Denver Summit smash NWSL attendance record in first home game
Denver Summit FC easily broke the NWSL's single-match attendance record on Saturday, with an announced crowd of 63,004 attending the team's first ever home match. The expansion side faced the Washington Spirit at Empower Field at Mile High — home of the Denver Broncos . The attendance easily broke the previous record of 40,061, set last year when the Spirit faced Bay FC at Oracle Park in San Francisco.
Denver is one of two expansion franchises to enter the NWSL this year along with Boston Legacy FC, taking the league up to 16 teams. Denver, we are officially home 😭 pic. twitter.
com/ugPSMbSiUu — Denver Summit FC (@denversummitfc) March 28, 2026 The Summit played their first three matches on the road, notching one win, one draw and one defeat. The Colorado side will play the majority of its home games this year at Centennial Stadium, a 12,000-seat temporary venue that will be used for two years until the team has a permanent stadium of its own. In December, the club received approval from the Denver City Council to move forward with a proposed 14,500-seat stadium to be built in the city's Santa Fe Yards district.
The venue is slated to open in 2028. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Denver Summit set single-game NWSL attendance