A quick glance. 10 Saturday games 4 Sunday 3 Wednesday Seattle, Portland and Vancouver twice away. LA, RSL and Colorado twice at home. And it shows our two Colorado home games are on successive weekends, Aug 25 and Sept. 2nd.
http://www.sjearthquakes.com/news/2012/01/earthquakes-unveil-2012-regular-season-schedule Earthquakes unveil 2012 regular season schedule Six national TV games, return to Stanford Stadium on June 30 vs. LA Galaxy highlight 2012 slate
Glad to see the league is taking a break (for the most part) during the 3 FIFA breaks for World Cup Qualifying (June, Sept, and Oct). That means the Quakes don't have to worry about playing without Bernardez, Chavez, or Wondo (a stretch, but who knows what could happen) on those dates. The guys could still miss time for other friendlies, but at least not for those 3 weeks. Other thoughts on the schedule - - Quakes get what looks like an easier home opener than the past few years, against New England - Team travels to the Pacific northwest 6 times, and to LA only twice.... - No trips to Houston, DC, Columbus, Chicago or New England - With the early June break, and the fact that the Quakes have a "bye" the weekend of June 16/17, they have a very long break from May 27 to June 20- The good news is when they play June 20 @Colorado, the Rapids are coming off a 3 day rest while the Quakes are coming off 23 days of rest! - Early part of the schedule is heavy with long road trips (to Toronto, NY and Philly all during a 6 game stretch from late March to late April) - But that means the good news is that the second half of the schedule is very "travel light", after the June 23 match at Salt Lake, the team only has to leave the West Coast 3 times the rest of the year (Colorado, Dallas, Montreal). Yes, you read that right - over an 18 game stretch, the team only leaves the West Coast 3 times, and one of those is a relatively short trip to Colorado
looking forward to at least one away game in the Northwest. went to Seattle two years ago and it was awesome. with friends and now family in vancouver will likely make the may or july date- maybe both!
My wife and I are expecting a baby on opening weekend, so I won't be making it to the home opener this year! Nice to see another game at Stanford - and the date makes me expect it to be another "fireworks extravaganza." I hope someone at the FO coordinates with the Stanford parking coordinators to make things better this year. It was a disaster last year, as PD and parking workers created a huge mess of backed-up cars, bottle-necked into two entrances and delaying many people from getting to the game before kickoff. They need to handle things better this year, especially if we get a similar 40k+ attendance.
that's a good review. with better depth this year, hopefully we won't struggle as much with injuries, fatigue, etc late on. Once again, I'm full of optimism but it could be the booze since i'm a happy drunk.
should we also expect a friendly in june during that break? Quakes v. (fill in your favorite team here, but be realistic)
Typo, should be Chivas on 09/02, they probably already fixed it. But that does mean home-and-away vs Chivas 09/02 and 09/15.
Wednesday and Sunday home games are not good for me. Had I known in advance I would have reconsidered season tickets. Now I will miss multiple games. Data may be off (correct me if wrong), but trend is something like this for reg season: 2012 3 Wed, 4 Sun 2011 1 Wed, 0 Sun 2010 4 Wed, 0 Sun 2009 1 Wed, 1 Sun 2008 0 Wed, 2 Sun
The first two weekends of June are FIFA dates, and then the 3rd weekend the Quakes are the odd idle team in the 19-team league. Euro 2012 begins June 8. I wouldn't expect there will be clubs actively touring for friendlies at that time.
Ok, so it looks like we play: Home twice: Chivas USA, LA, RSL, Dallas Away twice: Vancouver, Colorado, Portland, Seattle Not bad.
The problem is that's probably too early to get any of the European teams (they tend to come over during July for any preseason matches). I think two years ago when the league took a similar break for the World Cup, the Quakes scheduled a "friendly" against Chivas or someone like that. Wasn't that the game in Sacramento?
Hey one is better than none. I like this schedule. I can even combine my already planned trip to Emerald City ComicCon with the Seattle v Quakes away. Couldn't have worked out better.
Thank God that it's no more than that! Watching last year's game on Stanford's too short, too narrow playing field was absolutely painful. GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! -G
I was hoping that the first two games in April would've been on the road since I'll likely have to be out of town those two weekends. Nonetheless, at least I'll only have to miss one home game rather than two (as far as I know right now). Besides the aforementioned Stanford game that's scheduled to be broadcast on ESPN2, ESPN2 HD and ESPN Deportes, I was pleasantly surprised that one of the Quakes' three scheduled appearances on NBC Sports Network and NBC Sports Network HD will be at Buck Shaw Stadium, as I thought that perhaps they wouldn't have wanted to broadcast a game from our current minor-league quality facility. However, depending on how the current appeal goes, we may or may not have to worry about that come the 2013 MLS season. Hopefully either CSN Bay Area SD/HD or CSN California SD/HD chooses to broadcast the two games that are also currently scheduled on Galavisión, as DirecTV still doesn't carry Galavisión in 16:9 HD. Sadly, the Montreal Impact won't be visiting here this regular season. Hopefully they will next season. GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! -G
I understand your point, but that compensate with the amount of fans in the stands, I for one, will prefered 16 games at Stanford and one game at Buck Shaw then the way it is right now.
Considering the playing field sizes, I prefer that it stays the way it is now. Assuming that the current appeal doesn't succeed or at least doesn't cause a massive delay to The Epicenter's ground breaking, though, we hopefully won't have to worry about that next season. GO SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES!!! -G