Current ticket sales for @WashSpirit’s second visit to Audi Field this Saturday:14,500#nwsl— Steven Goff (@SoccerInsider) September 11, 2019
What is amazing about the Washington Spirit is that they have, if not the highest ticket prices of any team in the league, they must at least be pretty close to it. In spite of the prices, they have been able to pack them in for two games. when the final totals come in for the season, those two games will represent half of their total attendance for the season. Got to wonder if they go all in for next season and play all their games there.
Nah. They'll come here to Big Soccer and see all the people talking gloom-and-doom so why bother? Our side has won the argument that needed to be won. It's settled doctrine and we need to treat it as settled doctrine. Sure, there can be dips again in attendance. Sure there can be attrition after a post-World Cup bump. But there is a sustainable audience for women's soccer and a potential for growth which can always be rekindled every World Cup/Olympics cycle or two. Women's soccer, like several other women's sports, is here to stay and we should treat it as such. Unless our secret objective really is to put down women's sports.
Well, us DCites might not notice as much since the cost of living is so damn high here anyway. X'-D I know the guy who's helped run United Night Out (DCU's Pride night) since its inception, and at the previous Spirit@Audi game, he hinted that something big could be in the works that would have the Spirit playing there way more often. Although he didn't say it directly, it almost sounded like DCU might get directly involved with the Spirit - which at least sounded plausible to me, since Steve Goff reported that DCU was interested back when news of potentially new ownership for the Spirit was starting up last winter - but when he said that, all I could think of was "c'mon man, don't tease!"
Actually that is one of the things I was wondering about, some sort of partnership could be in the works. With the kind of drawing for those two games, it should generate even more interest on the part of DC United.
Yes, the Timbers and Thorns did it, for one, and afterwards said they would prefer not to do it again. It's a logistical nightmare.
Tonight's attendance - 17,418 members of the #SpiritNation!#WASvRFC // #CatchTheSpirit pic.twitter.com/SvDhiJasze— Washington Spirit (@WashSpirit) September 15, 2019
Melikes the ever-continued high interest! Now to just get some season-ending sellouts. NJ already has one of theirs sold out, and I'd expect DC, SEA, and POR to do so too. NC maybe.
If the "off" games are still above 2.5k and the "on" games are around 5k, (which would be a sellout for NJ or DC,) I think that's a fairly good place to be for an independent team (including CHI) - especially if you get the occasional "marquee" game at 8k+.
Let’s hear it for the ⚽️ players of the @NWSL 🙌. To show our support, we're leveling the playing field and driving equal visibility by purchasing 9,000 tickets to nine NWSL games this season. #AllStrengthNoSweat pic.twitter.com/q6ZisAif5G— Secret Deodorant (@SecretDeodorant) September 16, 2019
Hmm... I guess they're buying them and then giving them away? Odd tactic... Nice for the teams to get ticket money but that's not a huge incentive for people to use said tickets. I'd prefer just an outright sponsorship
Yeah, I think the latter would be vastly more effective. When you make the cost of a good or service nil, it tends to get valued by the consumers accordingly, which ends up being bad in the medium-to-long term. Human nature is persistent.
I guess 2 games at RBA in the same day *is* possible: 🚨 BIG NEWS 🚨 SBFC TO RED BULL ARENA 2.O 📰 | https://t.co/z5GvTPSff0#SBFC pic.twitter.com/skwbzLdgRk— NJ/NY Gotham FC (@GothamFC) September 16, 2019 Sky Blue FC Moves Sept. 29 Home Finale to Red Bull Arena Due to Increased Ticket Demand 11 am start.
The 11am start time does suck though. They should make a deal with anyone with a ticket to the Red Bulls game later that evening ($5?).
What a horribly worded advertisement. I seriously doubt Secret is buying 81,000 tickets, but that's how it is worded. They're buying 1,000 tickets to 9 NWSL games. Which in normal parlance is called sponsorship. But hey, marketing gonna do marketing. Right?