2009 MLS Attendance Analysis: Week 28

Discussion in 'MLS: News & Analysis' started by Andy_B, Sep 22, 2009.

  1. soccermaul

    soccermaul Red Card

    May 28, 2009
    On the Bus..
    Club:
    --other--
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    1500
     
  2. athletics68

    athletics68 Member+

    Dec 12, 2006
    San Diego & San Jose
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Seriously??!!
     
  3. ne plus ultra

    ne plus ultra Member

    Jul 9, 2000
    You may be right. I'd guess the other way, but I don't really know.

    Chicago Red Stars seem to have drawn about 50,000 fans to 11 games (two have no listed attendance at their website, and I didn't bother to add the other nine - I just note that the low was 3,600, the high 5,200, and if the median was about 4,500, that'd be 50,000 or so.)

    If you figure even 1 in 5 was a girl with dad or with mom who chose this instead of a Fire game as their once/summer pro soccer game, that's 10,000, which would be about 600 averaged across our 16 home games (or do we have 15 now?)

    I don't think that number is so high that it's unbeliebable. On the other hand, I don't know if the real total would be that high. I can certainly say there were teams of 7 or 8 year old girls in attendance at Fire games in previous years, and it'd be surprising to me if they DIDN'T decide to go to a Red Star game instead.
     
  4. Golazo

    Golazo Member+

    Apr 15, 1999
    Decatur, GA USA
    Comically, if one calls the FO and asks for the number, the very nice young woman will "go check for you," come back and say "11,000". If one then pauses to process that little gem and replies with "Even?" she will cheerfully say "mm-hmmm."
     
  5. athletics68

    athletics68 Member+

    Dec 12, 2006
    San Diego & San Jose
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Maybe they'll release the number after this Wed's game?
     
  6. gafferRSL

    gafferRSL Member

    Jun 24, 2007
    Idaho
    Club:
    Real Salt Lake
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I found this number in a press release [FONT=&quot]

    A — 8,623[/FONT]
     
  7. Tyneside4life

    Tyneside4life Member

    Jul 18, 2007
    Cleveland, OH
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I think they were waiting to announce the attendance added with this Wednesday's game to call it a triple-header.
     
  8. athletics68

    athletics68 Member+

    Dec 12, 2006
    San Diego & San Jose
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    If that's the real number seems they were being generous.
     
  9. soccermaul

    soccermaul Red Card

    May 28, 2009
    On the Bus..
    Club:
    --other--
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I meant to say 150000 since 1996.
     
  10. brentgoulet

    brentgoulet Member+

    Oct 12, 2005
    PuertoPlata, DomRep
    Which kind of crowd can we expect for that double header in the Cotton bowl?

    30 K?, 40 K?, 50 K?
     
  11. Andy_B

    Andy_B Member+

    Feb 2, 1999
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    probably close enough for me to crank out some numbers for this week. Thank you.
     
  12. Andy_B

    Andy_B Member+

    Feb 2, 1999
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I just did some math and MLSnet.com is calculating the Dallas game at an attendance level of 0, so their numbers are going to be lower than mine which will be using the number listed earlier in the thread.
     

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