Turnstile Tracker: SuperLiga Attendance Down From Previous Years
The SuperLiga soccer tournament, which features eight clubs from the Mexican Primera Division and MLS, averaged 9,514 fans in '09, down 27% from last year and down 42% from the tournament's first year in '07. This season's iteration featured three doubleheaders, including the semifinal matches, whereas in previous years all games were single-headers. Last night's championship match featuring Tigres UANL and the MLS Fire drew a sellout crowd of 20,000 at Toyota Park, which was up 116% from the all-MLS Dynamo-Revolution final last year at Gillette Stadium, and up 60% from the CF Pachuca-Galaxy final at The Home Depot Center in '07. CD Guadalajara, which had played in the three highest-attended SuperLiga games during the first two years, did not participate in this year's event. Below is a trend for SuperLiga total and average attendance, as well as match-by-match attendance for this year's event (THE DAILY).
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SUPERLIGA ATTENDANCE TREND
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YEAR
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TOTAL
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AVERAGE
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'09
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135,882
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9,514
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'08
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195,387
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13,026
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'07
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247,251
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16,483
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'09 SUPERLIGA MATCH-BY-MATCH ATTENDANCE
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DATE
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MATCHUP
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VENUE
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ATTENDANCE
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6/20
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Fire-San Luis
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Toyota Park
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8,421
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6/20
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Chivas USA-Tigres UANL
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The Home Depot Center
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11,197
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6/21
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Wizards-Atlas
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Robert R. Hermann Stadium
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5,278
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6/21
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Revolution-Santos Laguna |
Gillette Stadium |
9,512
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6/23
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Fire-Chivas USA;
San Luis-Tigres UANL |
Toyota Park |
9,126
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6/24
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Revolution-Wizards;
Santos-Laguna-Atlas |
Gillette Stadium |
5,378
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6/27
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Fire-Tigres UANL |
Toyota Park |
9,157
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6/27
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Chivas USA-San Luis |
The Home Depot Center |
11,083
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6/28
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Revolution-Atlas |
Gillette Stadium |
7,411
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6/28
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Wizards-Santos Laguna |
Community America Ballpark |
10,385
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SEMIFINALS
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7/15
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Revolution-Fire:
Tigres UANL-Santos Laguna |
Gillette Stadium |
7,215
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FINALS
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8/5
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Tigres UANL-Fire |
Toyota Park |
20,000
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