USL C Attendance 10/10

[u/US_SocFan50]

Jacksonville-Birmingham: ABANDONED - Closed to the Public (Weather)
Charleston-Louisville: 4,316 (+9.07%)
Detroit-Rhode Island: 7,387 (+18.46%)
Indianapolis-Tampa Bay: 9,627 (+12.37%)
Miami-Loudoun: NR
Pittsburgh-Hartford*: 5,110 (-1.29%)
El Paso-Orange County: 4,892 (-4.38%)
New Mexico-Monterey Bay: 10,003 (+10.27%)
Oakland-San Antonio: 9,718 (+82.05%)
Phoenix-Las Vegas: 6,238 (+20.22%)
Sacramento-Colorado Springs*: 11,589 (+17.94%)

* = Equal to or above their effective capacity

Over performing by 5+ pts:
Charleston (3,957), Detroit (6,236), Indianapolis (8,567), New Mexico (9,071), Oakland (5,338), Phoenix (5,189), and Sacramento (9,826)

An average night meaning +/- 5 pts:
Pittsburgh** (5,177) and El Paso (5,116)

Under performing by 5+ pts:
NO ONE

Yet to Report/Not Open to Public due to Weather:
Jacksonville (1,734) and Miami (875)

** = Pittsburgh is averaging above their effective capacity

[u/Hamers8989]

Awesome to see no team really underperforming. Detroit really was a full house, the stands were PACKED for our last regular season home game. Great to see four near or above 10k.

[u/RedditBugler → u/Hamers8989]

What do you think of the planned stadium? Do you anticipate the match day experience changing/degrading? Curious how much the European style, homebrew stadium contributes to the experience. 

[u/Hamers8989 → u/RedditBugler]

Im super excited, the new stadium is what got me to start going, I wanted to experience Keyworth before the move. I think being downtown will be a good draw, I'd love to see a nice 1-2k bump with the move, then slow growth from there. Hoping the people mover expansion happens in a good timeframe to connect the new location to the downtown core.

As for actual experience, I think it'll be great. Just hope it doesnt feel too empty at first. The renderings make it look like a true professional sport venue, which is awesome. It will certainly change the atmoshpere. I'm curious what the plans for food are, as right now the food trucks are great, love the variety and quality of offerings.

[u/RedditBugler → u/Hamers8989]

From the outside looking in, Detroit seems to have captured the feeling of a true community club. I'm interested in seeing how much they can maintain that after moving to a corporate style venue. There's just something about the current stadium that looks like a nighborbood gathering place that modernized stadiums can't replicate. If attendance does increase with the additional room and the club keeps growing, that's a great thing. I'm just wondering how it will play out. 

[u/Hamers8989 → u/RedditBugler]

I certainly understand the concerns and they are valid. Detroit City really is true grassroots. But it has grown and changed alot. But the owners are making the community a priority with the new stadium. The owner lives not far from the new location, and is privately financing everything, the only government money is tax credits for demolishing the old hospital. I dont think the new stadium will feel corporate, but it won't have the same character as Keyworth. I'm super excited for the future of DCFC and Detroit as a whole. But I will certainly miss Keyworth.

[u/Moist-Revolution-390 → u/RedditBugler]

There is hard data that will be pertinent to the upcoming new DET stadium. RIFC was drawing 4-5K fans at the borrowed Bryant University venue for its first season, which has now transitioned to routinely 7-9K fans at their new Centreville Bank Stadium, with occasional sellouts of the full 11K stadium capacity. So DET should expect a 30-50% bump in attendance, easily achieving 10K fan averages in the new Corktown location, which has attractions and amenities far superior to (cough, cough) Pawtucket! Corktown is where all the DINKy (dual income, no kids) youngs are flocking to.

[u/BeefInGR → u/RedditBugler]

The new stadium will make it more accessible to the people who don't know the area. It also will have more "things to do before the match" so fans from Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Toledo, Flint, Lansing, AA, Windsor, etc can make a true day trip out of it.

[u/Training-World-1897]

Guessing with the weather cooling fans are more tempted to go now 

[u/Subroc01 → u/Training-World-1897]

For us, it was World Cup ending (and then us going on vacation), not things getting cooler. We weren’t going to skip World Cup matches in the summer to go to a USL match. I was surprised they didn’t suspend the league or try to schedule around it.

[u/MongoMoonwalked]

Jacksonville has their game rescheduled to Wednesday. And apparently it’s a league rule that since they started the game with no fans, they can’t have any fans at the redo? I think that’s stupid.

[u/GarmaZed → u/MongoMoonwalked]

Just commenting to add that watching the game on stream from Saturday gave me strong "NISA makeup match" gameday vibes from years back, and the fact that the game got suspended, will have to be restarted entirely and even that makeup date won't have attendance and NOW no stream? That just adds to the NISA-ness of it all even more, lol

[u/HauptmannSchnapsidee → u/MongoMoonwalked]

Agreed—I’m sure Jacksonville loves having the league lock the club out of their primary revenue source. “GrOW thE GAme!! 🤪”

[u/OfficialRodgerJachim]

ACB would be sixth on that list for our phase 1 stadium.

[u/MostlyBrowsin916 → u/OfficialRodgerJachim]

Not to be too rude but “inaugural season” numbers aren’t quite the same as teams in their 10th+ seasons pulling around 10k. I was living in Phoenix during the first season of their Rising rebrand. They had Drogba, the stadium land-lease agreement and what seemed like an ownership with huge ambitions. Sometimes it’s just the honeymoon phase. Hopefully Boise has sustained ownership/fan support, but personally I don’t think Boise is the new standard.

[u/OfficialRodgerJachim → u/MostlyBrowsin916]

Could be.

But I'm an optimist.

[u/Sctvman]

Charleston had terrible weather most of the day. Wasn't that many there but it was a loud crowd.

[u/otterbelle]

There's no way 9600 were at The Mike for Indy.