mls cup attendance?

Discussion in 'MLS: News & Analysis' started by brittkamp, Nov 12, 2004.

  1. brittkamp

    brittkamp Member

    Nov 22, 2003
    Connecticut
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I was wondering if anyone knew if the Home Depot Center is going to sell out?
    It would be a disaster to have empty seats on tv in a park that holds only 27,000 people. I still see ads on mlsnet to buy tickets and it is Friday.
     
  2. Wallydrag

    Wallydrag BigSoccer Supporter

    Jul 24, 2002
    Oklahoma City
    Club:
    FC Dallas
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The good thing is that the sidelines are all sold out. A quick look on TM has 4 seats together in the far end of the upper deck. 2 seats together puts you behind the goal.
     
  3. Casper

    Casper Member+

    Mar 30, 2001
    New York
    Define "disaster." Empty seats mean a lost opportunity for revenue, but I don't think anyone wandering by on TV is going to think about it much.
     
  4. Paul. A

    Paul. A Member

    Mar 16, 1999
    Wales, UK
    Didn't the Fire vs Dc at the Rose Bowl get something close to 46,000 one year. I'm not sure the difference in location because I don't live there.
     
  5. dabes2

    dabes2 Member

    Jun 1, 2003
    Chicago
    The map on ticketmaster shows the "grassy knoll" end "unavailable. Is that correct? If so, I'm assuming capacity is 22-23k for this game and there are probably 2-5k seats remaining.
     
  6. uclacarlos

    uclacarlos Member+

    Aug 10, 2003
    east coast
    Club:
    FC Barcelona
    Nat'l Team:
    Spain
    Official capacity is 27K, at which point they sell 1,500 tix to the grassy knoll plus a couple of hundred on the field seats (ala the first coming of Freddinho and 7/4/04, iirc).
     
  7. Delsocfan

    Delsocfan New Member

    Oct 23, 2004
    Wilmington, DE
    Club:
    Philadelphia Union
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    While not a disaster it would disapointing if there were 5k empty seats and only 22k in attendance at HDC and would be near a record low for MLS cup.

    By the way, here are the yearly MLS cup attendance figures per worldsoccer

    2003 - 27,000
    2002 - 61,216
    2001 - 21,626
    2000 - 39,159
    1999 - 44,910
    1998 - 51,350
    1997 - 57,431
    1996 - 34,643
     
  8. cosmojado

    cosmojado Member

    Oct 18, 2002
    in sin
    tickets are already being given away

    its not a sellout
    it might be full
    but its not a sellout
     
  9. Revolt

    Revolt Member+

    Jun 16, 1999
    Davis, CA
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Source?
     
  10. nancyb

    nancyb Member

    Jun 30, 2000
    Falls Church, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Wash Post reports today that tickets are selling at a faster pace than last year's cup. 20K sold as of yesterday.
     
  11. budalabutt

    budalabutt Red Card

    Nov 4, 2004
    Chi-town

    The back of his trousers!!!
     
  12. soccerfan

    soccerfan BigSoccer Supporter

    Mar 13, 1999
    New Jersey
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    this is great , and we still have a week to go
     
  13. geddy

    geddy New Member

    Mar 16, 2002
    California Love
    Why does MLS insist on having the Cup in the middle of the day on Sunday? I'm confident attendance will suffer do to the fact that people have their own games as well as their children's games to go to. The major men's and women's leagues in the LA area play on Sunday's. Coast Soccer League(Southern California's youth club league) has League Cup this weekend. MLS Cup really needs to be in the evening.
     
  14. Brrca Fan redded

    Brrca Fan redded Red Card

    Aug 6, 2002
    Chasing Tornadoes.
    This Sunday is the 14th so where's the week coming from.
     
  15. soccerfan

    soccerfan BigSoccer Supporter

    Mar 13, 1999
    New Jersey
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    i was :rolleyes:

    :D
     
  16. Toejam Football

    Toejam Football New Member

    Oct 10, 2000
    Columbus,OH
    That didn't stop them from selling 27K for last year's Final. So why couldn't they sell out this year, too?
     
  17. dabes2

    dabes2 Member

    Jun 1, 2003
    Chicago
    The stadium looked at least as full today as for last season's cup.
     
  18. Calexico77

    Calexico77 Member

    Sep 19, 2003
    Mid-City LA
    Club:
    Los Angeles Galaxy
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I dunno. The West Side of the stadium looked as full, but that north end looked about half as full as last year.
     
  19. nyrmetros

    nyrmetros Member

    Feb 7, 2004
    Attendance: 25,797

    Absolutely disgusting.....
     
  20. The Lieutenant

    Dec 29, 1999
    Lupburg, Bayern
    Compared to a Metros playoff match?
     
  21. Rocket

    Rocket Member

    Aug 29, 1999
    Chicago
    Club:
    Everton FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    How so?

    That's about what we should expect to see when the Cup's played at a neutral site.
     
  22. nyrmetros

    nyrmetros Member

    Feb 7, 2004
    MLS Cup 1998 / Fire 2, D.C. United 0

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    PASADENA, Calif. (Sunday, Oct. 25, 1998) -- The Chicago Fire put an end to D.C. United's reign over Major League Soccer, using the creative playmaking of Peter Nowak and steady goalkeeping of Zach Thornton to claim a 2-0 victory in MLS Cup '98 Sunday afternoon before 51,350 at the Rose Bowl.
     
  23. mpruitt

    mpruitt Member

    Feb 11, 2002
    E. Somerville
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    It's disapointing, but the HDC is still a great venue and certainly didn't look empty with the 20-25k that were there, and that's really the whole point of a SSS. Back to back years in the same location, the disapointment of the Gals not being there, I can't say it suprised me that much. It is disapointing dont get me wrong, but take a look back at the first ten years of the NFL Championship before the merger they played those games in front of a lot of empty seats. Gotta thing too that last year there was a huge degree of novelty factor with the HDC being so new.
     
  24. nyrmetros

    nyrmetros Member

    Feb 7, 2004
    This was MLS Cup. This has nothing to do with Metro.
     
  25. Sempuukyaku

    Sempuukyaku Member+

    Apr 30, 2002
    Seattle, WA
    Club:
    Seattle Sounders
    Nat'l Team:
    United States

    I agree...and on TV it didn't even look like THAT much. It looked more like 19-20k



    Maybe they count all the media crew, ballboys, players and coaches into that count too, lol.
     

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