The Ottawa Titans Baseball Club has sold 10,278 tickets to its home opener on May 8, marking the first time Ottawa Stadium has sold out in 24 years.
The last time the stadium had a crowd of more than 10,000 people was at an Ottawa Lynx game in September 2002.
The sellout also marks a new record in franchise and league history for tickets sold to a single game. The previous mark for highest-attended game in the Frontier League was set on July 4, 1997 by the Johnstown Steal, with 10,250 tickets.
“We’re all so incredibly proud of the achievement,” Martin Boyce, general manager of the Ottawa Titans told OBJ on Thursday. “Our front office staff has put so much into making this game come to fruition. This plan has dated back all the way to the end of last season in August. We have been strategizing, planning and preparing for quite some time.
“When you put that much work into it, it’s so satisfying to see the fruits of your labour.”
After having welcomed nearly 100,000 fans through home games alone last season, the Titans increased total attendance by 16 per cent from the previous season. Every year since the team’s inception in 2022, it has achieved double-digit percentage growth in attendance.
“Baseball in Ottawa is stronger than it probably has been for more than 20 years. It’s been since 2002, 24 years, since this building has been sold out for a baseball game. So it truly feels like this is a new era of baseball in Ottawa and it’s the beginning of something truly special,” Boyce said.
In addition to selling out the home opener, Boyce added that the Titans have seen increased interest in the rest of the season’s home games.
“Ticket packages are up significantly. Group sales are up significantly. We’re very optimistic about the entire summer as a whole. There’s still obviously a lot of work to be done to make sure those things come to fruition but we’re going to ride this wave as far as we possibly can,” he said.
Boyce said his team is proud of the momentum they’ve generated for the Titans.
“We think 2026 will easily be the best year yet for the Titans … The support has been growing and growing and it really feels like this kind of exclamation point. We’re not selling out the day of. We’re selling out a little over eight days in advance.”
Boyce told OBJ in September that the Titans have been on a journey to build customer confidence in Ottawa baseball.
“I think there was a lot of doubt before the Titans started and a lot of people who would have assumed that baseball was going to fail again or that it would be short-lived. For us, it was really important to build the confidence in the product that we offer and that goes beyond the baseball on the field,” he told OBJ in September.
With the sellout, the baseball club hopes to make the home opener the largest single-day fundraising event for the Ottawa Titans Field of Dreams Foundation to date, supporting children’s charities across the National Capital Region.
