Spring training has had its share of challenges in recent years — significant rain-outs in 2024, Major League Baseball lockout before that, and pandemic restrictions before that.
Despite those setbacks, the Cactus League has had four straight years of attendance increases. Spring training and tourism officials this year are hoping to build on that success.
At a total of nearly 1.7 million attendees, the Cactus League saw a 4% increase in attendance in 2025 over the previous year, and roughly a four-fold increase since the pandemic at its lowest. This puts the league practically at the pre-pandemic level of just over 1.7 million attendees, only about 43,000 attendees behind the 2019 season.
