Stadiums and Arenas of Canada part 2

[JHikka]

Originally Posted by Acajack

How many FIFA events have there been in Montreal or Canada though?

In the past fifteen years, four:
2002 U20 Women's World Cup
2007 U20 World Cup
2014 U20 Women's World Cup
2015 Women's World Cup

Montreal hosted matches for the latter three.

Originally Posted by Acajack

You keep focusing on the WWC but I had a look at Montreal's attendance and it wasn't that bad considering it didn't have games involving Canada to pack in 50k people like Vancouver did.

Olympic also had three sets of games that had attendances of 10,175, 13,862, and 15,518. Moncton was putting up numbers similar to those. When the tournament was finished Montreal ended on an average of 25,381 over nine matches, less than Vancouver, Edmonton, and Winnipeg. Montreal's average was also less than Edmonton and Toronto during the 2014 Women's U20s.

Montreal did have good attendance for the World U20s in 2007; 40,876 average over nine matches. Ottawa and Toronto were at capacity in their stadiums (25K & 20K respectively). Victoria and Burnaby sold out all matches in their (much) smaller stadiums.

Originally Posted by Acajack

Attendance in Montreal wasn't dramatically different from Edmonton where there were also games with sub-20k attendance in the 15k range.

Indeed, but nobody really says anything about Edmonton having to host matches as some sort of baseline requirement like they do for Montreal.

Originally Posted by Acajack

BTW I am almost positive that international friendlies in Montreal at the Big O over the years have drawn consistently better than friendlies in Toronto at Skydome.

There hasn't been an international friendly in either stadium in the past twelve years.

Originally Posted by Acajack

Saying that Montreal does not support soccer (club or international) is a strawman.

Montreal supports club teams and the occasional international match that usually doesn't involve Canada.

Originally Posted by Acajack

Soccer is well supported in all three of Canada's biggest cities. That's the reality.

Absolutely. It's a shame the stadium situation doesn't currently reflect that (at least to the extent of hosting WC matches go, anyway).