If you happened to tune into a Timbers 2 home game on ESPN Plus near the end of May and knew no better, it would have been easy to assume that nobody was in attendance. Sure, the east side was closed due to the final touches being put onto the Timbers shiny new $80 million stadium expansion, but that didn’t seem to prevent Providence Park from feeling--and looking-- quite cavernous.
Playing in an MLS venue will inevitably dwarf any crowd while making attendance seem lower than it is, but that still doesn’t hide the fact that T2 averages just 2,193 fans a game in a venue that can now hold 25,218 of them.