Fri, April 21, 2006 8:00 pm Atlanta Silverbacks at Puerto Rico Islanders Juan Ramon Loubriel Stadium Sat, April 22, 2006 7:30 pm Toronto Lynx at Virginia Beach Mariners Virginia Beach Sportsplex 10:00 pm Portland Timbers at Vancouver Whitecaps Swangard Stadium Sun, April 23, 2006 4:00 pm Montreal Impact at Miami Tropical Park Stadium 4:05 pm Seattle Sounders at Minnesota Thunder James Griffin Stadium 5:00 pm Atlanta Silverbacks at Puerto Rico Islanders Paquito Montaner Stadium What are your predictions for opening day 2006 ?
Atlanta-Puerto Rico (7500) Toronto-Virginia Beach (3000) Portland-Vancouver (5800) Montreal-Miami (6500) Seattle-Minnesota (4500) Atlanta-Puerto Rico (5800)
Montreal-Miami (6500) Thanks for the optimism but I don't know about that. Yes, it'll be our first ever regular season home game and people will be there in anticipation of seeing Romario play for the first time in a Miami FC shirt. Still, I think 4,000 is more doable. No more than 5k tops.
I think the title should actually be "USL attendance -week one" I highly doubt Virginia Beach will get 2500+. I hope they do because I love the USL but I doubt it.
Fri, April 21, 2006 8:00 pm Atlanta Silverbacks at Puerto Rico Islanders 6500 Sat, April 22, 2006 7:30 pm Toronto Lynx at Virginia Beach Mariners 1200 10:00 pm Portland Timbers at Vancouver Whitecaps 6000 Sun, April 23, 2006 4:00 pm Montreal Impact at Miami 4500 4:05 pm Seattle Sounders at Minnesota Thunder 3500 5:00 pm Atlanta Silverbacks at Puerto Rico Islanders 6000
Don't forget that the second Puerto Rico-Atlanta game, Sunday's game, is being played in Ponce, on the southern part of the island, not in Bayamon.
Naco, I can tell you are in Spain... Because in Mid-March it was announced that the Ponce game would not happen due to stadium renovations over there. So Sunday's game IS in Bayamon
Thanks thats why I am the Mathemagician! Well, we will see how my progrnostication holds through the weekend. I hope a few of them are underestimates (eg Sun in MN)
I'm keeping track of USL1 stats as well as MLS attendance figures on my site , i usually have all updating done by monday check it out http://www.angelfire.com/planet/attendance
Haven't been following USL lately because of the World cup and I'm just wondering how USL is doing attendance-wise...
Until 27/7/06 TEAM GP ( at home ) AVERAGE ATTENDANCE Puerto Rico 10 4718 Virginia Beach 9 2021 Vancouver 9 5081 Miami 8 2358 Minnesota 9 2633 Charleston 11 3518 Portland 8 5240 Toronto 7 1954 Seattle 9 3489 Montreal 9 11425 Atlanta 8 2311 Rochester 7 10258 LEAGUE 104 4584 Second Division Charlotte 1657 Richmond 2012 Harrisburg 1600 Wilmington 3598 Long Island 1826 Cincinatti 1084 Pittsburg 2134 New Hampshire 810 West Mass 1144 LEAGUE : 1762
Out of all of them , Long Island's is the most shocking of them all. The Rough Riders have totally tanked on and off the field this season. Rather surprising. Also worried about the numbers in Cinci... Kings should be doing better.
Well spotted JR, Toronto is a bit of a lame duck with an MLS team next year, also thought Charlotte was low too. After Montreal and Rochester the best attendances are in Vancouver and Puerto Rico, still too low though.
This is how I read these numbers. DAMN!!! And then I realized... hmmmm. Some of these numbers faaaaaaarrrrr surpass the capacity. DOH!! Thanks for the info! Rep!