas City	28.1	Preki (38 years)	Davy Arnaud (21 years)
Colorado Rapids	28.6	Carlos Valderrama (40 years)	Kyle Beckerman (19 years)

Countries statisticsLast updated on 12/04/2025 at 12:34

	Number of games played	Number of players	Number of goals scored
United States	2979	159	292
Jamaica	126	5	8
Colombia	100	5	7
El Salvador	90	5	12
New Zealand	77	3	5
Bolivia	67	3	7
South Africa	60	3	4
Honduras	47	2	2
Mexico	46	3	5
Guatemala	42	2	34
Ukraine	35	3	2
Poland	34	2	3
Trinidad and Tobago	33	3	0
Uganda	30	1	0
Ecuador	30	1	15
Saint Vincent	29	1	3
Denmark	29	1	6
Canada	29	1	4
Costa Rica	29	1	0
Brazil	28	1	12