Scarcely a week after announcing that former Major League Baseball star Ken Griffey, Jr. had become the club’s 10,000th season ticket holder, Orlando City SC hit another milestone on Monday, with the club revealing they have surpassed 11,000 season tickets for their inaugural season.
“The rapid increase in sales shows the growing demand of our passionate fans as the home opener rapidly approaches,” Orlando City founder and president Phil Rawlins (pictured) said in a statement. “To be only a few thousand tickets away from our goal several weeks before the start of the season further validates why Orlando is the ‘Soccer Capital of the South.’”
Orlando have broken ground on a soccer-specific stadium that will open in 2016 and will play this season at the 65,000-seat Orlando Citrus Bowl. Orlando will open their expansion season on Sunday, March 8, when they host fellow first-year side New York City FC at 5 pm ET on ESPN2 and ESPN Deportes.
