2025 Season Ticket Thread

[Shwafta]

Apparently there are 1,800 founding member and 5,600 total city member active accounts. Brad Sims, interview today.

As 413Blue mentioned this is accounts not seats. I'd also be curious what the numbers are for "non-active" accounts, as I know for example I'm one of those and I know there are a LOT of us who are former ticket holders but not current. I have to imagine that number is at least twice that number.

 

[Shwafta]

Another interesting aspect is what he says directly after what Lion quotes which is that they have "400,000+ engaged fans - people that attend a game that open and read emails, participate in comments on social media, etc. " Assuming (and i know it most likely isn't) all 400k live in NYC, that's about a 5% engagement rate for the NYC population which is, by social media standards, pretty good. I know attendance to a soccer game engagement rate will be different from social media comment/like/view engagement rate, but if they are getting 400,000 people reading emails, there's clearly a strong potential there.

I personally know quite a few people who refuse to follow or go to games bc of Yankee Stadium, so I can imagine this will grow over time once the stadium is built and people start hearing about it.

 

[SoupInNYC]

Another interesting aspect is what he says directly after what Lion quotes which is that they have "400,000+ engaged fans - people that attend a game that open and read emails, participate in comments on social media, etc. " Assuming (and i know it most likely isn't) all 400k live in NYC, that's about a 5% engagement rate for the NYC population which is, by social media standards, pretty good. I know attendance to a soccer game engagement rate will be different from social media comment/like/view engagement rate, but if they are getting 400,000 people reading emails, there's clearly a strong potential there.

I personally know quite a few people who refuse to follow or go to games bc of Yankee Stadium, so I can imagine this will grow over time once the stadium is built and people start hearing about it.

I also think a very underrated aspect of the new stadium will be environment and that will draw more people to wanting to go to games.

Just take the current noise being generated from the supporter's section and place it in a 25k seated stadium with overhangs that keep the sound in and the game will feel a lot more fun for the whole stadium.

 

[Shwafta]

I also think a very underrated aspect of the new stadium will be environment and that will draw more people to wanting to go to games.

Just take the current noise being generated from the supporter's section and place it in a 25k seated stadium with overhangs that keep the sound in and the game will feel a lot more fun for the whole stadium.

Do we know if they are going to add speakers around the stadium to help artificially project the supporter section around the stadium as well? I've heard that's done in some places.

 

[SoupInNYC]

Do we know if they are going to add speakers around the stadium to help artificially project the supporter section around the stadium as well? I've heard that's done in some places.

I don't know that and I've never heard of that before.

I know there are usually mics put near supporters sections so they can get picked up better in TV broadcasts, but I don't think that noise is supposed to be projected throughout the stadium on speakers.

 

[mgarbowski]

Did he specifically say accounts, and not seats. Any guesses on how many seats the average account has?

Since the announced attendance is based on tickets sold and distributed, regardless of bodies in seats, I would estimate total season tickets sold from the lowest attendance of the year, which was 18,209 against Montreal on July 3. Then I would guess (and this is a WAG) that they sell/distribute a minimum of 1-3k tickets each game, meaning an estimated 15-17k season tickets. That comes to 2.68 to 3.04 tickets per account on average, though you're probably more interested in the total more than the average.

 

[Shwafta]

I don't know that and I've never heard of that before.

I know there are usually mics put near supporters sections so they can get picked up better in TV broadcasts, but I don't think that noise is supposed to be projected throughout the stadium on speakers.

I feel like I've heard that in the past but doing a quick search on the topic yields nothing so maybe I'm either misremembering or misunderstood. Ignore meeeeee

 

[SoupInNYC]

I feel like I've heard that in the past but doing a quick search on the topic yields nothing so maybe I'm either misremembering or misunderstood. Ignore meeeeee

I've heard of some NFL teams getting in trouble for "piping in" crowd noise in the past. But I'm not sure if they were amplifying their own live crowd noise or "playing" some kind of recorded crowd noise track or something.

