The New England Revolution introduced Wednesday that the membership has offered greater than 60,000 tickets for his or her April 27 match towards Inter Miami at Gilette Stadium and anticipates it being the highest-attended house match within the historical past of the MLS constitution membership.
The Revolution are one in every of a handful of MLS groups that play in a stadium primarily meant to host NFL video games. Based by New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft, the Revolution have performed in the identical stadium because the Patriots for the reason that former’s 1996 inception, together with at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. since 2001. Gilette Stadium seats simply over 65,000 folks.
It will be the newest industrial success for Inter Miami and the MLS since Lionel Messi’s arrival to the membership final summer season. Messi was quickly joined by former FC Barcelona teammates Sergio Busquets, Jordi Alba and, at the start of the 2024 MLS season, Luis Suarez. However Messi is the draw, and each Inter Miami and the MLS have seen ticket gross sales and viewership rankings undergo the roof for the reason that arrival of the Argentine celebrity and 2022 FIFA Males’s World Cup champion.
By comparability, the Revolution averaged simply 23,940 followers per sport in 2023 — a brand new membership file — and had simply over 29,000 attend their 2024 house opener. The Inter Miami match is ready to interrupt the present Revolution attendance file for each a daily season (57,4407 attendees) and a playoff sport (61,316 attendees). The previous was set on April 20, 1997, when the Revolution performed a match towards the Tampa Bay Mutiny as a part of a doubleheader the place the principle occasion was a United States males’s workforce World Cup qualifying match towards Mexico. The latter was set throughout the 2002 MLS Cup closing between the Revolution and LA Galaxy.
Gillette Stadium has additionally hosted worldwide friendlies which have drawn greater than 60,000 followers, together with a 2007 pleasant between Brazil and Mexico and a 2011 pleasant between Spain and the U.S. Nevertheless, Messi’s anticipated arrival to the constructing Tom Brady referred to as house for greater than twenty years appears poised to high all of them, no less than attendance-wise.
There’s nonetheless some concern over whether or not Messi will really play that sport. Messi has been out since March 13 because of a hamstring damage he suffered in Miami’s CONCACAF Champions Cup match towards Nashville, although the damage had been described as minor.
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