Sporting Kansas Metropolis has discovered its new head coach with the 2026 MLS season one month away.
Raphael Wicky has been appointed to the position, the Western Convention membership introduced Monday. Wicky signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with SKC, which features a membership choice for the 2028-29 league season.
“I’m very proud to be the brand new head coach of Sporting Kansas Metropolis,” Wicky stated. “I’m actually excited to get began and get to know the crew, the workers and the gamers. In my talks with David, we immediately had a superb connection and felt very aligned when it comes to tradition and elegance of play. Sporting KC has at all times been a crew that competed to win trophies and I really feel that the membership has all of the substances to get again to the place it belongs – nice possession, superb amenities, a gifted academy and a wonderful stadium with implausible followers.”
Wicky’s final managerial position got here with Swiss Tremendous League aspect Younger Boys from 2022-24, the place he led the membership to at least one league title and one Swiss Cup. He led Younger Boys to a 51-17-20 document in all competitions throughout his two years there.
Previous to his transfer to Switzerland, Wicky was head coach of the Chicago Hearth from December 2019-September 2021. He posted a 12-14-26 document in all competitions with the Hearth.
Wicky has additionally served as head coach of the U.S. Underneath-17 males’s nationwide crew and supervisor of Swiss aspect Basel.
The 48-year-old additionally revamped 360 membership appearances as a participant, that includes for Sion, Werder Bremen, Hamburg, and Chivas USA. He additionally earned 75 caps for the Swiss nationwide crew.
Sporting KC parted methods with former longtime head coach Peter Vermes final March after failing to win its opening six matches of the 2025 season. The membership subsequently failed to succeed in the MLS Cup Playoffs final season for the third time up to now 4 years.