Atlanta United President Darren Eales, in a podcast with Mouths of the South, provided some hints at how the MLS expansion club's season-ticket sales are going.
The team has consistently declined to release the conversation rate of season-ticket sales, only saying that they will do so at some unannounced point in the future.
However, Eales told the podcast that there are more than 30,000 tickets pledged to purchase, which has been the total the team has used for the past few months.
The team is 60 percent of the way trying to convert the holders of those pledges into season-ticket purchasers.
Less than 10 percent of the people are declining to purchase the season tickets.
So, let’s do some approximations, which shouldn’t be used for anything other than water-cooler talk:
The team has spoken with people who have pledged to purchase 18,000 of 30,000 tickets.
Less than 10 percent have declined to purchase.
Assuming the ratios of people-to-number of tickets pledged to purchase is constant across throughout the population, that means that approximately 16,200 tickets have been sold.
Seattle set the record for an expansion team with approximately 22,000 season-tickets sold in 2009.
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