Chelsea kicked off their Fifa Club World Cup campaign against Los Angeles FC to tens of thousands of empty seats in Atlanta.
The game started at 3pm local time on a working Monday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
The ground can hold 75,000 spectators, but the entire top tier was closed for this match.
Sources told the BBC that Fifa was expecting a crowd of about 26,000, but it did not appear that busy at kick-off.
A small middle tier seemed to be mostly full, but a larger bottom tier was more than half empty.