 

[mgarbowski]

I've heard of some NFL teams getting in trouble for "piping in" crowd noise in the past. But I'm not sure if they were amplifying their own live crowd noise or "playing" some kind of recorded crowd noise track or something.

I believe the NFL and maybe the NBA have rules against strategically timed artificial noise levels to disrupt opposing offense communications. I don't think that's ever been an issue in soccer, but I do think that amplifying supporter noise and singing would be deemed very plastic.

 

[LionNYC]

amplifying supporter noise and singing would be deemed very plastic.

When I read plastic my first thought was vuvuzelas

 

[mgarbowski]

When I read plastic my first thought was vuvuzelas

should be outlawed

 

[413Blue]

Somewhat off topic but a thought I've been carrying for a couple years now.

I think this period of no "big name" DP's has been great for the club culture. We've played in sub-optimal and inconsistent stadiums, no big names, inconsistent results and various mis-steps by the front office in supporter relations.

In doing so, we've developed a dedicated and knowledgeable baseline of supporters. In the early years, I'd be surrounded in the stands by fans openly mocking the league, being unable to name anyone other than the big names they came to see (and Poku). Progressively, I've seen a much lower percentage of those types, and much more frequent types that know the players, talk about former players they wish we still had, and regale about great games from the past.

I know that this would have happened anyway with time, but I do think they've thinned the herd of curious onlookers, obvious Messi game aside. I'm not sure if many Pirlo/Lampard fans stuck around (where's that Pirlo super fan that was on here for a year or two lol) after they left, but I think we've built a true fan base nearly big enough to fill our stadium.

 

[ZYanksRule]

Somewhat off topic but a thought I've been carrying for a couple years now.

I think this period of no "big name" DP's has been great for the club culture. We've played in sub-optimal and inconsistent stadiums, no big names, inconsistent results and various mis-steps by the front office in supporter relations.

In doing so, we've developed a dedicated and knowledgeable baseline of supporters. In the early years, I'd be surrounded in the stands by fans openly mocking the league, being unable to name anyone other than the big names they came to see (and Poku). Progressively, I've seen a much lower percentage of those types, and much more frequent types that know the players, talk about former players they wish we still had, and regale about great games from the past.

I know that this would have happened anyway with time, but I do think they've thinned the herd of curious onlookers, obvious Messi game aside. I'm not sure if many Pirlo/Lampard fans stuck around (where's that Pirlo super fan that was on here for a year or two lol) after they left, but I think we've built a true fan base nearly big enough to fill our stadium.

Completely agree with this. The crowds have improved this season and the people I always sit near and super knowledgeable and invested. This team still needs to grow its fanbase, but the fans they do have are very dedicated.

 

[mgarbowski]

Somewhat off topic but a thought I've been carrying for a couple years now.

I think this period of no "big name" DP's has been great for the club culture. We've played in sub-optimal and inconsistent stadiums, no big names, inconsistent results and various mis-steps by the front office in supporter relations.

In doing so, we've developed a dedicated and knowledgeable baseline of supporters. In the early years, I'd be surrounded in the stands by fans openly mocking the league, being unable to name anyone other than the big names they came to see (and Poku). Progressively, I've seen a much lower percentage of those types, and much more frequent types that know the players, talk about former players they wish we still had, and regale about great games from the past.

I know that this would have happened anyway with time, but I do think they've thinned the herd of curious onlookers, obvious Messi game aside. I'm not sure if many Pirlo/Lampard fans stuck around (where's that Pirlo super fan that was on here for a year or two lol) after they left, but I think we've built a true fan base nearly big enough to fill our stadium.

The forum had some Pirlo and Villa fans who left, even though some claimed to have become fans of the team. I don't really remember any Lampard fans here, probably because we could be pretty inhospitable to him.
The two most annoying game memories along these lines are against the Galaxy in 2016 when seeming half the crowd wore Liverpool or Chelsea jerseys, and decision Day 2017 when we were struggling to stay in 2nd place with a first round bye and people were chanting to see Pirlo play.