Talk:List of sports attendance figures

message: The AFL in 2020 had total crowds of just over 1 million at an average 7,767. Is that the highest or is there another with a higher attendance? https://afltables.com/afl/crowds/2020.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.194.52.106 (talk) 05:47, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where are the 2020 Crowds? 

message: I noticed that the structure of the article has been improved significantly of late, well done to whoever worked on it. I would just like to suggest a couple of other ways to make the page even better. Firstly I think all the motorsport data could be put into a separate table, secondly I would love to see a table that compares teams rather than competitions - ie. a list of the clubs that draw the biggest crowds each season, and maybe a list of the national teams that draw the biggest crowds. 
One other thing that should be considered, how do you keep track of records as time passes? If a given league has a lower crowd average one year, is just the most recent figure kept? Or perhaps the record crowd for each league should be displayed as well (maybe show the latest season, and the record for that league)?  
I'd also love to see a table comparing sports - the most attended sport in the world would be a very relevant comparison for this article
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.168.108.56 (talk) 08:37, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Much Improved 

message: How about at least displaying the top 10? --Howard the Duck 11:05, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, I added information about Finals series which weren't disputed on one game at the "Domestic club championship events" section, like the NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup. I listed only the last game. I wonder if that's correct or if its allowed. --Howard the Duck 15:16, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

text: The records issue is too complex. Due to all the changes in competition formats, simply giving a number could be misleading. It's better to see this page as a current snapshot, and to cover historical issues on the page for each league/competition. ReeseM 23:06, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

text: Given the quality of the organisation at the Cricket World Cup, I wouldn't be surprised if no reliable figures are available. Certainly the disparities between official ticket sales and bums on seats were exceptionally large for several of the games. ReeseM 23:07, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Domestic professional leagues 

message: Since outdoor stadiums have larger capacities than indoor stadiums, would it be a good idea if we divide the article or have a new column to state whether it's indoor or outdoor? --Howard the Duck 16:45, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Divide into outdoor and indoor 

message: Could people please stop adding results to this section that are not the most recent. 2007 a-league grand final attendance needs to be updated to 2008 attendance.Cricketman274 (talk) 13:30, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Domestic Club Championship Events

message: Note in average for Cricket World Cup remove due to being irrelevent - "Note: Figures are low due to World Cup being held in the West Indies where there is less population and grounds have low capacity." The WC prior to this was held in Sth Africa (bigger Grounds) and had a lower average attendance. Clearly the not is an opinionated statement and has no relevence to the article. Size of ground, while being an issue is not a relevent reason to attribute small averages. For example the initial rounds of the FA Cup Football competition are played at stadiums with >5000 capacity which affect the overall average however this is the nature of the competition. Ck786 (talk) 00:50, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Cricket World Cup Note

message: Does anyone know the average attendance for the 2009 cup?--SquidSix (talk) 20:13, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  2009 World 20/20 

message: Does the Domestic Club Championship have to be an entire nation event? The current leader is the 2008 AFL Grand Final between Geelong and Hawthorn, however there were a number of VFL grand finals that exceeded this number. The VFL, for those who don't know, is the Victorian Football League, which was the forerunner to the current AFL. The VFL still exists, but the teams that played in the old VFL are the ones that now play in the AFL (Melbourne, Richmond, Collingwood, etc).
So, given that the 1970 VFL grand final between Carlton and Collingwood had an attendance of 121,696 can this be declared the winner? Or does it fail because it was a state league and not a national one?
And I know that the MCG doesn't have a seating capacity that big, but these were the days before safety was a major concern, so everyone just packed in and stood up for the whole game.
http://www.mcg.org.au/History/Attendances/~/media/Files/MCG_Attendances_All%20Time.ashx  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dan broders (talk • contribs) 03:11, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: We only take in the latest. We could have a separate article/section for all-time records, though. –Howard the Duck 16:34, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: 1970 VFL Grand Final

message: why aren't there any on here? a lot of them a lot bigger crowds than any other sport. Even the largest futball stadium has 150k permanant seats while Indianapolis for example has 257,325 permanent seats and the Indy 500 regularly fills that, or the US Grand Prix there attracting 200k people on race day.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.163.117.186 (talk) 22:24, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  auto racing events 

