Saturday’s contest established Sporting KC’s new membership attendance file, topping the earlier mark of 52,424. That was set at Arrowhead Stadium in a pleasant in opposition to Premier League facet Manchester United on July 25, 2010.
The cross-conference match additionally made Missouri soccer historical past, smashing the state’s earlier soccer attendance file of 54,184 from a Actual Madrid-Inter Milan worldwide membership pleasant in 2013.
Arrowhead Stadium is dwelling to reigning NFL Tremendous Bowl champions Kansas Metropolis Chiefs. Sporting KC sometimes play dwelling matches at Kids’s Mercy Park, their soccer-specific venue, however moved this Matchday 9 fixture in anticipation of Messi’s arrival.
