Attendance - Most popular for September 2007
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Since we often talk about MLS's attendance numbers, I found this story very interesting. On
Wednesday night, the Major League Baseball's Florida Marlins played the Washington Nations in front
of less then 400 fans. That same night a 3A high school soccer game saw 400 fans attend. So for at
least one night, a MLB team was outdrawn by high school soccer.
Week 25 saw a number of ties but also some great goals. DC's Jaime Moreno, LA's Chris Klein and
NE's Taylor Twellman had some of the best, but by no means the only good net finders on the week.
Also, something that the league can take a great deal of pride in, for the third week in a row,
average attendance has increased. It is not a huge jump, but seeing how MLS has a history of seeing
numbers drop as the season comes to a close, this is a wonderful change.
Another week is over and what do we see but DC on top of the East and Chivas making the run for the
West while the league seems to have gone goal happy. Four of the seven games saw four or more goals
including a seven-goal outing in Houston.
The playoff race seems all but officially be a race for the final spot, although KC is not in the
clear just yet.
Sadly, I don't have the time for a full recap so I'll just post the numbers for the week.
Here are the regular league numbers 144 games into the season:SeasonWeek
22Attendance**2,279,71981,217Att per game15,94216,243Beckham Att (5*)195,84727,000Beckham Avg
Att39,16927,000Goals37216Goals per game2.5832.667Inter-conferenceEast 25-20-20Tie
1-1-2Visitors38-72-342-2-2Ties34 (23.
DC United and the Houston Dynamo clinched their spots in the post season this week, but the most
interesting part of the picture is what is happening in terms of the eighth spot. Chicago, Columbus
and Colorado all entered the weekend within a point of the final spot and not much changed. Chicago
fought back down a man to take a point, the Rapids pulled one of the biggest surprises of the
season by earning a point against Chivas while the Crew's run of 'luck' continued when they lost
late to KC.
The attendance for Ipswich Town's impressive victory over Coventry was just
18,840, the lowest since March 2000 - when the stadium had a vastly smaller capacity.
As a season ticket holder, my pet peeve was the 'part-timers' that graced us with their presence
for Town's bigger matches.
