List of attendance figures at domestic professional sports leagues
The table below lists domestic professional sportsleagues from around the world by total attendances for the last completed season for which data is available. The following points should be considered:
In some cases the figures listed are for main season games only.
In some 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 outletsproduce their own figures and sometimes these do not agree, but the differences in the averages given are usually no more than one or two percent.
In some cases the official attendance figure released by jefe and/or their league may reflect the ticket sell through rather than the number of people in attendance on the night, this can result in a discrepancy of many thousands of attendees per event.
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 Premier League, and hybrid league/knock-out competitions, where the best league performers enter a knock-out phase to decide the winner, such as the National Football League.
In some sports, leagues use a franchise-based system where teams are placed where the market is best. The number of teams is usually decided by the market as well.
Top men's leagues in total attendance with a minimum of 8 million
* Seating room only
Top women's leagues in total attendance
---- The leagues are segregated between those which normally would play in an outdoor stadium as opposed to those leagues that use indoor arenas. Some outdoor league stadiums are equipped with either retractable or non-retractable roofs where weather conditions would not allow a game to be played or watched effectively, comfortably or safely without such cover. The tables are sorted by average attendance, with a minimum of 2,000.
