Atlanta is on the verge of setting another soccer ticket-sales record.
The United States Soccer Federation announced Friday morning that tickets sales for Saturday’s SheBelieves Cup at Mercedes-Benz Stadium were at 48,500. The record for ticket sales and distributed for a friendly involving the U.S. women’s national team is 49,504, set Aug. 29, 2019, for a match against Portugal in Philadelphia.
The U.S. will host Japan at 12:30 p.m. Saturday, followed by Canada playing Brazil at 3:30 p.m. in the semifinals of the SheBelieves Cup. The winners will play for the title Tuesday in Columbus, Ohio.
“I think anytime you can play in front of a large crowd, that’s really exciting,” U.S. women’s interim manager Twila Kilgore said Friday. “We want to play for our fans, we feed off their energy, it’s an amazing experience to be in a stadium in the form of support that’s behind you. But also to do that in what will be the future home of U.S. Soccer is really special. This is a community that we want to embrace, we want to be involved in. It’s going to be a joint effort to make this the center of U.S. Soccer. And we’re just really excited about everything.”
Atlanta United has led MLS in attendance each of the past seven seasons and is on top again this season, with an average of 50,961 tickets sold and distributed. The club also holds attendance records for U.S. Open Cup final (35,709), MLS All-Star game (72,317) and MLS Cup (73,019).
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