TORONTO

Get them while you can.

Toronto FC will release a final block of 500 season tickets later today before capping its season-seat holder base at 17,000.

The Toronto Sun learned early Monday that TFC has enjoyed a league-leading renewal rate of 95% among existing season-seat holders on top of selling an additional 2,700 new seats ahead of the 2014 season.

Maybe more impressive is the fact the club has done this in a fraction of the time fellow MLS clubs have.

Teams around the league typically open up ticket renewals in October. But Toronto FC elected to hold off until after fans witnessed its off-season transformation.

“The response from existing and new TFC season seat holders during the renewal period this month has been nothing short of incredible and we expect a sold out BMO Field to be an important part of an exciting season,” said Tom Pistore, VP of ticket sales and service for MLSE.

“Toronto earned a reputation around Major League Soccer as having one of the best groups of fans and we know that they are looking forward to the start of the season as much as we are.”

The news falls in line with what MLSE head honcho Tim Leiweke told the Sun last month. Shortly after introducing new Designated Players Jermain Defoe and Michael Bradley, Leiweke told the Sun he expects every MLS game at BMO Field to be sold out in 2014.

Currently holding its pre-season in Bradenton, Fla., Toronto FC will play D.C. United in its opening pre-season game on Wednesday, streamed live at mlssoccer.com.

Toronto FC opens the 2014 season on March 15 in Seattle before hosting D.C. United a week later in its home opener.