MLS Week 28 Attendance

Rover · 10-08-2005, 10:34 PM

For Wednesday and Saturday:

5 October

FCD-Crew: 6,961
Fire-Metro: 11,094
CRapids-sc: 28,946
RSL-DCU: 14,306

8 October

DCU-Metro: 18,751
KCW-Revs: 12,546
Fire-Crew: 21,097
FCD-CRapids: 13,011
Quakes-RSL: 19,407

Notes:

With one round left, the top five attendance leaders are:

1. LA: 24,017
2. RSL: 18,318
3. Fire: 17,238
4. sc: 17,059
5. DCU: 16,410

The bottom two:

11. FCD: 10,733
12: KCW: 9,686

Only three team did not have a crowd of less than 10,000. They are LA, RSL, and DCU.

RSL's lowest attendance was 12,305 for the 13 August game against Kansas City.

Even if you factor out the USMNT crowd, RSL would still be in second place at 16,727 (Fire and sc drop to under 12K without their attendance boost). A good showing on Wednesday can keep us there.

Jim Umber · 10-09-2005, 06:19 AM

We had a good turn out last Wednesday, and since this is the last official home game, I expect we'll have another good turn out.

prk166 · 10-09-2005, 12:41 PM

I don't have my spreadsheet on me but hya, the median attendance for RSL is 17k something IIRC. And as you know, median means take away the best one and the worst one.

Braveheart · 10-11-2005, 02:43 PM

overall, MLS attendance is quite bad this year.

Rover · 10-11-2005, 02:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Braveheart

overall, MLS attendance is quite bad this year.

I agree that it could have been better, but as compared to past years we did OK:

Average Attendance each year:

1996: 17,406
1997: 14,169
1998: 14,312
1999: 14,282
2000: 13,756
2001: 14,961
2002: 15,821
2003: 14,898
2004: 15,559
2005: 15,545 (through 10/8)

Medians have stayed around 13,500 since the second year.