New and improved Season Ticket Holder Count

Oh ok. We got that covered already.

 

So unique that it has no similarity to the Rapids One Club initiative they introduced in February by announcing that their season ticket holders names will be on their 2013/14 home jerseys.

I've got no problem with the Red Bulls doing something similar, but don't rip off the idea and slogan and then try to claim it as unique.

 

i'm surprised we don't have a more recent number for seattle.

 

no new numbers for this?

 

Just curious if anybody knows what clubs have sold out of season tickets and have a waitlist. It is well known that the Timbers are sold out and have a waitlist of 7,500. I recall that at times in the past Toronto and Seattle were sold out and had waitlists -- is that still the case? Any other team at STH capacity (Philadelphia? Vancouver? Houston?)

 

We have certain sections of the stadium that have a waitlist. Our suites are sold out, our Shield Club is sold out, and I believe the Member's Club has an STH waitlist as well.

 

Any way we could put a second column of the teams average attendance (use announced ?)
It would be interesting to see the gap between ST and announced attendance. Probably not accurate, but would that then be you walk up crowd or group sales?
LAG going back to the days of the Rose Bowl always had decent walk up and still must for us to "average " the 20k to 27k we have over the years with only 7,500 ST's.
Also , this ST number- full and partial being included ? For example, i bought a Pick 6 for this year and my ticket actually says partial season ticket

 

Minimum attendance might be better than average.

As teams announce tickets sold/distributed, the minimum should never drop below the number of full season ticket holders (though potentially lower than the "full season equivalents").

 

Except for cases where STHs can trade in tickets from one game to another, like in KC. Not that I expect this would actually be a significant number, but it is possible.

 

Montreal released a new seating map and ST prices for 2013:

http://www.impactmontreal.com/en/2013-season-tickets-renewal/stadium-plan-prices

Don't know if this is the best thread for this, but y'all will be interested to know that the supporters section(General Admission, bench seating) has been doubled, family section goes from 2 to 3 sections and ticket prices remain flat or less all round, though that last remains conjecture until single game tickets prices are released early next year.


Can anyone share how the Impact prices compare with others around the league?

 

it has been reported (and is now widely accpeted) that Toronto's waitlist has now shrunk to 0. Any non-renewed tickets this year will likely see a drop in the total STHs in Toronto. How low it goes, no one knows.....but there is a sense that there will be a lower than the historic renewal rate.

 

With the way the Union have played, I'd be shocked if there is a single person on the wait list. On a thread in the Union forum last night someone suggested the U are expecting a 30% not to renew for 2013. I guess ridding your team of well liked players who perform isn't such a good idea.

 

Every team in the league has, or can expect to have, bad seasons. A 30 percent decrease based on a bad season is not a great sign for the long term success at the gate for any team.

 

I would agree to an extent but this something every one of the original MLS teams went through. I also think its more a reaction the lack of vision from the FO than anything. A bad season is one thing, blowing up a team that looked on the rise and turning into blubbering mess with no clear direction is going to turn people off.

 

not a new number specifically, but relevant (from the news thread):

http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2012/09/11/crew-owner-hunt-optimistic-about.html

 

According to this article in Forbes, Heinemann indicated that SKC's season ticket number is "just under 14,000".

http://www.forbes.com/sites/prishe/...orting-park-a-star-among-u-s-soccer-stadiums/

 

30% drop, or rather a 70% renewal rate is bad for a given year, but not as bad as you may think. I think American Sports teams only average about 80-85% renewal rate each year anyway, so you will have to replace some that dropped each year. Say they only get 70% instead of 85%, you are talking about 1800 seats or so (over the average). Not ideal but some of even that will be made up with new accounts.

Closest I can come to a reference. Even the big ol' NFL is issuing press releases and excited about 90% renewal. So the normal number is something in the 80s for all sports.

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8278246/nfl-season-ticket-renewals-league-says

 

not sure why seattle has the 2010 tag as we have had 32000 season ticket holders for two years now.

 

Probably one of two things......1) that was the last date it was "officially confirmed"....or....2) no one updated the date here!

The impessive thing about Seattle (to me) is not that there are over 30k season tickets (although that is cool) but that they can regularly still sell tickets beyond those numbers. Not sure there are any other markets in the league that can do that.

 

need a linkable reliable source to update the date.