The table below lists domestic professional
sports leagues from around the world by total
attendances for the last completed season for which data is
available. It is unlikely that any leagues with total attendances
over 10 million are missing, but below that level the table is very
incomplete at present.
Points to consider:
- The correlation between revenue and attendance is quite weak.
For example, the NFL is on
a par with Major League
Baseball financially despite having less than one quarter of
the total attendance because it charges much higher ticket prices,
has a larger television contract, and only plays 16 games per year
per team, compared to the MLB's 162.
- In some cases the figures listed are for main season games
only.
- In some sports (mainly North American centered sports) the main
league competition provides each club or franchise with virtually
the whole of its attendance and revenue. In others, there are
multiple competitions, for example leading English football clubs
compete in four competitions each season, but only the league
competition is listed below.
- In some sports, for example cricket and
rugby union, international competitions
and transnational club competitions provide a significant part of
total attendances and revenue.
- Free or heavily discounted seats may be counted by some
leagues. No-shows for paid seats may be included in some cases, but
not in others.
- Not all leagues publish official attendance figures. Various
media outlets produce their own figures and sometimes these do not
agree, but the differences in the averages given are usually no
more than one or two per cent.
- The "leagues" below include pure league competitions, where the
team that finishes at the top of the table is declared the winner,
such as the FA Premier League, and hybrid league/knock-out
competitions, where the best league performers enter a knock-out
phase (also called a playoff) to decide the winner, such as the
Australian Football League (Aussie Rules).
Top 10 in total attendance (outdoor and indoor)
Complete Table
The leagues are segregated between those which normally would play
in an outdoor
stadium as opposed to those
leagues that use indoor
arenas. It should be
noted that some outdoor league stadia are equipped with either
retractable or
non-retractable roofs when and where weather
conditions (such as rain or extreme heat/cold) would not allow a
game to be played and/or watched effectively, comfortably and/or
safely without such cover. The tables are sorted by average
attendance.
Outdoor sports
Indoor Sports
Notes
- The 2009 season was
held in South Africa because of
security concerns related to the Indian general elections held
at the same time. Attendances for that season were far lower
because of the smaller stadiums in South Africa. In addition, an
average attendance of 58,000 per match in India in 2008 has never
been ratified by any official body and that figure is likely to be
too high. Even if all 59 games had been sold out (and they were
not), the average could not have been above 50,000.
- The total attendance for the four fully professional football
divisions in England (FA Premier
League, Football League
Championship, Football League
1 and Football League 2) in
2004-5 was 29,252,189. This doesn't include domestic and European
cup games.
- Until 2005, the attendance figures in NPB were estimated by the
home teams. The estimated figures were normally much higher than
the actual numbers of spectators in the game. The total and average
attendances only covered regular season games.
- When the rugby union governing body of England, the Rugby Football Union, reorganised the
country's leagues after the 2008–09 season, it reduced the second
tier, previously known as National Division One but now the RFU
Championship, from 16 teams to 12.
- The reorganisation of English rugby union also affected lower
levels of the league pyramid. National Division Two was renamed
National League 1 and increased from 14 teams to 16.
- The
total attendance is for games held on Metro Manila
only in which almost all gamedates are
doubleheaders, and ticket holders pay for both games.
- Since the cited season, the Euroleague has expanded from 24
teams to 30.
- Since the cited season, the NBL has shrunk from 14 teams to 8,
with seven in Australia and one in New Zealand.
See also
References
- This figure is for regular-season games only.
- Football-lineups.com
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008-09_KFC_Twenty20_Big_Bash
- This is the total number of matches during the season,
including the play-offs. However, the total number of matchdays
used in calculating the average attendance was 196. The reasons for
the discrepancy are: * One match had no attendance reported and was
thus ignored in the calculations. * One round of matches each year,
known as Magic
Weekend, is held at a special site; in 2009, it was
Murrayfield in Edinburgh. Three matches were held
consecutively on Saturday and an additional four on Sunday, with
one ticket admitting the holder to all matches on a given day.
Super League posted the attendance for each game on Magic Weekend
as the number of tickets sold for that day's action.
/ 1 team in Canada
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