2015 USL Attendance Thread

Macsen · Sep 10, 2015

@ Montreal: 183
@ Charlotte: 1,874
@ Colorado Springs: 2,383

C. B. · Sep 13, 2015

Largest crowd of the season in OKC. 6,847

Salvadanish · Sep 13, 2015

5,892 at Providence Park.

Brother Badgerjohn · Sep 13, 2015

C. B. said: ↑

Largest crowd of the season in OKC. 6,847
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Which is doubly impressive on a night where the state's two major college football programs were playing, one in a home opener and the other in a rather ulcer-inducing comeback. In the recent past, Prodigal would be using those two events to excuse only 3,100 showing up to a Barons game.

Macsen · Sep 14, 2015

@ Seattle: 2,268

@ RMSLC: 7,705
@ Wilmington: 2,617
@ Harrisburg: 1,202
@ Charleston: 3,978
@ St. Louis: 5,661
@ Oklahoma City: 6,847
@ Portland: 5,892

@ Vancouver: 1,186

This is the last one! Keep going!

C. B. · Sep 14, 2015

Is there a place to view updated season averages? The past two OKC home games have been over 6,000. I'm curious what that did to our average, which was around 4000.

Macsen · Sep 14, 2015

C. B. said: ↑

Is there a place to view updated season averages? The past two OKC home games have been over 6,000. I'm curious what that did to our average, which was around 4000.
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@kenntomasch is the one who usually tallies that, but he doesn't until after the season is done. I'm not aware of anybody else having actually kept running tabs of the entire league.

Blando13 · Sep 14, 2015

Orlando Rays said: ↑

@kenntomasch is the one who usually tallies that, but he doesn't until after the season is done. I'm not aware of anybody else having actually kept running tabs of the entire league.
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http://www.kenn.com/the_blog/?p=7383
That was the last time Kenn had USL numbers updated.

After 10 games, OKC looked like this ...

Total AVG MED HIGH LOW
OKC Energy FC USL 10 43,750 4,375 4,337 6,797 3,133

Final 4 gates of 4337, 3872, 6089, 6847 put the total at 64,895 and average at 4635.

C. B. · Sep 14, 2015

Goyo Spradlin on the USL facebook page updates these graphs each week.

Macsen · Sep 18, 2015

@ Montreal: 141
@ Pittsburgh: 2,499
@ Richmond: 3,923
@ Arizona: 2,877
@ Los Dos: 1,817

@ Seattle: 2,207

Macsen · Sep 20, 2015

@ Wilmington: 3,243
@ Harrisburg: 2,388
@ Charleston: 4,543
@ Rochester: 4,672
@ St. Louis: 5,662
@ Colorado Springs: 3,823
@ Sacramento: 11,442

Prosoccercdn · Sep 20, 2015

1758 @ Vancouver to finish off the season.

WCFCII averages 1682 for the season, best out of the 3 Canadian MLS farm teams in Usl, not bad.
FC Montreal averaging a pitifull 313 for the year and TFCII not much better at 445 per game.

Lancaster FC · Sep 21, 2015

Orlando Rays said: ↑

@ Wilmington: 3,243
@ Harrisburg: 2,388
@ Charleston: 4,543
@ Rochester: 4,672
@ St. Louis: 5,662
@ Colorado Springs: 3,823
@ Sacramento: 11,442
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i'm not sure what the deal is with all your emoji's but some of those number are actually good for those teams.

Knave · Sep 22, 2015

USL Attendance, Sacremento Republic's LOW this season 10,906, TFC II 50. Ya id say they have a market pic.twitter.com/KGlqjO9yFE
— Brendan Murphy (@mrbrendanmurphy) September 22, 2015

Macsen · Sep 23, 2015

Lancaster FC said: ↑

i'm not sure what the deal is with all your emoji's but some of those number are actually good for those teams.
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The snore was never to suggest "bad" attendance. And in case you didn't notice, in the past couple weeks I've used them to signify final regular season games.

@ Vancouver: 1,758

@ OC: 3,000

@ Rochester: 5,612

Macsen · Sep 27, 2015

@ Colorado Springs: 2,532

@ NYRB2: 915
@ Charleston: 3,427
@ Sacramento: 11,442

Macsen · Oct 4, 2015

@ Rochester: 6,378
@ Louisville: 8,512
@ OC: 2,047

@ OKC: 6,370

Macsen · Oct 13, 2015

Sidetracked.

