[MLS ATTENDANCE] Crowds were up -- above the season average -- in Week 20. For MLS attendance rankings ...
* Week 20's eight games averaged 17,481 fans.
* Vancouver drew its biggest crowd of the season, 27,500, who saw the Whitecaps get thumped, 4-0, by the Los Angeles Galaxy. (David Beckham missed the game with his second yellow-card suspension of the season but Landon Donovan scored twice.)
* MLS's attendance average so far this season is 17,420. The 2010 season ended with a 16,037 league-wide attendance average.
* MLS's highest attendance came in its inaugural season of 1996 -- 17,406.
MLS ATTENDANCE:
| Club (2011 Rank) |
Week 19 Home Games |
2011 Home Average |
2010 Home Average (Final) |
| Chicago (14) |
-- |
14,292 |
15,814 |
| Chivas USA (12) |
-- |
14,425 | 14,576 |
| Colorado (13) |
-- |
14,402 | 13,329 |
| Columbus (18) |
-- | 10,882 |
14,642 |
| D.C. United (11) |
-- |
15,686 | 14,532 |
| FC Dallas (15) |
10,023 |
12,993 |
10,815 |
| Houston (9) |
18,770 | 17,032 | 17,310 |
| Kansas City (8) |
17,418 | 17,762 |
10,287 |
| Los Angeles (2) |
-- |
22,829 | 21,437 |
| New England (17) |
-- | 12,149 |
12,987 |
| New York (6) |
-- | 18,216 | 18,441 |
| Philadelphia (7) |
18,770 |
18,237 | 19,254 |
| Portland (5) |
18,627 |
18,627 | -- |
| Real Salt Lake (10) |
18,627 |
16,685 |
17,095 |
| San Jose (16) |
10,525 |
12,395 |
9,659 |
| Seattle (1) |
-- |
37,189 | 36,173 |
| Toronto FC (4) |
-- |
19,977 |
20,453 |
| Vancouver (3) |
27,500 | 20,757 | -- |
| Leaguewide |
17,481 | 17,420 | 16,037 |
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