Here are my early predictions: 1) Indy - 9,700 2) Minnesota - 9,200 3) Jacksonville - 8,200 4) Tampa - 5,800 5) New York - 5,300 6) Ottawa - 4,700 7) Carolina - 4,400 8) Ft. Lauderdale - 4,300 9) Miami - 2,800 10) Edmonton - 2,600 11) OKC - 2,400
Saturday CAROLINA RAILHAWKS - MINNESOTA UNITED FC FORT LAUDERDALE STRIKERS - MIAMI FC TAMPA BAY ROWDIES - INDY ELEVEN RAYO OKC - EDMONTON Sunday NY COSMOS - OTTAWA FURY FC
With the kind of investment Miami and OKC have made I really hope they get closer to 5k, it would be positive for the entire league.
My guesses: 1) Indy - 9900 2) MNU - 9100 3) Jacksonville - 7500 4) Tampa Bay - 5900 5) Ottawa - 5100 6) NYC - 4800 7) Carolina -4600 8) Ft. Lauderdale - 4100 9) Edmonton - 3600 10) OKC - 3500 11) Miami - 3100 I want OKC and Miami to outdraw Edmonton, but I feel they'll have growing pains. Edmonton is also doing a much better job of marketing the team this year compared to the past. Also by not scheduling anything at Fort Mac, their attendance should be above 3200 or about what the averaged at Clarke stadium.
I'm not to sure they will. I've yet to hear or see any kind of support for either team. So I guess we'll see.
If capacity allows MNU will lead the league IMO. The anticipation for MLS will have people jumping on the bandwagon early.
1My take: 1) Indy - 9900 2) MNU - 9300 3) Carolina -8500 4) NYC - 8000 5) Jacksonville - 7500 6) Tampa Bay - 7000 7) Ottawa - 5100 8) Ft. Lauderdale - 5100 9) OKC - 5000 10) Miami - 5000 11) Edmonton - 4000 Based on the off season activity across the league I'm leaning to the glass being half full for the new season.
I will say this, rayo oks seems to be doing everything right so far, my opinion is rayo on paper are a much better club than the engery,.so we'll have to see if they can put butts in the seats
I would second this sentiment, except we've never seen the attendance battle/war over one market between NASL vs USL yet. To call a spring attendance so high might be a bit preemptive. I am more cautious for spring numbers at this point. Once, and if, Rayo OKC starts performing well, it should bring more people in with proper marketing.
Predicting the Rowdies average at 7000 would basically be saying they're going to sell out the majority of their games. I don't see that happening unless we dominate and build some crazy hype. Would be happy with anything around 6000+. Averaged 5649 last year.
I would agree, I'm thinking more like 6000-6500 range, especially in July and August heat in st. Pete is brutal, the attendance always dips a bit during those months
According to Ticketmaster there are plenty of tickets in a couple of the fancy midfield sections and some of the upper sections in the original stadium. General admission also reporting some availability. If it already sold out it would have been announced already. I could see it filling with walk ups though. Definitely more seats claimed than usual.
meh, on any given mid-season match that's decent, but not for an opening game. Opening game is where you generate a lot of buzz in hopes that people will come back, or even grab season tickets. You sell huge for your opening match, no exceptions. IMO, very disappointing number.