2015 USL Attendance Thread

i know some charlotte fans went down to Charleston because you could hear them singing on the webcast...that should turn out to be a very good rivalry.

 

There were 3-4k at the OKC/Tulsa 3rd round match last night. No offical tally that I can find but similiar crowd for when we played St. Louis.

 

@ Tulsa (Open Cup vs OKC Energy) 2,584
Last year's NPSL Tulsa Athletics vs OKC Energy 2014 open cup game drew a crowd of 3,834.

 

I'm not sure you want to open the floodgates on comparing any attendance figures between the Roughnecks and Athletics.

 

I think the attendance floodgates would've opened had Tulsa played an NASL home opener against the NY Cosmos at Chapman Stadium rather than the Energy at ONEOK. I see the Roughnecks didn't publish attendance for the open cup game against Seacoast at TU... unsurprising.



If a professional USL team with a relatively huge advertising budget in its first season at a state of the art downtown baseball park can't outdraw the amateur NPSL club playing down the street, then you're doing it all wrong.

I went to the TU-Virginia soccer game last fall; it drew 2,200.
Roughnecks vs. Seacoast?... not so much.
On a positive note, it'll be interesting to see if Tulsa tops the ratings for today's FA Cup Final on Fox like we did last year... http://www.socceramerica.com/article/58225/english-fa-cup-audience-up-13-percent-on-fox.html

 

The US Open Cup did not draw that well. There was not a lot of a marketing push for it. All of the efforts were going towards tonight. If we do under 5k then I'll be surprised.

 

Their both playing at home tonight I think, will be interesting to see the numbers although NPSL didn't publish any for the Athletics last match and nothing from the team so maybe no numbers from them for this game as well.

 

Their attendance has dropped significantly.

 

5755 in Tulsa tomight.

 

http://riverhounds.com/newsstory/hounds-beat-harrisburg-in-clubs-greatest-ever-game/

The hounds report 1938 for attendance. It seems like they usually release the ticket sale attendance number a few days later.

 

Was going to post the Sac number but you beat me to it!

Damn, good job Louisville!

I think these numbers continue to show the independent/affiliate teams generate more interest than the "MLS 2" teams. Not that the gap is there in terms of performance on the field, but seeing basically a reserve team of your major league team in town is not a big draw. A few hundred people to a game is pathetic.

 

Have you been to any of our games this season?

 

4,478 @ Rochester. Very light for them.

 

Nope.

 

This is a season USL attendance thread but you just can't help yourself trying to give the Athletics a plug. Unless your lower division team starts pulling the numbers the Roughnecks are this season then you're wasting our time once again.

Feel free to post the attendance at the Athletics last night if you want to compare it to the 5755 that were at Oneok.

 

I thought a comparison of this year's US Open Cup attendance at ONEOK against the OKC Energy to last year's US Open Cup attendance at Tulsa Athletics Stadium against the Energy was apt and on topic.

As a fan who's gone to most of the new Roughnecks games this year and also has season tix to the NPSL Athletics, I'll continue to provide insight and local perspective when I feel it's warranted.

 

I think it is more of a situation where the independent teams actually have an incentive to properly market their clubs.. For the MLS clubs, if they are going to spend their marketing dollars on a team, they are going to spend it on the parent club.

 

Vancouver : 1502

 

Meh, it's not so much marketing as what's already in that market. OKC doesn't have any pro soccer in town so people come out in the thousands to see them. LA Galaxy II play in the same location as "the" Galaxy. No amount of marketing is going to get people to come out to go watch the reserves/kids when they have the "real thing" already in town. Especially a situation where the stadium is not in a good location for most people to take advantage of. Think of any other professional sport in America. Would the Reno Bighorns do better if instead they were the "Sacramento Kings II" and located in Sacramento? Probably not. Would the Sacramento Rivercats pull as much if they were "San Francisco Giants II" and played in SF? Probably not. Again, I think this is one of those soccer issues where organizations are trying to fit the European model round peg into the American square hole. It might be better to not have the "MLS 2" teams set up in the league like currently.

 

OKC : 4291

 

Attendance is not the barometer of success for MLS 2 teams. It stuns me how many people simply don't understand that.

It's not a "European" thing trying to force it's way into the US farm team setup. It's a "we want keep development under one roof right" which is a priority over "we want to potentially turn a tiny profit in exchange for having to setup an entire other wing of our company, including marketing this new part of our company, restricting our access to our developing assets and have our employes relocate back and forth between metro areas". The Galaxy doesn't care at all about attendance. S2 and T2 get overflow from a rabid fanbase but I guarantee you that S2 and T2 wouldn't be moving to Spokane or Eugene if they weren't getting decent attendances. All MLS teams thus far have opted to stay in the metro area, and RSL certainly explored putting a team in SD. That says a lot about how MLS teams view things, even after watching Los Dos struggle at the gate last year.