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It’s worth noting that this video is a bit outdated. Since he made this video, two new teams have joined the league. Charlotte FC plays at Bank of America Stadium, which is a stadium share with an NFL team, but they stay there because they can still sell out that stadium. St. Louis city joined this year and they play a beautiful 22,000 seat stadium called the city park. Furthermore, Nashville no longer plays at Nissan Stadium. Last year a 30,000 seat soccer specific stadium the largest in the country, open for them and it is beautiful. It’s called Geotis Park. Furthermore, Real Salt Lake Also now plays a stadium called America first field. Also, the San Jose earthquakes were required by law to not put a stand on the other side because it is too close to the airport. It would be a safety issue for the airplanes. Even further still, the Seattle sounders play at the NFL stadium simply because they have a massive Fanbase. The Seattle sounders have probably the largest Fanbase in the MLS. They can fill that place right up.
@@hamburghsteelers they probably do but their park is smaller so it doesn’t show. Haven’t made top ten int he league in attendance in several years. EDIT: and don’t no one accuse me of being some stuck up Seattle Sounders fan. I hate both of them. I’m all Charlotte FC. For The Crown!!
@@TheMarkc614 their stadium is massive. Same as Sounders. But Timbers Stadium looks the best and I love their fanculture. It's not just about attandance but about the behave of the fans.
Yes. From its very inception Mercedes Benz stadium in Atlanta was designed and built to accommodate soccer matches as well as American football and concerts.
@@gracielynn9623 This wasn't a competition lol. But anyway I expect y'all to have the overall record because your stadium is bigger but as we saw last year you can sustain that for an entire season
@@joshuasimmons8160 we sold out 15 of 17 games last season. We probably would’ve had a higher average attendance than 35,260 if our dingbat management and owners didn’t close off the upper deck on purpose to drive up ticket prices.
@@joshuasimmons8160 what I’m trying to say is we shouldn’t be trying to sell it out. We sell out 35K almost every single game. Most games there’s a waitlist several thousand names long to get tickets from varified places. The only two games that didn’t seem out where in march last year after the home opener. Every other game in the season sold out at home. I think I’d rather have 45K show up with affordable tickets than intentionally keeping attendance lower than 35K for the sake of announcing a sellout and jacking up ticket prices.
When Paul Allen wanted to get public funding for a replacement for the Kingdome in the late 90s, there was some opposition as we had just agreed to build the Mariners baseball stadium. As one of the concessions, many seattle area residents wanted the new stadium to be designed for both soccer and football in the hopes of a pro soccer team again. So Lumen Field was built in 2002 with a field wide enough for soccer and long enough for football and a roofline purposely built to help direct sound back on to the field.Field turf was chosen because grass would not hold up to two teams using it in our rainy fall season. With modern grass tending technology that may change with WC 2026 coming. From someone who attended NASL Sounders games in the Kingdome as a kid, I hope you found this tidbit usefull.
The attendance record for an athletic event at Lumen Field is actually the Sounders' MLS Cup championship at over 69,000 attendees and not that other football hobby sport. Looking forward to the 2026 WC where Lumen Field will have a "permanent" grass pitch installed. We'll see if it lasts.
To be fair to the "history" aspect of the MLS, the league is less than 30 years old. Of the original ten teams, nine are still around. Before the MLS, we had the NASL, but there was about 10 years between the folding of the NASL and the founding of the MLS. Chicago Fire is the oldest "expansion" team, starting in the 1998 season with a previous Miami team. The Miami team played until 2001. The league then went back to 10 teams after 2001 with the folding of the Miami and Tampa teams. It wasn't until 2005 that the MLS finally started to grow substantially. From 2005 to 2014, the league grew from 10 teams to 19. We lost a team in 2014, but we've added 11 between 2015 and this season to put us at 29. Real Salt Lake went to Real Madrid to ask permission to use "Real" in their name. My favorite part of the Orlando Stadium also happens to be one of the most depressing aspects. A year after the team's first season, there was a shooting at a gay nightclub that killed 49. In 2017, they honored the 49 victims with a section of 49 Pride flag seats. They are a permanent fixture and you can see them quickly as the video pans over the stadium. Concerning Atlanta United, they have sold out Mercedes Benz Stadium multiple times. They average more than 47,000 and before last season, held the top ten spots in record attendance with between 70,000 and 72,500. Banc of America now holds the top spot with more than 74,000.
