Seattle rewards its faithful
- by Mike Woitalla @MikeWoitalla, Jul 20, 2011
[MLS ATTENDANCE] Columbus drew its second largest crowd of the season. Seattle rewarded another huge turnout with an exciting win.
For MLS attendance rankings ...
* The biggest crowd of the week appeared in Seattle -- as is always the case when the Sounders are at home. Watching their team's thrilling 4-3
victory over Colorado were 36,424.
* The crowd of 14,109 at Crew Stadium that witnessed a scoreless tie with San Jose was the Crew's second largest of the season, behind the 14,549 for a
matchup against Dallas in April.
* Chivas USA, Chicago and New England also drew crowds bigger than their average.
MLS ATTENDANCE:
| Club (2011 Rank) | Week 18 Home Games | 2011 Home Average | 2010 Home Average (Final) |
| Chicago (14) | 16,419 | 14,292 | 15,814 |
| Chivas USA (12) | 14,838 | 14,735 | 14,576 |
| Colorado (13) | 13,058 | 14,532 | 13,329 |
| Columbus (18) | 14,109 | 10,846 | 14,642 |
| D.C. United (11) | -- | 15,696 | 14,532 |
| FC Dallas (15) | 10,802 | 13,241 | 10,815 |
| Houston (9) | 12,047 | 16,902 | 17,310 |
| Kansas City (8) | -- | 18,107 | 10,287 |
| Los Angeles (2) | -- | 22,641 | 21,437 |
| New England (17) | 13,414 | 12,149 | 12,987 |
| New York (6) | -- | 18,310 | 18,441 |
| Philadelphia (7) | -- | 18,177 | 19,254 |
| Portland (5) | -- | 18,627 | -- |
| Real Salt Lake (10) | -- | 16,227 | 17,095 |
| San Jose (16) | -- | 13,010 | 9,659 |
| Seattle (1) | 36,424 | 37,189 | 36,173 |
| Toronto FC (4) | -- | 19,876 | 20,453 |
| Vancouver (3) | -- | 20,008 | -- |
| Leaguewide | 16,865 | 17,526 | 16,037 |
