[MLS ATTENDANCE] Ten Week 26 games averaged 17,646 fans as MLS, with just more than a month left in the regular season, is on pace to break its season attendance record.
* Seattle drew the biggest crowd of the week when 35,940 watched it fall to Real Salt Lake.
* San Jose drew the smallest crowd, but the 10,525 who watched the Quakes end a 13-game winless streak marked its fourth straight sellout at tiny Buck Shaw Stadium.
* New England, which struggles at the gate, drew its third biggest crowd of the season when 15,498 watched it down Dallas.
* MLS's attendance average so far this season is 17,455. 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 26 Home Games |
2011 Home Average |
2010 Home Average (Final) |
| Chicago (14) |
-- |
14,018 |
15,814 |
| Chivas USA (13) |
12,245 |
14,248 | 14,576 |
| Colorado (12) |
-- | 14,584 | 13,329 |
| Columbus (18) |
13,058 | 11,405 |
14,642 |
| D.C. United (11) |
-- | 15,024 | 14,532 |
| FC Dallas (15) |
-- |
12,896 |
10,815 |
| Houston (10) |
-- | 16,793 | 17,310 |
| Kansas City (8) |
14,791 |
17,578 |
10,287 |
| Los Angeles (2) |
20,068 | 23,051 | 21,437 |
| New England (17) |
15,498 | 12,739 |
12,987 |
| New York (5) |
19,684 | 18,864 | 18,441 |
| Philadelphia (7) |
16,148 18,504 |
18,168 | 19,254 |
| Portland (6) |
-- |
18,627 | -- |
| Real Salt Lake (9) |
-- | 17,001 |
17,095 |
| San Jose (16) |
10,525 |
12,021 |
9,659 |
| Seattle (1) |
35,940 |
36,982 | 36,173 |
| Toronto FC (4) |
-- |
20,178 |
20,453 |
| Vancouver (3) |
-- |
20,542 | -- |
| Leaguewide |
17,646 | 17,455 | 16,037 |
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