{"id":15506,"date":"2012-09-18T23:41:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T03:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=15506"},"modified":"2012-10-14T21:20:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T01:20:15","slug":"revs-attendance-still-ranks-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=15506","title":{"rendered":"Revs&#8217; Attendance Still Ranks Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the pitch isn&#8217;t the only place the Revolution have struggled this season.<\/p>\n<p>According the league&#8217;s latest attendance figures, New England, which currently sits in eighth place in the Eastern Conference, remains dead last at the gate, with a league-low 12,542 average home\u00a0attendance this season through Week 28. The current figure is a\u00a05.2 per cent drop from their final 2011 home attendance average (13,222).<\/p>\n<p>For regional perspective,\u00a0their fellow Kraft Sports counterparts &#8211; the New England Patriots &#8211; outdrew the Revolution&#8217;s attendance figure during a number of its training camp sessions over the summer, with select sessions exceeding 14,000.<\/p>\n<p>At top of the MLS attendance rankings: Seattle (42,379), Montreal (23,107) and Los Angeles (22,309). On the whole, the average league attendance is currently 18,501, up 3.4 per cent from the league-record 17,872 average\u00a0it drew last season.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the complete average home attendance figure table through last week&#8217;s games:<\/p>\n<p>Rank\/Team\/2012 Average (through Week 28)<\/p>\n<p>1. Seattle &#8211; 42,379<br \/>\n2. Montreal &#8211; 23,107<br \/>\n3. Los Angeles &#8211; 22,309<br \/>\n4. Houston &#8211; 20,817<br \/>\n5. Portland &#8211; 20,438<br \/>\n6. Vancouver &#8211; 19,409<br \/>\n7. Kansas City &#8211; 19,296<br \/>\n8. Real Salt Lake &#8211; 18,897<br \/>\n9. Toronto &#8211; 18,480<br \/>\n10. Philadelphia &#8211; 18,277<br \/>\n11. New York &#8211; 17,623<br \/>\n12. Chicago &#8211; 15,956<br \/>\n13. Colorado &#8211; 14,974<br \/>\n14. Columbus &#8211; 14,382<br \/>\n15. Dallas &#8211; 14,099<br \/>\n16. San Jose &#8211; 13,901<br \/>\n17. D.C. -13,598<br \/>\n18. Chivas USA &#8211; 13,285<br \/>\n<strong>19. New England &#8211; 12,542<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Revolution remain dead last in average attendance this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15506"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16169,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15506\/revisions\/16169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}