@ Rochester: 5,561

@ OKC: 7,654

I just noticed this: the normal attendance for Sacramento (11,442) and the normal attendance for Portland (21,144) are anagrams.

C. B. · Oct 13, 2015

Will the two OKC playoff games be factored into the yearly average?
6,370 & 7,654 should help increase the average.

Prosoccercdn · Oct 13, 2015

2015 USL Final Average Attendance Numbers

Team....................................Average

Sacramento..........................11,323
Louiville..................................6765
Rochester................................5570
St Louis...................................4885
Tulsa.......................................4714
Salt Lake.................................4698
OKC........................................4635
Charleston..............................4080
Richmond..............................3747
Arizona...................................3304
Austin.....................................3227
Portland2................................3122
Wilmington............................2960
Colorado.................................2723
Pittsburg.................................2630
Harrisburg..............................2590
Seattle2...................................2221
Charlotte.................................1800
Vancouver2.............................1682
Orange County.......................1398
LA2............................................969
NYRBII....................................595
TorontoII.................................479
FC Montreal.............................313

USL League average per game was 3369 (up 9% from last years 3094 average per game).

*Numbers taken from Kenn's site, for a more in depth analysis and his notes :

http://www.kenn.com/the_blog/?p=7491

mangerson · Oct 13, 2015

Prosoccercdn said: ↑

2015 USL Final Average Attendance Numbers

Team....................................Average

Sacramento..........................11,323
Louiville..................................6765
Rochester................................5570
St Louis...................................4885
Tulsa.......................................4714
Salt Lake.................................4698
OKC........................................4635
Charleston..............................4080
Richmond..............................3747
Arizona...................................3304
Austin.....................................3227
Portland2................................3122
Wilmington............................2960
Colorado.................................2723
Pittsburg.................................2630
Harrisburg..............................2590
Seattle2...................................2221
Charlotte.................................1800
Vancouver2.............................1682
Orange County.......................1398
LA2............................................969
NYRBII....................................595
TorontoII.................................479
FC Montreal.............................313

USL League average per game was 3369 (up 9% from last years 3094 average per game).

*Numbers taken from Kenn's site, for a more in depth analysis and his notes :

http://www.kenn.com/the_blog/?p=7491
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That's quite good, considering the loss of Orlando and the new 2's drug the avg down.

Macsen · Oct 13, 2015

The average without the twos last year was 3,307.

This year, it was 4,154.

OC Blues nearly doubled its average, and that was largely carried by some impressive late numbers. There might actually be some hope for them finally.

Harrisburg had its best year ever by far. (Keep in mind, 2014 was their best year.)

The only team that didn't go up was Pittsburgh, and they didn't go down much (less than 100 per).

Overall, not a bad year at all.

Oh, BTW...

mangerson said: ↑

That's quite good, considering the loss of Orlando and the new 2's drug the avg down.
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Keep in mind, you really lost Orlando after 2013 in terms of attendance. Having to suffer WWOS in 2014 did that.

C. B. · Oct 14, 2015

Thanks for all the data. Great info.

If the 2 OKC playoff games are averaged in, our total jumps to 4932, bumping us into the top 4.
Looking forward to next year!

SoccerPrime · Oct 16, 2015

I wonder if USL final attendance will beat NPSL final attendance of 18k. What's Sahlen Stadium's capacity? 15k? So maybe not. Does Rochester care?

mng146 · Oct 16, 2015

SoccerPrime said: ↑

What's Sahlen Stadium's capacity? 15k?
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Slightly under 14k officially

Does Rochester care?
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To some extent, but nowhere near as much it used to. Feeling betrayed after being fed the MLS dream by original owners who didn't have the financial means to pull it off, and the subsequent drop to D3, an awful lot of fans left and haven't returned since. This isn't the proper thread to go off on a tangent of that whole situation again, but below is a very good local article that covers portions of that subject for anyone interested:

http://www.democratandchronicle.com.../roth-coo-ercoli-is-chief-of-optism/74012210/

Late season playoff matches have generally been a tough sell in Rochester, and the weather forecast for this one isn't good (temps in the 40's and a good chance of rain). I'd expect announced 'tickets distributed' to be considerably higher than actual attendance.

FVI; In addtion to the USL Youtube channel, ESPN3 is also streaming the match.