MLS attendances for 2016 thus far are 2.5% greater than the same number of games played last season.

This past weekend, the average reported attendance was 20,800 with general strong reports from around the league. The one poorly attended game was New England’s midweek match and Chicago in the rain. New England, however, had a great turnout over the weekend due to Kaka’s star power. I suspect there were many pre-sales but unfortunately Kaka was unable to play because of injury.

After 87 matches this season, the average is slightly over 21,000 people per game.

Gameweek 9 attendances
 
Chicago 13,114
Kansas City 19,431
Montreal 20,801
New England 10,144
New England 25,203
NY Red Bull 18,025
NYCFC 23,352
NYCFC 25,438
Philadelphia 16,079
Portland 21,144
Salt Lake 19,950
Seattle 39,473
Vancouver 18,836
MLS Attendance – Equal # of Home Games
2015 2016
Att Cap Att Att +/- GP % of Cap Cap
Seattle 40,184 38,500 39,667 -1.29% 5 100.63% 39,419
Orlando 39,328 46,174 39,088 -0.61% 4 101.30% 38,587
LA Galaxy 23,276 27,000 25,717 10.49% 4 100.19% 25,667
NYCFC 27,002 35,514 25,010 -7.38% 6 83.37% 30,000
Montreal 15,861 27,340 22,800 43.75% 4 82.31% 25,401
Vancouver 20,628 21,000 22,447 8.82% 5 101.48% 22,120
Houston 20,821 22,039 21,183 1.74% 4 96.12% 22,039
Portland 21,144 20,674 21,144 0.00% 5 100.00% 21,144
Sporting KC 19,969 18,467 19,839 -0.65% 5 107.43% 18,467
Salt Lake 20,301 20,138 19,544 -3.73% 4 97.05% 20,138
Red Bulls 19,052 25,189 18,828 -1.18% 5 74.75% 25,189
San Jose 21,645 18,000 18,000 -16.84% 5 100.00% 18,000
Columbus 13,928 20,145 17,145 23.10% 3 85.86% 19,968
Philadelphia 17,691 18,500 16,700 -5.60% 4 90.27% 18,500
NE Revs 14,845 22,500 16,047 8.09% 5 71.32% 22,500
D.C. United 13,694 19,647 15,173 10.80% 5 77.23% 19,647
FC Dallas 15,365 20,500 14,305 -6.90% 5 86.70% 16,500
Colorado 13,805 17,424 14,053 1.79% 4 80.65% 17,424
Chicago 15,501 20,000 14,014 -9.59% 5 70.07% 20,000