I've noticed that over the past few years, traveling fans are becoming more and more common in this league...in big numbers too. Thought it would be a good idea to have an away fan tracker (unofficial of course) to see the type of traveling numbers for regular league matches in addition to the rivalry games. Just some off of the top of my head: NY @ MTL (5/19): 100 NY @ DC (4/22): 210
SKC @ Van/Por (4/18,21): ~60-80 (Someone help me out here) SKC @ Chi (5/12): ~500 SKC @ Col (5/19): ~100
I think Colorado brought around 100-150 to the first RMC game. It was a weekday match so they didn't bring nearly as much as usual
ECS and SSFC averaged 72 for every ssfc game last season inclusing CCL/USOC. Only match we did not attend was Monterrey away. The highs are the cascadia matches which SSFC and ECS bring easily 1000-1500 fans to each.
If people used pic thread to post pics from their [away] games there wouldn't be question about numbers
Union at NYRB in October 2011 - 2000+ Union at DCU in July 2011 - 1500+ Sure to be higher numbers this year!
Does anyone have the numbers for the past few years on who is the most-attended away team? Im not talking about SG's, but total attendance. What team draws more fans when they show up? Is it still LAG?
If it's not LA it's New York, but other then that I don't think any team really moves the needle a whole lot.
Was last year. Los Angeles Galaxy......22,721 New York Red Bulls......21,675 San Jose Earthquakes....18,981 Columbus Crew...........18,824 Chicago Fire............18,688 Philadelphia Union......17,892 New England Revolution..17,656 Chivas USA..............17,461 FC Dallas...............17,451 Portland Timbers........17,432 Real Salt Lake..........17,204 DC United...............17,010 Sporting Kansas City....16,967 Seattle Sounders........16,866 Colorado Rapids.........16,663 Houston Dynamo..........16,116 Vancouver Whitecaps.....16,113 Toronto FC..............15,979 There's less of a spread between teams when it comes to road attendance, because (usually) the visiting team isn't a dominant factor in the equation the way date, weather, form, promotions and other things are. When you have a situation where everybody goes to every other city exactly once, it's a slightly more reasonable number than in an unbalanced situation. If you go to Seattle twice and San Jose only once in a season, for instance, the numbers are going to be skewed a bit. But generally, yeah, not a big surprise that LA and NY (with the star players) would be near the top. But San Jose and Columbus? Some of this is random, or more influenced by factors other than the actual identity of the visiting team.
Well San Jose near the top makes a little bit of sense because they play no away games at Buck Shaw Stadium.
Its too bad CC and FCD cant draw as well at home as they do on the road. They average 13,2 and 13, 1 respectively at home
The away fan attendance table is highly influenced by who has good attendance at home. Toronto, Vancouver and Seattle are in the bottom 5 and all three have attendance near 20,000 and up. They don't receive the numbers boost of playing away games at their venues. A team like LA has good attendance, however they also have marquee players so their away numbers receive a boost from that.
San Jose drew 60k in Seattle last year, bolstered by the crowd for Kasey Keller's send-off. That would have skewed the stats by roughly 1500 per game over the life of a 17 game away season, assuming the usual crowd in Seattle is 35k.