2015 USL Attendance Thread

3,273 tonight in Tulsa according to the match recap on the club's website.

 

Maybe they don't quite have their new software entirely synced up with their website. I see an attendance on the Charleston - TII box score, 4536

 

Shit, I did not even know the season started already.

 

Crowd looked decent in Montreal, sparse in Red Bull Arena, and good in Louisville

 

Outstanding & vocal crowd in Tulsa tonight, 8,335. The rivalry is on...

The Youtube feed was off; audio feed & picture clear.

 

Aztex attendance was 4105

 

Good numbers so far !

 

Their standard for reporting game stats as related to attendance seems to have gotten worse most definately.

Still no stats for the NYRBII game which looked poorly attended and Montreal Impact FC's farm team game in the big O as well.

Excellent turnouts in Tulsa & Louiville, only the first games there but looking positive for them to start.

 

1,873 in Orange County, according to their Facebook.

 

3,667 for Timbers2

 

1,100 in Pittsburgh. No one wants to come out and watch soccer in the cold.

 

I'm tellin' ya, this thread does NOT show up in my listing of threads, else I'd have just come here instead of starting a new thread. Apologies.

Cross-posted and you can go ahead and whack the other one:

USL attendance is apparently going to be harder to get this year, at least initially, because the revamp of the website has resulted in that information being harder to find on game-by-game basis. They claim the numbers are on the official box scores, but not every game appears to have a box score that has an actual attendance number. Hopefully it's something they get corrected.

At this moment, I have numbers for eleven of the first fifteen matches, and some of the missing ones are from MLS2 teams (which we're not overly concerned with to begin with, but which are nice to have). Pittsburgh is notoriously unreliable, but Wilmington has usually been good over the years, and I haven't found their number from Saturday yet.

But here's what I have so far (some of you have already uncovered some I didn't have, so, thanks):

Saturday, 3/21
Toronto FC II at Charleston (4,536)
Sacramento at Seattle 2 (2,951)

Sunday, 3/22
Real Monarchs at LA Galaxy II (1,000)

Friday, 3/27
Charleston at Charlotte (2,241)

Saturday, 3/28
Toronto II at Montreal (N/A)
Rochester at NYRB II (N/A)
Saint Louis at Louisville (6,067)
Harrisburg at Pittsburgh (1,100)
Richmond at Wilmington (N/A)
OKC at Tulsa (8,335)
Colorado Springs at Austin (4,105)
Arizona at Orange County (1,873)
Sacramento at LA Galaxy II (N/A)

Sunday, 3/29
Vancouver 2 at Seattle 2 (2,407)
Real Monarchs at Portland 2 (3,667)

Very promising starts in Tulsa and Louisville. Austin looks like they'll be fine, though they host Vancouver Wednesday, so let's see how that goes. That Orange County number is likely....well, it would be uncharacteristic, let's put it that way.

And, again, for the uninitiated, why do we do this? The announced numbers give us one glimpse into the general health of clubs for which financial information is not forthcoming. The numbers are subject to a certain level of caution, as we do not get drop counts or revenue figures and there is always someone who says "I was there and there weren't that many people there" (which is one level of skepticism) or "I watched online and there weren't that many people there (which is a whole 'nother level and please, don't be That Guy).

Given the failure rate of lower level clubs over time (well over 70%) and the stated intentions of USL to apply for D2 status later this year, regular, rational discussion of how well clubs are able to draw has a place in the overall fabric of our understanding of how the game works in this country. You can read or not read, contribute or not contribute, but just understand why we do it.