Supporters & Attendances at Football Matches
Top Clubs Fend Off Recession - 07/10/2009
Premiership clubs have kept their fans and in some cases increased attendances since the start of the season...
Slump In Attendances? - 05/08/2009
Virgin Money are claiming that more fans are planning to ditch football due to cost, but one has to be very careful about these analyses based on surveys that pose hypothetical questions.
Owls Top Of Empty Seats League - 29/09/2008
Sheffield Wednesday are top of the Championship empty seats league with Hillsborough the most under-occupied stadium...
Police Bid To Make Football Pay Starts Row - 21/08/2008
There has been a strong reaction to a proposal by the Association of Chief Police Officers that football should pay all the costs of policing games with some commentators suggesting that the plan is based on envy and class hatred...
The Rising Cost Of Being A Supporter - 07/03/2008
Virgin Money's latest Football Fan inflation index shows that the average British football fan across all divisions spent around £1,080 following their team in 2007...
Ticket Deal Annoys United Fans - 30/09/2007
A record league cup attendance of 74,055 to see United's youngsters get turned over by Championship opponents but this figure has no relationship to who was actually in the stadium...
Some Premiership Clubs Cut Ticket Prices - 04/03/2007
Some Premiership clubs are cutting ticket prices, although their initiatives are unlikely to be copied by the biggest and most successful clubs...
Fall In Away Fans At Premiership Matches - 04/02/2007
Premiership attendances look set top the 13 million mark for the fourth time in the competition's 15-year history, representing a one per cent increase on last season...
Big Boost To Terraces Campaign - 24/01/2007
Many fans have been campaigning for years for the return of standing on terraces to top flight football...
Price Is A Big Influence on Premiership Crowds - 06/11/2006
At a time when there has been a renewed debate about Premiership attendances, some interesting data is presented in a large scale study commissioned by Ofcom...
Premiership Attendances Give Cause For Concern - 27/10/2006
It's a perennial news story every early autumn. Premiership attendances are down. The fans can no longer afford to pay to go and in any case are fed up with overpaid foreign stars. As a result they're all going off to watch the Conference. If that was really a valid argument, everyone would be driving around in clapped out ten year old cars...
Conference Attendances Up - 6/09/2006
Conference football is drawing bigger crowds with attendances for the first five games this season reaching a high of 117,363, an increase of 12,000 from the previous year...
Crowd Numbers Hold Up Well And Stadia Improve - 02/06/2006
Dan Jones, partner in the Sports Business Group at Deloitte, points out in their latest annual football finance review, 'Premiership football is more popular than ever...'
Crowds and Viewers Stable - 23/04/2006
Predictions of a fall off of interest in the Premiership seem to be premature if the latest figures on television viewers and crowds are anything to go by...
Crowd Slump Hasn't Happened - 01/01/2006
Eight Premiership clubs are seeing an increase in crowds this season, although admittedly three of these are promoted sides...
More Sofa Fans, Fewer In Grounds - 21/11/2005
The latest television audience and gate figures for the Premiership show that more fans are watching games from the comfort of their sofas while fewer are going to the grounds...
The Missing Element In The Football Crowds Debate - 1/10/2005
The marginal early season decline in football crowds has been attributed to all sorts of factors: price (with good reason); saturation television coverage; predictable outcomes; defensive formations in the Premiership; and awkward days and times for matches. However, one key factor is generally overlooked...
Falling Crowds Row Rumbles On - 25/09/2005
The media continues to pursue the story of falling football crowds: I got asked about it when I appeared on a breakfast radio show this morning. The view that this page has taken is that there is a problem which needs attention, but not a crisis...
How Far Is Live Television Hitting Crowds? - 25/09/2005
One of the explanations advanced for the decline in football attendances this season is extensive live television coverage of matches. However, the relationship is quite complex and difficult to isolate from other factors...
Drop In Football Crowds Is A Big Story - 18/09/2005
A relatively small drop in football crowds this season has attracted widespread attention...
Football League Crowds Highest Since End of 1950s - 28/05/2005
Crowds in the Football League are at their highest level for forty-five years after a 3 per cent rise during the 2004-5 season...
Premiership Gates Down - 14/05/2005
Aggregate crowds for the Premiership this season are set to fall below the 13m level for the first time since 2000-01...
One Per Cent Fall In Attendances Likely - 03/04/2005
League football in England will show a drop of one per cent in attendances this year forecasts Charlton statto Colin Cameron, an equivalent of 143 fewer people per game...
Premiership Crowds Fall - 23/10/2004
There has been a five per cent year-on-year decline in Premiership attendances in the first quarter of the season...
Cup Attendances Still Lower - 08/03/2004
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