I went to a Real Salt Lake game several years back and Rio Tinto Stadium (now called America First Field) is actually beautiful inside. It's also very near a major train line, bus route, and highway, so it's quite convenient to reach.
Exploria was renamed stadia due to company change but we know simply as Lions stadium. It got a bit of a revamp a few years ago and it got the lions purple paint and the lion’s pryde colors. It looks a lot better now.
I've never heard anybody call it "Lions Stadium". It was Orlando City Stadium before Exploria bought the naming rights. Now people just call it Exploria. The stadium itself has been the same since it opened. It was always purple.
Honestly a big screen is always cool. I wished more football stadiums adapted bigger screens, allows the people to be more involved in the action, see the replays and stuff.
The team is called Real Salt Lake because when they were established they had a partnership with Real Madrid. Real Madrid even came over for a friendly and came back for the groundbreaking of this new stadium.
"aluminum" actually came before "aluminium" by a couple years. It's spelled that way here too. Neither is wrong, obviously. Just an interesting factoid. Also, I'm glad you liked my teams stadium (Houston Dynamo). It's rather bare bones in terms of amenities as with most of the stadia built in that era of MLS, it had to be built on the cheap (all these teams absolutely had to stop paying rent) , but that mesh exterior was so well conceived, it does a lot of the heavy lifting aesthetics wise, and like you said, you're there to watch (association) football.
Darn! You beat me to it. I was gonna post a boring, yet somewhat interesting, fact about it being spelled and pronounced as aluminum first. Also, the person that discovered it, and therefore got the right to name it, was British himself.
@John Doe Yeah. That's another word that was British born that modern Brits seem to think we invented. I honestly believe that most of the UK population has never been informed of this. Whatever. We'll just continue to be the world's only superpower(which might not last too much longer).
This video is technically outdated now; the modern new CITYPARK stadium, home of the brand-new club St. Louis City SC, who begin play this season, would be included in the brand new/barely finished stadiums
The MLS just doesn't sell enough tickets or the history to match Premier league stadiums. I think Allianz in Minnesota is underrated here, but when you're the 5th biggest sports league in a country, the stadiums are gonna be pretty unspectacular for the most part
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I noticed you got a top on that kinda looks like Manchester City’s jersey. Just funny small moment. I enjoyed this, will watch more of your stuff. Cheers.
Ha, I love that you lean in to being a snob about being british. It's cheeky enough that it's entertaining and engaging instead of actually snobbish. :)
Lumen (CenturyLink as it was known) Field was built not only for the Seahawks but with the creation of a MLS expansion team in mind which came to fruition in 2009 when the Sounders joined the league.
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From what I’ve seen in pictures and videos, I get the impression that Providence Park is like the Wrigley Field of soccer stadiums. Even if that isn’t so, it looks glorious and I’m dying to go see a Timbers game now!
Whenever he mentions turf it’s like how my high school switched to turf to host football playoff games. In football turf causes less injuries since it’s not as hard when you hit. But of course for soccer it’s a higher pace and destroys your knees.
Bank of America stadium in Charlotte NC broke the MLS attendance record with 75k last season in the home opener and again this seasons home opener held 65k so using NFL stadiums as MLS matches isn’t a bad idea.
Soldier Field may be converted to a primary soccer stadium. The Chicago Bears are planning to build a new stadium in the Chicago suburbs. The Chicago Fire sometimes have to play at a different venue if there is a Bears game or concert.
Just to mess with the Brits thinking they're right about the language: Aluminum was the original word that Sir Humphrey came up with in 1807, but he then decided to change it to aluminium in 1812 because of "elitist snobbery" (my term). The change to aluminium was done to give it a more "classically scientific" sounding name (hence the "elitist snobbery"). Also, 'soccer' was used in England first (that's where the North Americans (both US and Canada), the Australians, and the Japanese - to name a few places - got the term after all) and according to a University of Michigan paper on the subject, England only stopped using the term 'soccer' 40 years ago. The term itself goes back 200 years. So, who's more correct? Those using 'football' (for 40 or so years) or the many other countries still using the older term (200-ish years) of 'soccer'? Most linguists (that I've heard anything from) say that American (US) pronunciations are actually, most times than not, closer to the correct/original ones. It's the Brits that have most dramatically changed their ways of saying things.
