News: Recent polls and stats on soccer popularity in the USA

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  1. BostonRed

    BostonRed Member+

    Oct 9, 2011
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    Austin FC seems popular:

     
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  2. BostonRed

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    #702 BostonRed, Nov 30, 2021
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    Looks like Thanksgiving was a good choice for a network TV game:

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    Edit: Looks like those original numbers weren't right:

     
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  3. Paul Berry

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    Notts County and NYCFC
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    Apr 18, 2015
    Nr Kingston NY
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  4. LouisianaViking07/09

    Aug 15, 2009
    Where's the kids playing lacrosse?
     
  5. Paul Berry

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    466k.
     
  6. LouisianaViking07/09

    Aug 15, 2009
    Where as in region? Certainly not here in the South.
     
  7. BostonRed

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    Lacrosse has always been more of a Northeast sport (both Bruce Arena & Bill Belichick played lacrosse in college in the Northeast) & a prep(py) school sport. Arena was assistant lacrosse coach at UVa while coaching the men's soccer team.

    Here's a story about lax becoming the fastest growing sport in Indiana:

    https://www.indystar.com/story/spor...ports-popularity-soars-nationwide/5411954002/

    I would guess the South & the Great Plains are the areas lowest on current penetration, but I would expect to see it in affluent suburbs and at private schools. As the article above says, lax is where soccer was in the US in the 1990s.
     
  8. Paul Berry

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    Apr 18, 2015
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    Sorry I misunderstood your question. This is from 2017/18 school year. It's big in New York and v New Jersey. This list is for boys only.

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  9. newtex

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    Not exactly the South but there are 70 or 80 high schools with lacrosse in Texas. In the Houston area there about 30 boys teams and almost that many girls teams. A good number are private schools but not all.
     
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  10. BostonRed

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  11. Paul Berry

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    Notts County and NYCFC
    United States
    Apr 18, 2015
    Nr Kingston NY
    Nat'l Team:
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  12. BostonRed

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    Oct 9, 2011
    Somerville, MA
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    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    TV ratings from this weekend:



     
  13. Paul Berry

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    I watched the MLS Cup final on YouTube TV. Was I counted?
     
  14. newtex

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    Surely you watched it on a channel delivered by YouTube TV. ABC, via a local affiliate, or UniMas, either a local affiliate or their national feed.

    That shouldn't be any different than watching one of those channels via a cable or satellite company.
     
  15. Paul Berry

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    Yes but do they count viewers who streamed the game like some other sports do?
     
  16. BostonRed

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    I'm not sure they have an easy way to aggregate those folks. They don't release ESPN+ or ESPN3 viewers.

    They can figure these out, but they don't typically bother.
     
  17. newtex

    newtex Member+

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    Houston
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    It depends but for something like MLS Cup which is part of the broadcast schedule, yes, they do.

    From 2017:

    https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/nielsen-digital-tv-ratings-hulu-youtube-1202505553/


    Not all streaming counts but:

    So if you watched MLS Cup on the ABC or UniMas channel you counted.
     
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  18. Paul Berry

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    The survey they quote is from Jan 4, 2018.
     
  19. BostonRed

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  20. BostonRed

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  21. BostonRed

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  22. LouisianaViking07/09

    Aug 15, 2009
    It's always startling to me how high the wages are in the NHL. They should see a definite difference compared to the NBA or NFL.
     
  23. MLSinCleveland

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    Oct 12, 2006
    Cleveland, Ohio
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    NHL makes huge gate. Get-in tickets are nearly NFL-level per game despite nearly five times the games
     
  24. Paul Berry

    Paul Berry Member+

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    Thank goodness for Fraser vs. Major League Soccer eh?
     
  25. newtex

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    I would add that NHL teams make a lot of money from their local tv deals. It helps show a general point. The NHL is not broadly popular across the U.S. but it is very popular in a lot of its markets. The NFL and NBA have achieved broad popularity across the country similar to what MLB once had.

    MLS is an interesting mix of support, I would guess. People in the actual markets that care about their team and are interested in MLS as a league. AND now people across the country who are interested in soccer in general are expressing more interest in MLS.

    Maybe.
     

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