getting ready for a Sunday Leagues Cup match with Atletico de San Luis of Liga MX. There’s an attempted attendance boycott and Olympics coverage to compete.
The Leagues Cup is only two seasons old, counting the 2024 matches. That is not enough history to fully capture the imagination of the sporting public. Yet, the tournament, which includes Orlando City SC, is moving in the right direction toward that goal.
The slate of matches from July 30 through Aug. 3 averaged 18,049 attendance. This partial second-week attendance, for the 15 matches reporting (18 total), is just under last year’s average attendance for the entire inaugural year of the tournament.
That included later matches when fans had figured out what the Leagues Cup was about and where this slate of matches was going. With the Sunday games pending in this second week including the Orlando City SC match, attendance has run from a high of 46,080 to a low of 1,020.
The low was at D.C. United vs. Santos Laguna, held at Subaru Park. The previous Leagues Cup match had 14,400 watching D.C. against Atlanta United.
