Coming top of the league were Sunderland who failed to fill 168,777 seats over the course of their 19 Premier League matches of the 2013/14 season, giving them a figure of 81.9% of seats filled based on stadium capacity. In fact, as a testament to the popularity of the Premier League, it is quite remarkable that all but three of the twenty clubs had at least 92% of their seats filled over the course of the season. 2013/14 Percentage Of Seats Sold In The Premier League 99.5% Arsenal 99.2% Chelsea 98.8% Spurs 98.4% Manchester City 98.4% Liverpool 98.3% Swansea 98.2% Manchester United 97.9% Cardiff 97.3% West Ham 97.2% Fulham 96.2% Newcastle United 94.7% West Brom 94.3% Hull 94.2% Stoke 93.4% Norwich 93.0% Everton 92.4% Southampton 87.3% Crystal Palace 84.3% Aston Villa 81.9% Sunderland Figures taken from respected website soccerstats.
Interesting stats..I do recall watching a Arse game on the telly and noticing quite a few vacant plastic seats to go with the plastic fans. Also plenty of empty seats at a few Man City games....
To be fair, if you've spent the amount they have on a season ticket, you are going to go to every game.
Sunderland and Palace. Proper football communities. I only wish we could pull the fans and raise the support like them, they know how it's done.
The title "2013/14 Percentage Of Seats Sold In The Premier League" I believe this is only counting the attendants.
I believe it is the amount of tickets sold. Which will include away fans. Which is why Man Utd and Arsenal are high up the table despite often having large numbers of empty seats.
If you think having around 9k seats empty is more impressive than having about 1k seats empty, that's fine.
Thing is a lot don't Same with Man Utd. The police released figures for the attendances they are given for people actually passing through the turnstiles at Old Trafford which they use for planning their operations. Season before the only crowd over 70,000 was for the Real Madrid game. Liverpool wasn't even a full house and the Southampton gate was 58,000. Yet every game was sold out and no tickets available. This was due to well off people picking and choosing games. Same happens at Arsenal and no doubt others..
If you think having 24,000 paying customers is more impressive than having 37,000 that is fine. I will hazard a guess the chairmen don't share your peculiar views on economics. I know which Mr Allam would rather have.
If Arsenals stadium is 60,000 and they are filling 99.5% that leaves only 300 empty seat. My maths could be wrong long time since i was in school.
Some wealthy folks actually make money out of this. They buy passes at the top 7 or 8 teams and through networks or people 'sell ' the passes a game at a time. I know someone who went to Arsenal - City in 2008 who saw the game in this way. Had to pay matchday rate to the passholder (who never actually goes) and the passholder said 'THFC, AFC, MUFC,LFC, CFC and EFC- I have passes at all of them. Let me know if you and your friends want to see games there.'
Presumably you think we are more impressive tan Barcelona as their 72,000 average last season meant they had on average 20,000 empty seats?
Did your maths at school explain that if 99.5% of the seats are sold but only 96% of the people who bought turn up there will be a lot of empty seats? City sold the most tickets they have ever sold for a league match, 55,000 for a Christmas Day game against Rotherham, but there was a transport strike and 49,000 went through the gates. (You have to wonder what would happen now. A lot would either not get there - not many had a car then-' or be leaving at half time as they need to leave 10 minutes early to get home in a car so heaven know what time they would want to leave if walking).
