Thursday, August 04, 2011

8th Home Game Attendance

photo courtesy of Jarred Donalson

The Wizards had another sellout at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park tonight in their win over Real Salt Lake. That sellout tonight does a few things for Sporting KC's attendance this year. The first, is that KC could have an announced attendance of 0 for each game for the rest of the season and the first 8 games (average 8,400 if 0 the rest of the way) this year would out draw the average of the 1999 season of 8,183. The other thing that this sellout did, is it put the total attendance so far this season at 142,802, which is more than the 1998 season (137,189), 1999 season (130,924), and the 2001 season (142,402).

Here's the attendance for the 8th home game through the years. And take a look at the list for the last home game.

1996 - Arrowhead
17,921
Average - 13,919

1997 - Arrowhead
10,124
Average - 8,861

1998 - Arrowhead
5,304
Average - 7,633

1999 - Arrowhead
6,190
Average - 8,713

2000 - Arrowhead
5,675
Average - 9,545

2001 - Arrowhead
8,031
Average - 11,131

2002 - Arrowhead
19,641
Average - 12,312

2003 - Arrowhead
16,349
Average - 15,273

2004 - Arrowhead
26,223
Average - 16,654

2005 - Arrowhead
5,519
Average - 9,615

2006 - Arrowhead
21,936
Average - 12,043

2007 - Arrowhead
11,766
Average - 9,512

2008 - Community America Ballpark
10,385
Average - 9,596

2009 - Community America Ballpark
10,385
Average - 9,789

2010 - Community America Ballpark
10,288
Average - 10,005

2011 - LIVESTRONG Sporting Park
18,467
Average - 17,850

Some low points this week in the 98, 99, 00, and 05 seasons, with only one of those even cracking 6,000. Here are the rankings of the seasons currently with their movement from last week and the amount their average went up or down.

1. 2011 - 17,850 (-) (+432)
2. 2004 - 16,654 (-) (+1,367)
3. 2003 - 15,273 (-) (+154)
4. 1996 - 13,919 (-) (+572)
5. 2002 - 12,312 (+1) (1,047)
6. 2006 - 12,043 (+1) (1,414)
7. 2001 - 11,131 (-2) (-443)
8. 2010 - 10,005 (+2) (+41)
9. 2009 - 9,789 (+2) (+86)
10. 2005 - 9,615 (-2) (-585)
11. 2008 - 9,596 (+1) (+113)
12. 2000 - 9,545 (-3) (-553)
13. 2007 - 9,512 (-) (+322)
14. 1997 - 8,861 (+1) (+180)
15. 1999 - 8,713 (-1) (-361)
16. 1998 - 7,633 (-) (-333)

Some big drops this week with the 2005 and 2000 season all losing over 500 off their average from last week. The 2011 season's lead decreases, but that shouldn't be a problem in the end as they're still averaging over 1,000 more than the 2004 season at this point.
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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous8/04/2011 12:56:00 AM

    There was at least 3000 empty seats. The sections in the corners are empty every game. What do they constitute as a sell-out?

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  2. Rk8/04/2011 06:24:00 AM

    Tickets sold constitutes a sell out. They sold 18467 tickets. Tuesdays royals game announced 16000 I assure you their weren't 11000 there. Either way they average more fans per game than royals do. awesome.

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  3. Mike8/04/2011 07:50:00 AM

    What Rk said, all teams do it by tickets sold/distributed.

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  4. Jonathan Nebel8/04/2011 09:42:00 AM

    Some of the empty seats came from the fact that a lot of people were standing up on the walkway where there was a breeze rather than sitting in their seat.

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  5. Anonymous8/04/2011 07:56:00 PM

    i was also wondering about the empty seats, but i did notice a lot of people stading as well. Thanks for explaining

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