MLS Attendance - Smallest % of Tickets Sold

To follow up last week's post about the teams who had been seen by the largest percentage of fans, I ran the numbers to determine which teams had been seen by the smallest percentage of fans.

There have been 35 teams that were seen by less than 15% of the fans attending games that season. The only year no team fell below this threshold was 2002. These are the 10 worst seasons to date:

  year  team   home    away     team ttl league ttl  % sold
1 1999  KC    130,924  191,229  322,153  2,742,102   11.75
2 2000  Miami 119,352  212,710  332,062  2,641,085   12.57
3 2007  KC    173,784  240,809  414,593  3,270,210   12.68
4 2001  KC    142,402  166,060  308,462  2,363,859   13.05
5 1998  KC    129,163  230,245  359,408  2,747,897   13.08
6 2007  COLO  221,229  215,154  436,383  3,270,210   13.34
7 2006  KC    177,322  225,194  402,516  2,976,787   13.52
7 1996  COLO  163,413  213,236  376,649  2,785,001   13.52
9 1998  DAL   175,162  198,315  373,477  2,747,897   13.59
10 2005 KC    155,060  239,894  394,954  2,900,716   13.62

Two franchises have fallen under the 15% line eight different times -- Kansas City and Dallas. That's almost 46% of the total number of seasons under the qualifying line.

Interestingly Colorado is 6th on the list even though they drew better at home than on the road. That has only happened eight times:
2000 DAL, COLO
2005 SJ
2006 CHI
2007 RSL, NE, HOU, COLO