MLS home-game demand calendar (2026)
Daily per-metro panel of Major League Soccer home games (30 clubs, ~27 US + Canadian metros, 2026 season incl. playoffs on refresh): game counts by kind (regular/postseason), rivalry-derby / primetime counts (Hudson River, El Trafico, Cascadia, Hell is Real, Texas Derby...), Friday/Saturday weekend and marquee flags, trailing-7d event density, a documented 0-100 local event-demand score, per-date cross-metro demand ranks and tiers. Join on date + metro to orders, bookings or foot traffic. Game dates/teams/venues are facts from ESPN's public scoreboard API (no login, key or clickwrap) -> commercial_use=yes with attribution.
- Rows
- 502
- Columns
- 19
- Source cadence
- Weekly
- Last refreshed
- Oct 1, 2026
- Theme
- economy
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | date | Game date in the venue metro's local timezone, ISO. |
| metro | string | Metro area of the home club's stadium. |
| metro_state_prov | string | State/province of the metro. |
| country_code | string | ISO alpha-3 country code (USA or CAN). |
| leagues | string | League with a home game (always MLS). |
| home_teams | string | Comma-joined designated home-club abbreviations. |
| n_home_games | integer | Home games in the metro on this date. |
| n_regular | integer | Regular-season home games (<= Decision Day). |
| n_postseason | integer | Playoff home games (after Decision Day). |
| n_rivalry_derby | integer | Home games in the documented 14-pair derby set. |
| n_primetime | integer | Home games kicking off at/after 19:00 ET (national night window). |
| n_neutral_site | integer | Neutral-venue games attributed to the host metro. |
| is_weekend | boolean | True for Friday/Saturday game dates. |
| marquee_event | boolean | True if score >= 80 or any postseason game. |
| games_trailing_7d | integer | Home games in the metro over [date-6d, date]. |
| event_demand_score | integer | 0-100 local demand score = min(100, 30*n_home_games + 30*n_postseason + 20*is_weekend + 15*n_primetime + 15*n_rivalry_derby + min(15, 3*games_trailing_7d)). |
| demand_rank | integer | Per-date cross-metro rank (1 = highest score). |
| demand_tier | integer | Fixed-cut tier: 4 if score>=75, 3 if >=50, 2 if >=25, else 1. |
| row_hash | string | md5(date|metro|n_home_games|leagues|home_teams|score)[:16]. |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| date | metro | metro_state_prov | country_code | leagues | home_teams | n_home_games | n_regular | n_postseason | n_rivalry_derby | n_primetime | n_neutral_site | is_weekend | marquee_event | games_trailing_7d | event_demand_score | demand_rank | demand_tier | row_hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-21 | Austin | TX | USA | MLS | ATX | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | true | false | 1 | 68 | 1 | 3 | 3eec9e55b36c87c4 |
| 2026-02-21 | Cincinnati | OH | USA | MLS | CIN | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | true | false | 1 | 53 | 12 | 3 | 52f48c96090abafd |
| 2026-02-21 | Dallas | TX | USA | MLS | DAL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | true | false | 1 | 68 | 2 | 3 | 88fa73a1046f6b77 |
| 2026-02-21 | Houston | TX | USA | MLS | HOU | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | true | false | 1 | 68 | 3 | 3 | 9419b872de67283d |
| 2026-02-21 | Los Angeles | CA | USA | MLS | LAFC | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | true | false | 1 | 68 | 4 | 3 | e20c0c09fd87584d |
| 2026-02-21 | Nashville | TN | USA | MLS | NSH | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | true | false | 1 | 68 | 5 | 3 | 4ef2d2b759c51730 |
| 2026-02-21 | Orlando | FL | USA | MLS | ORL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | true | false | 1 | 68 | 6 | 3 | f6843ec27f948c8c |
| 2026-02-21 | Portland | OR | USA | MLS | POR | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | true | false | 1 | 68 | 7 | 3 | 455d169408a74ee1 |
| 2026-02-21 | San Diego | CA | USA | MLS | SD | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | true | false | 1 | 68 | 8 | 3 | bec8d5b0e251a007 |
| 2026-02-21 | San Jose | CA | USA | MLS | SJ | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | true | false | 1 | 68 | 9 | 3 | b2fee2556fce22e8 |
Profiled Oct 1, 2026 from snapshot 20261001T222239Z-ffe0443baeba
Measured- Completeness
- 100%
- Rows
- 502
- Columns
- 19
- Columns with gaps
- 0
| Column | Missing | Distinct | Range | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| datedate | 0% | 60 | Feb 21, 2026 → Nov 7, 2026 | — |
| metrovarchar | 0% | 31 | — |
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| metro_state_provvarchar | 0% | 21 | — |
|
| country_codevarchar | 0% | 2 | — |
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| leaguesvarchar | 0% | 1 | — |
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| home_teamsvarchar | 0% | 37 | — |
|
| n_home_gamesbigint | 0% | 2 | 1 → 2median 1 | |
| n_regularbigint | 0% | 2 | 1 → 2median 1 | |
| n_postseasonbigint | 0% | 1 | 0 → 0median 0 | |
| n_rivalry_derbybigint | 0% | 2 | 0 → 1median 0 | |
| n_primetimebigint | 0% | 3 | 0 → 2median 1 | |
| n_neutral_sitebigint | 0% | 1 | 0 → 0median 0 | |
| is_weekendboolean | 0% | 2 | — |
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| marquee_eventboolean | 0% | 2 | — |
|
| games_trailing_7dbigint | 0% | 3 | 1 → 3median 1 | |
| event_demand_scorebigint | 0% | 16 | 33 → 100median 68 | 5 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| demand_rankbigint | 0% | 17 | 1 → 15median 6 | 2 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| demand_tierbigint | 0% | 3 | 2 → 4median 3 | |
| row_hashvarchar | 0% | 539 | — |
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- Current
20261001T222239Z-ffe0443baeba · sha256 ffe0443baeba…
502 rows · first snapshot
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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/mls_home_game_intel/mls_home_game_demand_daily" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/mls_home_game_intel/mls_home_game_demand_daily").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/mls_home_game_intel/mls_home_game_demand_daily
Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.
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MLS home-game demand calendar (ESPN). (2026). MLS home-game demand calendar (2026) [Data set, snapshot 20261001T222239Z-ffe0443baeba, sha256 ffe0443baeba]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-10-02, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/mls_home_game_intel/mls_home_game_demand_daily?snapshot=20261001T222239Z-ffe0443baeba
@misc{dz_mls_home_game_intel_mls_home_game_demand_ffe0443b,
title = {{MLS home-game demand calendar (2026)}},
author = {{MLS home-game demand calendar (ESPN)}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/mls_home_game_intel/mls_home_game_demand_daily?snapshot=20261001T222239Z-ffe0443baeba}},
note = {Snapshot 20261001T222239Z-ffe0443baeba, sha256 ffe0443baebab4540c425e03d9ddbde7fc2e9670cabf06fb5beac8f7bcd25441; accessed 2026-10-02}
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