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Heart of Stone
05-24-2010, 05:09 PM
Yesterday the Wiz sold out Community Ball Park for the second time this season. Cap. 11 000. Would like to goto game in KC this summer ... will getting tickets be a problem? Does the grass seating section have a limit?

AL-MO
05-24-2010, 05:14 PM
The away section at that stadium is the equivalent of left field.

Bloor West FC
05-24-2010, 05:23 PM
Contact there team sales office and you shall find out. Away fans will not be sitting in the grass section.

Heart of Stone
05-24-2010, 05:25 PM
Good to know. Thanks. Will contact Wizards' sales office.

crozack
05-25-2010, 02:41 PM
I'm headed there as well.
Any ideas as to what our supporters numbers are going to be like?

Ossington Mental Youth
05-25-2010, 02:53 PM
interesting theyve been selling out, thats great for them and surprising for me.
what gives?
hopefully they can fill the new stadium when its built

Toronto Ruffrider
05-25-2010, 03:11 PM
^A stadium of that size should always sell out for MLS games. Anything short of a sell-out is really lame IMO.

Ossington Mental Youth
05-25-2010, 09:59 PM
agreed but thisis kansas city and the MLS, so common sense is not always applied

__wowza
05-26-2010, 09:28 AM
hey whats good for them is good for the MLS, and what's good for the MLS is good for TFC :D

Kevvv
05-26-2010, 09:36 AM
^A stadium of that size should always sell out for MLS games. Anything short of a sell-out is really lame IMO.


Toronto has 4 to 5 times the population of KC, and the stadium is in Kansas which is smaller than KC Missouri). With 4 times the population, that would be the equivalent of us selling out a 44,000 seat stadium that isn't centrally located.


Good on them, anyway.

Stouffville_RPB
05-26-2010, 09:39 AM
hey whats good for them is good for the MLS, and what's good for the MLS is good for TFC :D

Exactly. A sold out 11,000 seat stadium is better than a half full 20,000 seater.

The sport in this country is still trying to get it's footing we can't expect everyone to have 16,000 season ticket holders. Selling out an 11,000 seater can in turn create the demand for more tickets and interest. As we've seen this year more seats isn't always a better thing.

Oldtimer
05-26-2010, 10:32 AM
Toronto has 4 to 5 times the population of KC, and the stadium is in Kansas which is smaller than KC Missouri). With 4 times the population, that would be the equivalent of us selling out a 44,000 seat stadium that isn't centrally located.


Good on them, anyway.

Which always brings up the question as to why KC was chosen in the first place. It was not chosen because it was a good soccer location. rather, Lamar Hunt (who owned the KC Chiefs) had them play out of the same stadium as his NFL team. As one of the original funders of MLS, he got his way.


Deals like that won't happen in the future.

Toronto Ruffrider
05-26-2010, 10:51 AM
Which always brings up the question as to why KC was chosen in the first place. It was not chosen because it was a good soccer location. rather, Lamar Hunt (who owned the KC Chiefs) had them play out of the same stadium as his NFL team. As one of the original funders of MLS, he got his way.


Deals like that won't happen in the future.

That's what I'm driving home at. Population is irrelevant. There's no consolation prize for a small city drawing half of the fans that a much larger city draws. Because MLS has a single-entity structure, the growth of this league is limited to the growth of its individual teams. If KC sells only 10 or 11 thousand tickets a game - assuming all of those tickets are actually sold - the team won't make any money, and the tight salary and roster restrictions that define this league won't go anywhere.