Attendance soars for Edmonton's Canada Soccer match, and Commonwealth's lower bowl is sold out
A big crowd will be heading to Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton next month.
The Canadian Men’s National Team is set to play one of their final tune-up matches in the Alberta capital before the World Cup, and Edmonton soccer fans will be packing into the stadium to watch.
Canada will take on Uzbekistan at Commonwealth Stadium on June 1, which is just 11 days before their World Cup opener in Toronto. Excitement for the World Cup has been growing across Canada, and Edmonton is no exception.
Tickets to the Edmonton match have been flying off the shelves, and the lower bowl has completely sold out weeks before the game.
That will make for quite a rowdy crowd for the Canadian squad.
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Fans wanting to buy tickets to the match will now be limited to upper-bowl seats, which are going for $53 at the cheapest. Those tickets appear to be going fast as well, which bodes well for this being a potentially historic turnout for Edmonton.
Last month, Canada Soccer reported that a total of 36,000 tickets had already been sold for the Canada vs. Uzbekistan match. Commonwealth Stadium has a max capacity of 56,302 seats.
With the lower-bowl now sold out and upper-bowl tickets going fast, you’d have to imagine that number has only gone up since.
It will certainly get close to being one of the highest-attended soccer matches in Edmonton history. The current record-holder belongs to a 2015 Women’s World Cup match between the Canadian Women’s National Team and China that saw a whopping 53,068 fans pack into Commonwealth Stadium.
The highest-attended Canadian Men’s National Team match in Edmonton was a 1994 friendly against Brazil that had 51,936 fans attend.
This will be the first time the Canadian Men’s National Team has played in the Alberta capital since defeating Mexico 2-1 in a 2021 World Cup qualifier match. Many fans will be hoping to get a glimpse of Edmonton native and international soccer star Alphonso Davies, but his status is in doubt after suffering an injury earlier this month.
After the Edmonton match, the Canadian men will jet off to Montreal for a final tune-up game against Ireland on June 5, before heading to Toronto to open up their World Cup schedule against Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 12.