The 2011 regular-season attendance of 17,872 marked an all-time high for the 16-year-old league, whose highest attendance average came in its inaugural season of 1996. For MLS team attendance rankings and attendance history ... * MLS's 17,872 attendance average in 2011 marked a 7 percent increase from 2010's 16,675 and is the league's highest since the 1996 inaugural season's 17,406. * Total attendance for 306 games was a record 5.47 million. * Seattle's average of 38,496 makes it the attendance leader for the third straight year and sets a record for all-time highest season attendance average for an MLS team. Seattle averaged 36,173 in 2010 and 30,897 in its inaugural 2009 season when it beat the Galaxy's 1996 high mark of 28,916. * MLS newcomers Portland and Vancouver drew 18,827 and 20,406, respectively. http://www.socceramerica.com/article/44339/season-16-sets-attendance-record.html
