San Jose Earthquakes

Game experience definitely seriously impacted in a negative way by the horrible 90+ decibel cacophony blasted over the loudspeakers. Certainly not "music".

I've been to many earthquakes games over the last ten years. I also watch almost every game on tv. It's the local professional soccer team in the Bay Area. They are one of the original mls teams from the beginning in the 90s. Chris Wondolowski is the legendary local player.

The stadium is open and modern with food trucks, open air bar and a great atmosphere. The fans are passionate and make the environment fun. It's a family friendly environment. Tickets are reasonable for sports games.

The reason I give 3 stars is because the owners and management have turned this team into one of the worst in the league. The owners refuse to keep up with investment in players like other teams. It makes being a supportive fan very difficult. The good news is that they recently fired the awful general manager and things will hopefully improve.

The San Jose Earthquakes are one of the original nine MLS members that began play in 1996. Over that time, the Quakes have qualified for the MLS Cup Playoffs nine times and won two of them (2001 and 2003). In addition to those two championships, the team was very successful in the early 2000s, making the playoffs five straight years from 2001 to 2005.

Probably the most well-known person to play for the Quakes is retired American soccer star Landon Donovan. The MLS MVP award is named after him after all. Donovan won a record six MLS Cups during his playing career. He was a member of both the 2001 and 2003 San Jose championship teams. While he was the team's top goalscorer in 2003 (12 goals), Salvadoran striker Ronald Cerritos was actually the team's top scorer in 2001 (11 goals).

In 2001, Quakes coach Frank Yallop was named MLS Coach of the Year and players Jeff Agoos and Troy Dayak won the Defender of the Year and Comeback Player of the Year awards, respectively. In 2003, Quakes goalkeeper Pat Onstad was the league's Goalkeeper of the Year.

Due to a combination of stadium, ownership, trademark, and other related issues, the San Jose Earthquakes were inactive for the 2006 and 2007 seasons. The team really hasn't been the same since, failing to qualify for the playoffs most years. Over the past decade, San Jose has routinely finished sixth or worst in the Western Conference.

On the bright side, the Earthquakes are one of only a handful of MLS teams to win the MLS Cup multiple times. They've also won the Supporters' Shield twice for having the best regular season record in 2005 and 2012.

San Jose is currently led by All-Star veteran forward Chris Wondolowski whose present stint with the team began in 2009. Wondolowski led the league in scoring two times (2010, 2012) and was MVP in 2012. He is, by far, the franchise's all-time leader in games played and goals scored. His records would be even greater if his stats from his time with the Houston Dynamo (2006-2009) somehow counted, but that is another story.

In line for parking for almost 2 hours for California Clasico... pre paid $35 for this! Stupid! Game has been going for a whole half! Not cool!

5 stars bc I love them but boy do they need improvement. The good thing is that they seem to be trying. Keep it up Quakes

I never Jose the MLS life. The MLS life Jose me.

Not to be confused with the little earthquakes I give Barbie nightly.

The San Jose Earthquakes are one of the classic old teams of MLS and one of the great things about this is that they get support from the entire San Francisco Bay Area because they're the only MLS team in the bay. So that makes them a very highly supported team. They got stolen away by Houston for a while but now they're back and it's a great thing believe me. I live in Houston and it's slightly hard to root for the Dynamo considering they were stolen from SJ, but I still do.

I'll always remember the days of Landon Donovan with his bright bleach blonde hair single-handedly winning titles in games for them. Things have changed since then but the heart and the spirit is still here.

San Jose play in an awesome little soccer specific stadium that was opened a few years ago. It does the job really well and everybody likes it. On its day it can be one of the most intense and atmospheric stadiums in the country, and is still pretty good and can create a pretty intense atmosphere if they're playing for important stuff.

It's got amazing steep seating and was financed 100% privately by the awesome Lewis Wolff. No city money went into it and he's financing it for 55 years out of his pocket, too. It houses less than 20k people but is one of the best and intense stadiums and is close to the centre of SJ.

Horrible ownership. John Fisher has no interest in winning. If you feel like overspending to watch a substandard team, and supporting a wrenching, clawing, grasping miser come here.

I went to my first soccer game last week. Instead of playing at Avaya, the San Jose Earthquakes played at Stanford Stadium. We went to the game vs Los Angeles Galaxy on Saturday, June 30th at 6:45pm.

Honestly, don't know much about soccer (or football to the rest of the world). I had the roommate give me a quick brief as he played soccer when he was younger, so I was able to follow along. Though I did wish we watched the game at Avaya as Stanford Stadium did not have any alcohol. (I needed something to quench my thirst.) For this game, they gave the first 10,000 fans a free cap, which was a nice perk. If this had been a day game, the hat would have come in handy.

Even though I don't really watch soccer, I got mad love for all Bay Area Teams. Go Earthquakes!

Been season ticket holders for three years now. Love the soccer, but was disrespected tonight by someone who said they were the Director of SeasonTicket Holder Relations or something of the sort. This person, short in statue, but cutting in nasty response, was about as diplomatic as a sledge hammer at a baptism. She neither listened or contributed to any possible solution, even though it was her staff who charged my credit card without authorization. I will be reaching out to the senior management for relief and requesting her reprimand as a I suspect this was not the first time she has stepped WAY OUT OF HER LANE.

My rep can clearly expect a call from me and might be losing a customer cause his, not so diplomatic, manager lost him a sale!!!!

What a nice little gem for watching soccer. There isn't a bad seat in the house. Seats 18,000. 16 VIP suites. The stadium features a canopy roof and the steepest-raked seating in Major League Soccer to provide a better view.

Other features:
- A 3,650-square-foot bar situated under the scoreboard -- the largest outdoor bar in North America. (This was a unique experience!)
- Gourmet food trucks "inside" the stadium (if you want your normal "ballpark" food, you still have that option. Also a lot of food options outside the stadium).
- A two-acre fan zone (food trucks are in this area) and a double-sided video scoreboard (what a beautiful scoreboard, Cal Memorial Stadium should get the blue prints!)