Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Seattle Sounders FC

This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/March 19, 2019

Seattle Sounders FC is an American professional soccer club based in Seattle, Washington. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS), playing home matches at CenturyLink Field with a reduced capacity. It was established in November 2007 as an MLS expansion team and is the third team to bear the Sounders name. They entered as the league's 15th team and played the first match of their inaugural season on March 19, 2009. The club set MLS records for average attendance for the first eight seasons, and competes with its local rivals, Portland and Vancouver, for the Cascadia Cup. Brian Schmetzer has been the team's head coach since 2016 and replaced Sigi Schmid. Seattle has been among the league's most successful teams, winning the U.S. Open Cup four times, the Supporters' Shield in 2014, and the MLS Cup in 2016. The team has qualified for the MLS Cup Playoffs in each of its ten seasons and competed in the CONCACAF Champions League five times, advancing as far as the semifinals. (Full article...)

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• Main editors: Skotywa, Mikemor92
• Promoted: 29 December 2009
• Reasons for nomination: 10th anniversary of inaugural MLS match; re-run from 2011, but the article has been maintained and updated as needed.
• Support as nominator. SounderBruce 05:10, 13 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Support Aoba47 (talk) 20:13, 14 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
• Sorry, I had already done a blurb for this one in my Sandbox/1 ... I need to figure out a way to let people know ahead of time. Any comments or changes? - Dank (push to talk) 02:22, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  • @Dank: It looks good to me, but I had to re-add some important details to make it feel whole. SounderBruce 03:58, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
    • That's up to 1143 chars; 1025 is the max. - Dank (push to talk) 04:20, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
      • Brought it just under the 1025 max. I don't think we need so much detail on the coaching handover. SounderBruce 04:34, 15 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
        • 1042, and we've gotten complaints recently when teams switch between singular and plural verbs. - Dank (push to talk) 14:42, 15 February 2019 (UTC)]] by Wehwalt (talk) 17:23, 17 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]