The dynamo are my club. We just changed all the orange seats to newer ones and it makes the stadium look much nicer. They also did more Internal renovations. We haven’t had our first home game yet but we will in a couple weeks
Even though Atlanta and Seattle share their stadiums with American football teams, they were built for both sports and are great for watching soccer. Some of the other American football stadiums are not so good for soccer. And Yankee stadium is just terrible for football, but that is obvious.
The Nashville soccer club has its own home now & no longer play at Nissan the Titans field. Geodis Park a 30,000 capacity MLS stadium is now the highest capacity stadium in the USA or Canada. The people of Nashville fill it to capacity every game. It's also used for concerts and other events. It opened May 1st of 2022. The stadium is everything you would hope for. The only problem is the parking situation. The owners of need to either build a parking garage nearby or use a City parking lot and provide shuttles to the game.. but even the lack of sufficient parking hasn't stopped Nashville from supporting their team 100%.
Nashville will never compare to Atlanta United....we can pack over 60,000 (compacity for 80K) fans on any given MLS game....will you guys build a new stadium for larger crowds if soccer becomes an even bigger premiere sport in your city?....30K is a great number of ticket sales, but wouldn't you want to see 60K or greater?...that means a new stadium or just share with your NFL team....
To be fair while I don't think the home of Real Salt Lake is the best, it's definitely higher than it was ranked. Look up some photos of rio tinto stadium/America First Field. Situated at the base of the Wasatch mountains its a beautiful backdrop with stunning sunsets. Also a packed stadium most matches with great atmosphere.
Denver resident who goes to Rapids game. DSG used to be mostly bleacher seating, they've since replaced with bucket seats under the canopies, but bleachers still are there in the supporter sections on the one end, and the other end has no seating. It's definitely not one of the better MLS stadiums and the location is a bit of a hike way out east into the suburbs.
The thing you didn't like in Providence Park isn't part of the park or anything to do with the Timbers. That is a gym/fitness club that is next to the field. They have spin classes in a special area that people can do spin bikes during the games and exercise while watching the Timbers. But the Timbers can't do anything about it because they don't own the Multnomah Athletic Club.
@@fighterck6241 yes the MAC used to own that property but sold it before the Timbers were even a team. The group that began what's now the MAC also owned a few other large buildings around downtown Portland, like what is now the downtown library, and sold some of them to the city as the need for them waned or financially they had to. Providence park has been many things before it is just the soccer stadium and this is actually the 1st time in its history it is a 1 sport specific stadium. But the city took ownership in 1966 and the timbers began as a team in 1975.
While I agree in principle that natural grass is better than artificial turf, there are some valid reasons for "going plastic". 1) in the long run, it's far less expensive. 2) Depending on the materials used, it's actually "greener". Materials are recycled, and the "soil" is actually made of ground up tires/tyres. It obviously doesn't require irrigation, which is important in areas subject to rain shortage and low water tables. 3) again, depending on the specific variety of artificial surface, it actually feels genuine... More specifically, some surfaces feel like putting greens on a golf course. The risk of injury, while still greater than a natural surface, is far less than it once was. All in all, there are other factors which are deal breakers for me. Is the size appropriate to the anticipated crowd? What are the sight lines; IE are the dimensions conducive to a football match? Is the stadium in a proper location; IE is it actually in the city for which the club is named, or is it in some nameless suburb? Or is it in an area near to "soccer demographics" with pubs and restaurants nearby? What is the quality of local mass transit like buses, light rail, etc? My hometown club, just recently founded, is planning to build a proper 10,000 seater in a downtown location. There will be light rail service within a quarter mile, and there are dozens of bars and restaurants within a ten minute walking radius. That's going to be very cool. Very much looking forward to it. Right now, they play in a minor league baseball stadium, 15 miles from the metro area's center of population. There are literally corn fields within sight of the parking lot. It sucks.
@@gracielynn9623 Not MLS. USL1. I suspect that they're looking to join the USL Championship. The club is Union Omaha. This coming season will only be their 4th. In the previous three, they reached the league final, won the league, and reached the US Open Cup quarterfinal (beating two MLS sides away). That's a club which is too good for the third division. It'll be nice to have a proper park.
