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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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
Wash Post reports today that tickets are selling at a faster pace than last year's cup. 20K sold as of yesterday.
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.
That didn't stop them from selling 27K for last year's Final. So why couldn't they sell out this year, too?
I dunno. The West Side of the stadium looked as full, but that north end looked about half as full as last year.
MLS Cup 1998 / Fire 2, D.C. United 0 <table align="right" border="0" cellspacing="8" height="5" width="1"> <tbody> <tr align="left" valign="top"> <td> </td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td align="left"> </td></tr></tbody></table> 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.
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.
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.