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Qwest Field Attendance & a Worldly Comparison

Posted by Mike on September 22, 2009 · Under Qwest Field · View Comments

qwest We are 93.3% of the way through the home schedule in the 2009 MLS Season and the Sounders are averaging 30,739 for League matches at Qwest this season (if you throw in Chelsea & Barcelona, the average jumps to 35,155).

That would put them…

4th in France’s Ligue 1 (behind Marseille, Paris St. Germain, and Lyon)
7th in the Italian Serie A (behind AC Milan, Inter, Napoli, Roma, Lazio, and Fiorentina)
7th in the Spanish LaLiga (behind Real Madrid, Barcelona, Atlético Madrid, Sevilla, Valencia, and Bilbao)
11th in the English Premiership (behind Man Utd., Arsenal, Liverpool, Man City, Chelsea, Sunderland, Aston Villa, Tottenham, Everton, and West Ham)
13th in the German Bundesliga

In other leagues…

3rd in the Brazillian Campeonato Série A (behind Atletico Miniero and Flamengo) for the Immortal Fury
2nd in the English Championship (behind Newcastle who was relegated from the Premiership)
1st in the Ukrainian Vyshya Liha (doubling the current leader, Shakhtar Donetsk’s average of 15,089)

The Boys in Rave Green are averaging an attendance of 24,357 on the road and at home. LA Galaxy is averaging 19,444 in all of their home and aways.

*All Club Attendance averages are based on the 2008-09 Season.

http://www.weeklygeekshow.com Michael W.

To me the average is more impressive if you factor in how many teams are in all those leagues:

4th out of 20 teams in France’s Ligue 1
7th out of 20 teams in Italy’s Serie A
7th our of 20 teams in Spanish La Liga
11th out of 20 in the English Premiership
yamsmos

a little more color on this…in aggregate, we are 50th in the world. add in the hawks nest (next year) and we jump to 41st, behind benfica.
http://gosounders.com Mike

I think you just laid down the statistical gauntlet here…
http://gosounders.com Mike

Do you think any club in Mexico or Argentina brings in more than 30k? I can’t find attendance figures right now for those leagues.
http://gosounders.com Mike

We are lower than 50th.

I was trying to source all my data and then found this- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_average_attendances_of_European_football_clubs

That would put us 49th, but doesn’t take into account Asia or South America or Mexico.
yamsmos

so you are correcting me from 50th to 49th… what? are we married all of a sudden?

Mike Reply:
September 23rd, 2009 at 6:17 am
If we were married, I’d slap you for not listenening/reading!

We’re 49th compared to European Clubs. There’s no way we’re 50th across the world.

My guess is closer to 60.

yamsmos Reply:
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:48 am
whatever wife.

maybe the info was given to me for europe and not globally.

yeah… that’s it.
sammy

yeah, I hear there is this stadium in mexico city…Azteca, seats like 100k or something.

~28th in attendance compared to the 80 teams from the top 4 leagues in Europe
Artesian

Now if we could just score a freaking goal.
joe

Ha! Absolutely love you guys! We may be 3rd in Brasil, but we’d be dead last in passion and support there.

We have much to be proud of but so far to go.

I want Seattle to be a world class crowd across the board.
Willmore

Also would be 1st in Russian Premier League. While the league itself it quite good, the attendance has always been shit. The top team right now draws under 20k.
budbud

In Arg, the following draw over 30k: Boca, River, Huracan, Velez Sarsfield at a minimum.
Gary B.

Of course, everybody leaves out the obvious “We’re first in attendance in MLS.”.

If we sell out the Hawks Nest, as has been recently talked about, then we pretty much double every other team’s home attendance. If the up the salary cap to 4 million and allow a second DP as has been rumored, then Seattle will be well poised to take advantage of the situation, whereas I can see teams like SJ, NE, Chivas, KC, Dallas, Colorado and yes, Toronto, not taking advantage of the changes.

Things could be looking pretty good for Seattle in the not-too-distant future.

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