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2022 USL Championship Attendance

An above-average week for 2022 USL Championship attendance to end the season, led by large crowds for New Mexico, Louisville and Sacramento matches.

Overall, 2022 USL Championship attendance is up some 30 percent over 2021 numbers, a season impacted by COVID-19 and early-season capacity limitations. Take these numbers with a small grain of salt, as many teams just stopped reporting attendance this season. That means USL Championship attendance surely exceeded 2 million by a decent margin.

This season sees a reduced lineup of 27 teams after several MLS teams pulled their affiliates and some USL Championship paused operations after a hard two years. Still, the 27 teams remaining presents a pretty formidable lineup, and we expect strong 2022 USL Championship attendance numbers throughout the season. We have based this ranking on numbers officially posted to the USL Championship website‘s schedule page as well as newspaper coverage.

These numbers are current as of Oct. 17, 2022.

  Team Av. Totals Gms 2021 YOY W32
1 New Mexico United 10,724 171,577 16 7,727 0.39 24,945*
2 Louisville City FC 10,465 177,901 17 10,020 0.04 12,096
3 Sacramento Republic FC 9,876 167,890 17 6,926 0.43 11,569
4 Indy Eleven 8,285 140,849 17 5,599 0.48  
5 CS Switchbacks FC 7,199 122,389 17 6,271 0.15  
6 El Paso Locomotive FC 6,517 97,760 15 6,214 0.05  
7 Phoenix Rising FC 6,401 57,605 9 6,679 -0.04 NA
8 Detroit City FC 6,118 104,012 17 NA NA 7,537
9 San Antonio FC 5,980 101,668 17 4,904 0.22 8,015
10 Birmingham Legion FC 5,920 23,681 4 6,791 -0.13  
11 Las Vegas Lights FC 5,615 28,076 5 6,092 -0.08  
12 Hartford Athletic 5,178 72,487 14 4,580 0.13  
13 Tampa Bay Rowdies 5,148 87,508 17 3,750 0.37 9,747*
14 Oakland Roots SC 4,611 73,780 16 4,344 0.06  
15 San Diego Loyal 4,519 63,271 14 3,953 0.14  
16 Orange County SC 4,230 63,445 15 3,609 0.17  
17 Rio Grande Valley FC 4,074 65,180 16 3,030 0.34 5,139
18 FC Tulsa 4,044 68,742 17 3,508 0.15 10,527*
19 Pittsburgh Riverhounds 3,934 66,874 17 3,133 0.26 5,182
20 Memphis 901 FC 3,683 58,923 16 4,075 -0.10  
21 Monterey Bay FC 3,643 61,934 17 NA NA  
22 Charleston Battery 2,797 47,547 17 2,742 0.02 4,325
23 Loudoun United FC 1,583 26,905 17 689 1.30  
24 The Miami FC 1,162 18,596 16 700 0.66  
25 Atlanta United 2 558 9,479 17 767 -0.27  
26 New York Red Bulls II 399 5,193 13 531 -0.25  
27 LA Galaxy II 325 650 2 NA NA NA
  TOTALS 5,061 1,983,922 392 3,880 0.30 99,082
  WEEKLY AV.           7,622

* Total of two matches.

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