TAMPA, Fla. – USL club set a new league record for cumulative weekly attendance over the past seven days, with more than 80,000 fans in attendance during the penultimate week of the 2016 USL regular season.

Led by FC Cincinnati, which set a new USL record for single-game attendance with 24,376 fans at Nippert Stadium on Saturday night, five teams in the league recorded sellouts, with the Richmond Kickers, Saint Louis FC and Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC setting new club records in the process.

In all, 82,752 fans attended a USL game in Week 26, which surpassed the total attendance from Week 8 this regular season of 74,927, an increase of almost 8,000 fans, and more than 17,000 fans more than the highest-attended week of the 2015 USL regular season.

With a cumulative attendance so far this season of 1,443,217, and 16 games remaining in the regular season, the league could break the 1.5 million attendance mark for the first time in its history, as the league continues to rise off the field as well as on.

“We continue to be delighted by the passion and support the fans have shown throughout the season, particularly over this past weekend as the playoff picture comes into focus,” said USL President Jake Edwards. “As a league, we have made a focused effort on raising both attendance, and improving the fan experience throughout the USL this season, and our teams have followed through magnificently to make this the most successful season in USL history.”