ATLANTA – Six months in and Atlanta United is on pace to become arguably the most successful expansion team to ever enter the MLS to date. Perhaps, of all professional sports teams in North America, the quickest to attain prosperity.
That’s not a hot take. Everyone wants a piece of what Atlanta United is having.
In the first two games alone, the team combined for over 100,000 fans. Not even the Seattle Sounders, who maintained an average of 42,628 fans, turned out an attendance equivalent to that at Bobby Dodd Stadium. The Five Stripes surpassed that number by Week 9 with 49,077 fans, then to hold down a total average of 46,482 per game.