MLS Attendance Report

Every week I’ll update the aver­age atten­dance totals for each team in MLS on our site and of course atten­dance will be a fre­quent topic on our forth­com­ing podcasts.

I am wor­ried by the low num­bers in some mar­kets this sea­son. Chivas USA for exam­ple is aver­ag­ing 7,000 less fans per game than they did last sea­son, and Red Bull New York, despite hav­ing an excel­lent team is aver­ag­ing under 10,000 fans a match which is totally unac­cept­able in the nation’s largest sports and TV mar­ket. The more wor­ry­ing issue is that tra­di­tion­ally MLS has used strong crowds between April and July to ride out the storm of declin­ing crowds and media expo­sure once Amer­i­can Foot­ball sea­son begins. This sea­son it appears that the Beck­ham affect bet­ter be mas­sive oth­er­wise some mar­kets like New York and New Eng­land are going to have their worst atten­dance since the league was formed.

1– LA Galaxy 24,437
2– Toronto FC 19,771
3– DC United 16,511
4– Real Salt Lake 15,949
5– Hous­ton 15,438
6– FC Dal­las 14,584
7– New Eng­land 13,847
8– Col­orado 13,593
9– Colum­bus 13,297
10– Chicago 13,078
11– Chivas USA 12,802
12– Red Bull NY 9,716
13– Kansas City 8,335