"Atlanta United president Darren Eales told MLSsoccer.com on Friday that the club has converted 22,000 of the 31,000 season ticket deposits the club received into full season tickets for their inaugural season.
Should Atlanta not open the full stadium for any games, they can use mechanized curtains to cover the upper bowl. When activated, the curtains will limit stadium capacity to about 29,000 while maintaining a more intimate feel than would be achieved by merely covering seats with tarps. "
“At the moment our plan is to change that,” Eales said. “The way that sales are going, the fact that we have that many means that we can [open the full stadium] I think like Seattle, who open it up when they want to. It’s a lovely problem to have, but we’ve got a lot of time and who knows where we end up. The exciting for us at the moment is to have reached the level we have now, because no team’s sold so many so early. We’re excited to have that level of support so far and excited to see how far it could go.” |