MLS attendances up 16% this season compared to last year

So far this season, MLS attendances are up 16% compared to last season. That’s no big surprise with the addition of Orlando, New York City FC and the opening of Avaya Stadium in San Jose, and, of course, the contraction of Chivas USA.

Now that gameweek 6 of MLS has concluded, we can see that Dallas, New England and DC had fairly consistent turnouts for their matches this weekend. Better yet, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Portland, San Jose and Kansas City all sold out.

In case you weren’t aware, Toronto plays its first home match after starting on the road with 7 games due to renovations to BMO Field. That gives them 17 home games in their last 27 matches.

For the first time in league history, there have been no matches with under 10,000 reported attendance, while over 68% of matches have had 18,000+.

Here are the reported attendances from this past weekend:

MLS attendances
Dallas	12,929
DC United	16,304
Houston	18,924
Kansas City	20,087
Los Angeles	27,000
New England	13,092
Philadelphia	18,603
Portland	21,144
San Jose	18,000
Vancouver	18,083

	2014	2015
MLS Attendance – Equal # of Home Games
	2014	2015
	Att	Cap	Att	Att +/-	GP	% of Cap	Cap
Orlando	NA	NA	42,135	NA	3	102.48%	41,116
Seattle	38,717	43,426	39,606	2.30%	3	102.87%	38,500
NYCFC	NA	NA	35,481	NA	2	99.91%	35,514
Montreal	27,207	27,340	25,245	-7.21%	1	42.08%	60,000
LA Galaxy	20,365	27,000	24,362	19.63%	3	90.23%	27,000
Portland	20,779	20,674	21,144	1.76%	4	100.00%	21,144
Red Bulls	20,542	25,189	21,036	2.40%	1	83.51%	25,189
Houston	20,831	22,039	20,821	-0.05%	4	94.47%	22,039
Vancouver	21,000	21,000	20,646	-1.69%	4	98.31%	21,000
Salt Lake	19,674	20,472	20,538	4.39%	2	100.32%	20,472
Sporting KC	19,736	18,467	20,066	1.67%	4	108.66%	18,467
San Jose	10,525	16,407	18,000	71.02%	3	100.00%	18,000
Philadelphia	17,452	18,500	17,552	0.57%	3	94.88%	18,500
FC Dallas	16,673	20,500	15,162	-9.06%	4	73.96%	20,500
Colorado	13,669	17,424	14,571	6.60%	2	83.63%	17,424
Chicago	14,890	20,000	14,121	-5.16%	3	70.61%	20,000
D.C. United	11,270	23,491	14,105	25.15%	3	71.79%	19,647
Columbus	14,781	20,145	13,064	-11.62%	2	64.85%	20,145
NE Revs	14,056	22,500	12,650	-10.01%	3	56.22%	22,500