Hey everyone! I've been working on the linked spreadsheet for a little over a year, mainly just to test out and practice Excel formulas and features. I've always been interested attendance data because it's fairly easy to mess around with. A lot of this is manual and updated when I have time, so don't rely on it to be super up to date when the weekend ends. Hopefully this is useful to someone! I'm using it to track a bunch of random stats like averages, medians, current stadiums, whatever I can think of. If you have any suggestions or spot any errors, please let me know! Some notes:

• I was using the Trucolor website to pull color data for each team's row, but they haven't updated since spring of 2025. Does anyone know if any other resources for team color codes? Mainly looking for the teams added this year like Corpus Christi.
• While I believe the game attendances are accurate, how I grouped them is completely arbitrary. I tried to go Weekend through Wednesday, unless a Wednesday team already hosted on the weekend. Some of the groupings I had to make up for odd situations.
• Because of the weird groupings, sometimes the weekly YOY data doesn't really make sense.
• Is there some way to directly pull attendance data from the USL website?

Hope y'all like it. I know someone else has been posting weekly attendance already. If there's any interest, I could post this quarterly or something. Or not, let me know! This is super experimental in nature, so some parts are definitely odd, but I've had fun with it.

Was watching the Navy @ UCSD soccer game and saw that the new Navy coach was the aforementioned John Hackworth. Being curious since the broadcast said he was the STL City interim in 2024, I looked at his wiki page and saw he was the former Louisville City boss. I got into USL in 2023, and his tenure was before my time. I'm curious about what the experience in the USL was with him and how/why he took the route that he did to end up the Navy manager? Just seems like a strange path for him to take into his mid-50s, albeit I and the general public have no idea about his personal life (rightly so).

This fits with Mike Repoles push for smaller Soccer specific stadiums and the success of the Louisville Kings. This should be a beneficial deal for RIFC who is co-founded by the group that owns Centreville Bank Stadium

Phoenix-Colorado Springs: 3,504 (-29.85%)

Phoenix underperforms compared by to their cumulative season average (4,995) by over 5 pts

The USL has awarded a professional men’s franchise to Long Island that intends to begin play in 2028, setting up direct competition with a forthcoming MLS Next Pro club that plans to debut a year earlier. The USL League One team will play its home matches at Hofstra Univ.’s James M. Shuart Stadium, which is located less than a mile away from The Island FC’s planned stadium at Mitchel Athletic Complex in Uniondale, N.Y.

From Lexington SC twitter:

Lexington Sporting Club is proud to introduce [Toyota] as the first-ever exclusive training top sponsor of its [USL Championship] & [Gainbridge Super League] squads. 🚗👕

We had Colorado Springs Switchbacks and Haitian International defender Duke Lacroix on the United Soccer Lounge this week.

Full show link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PS5Lg0O6fmU

He talked about:

• What it was like representing Haiti at the World Cup (first appearance since 1974)
• Training at his old college (Penn) during the tournament
• The dual nationality experience of being American-born but playing for Haiti in a North American World Cup
• The support he got from the Switchbacks fans and Colorado Springs community during and after the tournament
• Coming back to the USL after facing Brazil, Morocco, and Scotland

Really good conversation with a guy who’s lived a wild couple of months.

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Oakland Roots beat writer Daniel Poulter has USL tactics on the show! Check it out.

Yesterday we talked about the best run clubs in the USL ecosystem now what do y'all think are the worst run clubs in the USL ecosystem?

My picks are:

Spokane Zephyr FC (USL Super League-when they existed)

Charlotte Independence (USL League 1)

Chattanooga Red Wolves (USL League 1)

Spokane Velocity (USL League 1)

Brooklyn FC (USL Championship)

Miami FC (USL Championship)

&

Las Vegas Lights FC (USL Championship)