They definitely do deserve to be in the USL championship. I wonder which team will have to leave the league? I know the league wants to have an even number of teams now, so one teams is going to have to leave or multiple teams will have to be added for Union Omaha to join. Hopefully it’s my hometown Birmingham legion FC get the call up to MLS. Of course, we all know Birmingham Legion will not get the call up to MLS. MLS is eying Las Vegas. I guess they can’t wait to add them self to the list of more leagues putting teams in Las Vegas just to watch them fail.
@@gracielynn9623 The sooner the US pyramid implements promotion and relegation, the better. I'm actually not in favor of the traditional European model, which owners would never approve, anyway. Moreover, there are huge problems with the European model - most notably, competitive imbalance. (I'm a hard core Celtic fan, but even I'm getting bored watching them dominate everyone in that league. England isn't much better. Germany is even worse.) I would advocate a coefficient model on a three year rolling basis, in which other criteria, in addition to performance, are considered. Club financial health, broadcast/streaming numbers, community/supporter group engagement, attendance, a purpose built stadium. Owners should WANT to get rid of dead weight. If a club isn't performing, isn't drawing numbers at the park or eyeballs on TV, won't invest equally to other clubs, and so on.... they should go down. If it comes down to Vegas or San Diego, I would favor the latter. Vegas is just too plastic. Detroit City FC or Phoenix Rising would be great as well. They've both got fantastic supporter engagement. Never considered Birmingham. Shame on me. But, why not?
@@kentgrady9226 promotion and relegation is something I’d love to discuss with you, but probably not today. Just finished traveling back to Birmingham from the Charlotte FC game. That being said I’m not necessarily the biggest fan but I would like to see it get implemented. My bigger concern would be making sure we keep the salary cap. The salary cap is what keeps the MLS in relative parody and prevents a gigantic gap between 1st and last place. I don’t know how you could implement pro/rel but maintain a salary cap. Finally, for now, for Birmingham Legion we have led the USL Championship in attendance our entire existence. I can personally remember several individual games where we brought in over 25,000 fans. Our stadium can hold 50,000 because we play at a football stadium, the beautiful protective stadium, so that allows for that. We averaged 8,089 fans per game last year, which is especially impressive because 13 of our home games landed on Wednesday and two of our saturday games were at the same time as auburn/Alabama college football games. That’s a model for success and there’s now a second lower division team being added in Huntsville Alabama this year because the market and appetite for it here is so big. I also disagree with your point on having MLS specific stadiums as a requirement to be in the MLS. Charlotte, Atlanta and Seattle are three perfect examples of why some teams don’t need or want a specific stadium. Atlanta regularly brings in 50,000-70,000 fans. Charlotte has broughten in MLS record 74,479 last year and 69,345 just last night, me being one of them. Charlotte would bring in much more than their listed average of 35,260 but our owners are complete dingbats who close off the upper deck for 14/17 home games on purpose to drive up the ticket prices. There were several games last year where the upper deck was closed and there was a 30,000 person wait list for tickets. With the exception of 2020-22 Seattle averaged 49,877 all time for attendance. Whenever a soccer specific stadium gets built, it’s made incredibly small, mostly on purpose to drive up ticket prices cause of demand for the small space. Ohh, and one last side thing on your pro/rel system. The Argentinian league used a three year point average. It was so bad there that teams that would finish in tenth place in a single season, like a team last year, and made the continental club competition but also got relegated because of their three year average. It’s a system that nobody liked in Argentina, not players, coaches or fans, so I don’t think that if it can be successfully pulled off in Argentina, it’s not good for here. It’s currently being phased out in Argentina, btw.
4:11 yeah, I don't like shopping at Male Reproductive Organs Sporting Goods too. Also it's now 99% certain the Chicago Bears will move to the suburbs. It would be great if the city of Chicago, MLS & the Chicago Fire redevelop Soilder Field. Make it look classic again.
LAFC stadium has sections made at a different angle specifically for people to stand and jump, catering to fans that refuse to sit for the entirety of the match.
