On Tuesday, Major League Soccer named the Seattle Sounders the 2017 Fair Play Award team recipients, which recognizes the club with the fewest regular-season disciplinary points.
The award is the first for the Sounders in the club’s nine-year MLS history, as Seattle finished with its second-fewest yellow cards ever, just one more than the 2013 season. The Sounders did not have a single player suspended for yellow-card accumulation this season.
The Sounders, who finished ahead of Toronto FC and the Chicago Fire, committed the fewest fouls in MLS, but recorded the third-most fouls suffered. Midfielder Nicolás Lodeiro also suffered the most fouls in the league and the third-most in league history.
Seattle will visit the Houston Dynamo in the first leg of the Western Conference Championship on Tuesday, Nov. 21, at BBVA Compass Stadium (7 p.m. PT; FS1, FOX Deportes, KIRO Radio 97.3 FM, El Rey 1360 AM).
