More Indoor Soccer Attendance Numbers
These are from the PASL-Pro, a young league still trying to make inroads. They have the (once again) reincarnated San Diego Sockers, as well as the California Cougars, who you may remember as an MISL expansion team from a few years back.
| Team | G | Total | Avg. |
| Prince George Fury | 2 | 3,445 | 1,723 |
| San Diego Sockers | 5 | 7,833 | 1,567 |
| Louisville Lightning | 3 | 2,676 | 892 |
| Denver Dynamite | 4 | 1,942 | 486 |
| 1790 Cincinnati Express | 3 | 1,323 | 441 |
| St. Louis Illusion | *4 | 1,685 | 421 |
| California Cougars | 3 | 1,153 | 384 |
| Texas Outlaws | 4 | 983 | 246 |
| Detroit Waza | *4 | 813 | 203 |
| Edmonton Drillers | #1 | 177 | 177 |
| Saskatoon Accelerators | 1 | 157 | 157 |
| Ohio Vortex | @3 | 448 | 149 |
| Calgary United | *0 | 0 | 0 |
| Winnipeg Alliance | #0 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTAL | 37 | 22,635 | 612 |
Credit to the PASL-Pro for making it to their second season and continuing to forge ahead. It’s not like anyone in indoor soccer can crow about the state of their league these days.
Tags: indoor soccer, PASL, soccer, soccer attendance
January 16th, 2010 at 1:44 pm
With attendance numbers like these, can we no longer be considered professional league in the same breath as Class A baseball and AF2?
Missing box scores do not help the cause.
January 16th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Who is “we?”
Who ever considered the PASL to be in the same breath as Class A baseball and AF2?
Indoor as a whole, maybe. But this is a startup league. I only included the numbers because I came across them.
January 17th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Yikes, and I thought California’s attendance was bad *before* jumping from the MISL.
Having followed the NPSL incarnation of the Drillers, seeing a whopping 177 show up in Edmonton leaves me at a loss for words. At that level of paid attendance (which is a generous assumption), current ticket price ($15) and number of home games (6) — the Drillers will gross less than $20,000 in gate revenue for the entire season. After reading that the CMISL teams operate on budgets “between $200,000 $400,000 a year”, it makes me wonder just how long any of these teams will survive.
Interesting stat about that list — the top 3 averages are from “expansion” teams (although, San Diego is far from a “new” market). In addition to that the current leader, Prince George, resides in a market of less than 100,000 people (within a 2 hour radius). Granted, the Fury have only one competitor for sports-dollars — PG’s junior hockey team which sits dead last in the league.
Sobering numbers, in any event.