You should react to NHL arenas. The wide world of stadiums has a video but its a year and a half old. He also has a video on all the AHL stadiums which is the direct minor league of the NHL teams. He also has a video on the professional ice hockey league in the UK.
Orlando benefits most from its location. Unlike most American stadiums, bars and restaurants are right outside the stadium instead of parking. It has more of a pub culture like British cities than tailgating
I absolutely hate FC Dallas's Stadium, Rio Tinto, and Dick's sporting good stadiums. Even though i'm a sounders fan, I gotta give the Portland tree killers credit. Converting their old baseball stadium to a small intimate soccer stadium, plus it reminds me of a small mer version of St.James Park.
I'd honestly have LOVED to go to a Chargers game at Galaxy's stadium. I'm a 49ers fan, and we basically took it over. I'd have loved the chance to see my 'Niners in that intimate a venue.
The reason Providence Park in Portland has that side that you don't like it because that isn't actually on the land of the stadium. The stadium ends at the scoreboard and an independent athletics club owns the building you don't like. Before you discredit Mercedes Benz Stadium, Atlanta United will draw 65,000 to games and averaged over 47,000 last year which puts it number 2 in North and South America. Plus, the corner stands actually pull back to allow a wider pitch specifically for soccer. The word Aluminum was created by a brit and has been around longer than the word Aluminium. The brits taught the world to say Aluminum and then changed they way they said it and now make fun of people for saying it the way the brits taught them.
At least NYCFC is getting a new stadium... in 2027, in Queens. I'm still a little confused as to why UBS Arena for the Islanders was an either/or thing considering Belmont Park is HUGE and they could probably have found the space for two stadiums if they thought outside the box, but oh well. And I was a bit shocked Orlando City was so high too, but personally I think it's got a great location. It's not too far on the opposite side of I-4 from downtown and that part of downtown has my favorite pizza place and my favorite Jimmy John's so I'm probably biased towards it.
I feel like it should be said, most MLS stadiums that have artificial turf only have it thanks either to being indoor stadiums, or sharing a venue with other tenants/sports teams. The reason artificial turf doesn’t exist in English football is simply because 99.9% of football clubs in England use their stadiums only for football. A good handful of MLS stadiums are used for way more than just soccer alone.
“Stub hub center was too small for it’s nfl team” that’s a lie. The chargers couldn’t even fill it. They had to cover over sections of seats because nobody went to those games. Chargers suck
Just remember, folks. There is only ONE MSL soccer ⚽ team that plays in New York. The New York City Football Club. The other team, the (New Jersey) Red Bulls 🐂 physically play at Red Bull Arena, which is located in the Town of Harrison, Hudson County, New Jersey, NOT NEW YORK. 👌
Yeah, the video you're reacting to is pretty old. This one is much more up-to-date: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-cRAM5_a5gC0.html&ab_channel=TFCStadiums Also, NYCFC will be out of Yankee's stadium in a few years as well: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nWuY8LB27v0.html&ab_channel=FOX5NewYork
The debate between real grass and artificial turf comes down to money. It’s cheaper for the teams to install and maintain artificial turf as opposed to grass. With grass fields there is constant maintenance due to divots, weather, etc. Most owners would prefer the one time cost of artificial turf as opposed to the constant maintenance of grass. Plus the teams probably employ less grounds people not having grass. Most America sports owners are always looking to save a buck. Not saying it’s right just giving my analysis.
Fun cultural bridge here, you don't like NYCFC because they're associated with Manchester City, I don't like them because they're associated with the Yankees.
Exploria stadium looks much better in person. Google Earth doesn't actually do it any justice. the seats are a very vibrant purple. It looks almost gray in this video.
@@BritishGuy22 you can say that for grass too, soccer people who complain. About that are too sensitive.. turf varies and favored more on this side of the world, and it's is alot more places than grass fields.. grass is expensive and even more expensive to Maintain. Realistically alot of top teams can't Have grass
Soccer ???!!! No wonder UK dos not have any good Ultras anymore... Margaret Thatcher litt made girls outa Brit Football Supporters... Even Dinamo Zagreb took over on Stamford Bridge Vs. Chelsea... OOOO LORD!!!
@@jeremey9818 I'm pointing out that soccer player who complain about turf aren't well prepared and show they're can't adjust, which basically vulnerable . Not so tough
