An exciting weekend of games in the MLS Conference Finals. We’ll start in Colorado, where the Rapids turned out a big attendance number despite limited mainstream marketing and a lack of promotional offerings. With temperatures falling under 30 degrees, more almost 18k fans braved the weather at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. For a team that [...]
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The MLS Playoffs are here and the eight teams entering the post season have been decided. Under MLS’ much criticized playoff format, there will be 6 representatives from the Western Conference and 2 representatives from the Eastern Conference. As we did last year at this time, we thought it worth taking a business look at [...]
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Another big weekend in Major League Soccer with the ESPN game of the week capping off the proceedings. While attendance was disappointing (for the much hyped SuperClassico), the match presented a rare opportunity to see 3 US National Team members from the 2010 World Cup Team and David Beckham in a prime time special. Although [...]
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We haven’t taken a hard look at attendance in a number of weeks, but this past slate of games provides some food for thought. The “weekend” started with a small Wednesday night crowd in Chicago, where approximately 13k saw a scoreless draw at Toyota Park. The mid-week games continued on Thursday night with the usual [...]
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Perhaps the biggest business news from the soccer weekend was the announcement that storied Scottish club Glasgow Rangers is withdrawing from its 2010 American tour. The tour was intended to include matches against Celtic in Boston and DC United at RFK. The BBC article references the recent Boston Globe article that criticized Rangers’ fans and [...]
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We’ve decided to take a different approach to our Monday After posts from today forward. Rather than focus on attendance, we thought we look at any business issues that arose over the weekend and focus on one or two significant “gates” on either the high side or low side. We are also starting a new [...]
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Before we get into our look at attendance in MLS and WPS from the weekend, a couple of other business thoughts. It was a good weekend for MLS MatchDay Live as the online game server seems to have shaken most the problems that beset the new service over the past few weeks. In DC, the [...]
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Light docket in MLS this weekend with only 5 games Th-Sa. Before we get to those matches, a couple of other quick business points. First, we gave MatchDay live another chance, but couldn’t see any games in real time. The only non-nationally televised game was the Revs/United match which was blacked out in the Hartford [...]
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One full week is in the books and as is our custom, here are our business hits from the first round of games. Perhaps the biggest issue of the weekend was the continuing problems with MLSSoccer.com’s new Match Day Live. Efforts to watch games live were consistently thwarted by freezing and re-sets. Our own experience [...]
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Tripp Mickle of the Sports Business Journal is out with a hard look at MLS season ticket renewals for 2010. Although three teams (Dallas, Kansas City and San Jose), didn’t provide numbers, the rest of the franchises did report their rates of renewal for 2010. Not surprisingly, Seattle and TFC lead the pack with more [...]
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