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Taking Attendance, 9/8/2010

We’re going to focus on the leagues that are still playing this time around (if you are keen on them, the final numbers for the W-League and PDL are here) and give you a little extra data that I keep but don’t normally put into these posts because, quite frankly, it screws up the formatting.

MLS G Total Average Median High Low
Seattle 12 434,087 36,174 36,183 36,386 35,924
Toronto 12 248,252 20,688 20,860 22,108 18,394
Los Angeles 10 202,983 20,298 20,228 27,000 15,453
Philadelphia 10 200,294 20,029 17,875 34,870 16,128
New York 11 196,108 17,828 17,900 25,000 11,462
Salt Lake 12 203,425 16,952 17,313 19,970 12,659
Houston 12 202,741 16,895 15,558 24,750 13,231
Chicago 10 160,438 16,044 14,357 21,868 11,312
Columbus 12 172,611 14,384 14,350 18,139 10,197
DC United 12 171,257 14,271 13,307 20,664 10,038
Chivas USA 10 140,930 14,093 14,006 18,653 12,517
Colorado 11 140,243 12,749 11,641 18,363 9,882
New England 12 144,841 12,070 12,262 20,155 5,990
Dallas 11 118,922 10,811 10,323 15,993 8,016
Kansas City 11 111,202 10,109 10,385 10,385 8,155
San Jose 10 96,376 9,638 9,963 10,799 8,033
MLS TOTAL 178 2,944,710 16,543 14,434 36,386 5,990
 
WPS G Total Average Median High Low
Boston 12 53,878 4,490 4,560 6,108 3,052
Chicago 12 48,296 4,025 3,955 6,089 2,173
Washington 11 42,359 3,851 3,744 8,261 2,118
Atlanta 12 44,284 3,690 3,291 7,248 2,267
Sky Blue FC 10 32,711 3,271 3,387 4,440 2,491
Saint Louis 4 12,109 3,027 3,204 3,356 2,346
FC Gold Pride 12 36,114 3,010 3,078 3,757 2,431
Philadelphia 13 38,190 2,938 2,585 6,028 2,053
WPS TOTAL 86 307,941 3,581 3,334 8,261 2,053
 
USSFD2 G Total Average Median High Low
Montreal 13 160,310 12,332 12,355 13,034 10,864
Portland 15 160,899 10,727 9,017 15,418 5,808
Rochester 13 81,974 6,306 6,978 9,157 1,447
Vancouver 13 66,514 5,116 5,177 5,387 4,815
Tampa Bay 12 48,944 4,079 3,884 8,082 1,825
Austin 14 50,107 3,579 3,620 6,051 2,143
St. Louis 12 32,841 2,737 2,358 5,695 2,037
Puerto Rico 12 27,428 2,286 2,110 5,077 1,069
Carolina 12 25,900 2,158 2,198 2,821 1,426
Minnesota 13 18,067 1,390 1,429 2,310 627
Miami 11 14,151 1,286 1,148 1,855 1,004
Baltimore 12 12,509 1,042 989 2,348 507
USSF2 TOTAL 152 699,644 4,603 3,104 15,418 507
 
USL-2 G Total Average Median High Low
Charleston 10 36,412 3,641 3,469 4,735 2,787
Richmond 10 20,440 2,044 1,910 3,044 1,279
Harrisburg 10 16,659 1,666 1,618 2,389 1,373
Pittsburgh 10 9,409 941 887 1,657 651
Charlotte 10 9,107 911 880 1,262 590
Maryland 7 4,259 608 560 1,100 206
USL-2 TOTAL 57 96,286 1,689 1,385 4,735 206

Notes:

  • The Portland Timbers are only the third D2 franchise to average over 10k for a season (Montreal and Rochester are the others) thanks to a late surge that saw them pack PGE Park three times in the last month. Those guys should be in TMLS!
  • In WPS, everybody but Sky Blue FC, FC Gold Pride and the Washington Freedom have finished their home schedules, so don’t expect a big bump on the last weekend. FCGP simply can’t draw (I’ve said it before, having Marta in the East Bay is like Pavarotti at a dinner theater in Jupiter, Florida) so an 11:30 am start for the WPS final in a couple of weeks should be fun.
  • Stadium renderings usually aren’t indicative of how a stadium finally turns out, but these first looks at the proposed new Earthquakes stadium are pretty nice. They’d better get it sorted, because continuing to play at Buck Shaw is just a feeding tube at this point.
  • I’m missing three game attendances for Real Maryland in USL-2, but only my OCD-like sense of completeness compels me to hope I’ll get them. There may not be anybody there to ask before too long.
  • Finally, there are 12 teams in USSFD2. Montreal is off to TMLS in 2011, with Portland and Vancouver moving up next year. That’ll leave Rochester as the flagship franchise again, but it’s the bottom of the attendance ladder that’s really troubling. St. Louis has supposedly found a new investor, but Carolina and Minnesota are still looking and Baltimore is broke. Miami can re-brand as the Strikers all they want, they still have Traffic running them. And Puerto Rico has reportedly jumped ship from What’s Left of USL to the NASL. I can’t for the life of me see how the NASL gets USSF sanctioning. Or, at this point, how anybody does.

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4 Responses to “Taking Attendance, 9/8/2010”

  1. OleGunnar20 Says:
    September 8th, 2010 at 7:54 am

    everything seems to check out with my numbers and yours this week. one exception is you seem to be missing the last CP Baltimore home game (9/3) which was 1,605.

    as always thanks for the hard work.

  2. ERic Says:
    September 8th, 2010 at 10:54 am

    Ole - that 1605 was a Carolina Railhawks home game. His numbers match mine.

    http://ussf.demosphere.com/stats/2010/1634291.html

  3. OleGunnar20 Says:
    September 10th, 2010 at 9:06 am

    @Eric: yeah. i see now that i am an idiot and cannot read. my bad. i officially lose ‘double checking’ privileges. :(

  4. ERic Says:
    September 10th, 2010 at 9:54 am

    @Ole. I wouldn’t take it hard. What with going between the USSF D2 website and the USL2 website, I regularly have had to be double-double sure that I was marking the right team down as the home team.