Chelsea Start Club World Cup Campaign To Empty Seats

Chelsea kicked disconnected their Fifa Club World Cup run against Los Angeles FC to tens of thousands of quiet seats successful Atlanta.

The crippled started astatine 3pm section clip connected a moving Monday astatine Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

The crushed tin clasp 75,000 spectators, but nan full apical tier was closed for this match.

Sources told nan BBC that Fifa was expecting a crowd of astir 26,000, but it did not look that engaged astatine kick-off.

A mini mediate tier seemed to beryllium mostly full, but a larger bottommost tier was much than half empty.

The cheapest summons was astir £37 earlier kick-off.

Los Angeles is much than 2,000 miles distant from Atlanta, crossed nan confederate United States.

Their 1,500 ultras dominated nan atmosphere.

One of nan large talking points successful caller weeks was whether group cared astir Fifa's expanded 32-team competition.

Ticket income person been slow, and this was nan first lucifer of nan tourney to return spot connected a weekday.

Chelsea besides played astatine nan stadium 2 years agone - and almost sold retired pinch much than 70,000 fans watching them look Newcastle successful a friends tourney named nan Premier League Summer Series.