Austin FC seems popular: Austin FC was the only MLS team to sell out 100% of its home matches in 2021, and its average attendance of 20,738 ranked fifth in the league.Also:- No. 2 in sponsorship sales- 96% season ticket renewal for 2022- 28K season ticket waitlist- Highest merchandise sales in MLS— Michael LoRé (@michaellore) November 30, 2021
Looks like Thanksgiving was a good choice for a network TV game: 1465718130702000133 is not a valid tweet id Edit: Looks like those original numbers weren't right: The MLS playoff game between Colorado and Portland on Thanksgiving averaged 1.894 million viewers on FOX and Fox Deportes, not 7.2 million. It's the 2nd-most viewed MLS game of all time other than MLS Cup finals and All-Star Games (behind only Freddy Adu's debut in 2004).— Subscribe to GrantWahl.com (@GrantWahl) November 30, 2021
This doesn't differentiate between genders. I'm guessing tackle football isn't available to many girls. https://www.aspenprojectplay.org/state-of-play-2020/ages-13-17
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.
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.
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.
Soccer surpasses NHL as 4th most popular sport in United States https://worldsoccertalk.com/2021/12...states/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
According to the survey soccer is the second most popular sport for Americans aged 12-24 and =2nd for Americans aged 18-34.
TV ratings from this weekend: Liga MX Clausura final Sunday night between Atlas and Leon on Univision/TUDN averaged 2.4 million viewers and peaked at 2.8 million.— Steven Goff (@SoccerInsider) December 14, 2021 This year's finalsMLS: 1.5m viewers (ABC, UniMas, TUDN)NWSL: 525,000 (CBS)USL Championship: 84,000 (ESPN)Of note:Gold Cup final: 7.6 million (FS1, Univision, TUDN)Nations League final: 4.2 million (Univision, TUDN only; CBS Sports Network, Paramount+ don't disclose)— Steven Goff (@SoccerInsider) December 14, 2021
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.
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.
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.
According to Univision figures, TUDN is responsible for 56% of all soccer viewership in the United States, regardless of language – best since 2007. TUDN delivered 13 of the 14 top rated soccer matches this year.— Bob Williams (@WilliamsBob75) December 16, 2021
47% of Liga MX audience is US-based: https://www.espn.com.mx/futbol/mexi...encia-televisiva-47-por-ciento-estados-unidos
According to research from Statista, MLS is now the 4th most followed professional sports league in the USA, leaving the NHL behind.That gap with the MLB might seem large, but at the rate soccer and MLS are gaining ground, it will continue to close rapidly. pic.twitter.com/9sVW5uUVgJ— MLS Buzz (@MLS_Buzz) February 17, 2022
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.
NHL makes huge gate. Get-in tickets are nearly NFL-level per game despite nearly five times the games
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.