2017 Attendance

Discussion in 'NWSL' started by cpthomas, Mar 29, 2017.

  1. BlueCrimson

    BlueCrimson Member+

    North Carolina Courage
    United States
    Nov 21, 2012
    Cincinnati, Ohio
    Club:
    Sydney FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Still have 2 days to sell tickets. A sell-out may not happen, but it'll still be a fantastic number.
     
  2. AndyMead

    AndyMead Homo Sapien

    Nov 2, 1999
    Seat 12A
    Club:
    Sporting Kansas City
    I think NCFC/RailHawks only has one sell-out at the current capacity (one of the LigaMX friendlies)
     
  3. Cliveworshipper

    Cliveworshipper Member+

    Dec 3, 2006

    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.
     
  4. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The I Just Met Her League.
     
  5. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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
     
  6. AndyMead

    AndyMead Homo Sapien

    Nov 2, 1999
    Seat 12A
    Club:
    Sporting Kansas City
    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.
     
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  7. Cliveworshipper

    Cliveworshipper Member+

    Dec 3, 2006
    I wonder what the median the French league?
     
  8. SiberianThunderT

    Sep 21, 2008
    DC
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
    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:

    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.
     
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  9. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    "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.
     
  10. AndyMead

    AndyMead Homo Sapien

    Nov 2, 1999
    Seat 12A
    Club:
    Sporting Kansas City
    Utah Jayhawks?
     
  11. Cliveworshipper

    Cliveworshipper Member+

    Dec 3, 2006

    They are the same folks who think there is Jazz in Utah.
     
  12. SiberianThunderT

    Sep 21, 2008
    DC
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
    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.
     
  13. kenntomasch

    kenntomasch Member+

    Sep 2, 1999
    Out West
    Club:
    FC Tampa Bay Rowdies
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    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.
     
  14. AndyMead

    AndyMead Homo Sapien

    Nov 2, 1999
    Seat 12A
    Club:
    Sporting Kansas City
    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.
     
  15. Smallchief

    Smallchief Member+

    Oct 27, 2012
    Club:
    --other--
    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."
     
  16. AndyMead

    AndyMead Homo Sapien

    Nov 2, 1999
    Seat 12A
    Club:
    Sporting Kansas City
    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
     
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  17. SiberianThunderT

    Sep 21, 2008
    DC
    Club:
    Saint Louis Athletica
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
    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/
     

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