How many midweek home games did each team have? In San Jose we had only two, which seems less than typical.
I guess along with the midweek games affecting the attendances over the rest of the season we also have to take into account the seasonal weather, which has hit the east coast hard tonight.
Meanwhile EFL League Two has gone crazy. I remember the 70s and 80s when few D4 teams averaged more than 2,500. 1 Bradford City 17,519 2 Notts County 10,905 3 Wrexham 10,190 4 Stockport County 8,862 5 Swindon Town 8,800 6 AFC Wimbledon 7,822 7 Tranmere Rovers 7,610 8 Mansfield Town 7,357 9 Doncaster Rovers 7,177 10 Milton Keynes Dons 6,656
When I first saw a weekly highlight show about the Premier League (1995), the Bradford City Bantams were in the top flight. So were Wimbledon, but this edition is a different outfit, as Wimbledon's owners decided to move the team to Milton Keynes.
They already are pushing the bounds of what they can realistically play in winter, and there are also agreements with the players union regarding the length of time off in the offseason.
Weekend MLS attendance (Sept. 23-24) Philadelphia (vs. Los Angeles FC) 18,738 DC United (vs. New York Red Bulls) 12,591 Cincinnati (vs. Charlotte) 25.513 Atlanta (vs. Montreal) 42,569 Chicago (vs. New England) 20,129 Minnesota (vs. St. Louis) 19,197 Kansas City (vs. Houston) 18,033 Dallas (vs. Columbus) 17,948 Salt Lake City (vs. Vancouver) 19,243 San Jose (vs. Nashville) 16,728 Portland (vs. Colorado) 22,248 New York City (vs. Toronto) Not Reported Orlando (vs. Miami) 25,527 Austin (vs. Los Angeles Galaxy) 20,738 Total Attendance (13 matches): 279,202 Average: 21,477
Wow they were going to play the last match of the season at Red Bull? That's usually a well attended one for most teams.
Updated with the week end, sans NYC/TFC, reporting. 279,202 puts total attendance at 9,444,271. Average at 21,912. https://soccerstadiumdigest.com/2023-mls-attendance/ 62 matches left, including the aforementioned NYC match. We need 1,401,729 from those matches. 22,609 per. 2 midweek matches this week. One in Colorado. Plus the NYC unreported will be horrific. Sea & Clt away and no match for ATL. Miami at home. Probably another slightly subpar week.
Or, the Fire play Miami in a 1,401,729 seat stadium and we hit our mark! The latest articles: Lionel Messi Drives MLS Record Ticket Revenue for Chicago Fire https://sports.yahoo.com/lionel-mes...r_PtgegxReMlcJ9Q3778ATF33bDqKskH&guccounter=2 And there is this piece of journalistic diarrhea (fortunately it is paywalled, so you all don't have to read it, but it is basically the same article only as the above one, but with some idiocy tossed in for bad measure) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...e-turns-to-messi-to-boost-stagnant-soccer-bet Chicago Billionaire Turns to Messi to Boost Soccer Bet Owning a Major League Soccer franchise is not a "bet." Fire owner Joe Mansueto did not "turn to" Messi or anyone. The Fire suck, their attendance sucks. Those are definite facts. That the "Messi match" drops into our laps during our worst run of form in years (and for as bad as the Fire have been the last decade plus, that is really saying something), the Fire have done everything in their power to leverage the match. Short of "turning to" Messi to "boost" a "bet," the Fire have taken full advantage of something frankly we don't deserve and turned it into a positive.
I was pleasantly surprised by the 15,931 in Colorado moreso by 37,701 at Gillette and 20,347 in New Jersey.
NER 37,701 NSH 28,291 TOR 24,658 LAG 23,101 STL 22,423 CLB 20,456 NYR 20,347 MIA 20,135 MIN 19,645 ORL 19,637 VAN 19,442 HOU 18,175 COL 15,931 BAU at LAFC tonight should take us to a 22,282 average for the weekend and 21,407 for the week.
Factoring in the 2 Wednesday matches this week: Philadelphia (vs. Dallas) 18,515 Colorado (vs. Vancouver) 12,064