Championship attendances

[cdbearsfan]

Fulham will be even higher, too. Those stats won't include the away fans who purchase tickets in the "neutral section". And yes, Fulham and Barnsley are both great days out.

[wittonwarrior]

got to say Barnsley town centre before the game was top notch. 

[kippaxvilla2]

I’m surprised the Blues’ away averages are so high considering how utterly shit they been.  So a small word of praise for those hardy wankers.

[Dinas_Caerdydd]

disappointed with our home attendances but will be upto where it should be next year . think we've done over 22,000 season tickets for next season so far . think we will average  over 30,000 next season . our away is about right considering the logistics of where  we are .

[brentastonb6]

That average number of away fans table is interesting - more would rather go to Small Heath than Villa (which they'll probably get v. excited about) and Wolves are right down towards the bottom of the list.

I think the amount of mid week home / televised games we have had might have something to do with this too.

[dave.woodhall]

That average number of away fans table is interesting - more would rather go to Small Heath than Villa (which they'll probably get v. excited about) and Wolves are right down towards the bottom of the list.

I think the amount of mid week home / televised games we have had might have something to do with this too.

How does that explain Wolves then?

[PeterWithesShin]

Fans in this division aren't going to miss out on a chance to visit CampNeux.

[brentastonb6]

That average number of away fans table is interesting - more would rather go to Small Heath than Villa (which they'll probably get v. excited about) and Wolves are right down towards the bottom of the list.

I think the amount of mid week home / televised games we have had might have something to do with this too.

How does that explain Wolves then?

I’ll have a look at who they have played at home ,what day / time it was and if it was televised. I know we played some of  the already poorest supported teams like QPR in midweek    We also played teams like Sunderland late in the season, they’d have brought far  more on a Saturday earlier in the season .We’re not talking much difference between ours and Wolves figures so not much required to tip the scales IMO

[JJ-AV]

32k home average is pretty decent at this level too. What's that, a couple of thousand drop on our Premier League average?

I think that's the thing with the Villa, people talk about our potential pulling power, but our attendances never seem to change that drastically whether we're in the top third of the Premier League or bottom third of the Championship.

[Ads]

It's 7-8,000 lower than when we had a pretty dreary home record for 3 years under O'Neill.

[olaftab]

That average number of away fans table is interesting - more would rather go to Small Heath than Villa (which they'll probably get v. excited about) and Wolves are right down towards the bottom of the list.

I think the amount of mid week home / televised games we have had might have something to do with this too.

How does that explain Wolves then?

Their team has a much bigger chance of winning at Small Heath than at Wolves or Villa?

[walsall villain]

It's 7-8,000 lower than when we had a pretty dreary home record for 3 years under O'Neill.

That’s the only period I can recall in all my years of watching the Villa that attendances we’re consistently high. I reckon JJ-AV is right, our norm is for the attendance to be well short of capacity with the odd full house.

[Risso]

That average number of away fans table is interesting - more would rather go to Small Heath than Villa (which they'll probably get v. excited about) and Wolves are right down towards the bottom of the list.

I think the amount of mid week home / televised games we have had might have something to do with this too.

How does that explain Wolves then?

I’ll have a look at who they have played at home ,what day / time it was and if it was televised. I know we played some of  the already poorest supported teams like QPR in midweek    We also played teams like Sunderland late in the season, they’d have brought far  more on a Saturday earlier in the season .We’re not talking much difference between ours and Wolves figures so not much required to tip the scales IMO

You've also got to factor in things like cost and availability of tickets etc.

[QuintonVilla]

The away end at Wolves is crap aswell. One of the worst around, spread all along the side of the pitch.

We're not as high as you may think for visiting fans because of midweek games and a lot of teams like Reading, QPR, Norwich etc have been here many times over the years. Also, our home record is very good so teams may have wrote it off that they'll lose here.

[rob_bridge]

It's 7-8,000 lower than when we had a pretty dreary home record for 3 years under O'Neill.

That’s the only period I can recall in all my years of watching the Villa that attendances we’re consistently high. I reckon JJ-AV is right, our norm is for the attendance to be well short of capacity with the odd full house.

I think mid table Prem would yield about 37k average. Top6 in Prem now would be over 40k