West Ham, Man Utd, Arsenal and Leicester top stadium capacity rankings

[queensguardfox]

August 25 – Three weeks into the Premier League season and the attendance figures have dipped below 95% average capacity for the first time, to 94.82%. Average capacity in week 1 was 97.36%, dropping to 95.82% last week. 

More tickets were available in Week 3 than the other weeks with the Premier League's two largest stadia – Arsenal's Emirates and Man Utd's Old Trafford – both reporting over 99% capacity.

Four teams reported over 99% capacity with West Ham for the second week running filling just about everything available with just 39 seats unfilled. The Hammers hosted the Premier League's fairy tale newcomers Bournemouth who have the league's smallest ground with just 11,500 capacity.

This is the last season West Ham will play at the Boleyn Ground before they move to the reconfigures 54,000-seat Olympic Stadium in London's Stratford.

Seven out of the 10 home teams this weekend reported over 95% capacity.

Overall there were 19,051 unfilled seats with 9,802 of them at Sunderland's Stadium of Light. The north east club has a stadium capacity of 49,000, the fifth highest in the Premier League, but has seen attendance fall to 80% of capacity from 84% last week.

West Brom and Everton had surprisingly lower percentages of stadium fill than would have been expected for the visits of Chelsea and Manchester City. West Brom had 3,500 unfilled seats while Everton had 1,600 seats unfilled for the visit of the in-form Premier league table-toppers. Some of the unused capacity might have been taken up by seat kills for media and security requirements.

If you take Sunderland, West Brom and Everton out of the above numbers, there were just 3,957 unfilled seats out of a total of 278,571 seats available.

 

Round 3 attendances

Round 2 attendances


Round 1 attendances

[Fox42]

That's actually quite poor showing from Bournemouth, tbh.

[Dan]

Amazed that Bournemouth never sold out their first game.

 

English crowds are good but could be on a par with Germany in my opinion if they were priced properly.

[The Horse's Mouth]

That's actually quite poor showing from Bournemouth, tbh.

That's most likely the away allocation unfilled.

[Dynamogoon]

Doubt it, they give limited number of away seats. Most clubs will fill their Bournemouth allocation from priority 1 season ticket holders.

[C-man]

That's most likely the away allocation unfilled.

No, Villa sold out within a couple of hours. As the article says, there are likely to be plenty of security/media seat 'kills' - particularly in the grounds that aren't specifically built for top flight football.

Good from us, that.

[m4DD0gg]

And people say we should not be expanding the stadium

[Sol thewall Bamba]

Didn't realise the attendance was so high Vs Sunderland, that must be a record for a league game surely? 

[Guest CityFan 06]

Didn't realise the attendance was so high Vs Sunderland, that must be a record for a league game surely?

It was a record attendance at the ground for a league game. Don't think there has ever been a bigger attendance. Unless there was a game down the years which was bigger that I can't remember.

[Guest CityFan 06]

I think last season our average attendance at the King Power didn't drop below 30,000 which is very good.

[Kirsikka]

That's actually quite poor showing from Bournemouth, tbh.

 

 

Amazed that Bournemouth never sold out their first game.

 

English crowds are good but could be on a par with Germany in my opinion if they were priced properly.

 

Well hello. I thought I'd pop by to see if you were talking about the size of our pitch yet

 

Nothing on that yet but when I saw this thread title I was 100% certain I knew what I would find if I opened it. It seems a myth that I see in lots of places so I'll try to set the record straight.

 

Every available home ticket for the match was sold. In this case, away tickets as well. We could probably sell the home allocation twice over this season. I pretty much have zero chance of getting a home ticket this season as I now live abroad so last season was the first time in 20 something years I didn't see a home match. Fabulous timing, that. Anyway, it means I have zero home ticket points and zero chance of getting a home ticket all season.

 

However, this disparity will appear again and again. The main difference is between clubs that report 'tickets sold' as the attendance and clubs that report 'people that actually turned up'. We do the latter. Arsenal, for example, do the former. Which means as a comparison, the table doesn't really make sense. I'm very good friends with an Arsenal season ticket holder and he says their announced attendance figures are absolute rubbish and a source of derision.

 

Oh yes, and the maximum attendance figure for Dean Court is incorrect as well. It was 11,700 with no segregation and before seats were lost to the new Sky camera placements and expanded media section. I'm not sure what the official new maximum attendance is but I suspect we've lost a few hundred seats at least.

 

Enjoy the trip down on Saturday. With the best will in the world, I hope you aren't happy on the way home but then go on to have a great season thereafter. One other game excepted