Championship attendances table: Pompey fans will love where club rank vs Coventry, Boro and rivals
Championship attendances tables show Portsmouth riding high vs their EFL rivals
As the data below reveals, Portsmouth are in fact the team that fill out their stadium more than any other side in the EFL’s top division, with Fratton Park selling out 96.7% of tickets on average so far this season. A notoriously passionate home support, the noise on the pitch and atmosphere in the ground clearly stems from the league’s most consistent home support as the data shows.
Less than 700 seats in Fratton Park away from official full capacity, with no other team in the league having an average attendance within 1,000 of their stadium’s overall capacity. The closest to this mark are Norwich, the league’s second best team at filling out their home ground with an average of 94.92% capacity so far this season, which would still see an average of 1,383 seats remaining empty.
According to research conducted by a top online betting site, the data all Pompey fans will love is below.
Whilst Pompey top the table, next opponents Blackburn find themselves at the other end of the attendance table, with Ewood Park having the lowest fill rate of any stadium in the league. Ewood, a once revered fortress in the mid-90’s that aided Blackburn in their quest to win the Premier League title in 1995, now finds itself a far cry from the packed-to-the-rafters stronghold that roared on Shearer and co. Ewood Park is in fact the only stadium in the league which finds itself at less than 50% capacity on average this season, as struggles both on and off the pitch continue to alienate fans.
Rovers have an average of almost 18,000 empty seats per game at home. By comparison, Portsmouth at their current rate of capacity would have 15,847 empty seats across the course of the entire season! For Blackburn, that figure for the 23 home games at the current capacity would be at over 400,000 seats going to waste.
The overall league average attendance is at 82.65% so far this season which, at current rate, would see over 1.9m empty seats over the course of the season.