No official number announced yet but according to a Calgary newspaper there were around 250 people at their game last night against Portland in Calgary. This is getting sad!
Thanks for starting a new thread. I forgot that the Calgary-Portland game was the first of week 5. I certainly hope that more fans in Calgary will show up as the season continues.
a-lleague attendence a-league should go by attendence rochester montreal toronto syracuse charleston richmond minnesota milwaukee vancouver seattle portland el paso or indiana make 2 divisions rochester montreal syracuse toronto or pittsburgh charleston richmond minnesota milwaukee vancouver seattle portland el paso or indiana makes for more rivals 28 matches or even 30 play own division 2 home 2 away play other division 1 home 1 away put all other teams in a-league in a division 2 until they can bring attendence up
Re: a-lleague attendence How does El Paso, Indiana, Richmond and Toronto get lumped in with teams that can actually draw fans? Certainly they aren't showing it this year. I'll be interested in seeing what Milwaukee will draw this year considering their A-League team hasn't even got a website up the last time I checked.
to krammerhead i put toronto and indiana because of there average attendence thru the years every time i go to toronto they have at lest 3500 to 4000 people and went to indiana last year they hd a crowd of about 5000 so its there if promoted el paso used to have a good fan base if rochester goes to mls like rumored a league needs a city or cities to pick up attendce and these are the ones tht can do it with some help with media nd office personnal promoting soccer
Re: to krammerhead You must be counting Toronto's numbers wrong then. According to their own supporters attendance numbers were exaggerated last season, even then the official average attendance last year was 1730. Hard for them to get 3500-4000 considering their stadium only has 2200 seats. I also dismiss Toronto as they have to resort to school day games to bring their attendance up each year. (you know they bus school kids in for a captive audience for noon weekaday games). El Paso has only averaged 1000 fans per game in two games this season so things aren't looking good for them. Indiana averaged 2173 last season, and only managed a crowd of 3900 for their season opener this season after letting everyone into the game for free!
attendence well it really wont matter to rhinofans wht the a league draws we will be mls bound in 2005
Was it above 0c? ;-) What kind of funds is Calgary's owner willing to put in this club to establish it?
Re: Re: A-League attendance week 5. Those are good questions. For the weather part the people in Calgary should be used to cold weather. I understand that the team has done very little to promote the games, and I'm not sure if they have much funds to start off with. It's really odd that Calgary schedule so many home games in May. They had the same problem with weather last seson as well. Oddly enough, Calgary only has 2 home games scheduled in July-one on the first of the month and one on the last day of the month. If anybody had thought about such things as the weather they'd have had less home games in May and more in July. Oh, and just looking at their schedule I see that they have a home game against El Paso this Saturday. The Saturday forecast for Calgary calls for rain/snow.
to prk166 when mls expands roch will be there the owners aren't building a 17000-20000 soccer only stadium for the a league the owners vision since day one has been to get an mls franchise by expansion or by another team moving here also lamar hunt is friends with our owners i m sure he will have some say in helping roch getting franchise we have everything here great fan base 5500 season ticketholders tht 2/3 of the seats are lousy for soccer media support radio talk shows just about soccer a tv show just about soccer with new stadium season tickets will be up to 7500 or more
They've been talking about the A-1/A-2 split for years, and I don't see it happening. Even if it does, Indiana ain't gonna be A-1, folks, because despite the game against the Rhinos last year (where they announced 4k+, not 5), which they engineered specifically so they'd look good on TV, they're a D3 outfit.
Re: Re: Re: A-League attendance week 5. This is Alberta K-Head. The weather has a mind of it's own. It can be clear, sunny, and warm one day with a 2 feet of snow and cold temperatures the following day.
Re: Re: Re: Re: A-League attendance week 5. Use some common sense Doyle. The chances of it snowing in JULY in Calgary is virtually nil. Thats the point I was trying to make, if they played all of their May games on the road and played more home games in July then they'd avoid all of these early season weather problems. Then they wouldn't be able to use the weather as an excuse for poor crowds early on in the season. You have to learn from past mistakes. Last seasons early May games in Calgary had crowds worse than they had Monday night, due to the bad weather. If the weather at that time of the year has a mind of it's own then you schedule games for when the weathers good. Don't tell me the weather sucks in Calgary in July and August, I've never seen the Stampeders play in the snow in June!
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A-League attendance week 5. It does snow in June on occasion in Alberta. The rain is also unpredictable in summer. Teams don't have luxury to set games at points in the seaon. All the games are arranged by mutual agreement.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A-League attendance week 5. Sorry, I meant July. However I've never seen the weather badly affect either of the Albertan teams in the CFL, the weather didn't harshly affect either Albertan team in the NASL. I'm quite aware how the league schedule their games. However you can't tell me that they couldn't have arranged those games to be played in July in the first place, if the people working out the schedule had have thought about the weather. (Minnesota always starts out on the road to start the season for this reason). In fact Calgary have re-scheduled the season opener that was cancelled for July. Would have saved a lot of trouble if they had scheduled it then in the first place.
'School Day' They have done this the past few years. It helps raise their overall attendance for the year. I believe they will have 6,000 people at the game. However, if I was a season ticket holder I would be upset about the noon game. Most people work during the weekdays and wouldn't be able to attend the game.
I will be very surprised if Portland gets more than 2K for tonight's game. Silly night to have a game (Weds) plus absolutely zero promotion (nothing new here but at least Fans are used to looking for Thirsty Thursday's or Friday night matches). That said, we still need to go out and kick some Canuck booty!