TAMPA, Fla. – The United Soccer League reached another attendance landmark for the 2018 season on Saturday night, as the league surpassed two million in total attendance for the season. The campaign has been one the biggest season in the organization’s modern era, as it continues to set a record pace for lower division attendance in North American soccer.

The league welcomed 98,511 fans over the course of Week 24 of the regular season and has now officially welcomed 2,074,401 fans throughout the first three-quarters of its regular-season schedule this year, with Saturday night’s final game between Las Vegas Lights FC and Fresno FC at Cashman Field the 420th game of the 561-game regular season schedule.

The league overall continues to raise the bar in both cumulative and average attendance across the board. The USL reached the two million attendance mark a season ago on Oct. 8, while this season it will reach that mark only days after it did the 1.5 million mark a season ago (Aug. 23).

With the USL’s independent clubs averaging more than 6,100 fans per game and the league overall averaging almost 5,000 fans per game for the first time in its modern era, the league remains on course to approach three million in total attendance for the first time in its history with two months of the season remaining.

“The sustained success our clubs have seen this year in the stands is a testament to the experience and hard work put in both by the leadership of clubs across the league, and by the outstanding staff at the league office that have helped build the USL into the league it is today,” said USL President Jake Edwards. “The response we’ve seen in new and historic USL markets from fans to the rising level of competition and organization throughout the league has been tremendous, and we are very excited to enter the final two months of the regular season with the race for the USL Cup Playoffs set to go down the wire.”