Results: Colorado's first 17 Season Openers
The Colorado Rapids are slated to open the 2013 season on March 2 at FC Dallas, making it the earliest match in the club's history. Previous, the earliest the Rapids ever kicked off a season was last year, when on March 10, 2012 the Burgundy Boys defeated the Columbus Crew 2-0 at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.
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- Colorado are 5-10-2 all time in the first game of a season, including 1-9-2 when opening on the road (grey, below) and 4-1-0 when beginning at home (white, below).
- On the first road game of the year (including non season openers), Colorado are 3-12-2.
- On the first home game of a year (including non season openers), Colorado are 11-2-4 and are riding a nine-game undefeated streak (6-0-3).
- In March games, the Rapids are 10-7-1 all-time, including 4-7-1 on the road and 5-0-0 at home. Since the 2002 season, Colorado are a combined 8-2-1 in March games.
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DATE |
Opponent | Results | Attendance | Goal Scorers |
| 4/13/96 | at Kansas City |
L 0-3 |
21,141 |
KC: Takawira (71,83) Klopas (77) |
| 3/29/97 | at Columbus | L 1-2 |
14,485 |
COL: Trittschuh (39); CLB: Marino (79) |
| 3/21/98 | at Dallas |
L 1-2 (SO) |
11,103 |
COL: Bravo (27); DAL: Washington (37). Dallas won the shoot out 2-1. |
| 3/20/99 | at Los Angeles | L 1-2 | 17,343 |
LA: Mathis (14); COL: Paule (34). LA won the shoot out 3-1. |
| 3/18/00 | at Los Angeles |
L 1-2 |
24,831 |
LA: Jones (60); Vanney (74 pk); COL: Bravo (64 pk) |
| 4/7/01 | at Miami | L1-2 |
10,411 |
COL: Spencer (50); MIA: Pineda Chacon (68, 72) |
| 3/23/02 | at Kansas City |
T 1-1 (OT) |
11,769 |
COL: Henderson (16); KC: Brown (78) |
| 4/12/03 | San Jose |
L 1-2 |
20,816 |
COL: Roberts (46); SJ: Ching (0:53) Dunivant (22) |
| 4/3/04 | at Dallas |
T 1-1 |
7,359 |
COL: Spencer (36); DAL: Rhine (75) |
| 4/2/05 | at Kansas City |
L 2-3 |
13,484 |
COL: Cunningham (54) Chung (81); KC: Wolff (34) Jewsbury (40) Klein (61) |
| 4/2/06 | at Houston |
L 2-5 |
25,462 |
COL: Beckerman (14) Kirovski (52); HOU: Ching (13,37,44,72) Moreno (92+) |
| 4/7/07 | D.C. United |
W 2-1 |
18,086 |
COL: Gomez (19) Brown (35); DC: Emilio (79) |
| 3/29/08 | Los Angeles | W 4-0 |
18,713 |
COL: Cooke (10) C. Gomez (59) Cummings (66) Clark (80) |
| 3/21/09 | at Chivas USA |
L 1-2 |
16,453 |
COL: Cummings (30); CHV: Nagamura (55,59) |
| 3/26/10 | at Chivas USA | W 1-0 |
18,658 |
COL: Cummings (55) |
| 3/19/11 | Portland | W 3-1 |
17,139 |
COL: Larentowicz (8) Cummings (29) Smith (30); POR: Cooper (80) |
| 3/10/12 | Columbus | W 2-0 |
14,746 |
COL: Moor (44) Amarikwa (89) |
| 3/2/13 | at Dallas |
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