By Midfielder - 17 May 2023 2:23 PM
If possible, and the lord knows its asking a lot, but can we just this once not all become experts in the US sporting environment and turn the whole thing into a P & R V Franchise Model..
Further I am not suggesting we copy their model, I strongly suggest we copy their fan focused decision making models and how they view their sporting environment.
I hear what a failure and joke MLS is, all of the time.
The buy in for expansion into MLS in 2003, exactly 20 years ago, was US $10 million.
Renting at a local college gridiron stadium, zero business plans in place and of course moving to continue as renters at a local college gridiron stadiums.
San Diego to become the 30th team in the MLS.
20 years on, paying US $500 million for the buy in now., and brining rights to a 35K stadium….
Yep, MLS total failure
In the 30-team competition, there is 23 Football specific stadiums, plus two more teams building their own thus 25 soon, and with one team building a new stadium to go from an 18K stadium [which they are giving to their women’s team] to a 26K stadium.
Over all crowds around 90 capacity attendance across the league… with revenues expected to exceed 2.3 billion in a 29-team league [BTW the 2.3 billion does not include the 500 million buy in]
As I said total failure of a league, we have nothing to learn from them…
If interested this is a vid of their stadiums, with Mami the first one showed being rebuild elsewhere to a new 26K stadium and the 18K stadium given to the womens team, New York FC & New England operating out of non-Football stadiums are in the process of constructing their own stadiums, 26K and 21K. Meaning of the 30 teams 25 will have Football specific stadiums, of the remaining 5 teams, 3 teams draw huge crowds to the non Football specific stadiums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRAM5_a5gC0&ab_channel=TFCStadiums
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By Midfielder - 9 Apr 2024 2:47 PM
One of the things explained very well in the first vid is the history of US Football, and in a sense the MLS grew out of the US sporting environment.
Anyone interested in this kinda thing its well worth watching.
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