message: Is the reason Auto racing is not listed here because their numbers make the numbers your showing look minuscule?  Just NASCAR alone hold 17 of the 21 worlds most attended events.  You show numbers like 70k average??? I think NASCAR's is about 135k average.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.169.219.160 (talk) 00:15, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Not to mention Le Mans, Indy, Monaco, the Tourist Trophies (Dutch and Manx) and many other automobile and motorcycle races. I think the layout with club events and international tournaments and such doesn't suit motor racing as their are no clubs and very few real tournaments. To keep it "fair" I'd say motor racing should be placed in a separate section. Otherwise the other sports might seem somewhat insignificant. We'll need numbers of course. Quintinohthree (talk) 18:04, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Auto racing 

message: The Tour de France is said to have 15 million spectators per year
http://gofrance.about.com/od/tourdefrance/ss/06tourdefrance_2.htm
When stage 1 was held in England in 2007 Transport for London said that there were 3 million or more spectators in London and Kent, and that this is a conservative estimate
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/businessandpartners/tour-de-france-research-summary.pdf
--ajchapman (talk) 19:42, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem with road race cycling in general is that all we can find are estimates, not registered attendance figures. I'm sure that big stages in the Grand Tours does attract attendace in the millions, but it's really hard to register.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.82.249.149 (talk) 19:43, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cycling Grand Tours 

message: Total attendance at Minor league baseball (MiLB) according to their website was 41.6 million . Can't Minor league baseball be included in the top 10 attendance list as the attendance for the MiLB regular season is far more than that of NBA or NFL. This will reflect the true statistics of the most attended leagues in the world.
Bdebbarma (talk) 10:17, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: We'd need exact figures. –HTD (ITN: Where no updates but is stickied happens.) 19:02, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Minor League Baseball

message: The inclusion of the annual rugby league match "World Club challenge" in the list of "international club competition" averages is just silly.
I'm guessing a rather rabid rugby league fan couldn't resist its inclusion in order to see it sitting up there proudly among the highest international club competition attendance averages.
It is a one-off annual event - it doesn't belong in that section and gives a false impression. We could just as easily add the Community Shield of soccer, giving us a ludicrous 85,000 average. Adding a bunch of one-off events like this would overwhelm the original list, thus defeating the point - which was , I presume, to give an indication of what kind of attendances various international sporting competitions can summon on a regular basis.
So, I'll remove the "World Club Challenge" entry shortly, I just thought it polite to invite discussion first. 
Batchuba (talk) 00:57, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  World Club Challenge? 

message: When first reading, the attendance figures for the IPL seemed a little high to me. After checking the sources provided, I found neither of them supported the figures reported in the article. In addition, there are other outside articles I have read that have said the 58,000 average figure was based on every game being sold out and filled to capacity. If this is the case, I believe the article should either clarify this for readers or present the figures for the IPL separate from others. Does any one else have info or opinions on this? JakeH07 (talk) 03:01, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sorry but it cant be 58,000 because the stadiums dont have that much capacity for God sake! Only Eden Gardens have a capacity of 68,000 while the others have 45000 or below. So 58,000 is a stupid figure. In fact the Delhi home matches are never packed houses even though they have only 30,000 capacity. Itz arka (talk) 16:17, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  IPL Attendance  

message: do you really consider Wrestlemania sport it's a coreographed show like ballet; guess the bolshoi should be in the list as well ;-)18:11, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  WWE Wrestlemania ? really ? 

message: I guess the FIBA World Cup is big enough to be in this page. --Feroang (talk) 12:31, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: FIBA or the local organizers didn't release attendance figures for the last world championship –HTD 05:29, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Found some. –HTD 06:52, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[FIBA World Cup?]] 

