GENERAL
Stadium: Buck Shaw Stadium
Capacity: 10,300
Built: 1962 / $4M USD
Head office: 451 El Camino Real, Suite 200. Santa Clara, CA
Phone: (408) 556-7702
Fax: (408) 260-6820
Website: www.mlsnet.com/t110/
E-Mail:
Radio flagship: KDOW-AM |
Local television: Comcast California Bay Area
Corporate partners/sponsors: Amway Global, Verizon wireless, Comcast, Almaden press, Compass transportation, Fairmont, KFC, In-n-out burger, Tickets.com, supercuts, Force, Adidas, Sports Gallery, Netsuite, Dave & Busters, Bally total fitness. Pacific Medical Inc. Sequoia, East Bay Sports Medicine, Double Ds, Telemundo, Xilinx, Odwall, Filice.
Established: 1995
Franchise ancestry: 1995-1999 San Jose Clash
2000-present San Jose Earthquakes |
BUSINESS OF WINNING
MLS Cups: 2 (2001, 2003)
Conference Championships: 2 (2001, 2003)
ATTENDANCE
2011-2012 COMING SOON
Home Dates: 41
Home Attendance Average: N/A
Home Attendance Total: N/A
NEW ENGLAND MARKET
MARKET SIZE
City Population: 3,847,059
Metropolitan Area Population: 12,875,587
Greater Metro Area Population: 16,373,645
City size ranking: #2 in US
Metro area size ranking: #2 in US
Greater Metro area size ranking: #2 in US
Designated Market Area (DMA): 5,654,260 TV homes / 4.94% of US
DMA ranking: #2 in US
Source: Nielsen 2008, US Census Bureau 2005 and 2007 |
FRANCHISE FINANCIALS
2009 Franchise value: $25M USD (estimate)
2009 Franchise value ranking: #12 MLS
OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
Owner: Earthquakes Soccer, LLC
Acquisition date/price:
General Manager:
Head Coach: Frank Yallop
Stadium: Santa Clara University
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MARKET ECONOMICS
Economic Description: Seaport, trade centre, general and diversified – International trade, entertainment (television, motion pictures, recorded music), aerospace, technology, petroleum, fashion, apparel, tourism.
Major companies: Six Fortune 500 in City of Los Angeles (Northrop Grumman – aerospace, Occidental Petroleum, Health Net, KB Home, Reliance Steel & Manufacturing, CB Richard Ellis – real estate); Other major companies in LA County: 20th Century Fox, Latham & Watkins, Univision, Paramount Pictures, Fox Sportsnet, Sunkist Growers, Walt Disney, Warner Brothers, DirecTV, Mattel, Dreamworks, Cunard Line, Princess Cruises, RAND).
City per capita income (ranking): LA $20,671 USD
Metro area per capita income (ranking): $41,875 USD (#42 US)
State per capita income (ranking): $39,626 USD (#9 US)
MARKET DEMOGRAPHICS
Ethnicity (City of Los Angeles): Race – White 46.9%, Black 11.2%, 10.5% Asian, 31.9% Other (46.5% Hispanic of any race).
Language: 42.2% English, 41.7% Spanish, 2.4% Korean, 2.3% Filipino, 1.7% Armenian, 1.5% Chinese, 1.3% Persian.
Median Age: 32 years.
Political Leadership: Mayor of Los Angeles – Antonio Villaraigosa (Democrat); Governor of California – Arnold Schwarzenegger (R); U.S. Senators – Dianne Feinstein (D), Barbara Boxer (D); U.S. Representatives – 34 Democrat, 19 Republican: Mike Thompson (D), Wally Herger (R ), Dan Lungren (R ), Tom McClintock (R), Doris Matsui (D), Lynn Woolsey (D), George Miller (D), Nancy Pelosi (D – Speaker of the House), Barbara Lee (D), Ellen Tauscher (D), Jerry McNerney (D), Jackie Speer (D), Pete Stark (D), Anna G. Eshoo (D), Mike Honda (D), Zoe Lofgren (D), Sam Farr (D), Dennis Cordossa (D), George Radanovich (R ), Jim Costa (D), Devin Nunes (R), Kevin McCarthy (R), Lois Capps (D), Elton Gallegly (R), Howard McKeown (R), David Greier (R), Brad Sherman (D), Howard L. Berman (D), Adam Schiff (D), Henry Waxman (D), Xavier Solis (D), Diane E. Watson (D), Lucille Roybal-Allard (D), Maxine Waters (D), Jane Harman (D), Laura Dickson (D), Grace Napolitano (D), Linda Sanchez (D), Edward Royce (R), Jerry Lewis (R), Gary Miller (R), Joe Baca (D), Ken Calvert (R), Mary Bono Mack (R), Dona Rohrabacher (R), Loretta Sanchez (D), John Campbell (R), Darrell Issa (R), Brian Bilbray (R), Rob Filner (D), Duncan Hunter (R), Susan A. Davis (D).
Source: Team Marketing Report, ESPN.com, Forbes.com and TheSportMarket.biz
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