Tickets! Get Your Tickets!

Barcelona, Baby! Is anyone getting tired of that yet? Oh, good. Cause I'm not!

Ticket info for the Sounders - Barcelona is in: Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, June 15th at 10 a.m. Tickets will be available at www.SoundersFC.com or by calling 1-800-745-3000.

But... I bet if you register at SoundersFC.com you may get a handy dandy presale notification email. Since I didn’t buy my season tickets in my name and registered at that link and still got the Chelsea presale info, I’m thinking that is true.

Speaking of ticket sales, 60,000 tickets have been sold for the Sounders – Chelsea game on July 18. With only 7,000 left that makes a total of 67,000 seats. (me=smart) That’s max capacity at Qwest Field. I can hear the roar of the crowd now...

And if you’re dying for just a little more ticket trivia tonight, please note that the Sounders FC home supporters will be increasing by 4000. The remaining seats in the lower bowl above the south end will be sold for games June 28 and thereafter.

Go Sounders!

Maximum Capacity at Qwest Field?

If any of you are wondering whether the upper level at Qwest will be opened for the Chelsea and Barcelona friendlies against Sounders FC this summer, MLS.net holds the likely answer: yes.

Back in 2006, the first year Barcelona FC came to play a US tour (they came back in 2007 and 2008 too), they had the highest average attendance for any club tour in U.S. history: 80,734 fans on average in three matches.

That included three sold-out crowds: at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (vs. CD Guadalajara, 1-1 on Aug. 6 in front of 92,650), at Houston's Reliant Stadium (vs. Club America, 3-3 on Aug. 9, with a crowd of 70,550), and at Giants Stadium in E. Rutherford, NJ (vs. NY Red Bulls, 4-1 on Aug. 12, in front of 79,002).

Let's max out Qwest Field at 72K and bring the crowd that these matches deserve.

Chelsea Tickets Presale Info

I'm sure that most of y'all are season ticket holders and therefore have a death-grip on your Chelsea-Sounders tickets. But... if you gave your tickets away to your friend whose wedding you were unable to make at the last minute or to your best friend as a (successful) pacifier after you slept with his girlfriend or some other CRAZY reason, you do have a chance to recoup them:

Presale began TODAY at 10am so GET ON IT. The presale password is 3BLUES (as in you will have the triple blues if you don't get these tix).

Public sales begin Monday, May 11th at 10am.