And what league were the Dick Kerr Ladies in? They were barnstormers who drew between 4K and 50K. I don’t think there are totals for all their matches.
Here's your medians: WUSA 2001...6,322 2002...6,292 2003...5,983 WPS 2009...4,232 2010...3,348 2011...3,063 NWSL 2014...2,995 2015...3,367 2016...3,997 2017...3,576 All-time: WUSA....6,155 WPS......3,589 NWSL....3,470
Stupid closed leagues keeping the US Women down. If we had pro/rel, people would be rushing to invest in professional women's soccer and the knock-on improvements in player development would lead to us being one of the world powers, possibly even world champions.
Interesting little point of comparison: The attendance of the LigaMXFemenil final has been mentioned elsewhere on the boards around here, with impressive numbers exceeding anything NWSL has done - over 60k from the two legs. Dropped in the WorldSoccerMag's latest edition are some more numbers: New @WorldSoccerMag column looks at @NWSL creation of @UtahRoyals & @LH1505 arrival, plus success of @LIGAMXFemenil pic.twitter.com/ATyQwzfejK— Glenn Moore (@GlennMoore7) December 29, 2017 The four semifinal matches were relatively well-attended, totaling over 43k for an average of about 10k/match, so about what NWSL playoff matches get. (Worth noting that the 60k from the final's two legs included free tickets for women, so LMXF wasn't getting big gate from it, which might also have affected the seminfinals.) I'm most interested, though, in the fact that the season average is also stated, which i haven't seen anywhere else yet. A bit over 2,700/match, so definitely less than the NWSL average even if you exclude the outlier of Portland, though still well ahead of the FA WSL.
"Kansas move to Utah." Jesus. These people still think "Kansas City" means the club's name was "City" (they did this with the Wizards, too) and FCKC didn't move to Utah. Twits.
I think that title is less of a misinterpretation than just a journalistic norm of shortening names as much as possible while still being recognizable. I've seen it with SLC teams and OKC teams, too.
I do not believe that to be true. It may be true. I just don't believe it. Shortening "Kansas City" to "Kansas" makes zero sense. Z-E-R-O. If we had a team in Rapid City, South Dakota, would "Rapid" be an acceptable shorthand? (And don't get me started on the Tampa/Tampa Bay bullshit, either.) Lazy-ass haughty British ********s who just assume everything in the world goes by their goddamned conventions.
What's much worse than that is when Toronto journalists do it. Where the Blue Jays have been in the American League for 40 years, playing the Kansas City Royals every ********ing year. I've never once heard/read them refer to the Royals as "Kansas", but the Wizards and now Sporting get it all the time. Despite that these Canadian journalists can't claim some sort of geographic ignorance.
To add to the insult, the Kansas City FC played their matches in Kansas City, Missouri -- not Kansas. The Royals stadium is also in Missouri. To me the acceptable abbreviation is KC.....not "Kansas."
Kansas hasn't been "acceptable" since Kansas City was old Kansas town. When the trading community next to Westport named itself, one of the other choices was "Possum Trot". While KC is at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, the locals don't call the Kansas River by its official name. Locally, it is known as the Kaw River. "Kansas" is a state and a university. The only "Kansas" soccer team I'm aware of is the Jayhawks women's team. "City" is part of the name, not a description. You can refer to Leicester City as Leicester all you want, or "New York City" as "New York", but "Kansas City" is "Kansas City". references: - born/raised in Kansas City - attended University of Kansas
Another attendance comparison to add to the mix: this year's W-League http://equalizersoccer.com/2018/02/...grand-final-for-showdown-with-melbourne-city/