Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Record setting season for MLS attendance

Mike Woitalla of Soccer America writes of the record season for Major League Soccer attendance-


Ten Week 26 games averaged 17,646 fans as MLS, with just more than a month left in the regular season, is on pace to break its season attendance record.

* Seattle drew the biggest crowd of the week when 35,940 watched it fall to Real Salt Lake.

* San Jose drew the smallest crowd, but the 10,525 who watched the Quakes end a 13-game winless streak marked its fourth straight sellout at tiny Buck Shaw Stadium.

* New England, which struggles at the gate, drew its third biggest crowd of the season when 15,498 watched it down Dallas.

* MLS's attendance average so far this season is 17,455. The 2010 season ended with a 16,037 league-wide attendance average.

* MLS's highest attendance came in its inaugural season of 1996 -- 17,406.

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