Championship average away attendances

TeaCider

TeaCider

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Middlesbrough 3rd after 39 matches.

That's outstanding considering our location and the population of our area compared to the two teams above us.

Teesside: 400,000
Nottinghamshire: 1.1 million
Sheffield: 580,000, South Yorkshire is 1.4 million.

Mainly the location though, we have to travel more than any other team in the league.

We could well jump up with the huge following going to Peterborough.
 
It is good. We always have good away support. Celebrating attendances is a bit Geordie/Mackem though. Let the football do the talking.
 
Anterimus said:
Would be interested to see what the average number of away fans each home club gets. We must have get amoungst the fewest visiting fans in the league.
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Not sure about other clubs but we've had an average of around 900 away fans this season, and even that's heavily skewed by 3-4 better supported fanbases like Forest bringing far more than most of the other away teams.
 
I’ve worked out a formula where the distance travelled is multiplied by the difference in away fans in the corresponding fixture.
 
Because I was bored and I have a slight 'trainspotting' tendency anyway I decided to look at what would be the figures for the remainder of the season, I made some big assumptions that the top 3 would sell out the remainder of their games. Forest, have a problem in that two of their games are at Luton and Bournemouth. Where they can only get a max of 2400 fans combined, then they are at QPR and Blackpool which can give them a max of 5900 combined and then they are at Hull 3500. The max their average can go up is 30-40. It's roughly the same for Sheff Utd and their away fixtures, where they might go up 40 -50 on average. We can be the only ones which move up on average by 150- 200 dependant on our allocation at Swansea and if we sell out. Even if we are short at Bournemouth by 100 or two hundred it wont make a big difference. At Preston we know we might get the stand but it seems they are giving 5300 rather than the 5900 they could, that is what Liverpool had earlier in the season. We should finish 2nd and maybe with a good wind might finish top.
Edit The BBC fixture list is different from the Google list and I trust the former. So drop QPR for Forest and add Fulham and Peterborough which would be 5400 total.
 
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TeaCider said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1508841898840141833

Middlesbrough 3rd after 39 matches.

That's outstanding considering our location and the population of our area compared to the two teams above us.

Teesside: 400,000
Nottinghamshire: 1.1 million
Sheffield: 580,000, South Yorkshire is 1.4 million.

Mainly the location though, we have to travel more than any other team in the league.

We could well jump up with the huge following going to Peterborough.
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Doesn't this ignore the fact that many Boro fans may live elsewhere - London, Midlands etc? There's a whole supporters club (MSS) that regularly attend away matches in the South East.
 
Forest have supporters clubs everywhere, they definitely have more than us who travel locally when they play away matches, the league titles and European cups had a big effect for them. Sufc have the same if not more than us who live outside of their area. So we travel better which ever way you look at it
It makes me laugh when people say "look at the southern supporters" it seems they can't widen their bias to look at other clubs. We do have a big south east supporters group but not lots of little ones in various areas which most clubs do which indicate they have more fans because they can get the numbers to travel from their local area. In our playoff final year Norwich had a supporters bus from East Lancashire.
 
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