Whether San Diego FC and its fans remain in the honeymoon phase, I don’t know.

But I know this: the solid popularity of SDFC’s home matches has held up well into the second half of club’s inaugural season.

The SDFC game experience equates to a fun night outdoors in east Mission Valley for some 22,000 to 32,000 fans, many of them young adults.

Attendance remains stable through 11 home games. That total exceeds a full home season of an NFL or major-college American football team.

San Diego FC is averaging 28,006 fans per game, a figure that ranks fourth out of 30 Major League Soccer clubs.

The announced attendance by most sports teams refers to tickets distributed. SDFC matches’ turnstile counts seem very close to the tickets distributed. These aren’t paper crowds.

It helps SDFC that a

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