message: Currently the table in the seccion International Matches show 24 items/events, is not too long? if yes what kick out?--Feroang (talk) 06:16, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Any suggestion of kicking out events will be totally arbitrary. A better solution is to spin off to a daughter article. –HTD 02:45, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  International matches table long 

message: I don't know what exactly the inclusion criteria is for the list but if being a league is the requirement why is the UEFA Champions league not included in the average attendances list. According to this source the champions league had an average attendance of 44,819 for its 124 matches in 2012-13, placing its third on the list. Any reason it has been omitted? Calistemon (talk) 12:54, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: UCL is at List of sports attendance figures#International club competitions and it's first on the list for now... it'll be second if you'd update it with your source... –HTD 22:45, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: No worries, thanks for that explanation, that makes it clearer. Calistemon (talk) 00:13, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  UEFA Champions league 

message: I merged the indoor and outdoor tables into one; the largest indoor crowd is still less than the smallest outdoor crowd. However, I'd like to include international matches and not just restrict to domestic ones. There are also amateur competitions too but it's supposedly restricted to professional events. I'd want to include all finals matches by making this into its own section. Anyone disagrees? –HTD 13:10, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top leagues in recent domestic club championship event attendance 

message: In the chart for "Highest attendance by sport," there are no figures for the CFL - what happened?__209.179.32.123 (talk) 19:46, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing figures for CFL 

message: In the section "Top leagues in weekly attendance", motor sports have one "match", presumably the main race. AFAIK, other "activities", such as practices and qualifying are ticketed as well, so those should be included. –HTD 17:51, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top leagues in weekly attendance 

message: Basically the map is a mess and needs to be removed pending clearer articulation on what it is actually capturing.
On top of this there's some obvious errors (e.g. Jamaica having baseball as its sport when it's a cricket/football nation). Also why is Australia listed under cricket, when cricket gets lower crowds, TV audiences, and media interest than the football codes (Australian Rules, Rugby League etc.)? And Russia is a tennis nation? Surely it is an ice hockey or soccer nation based on any metrics that matter.  --Striker161 (talk) 23:57, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  World Sports Map 

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message: FIFA/FA Football have many more teams over the world compared to Baseball and NFL Football. It's not just the top-leagues which are attended but down to 4th or 5th tiers of many countries. On top of that comes internal (domestic) cup-games and international ones as well. Like the Champions League. In total I would argue that no other sport can compare to FIFA/FA Football, globally and totally. This is not reflected in these lists. Boeing720 (talk) 23:27, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unfair compare 

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message: Total annual attendance for "Field Lacrosse" in "Major League Lacrosse" is 850,356,330?! That can't be correct.
Total annual attendance for "Softball" in "National Pro Fastpitch" is 150,000,000?!  Again, that can't be correct.
Ebw343 (talk) 06:43, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I undid the edit. –HTD 11:18, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Total attendance for "Field Lacrosse" and "Softball" 

message: Where is cricket Karthik dattaraj (talk) 09:29, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: CTRL+F in the article page tells me 20 instances that the word "cricket" showed up... Howard the Duck (talk) 11:20, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about cricket? 

message: The article states at the start that "Top leagues in weekly attendance includes speedway sports."
However the speedway (motorcycle) PGE Ekstraliga is the world’s best speedway competition and has the highest average attendance for any sport in Poland, is omitted. In the 2018 season, the average attendance was 10,559 spectators, while in 2019 - 10,800. For comparison, the 2017/18 season of the football Ekstraklasa amounted to 9,442, while in 2018/19, the average attendance dropped to 8,800.
Can this league please be added to the article. Reclusive Socialite (talk) 16:55, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does Not Show A Top League 

message: "Best attended Leagues" - Association Football lists the English Premier League as averaging 5,160 per game? This is clearly nonsense, for example in the season 2017/18, the average attendance for games was 38,484, so I'm puzzled where this statistic has come from? Also, the German Bundesliga has higher attendances than the Premier League, so why is the EPL mentioned at all? The Indian Premier League average attendance is also over 61,000.
:Because someone has decided to update this table with the 2020-21 attendance figures, which were devastated by closed-doors matches and restricted attendances when crowds were allowed. Under coronavirus restrictions, 5,160 was the actual average attendance of the Premier League last season. I don't know the figures for other leagues, but it's quite probable that the Premier League had the highest attendances for that season since most countries just banned viewers full stop. Falastur2 Talk 00:12, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: English Premier League Football

message: They are listed around 5000 average when the true total is way closer to 50,000 - if this is so off then I really doubt how accurate the rest of the page is. This needs some serious work! 213.205.194.2 (talk) 22:11, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Premier league attendances