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2022 NWSL attendance

NWSLWith the regular season ending yesterday, 2022 NWSL attendance ended on a high note, with more records in the books.

First off: OL Reign set a new club attendance record on Saturday in a stand-alone game with 10,746 fans in attendance at Lumen Field. The team also holds a game attendance record coming as part of a doubleheader with MLS’s Seattle Sounders. Perhaps more impressively–and speaking to the durability of the NWSL and the Reign–the record was set on a Seattle sporting day that saw a large crowd at T-Mobile Park to celebrate the Seattle Mariners making the playoffs and the Seattle Kraken in town the same night.

We also expect to see in coming days the official announcement that NWSL set a season attendance record as well. The old record of 792,409 was set in 2019.

We should note that although we are in the 2022 regular season, we saw many matches played under the umbrella of preseason tournament. NWSL will play this season at 12 teams following expansion into Los Angeles and San Diego. We have based this ranking on numbers officially posted to the NWSL website, team websites and newspaper reports.

These numbers are current as of Oct. 3, 2022.

  Team Av. Totals Gms 2021 YoY W21
1 Angel City FC 19,105 210,153 11 N/A N/A  
2 Portland Thorns FC 15,543 170,976 11 14,391 0.08  
3 SD Wave FC 8,729 96,017 11 N/A N/A 18,000
4 KC Current 7,657 84,223 11 4,861 0.58  
5 OL Reign 6,844 75,269 11 5,433 0.26 10,746
6 Racing Louisville FC 6,048 66,529 11 6,610 -0.09 6,622
7 Washington Spirit 5,955 65,509 11 4,096 0.45 9,141
8 Chicago Red Stars 5,863 64,488 11 3,291 0.78 8,247
9 Houston Dash 5,644 62,085 11 3,681 0.53  
10 NC Courage 4,545 49,991 11 5,036 -0.10  
11 NJ/NY Gotham FC 4,415 48,563 11 5,150 -0.14 4,752
12 Orlando Pride 4,385 48,240 11 3,931 0.12  
  TOTALS 7,894 1,042,063 132 5,528 0.43 57,508
  WEEKLY AV.           9,585

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