Average attendances

[hans kraay fan club]

Yes, I have a vested interest in this as well.

He may have just forgot...

Shall redouble my efforts to try to identify and remind him...

 

[BeHereNow]

That's an interesting table.

If you look at the away attendance averages, they are much closer.. And we would be relegated!

(Burton did well - people wanted to see a new team?)

That away table is very wrong, I've looked at it a few times before, not sure what they base it on. How can a team average 32,000?

We are probably about 7th in the average away attendances, even though we have the second highest distance to travel over a season. That's very good support.

 

[BeHereNow]

But our last 2 away games will push us further up the away table.

Is that our fan's away attendance? Or away fans that come to The Amex?

We are more like 7th. Certainly not behind BURTON ALBION. (No disrespect to them)

 

[Simster]

Is that our fan's away attendance? Or away fans that come to The Amex?

We are more like 7th. Certainly not behind BURTON ALBION. (No disrespect to them)

You're mis-reading the away table - it's the average gate when you're playing away, not the average away attendance. I'd say both are pretty meaningless anyway.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Whenever I see threads like this I'm wistfully reminded of @The Major.

 

[BeHereNow]

You're mis-reading the away table - it's the average gate when you're playing away, not the average away attendance. I'd say both are pretty meaningless anyway.

Ahh, I get ya! Makes sense now. We are still pretty high up on the overall table.

I find away attendances quite interesting actually.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

My recollection is that, during the final years at the Goldstone, our gates were:-

(a) terrible; but

(b) much higher than most other teams in our division.

 

[severnside gull]

The various articles yesterday had Barber repeatedly quoting our maximum home capacity as 30,000 for next season which is a reduction from the current figure?

 

[AZ Gull]

Pre-Amex, the highest average attendance for Albion was achieved in 1977-78 when the figure was 25,264.

The following season, when promotion was achieved, it was actually lower at 22,074.

The first season in Division One (1979-80) averaged 24,795.

(Figures come from the BHACHS newsletter - it should be noted that the figures in this post relate to actual bodies through the turnstiles, whereas contemporary figures are for tickets sold).

 

[sir albion]

Yep, 27,283:

http://european-football-statistics.co.uk/attnclub/bha.htm

So this season will be a new record.

Correct although the point was it won't be eclipsed

 

[sir albion]

It's Midweek matches that bring it down - so many empty seats - so there'll be less of them next year due to less midweek matches unless we have a lot of MNF matches. Add to that everything else we'll hit 30 next year.

I'd suspect it's the same for most clubs and Brighton to be fair is not a place you want to travel too midweek if you live way outside Brighton

 

[Simster]

Correct although the point was it won't be eclipsed

In that case it was a point you probably shouldn't have made because it will - our average gates this season will be another 700 on top of that figure.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Our attendance would slot in 13th in the prem, between Boro and Stoke.

So 16th in the whole of England