Middlesbrough top final average Championship away attendance.

Top away fans this season. There was a few places we could have sold a lot more,:-Hudds Town, Barnsley, SUFC, Hull, Fulham . and Blackpool. There was at least two matches were if the tickets had gone on sale earlier the away fans would have been a lot more, Derby and Swansea, at least 3000 at Derby instead of 2000, and about 1500 at Swansea instead of 900, fans need more time than 5 days from being able to buy them to the match kicking off.
 
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Uwefuchs said:
Great support, when you look at other clubs at the top of the list they're rarely travelling more than about 2 hours for an away game. We travel really well and always have done.
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It's not just the travel time it's the difficulty and lack of travel options from Teesside. If other fans don't think it is issue then why have away fans been mostly **** in travelling to Boro in the past, that is one of the excuses usually given, the poor transport links( Rail and bus)
 
When you look at home support our figure is very good considering we are the most expensive in the league or one of the most expensive and we don't do special offers. Revenue generated from ticket sales we could even top of that league too.
 
Just to put this into further perspective, not only did we take more away fans after having the longest distance to travel, we also had a vastly greater % of home fans getting out on the road to back the team, But also when you look at the away results, we were way below Sheff Utd and Forest, which just goes to show that they might have bigger home crowds but they can't compare with us for backing the team on the road.

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We say we are a small town, but let’s not under estimate what we are and can achieve…..we are not only Middlesbrough but ‘Stockon’and also ‘Redcar and Cleveland’. All of those populations added together is massive.…500k. With more success we can tap into this unrivaled potential
 
Every town or city has other areas that pull fans from . Unfortunately our area isn’t one with a higher disposable income than most others
 
Unfortunately, brilliant away support does not equate to brilliant away points. The ultimate aim is to get promoted not to be the best away supported.
 
Super Bernie said:
We say we are a small town, but let’s not under estimate what we are and can achieve…..we are not only Middlesbrough but ‘Stockon’and also ‘Redcar and Cleveland’. All of those populations added together is massive.…500k. With more success we can tap into this unrivaled potential
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I would say more like 400k - we took nearly 40k to Wembley in 2015 which was 10% of our catchment area.
 
exeterboro said:
But also when you look at the away results, we were way below Sheff Utd and Forest, which just goes to show that they might have bigger home crowds but they can't compare with us for backing the team on the road.
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These things are cyclical.
We have a higher average home attendance across history than either Sheffield Utd or Nottingham Forest.
Their home attendances are indeed higher this season than ours.
However back in 1997-98 when Forest won the league and we were second they averaged 20,543 and Sheff Utd 17,939. We averaged 29,997, so more than Manchester City that season.
The next season in the Prem we averaged 34,389, so 10k more than Forest.
In the next 10 seasons to 2008-09, only once did Sheff Utd beat our average attendance. Forest got nowhere near.
In the next 6 seasons Forest bettered us every year, until our promotion season in 2015-16, where we averaged 24,627, Forest just 19,676. Sheff U averaged 19,803.

In truth there is little between us when like for like; we are very similar.
Factors that cause fluctuations are The league we are in, the position in the league, the size of stadium. We got much bigger crowds than those two for a decade because we were in the top league filling a stadium bigger than theirs.
But there is the pricing policy too.
It is a simple fact that both Sheff U and Forest prices are lower than ours.
I'd also wager that perhaps a thousand more away fans on average attend these grounds versus the Riverside.

It doesn't matter much either way, but there is no way that Boro typically get smaller crowds.
We have similar away support, but ours is travelling much much further.

Don't let us have any insecurities. Sheffield and Nottingham may both bigger places, but Sheffield has two big clubs and is surrounded by other clubs. Forest also has close competition.
Boro have good base support and a pretty big stretch potential with success. Bigger I'd say than either Forest or Sheff U.
 
kuepper said:
Is there a mileage table adding return distances from each club to every other?
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This is the list @EFLstats gave at the start of the season:

Middlesbrough - 8,460 miles
Swansea - 8,456 miles
Bournemouth - 7,780 miles
Cardiff - 7,498 miles
Hull - 6,750 miles
Blackpool - 6,632 miles
Barnsley - 6,618 miles
Millwall - 6,554 miles
Bristol City - 6,516 miles
Fulham - 6,374 miles
Preston - 6,372 miles
Blackburn - 6,368 miles
QPR - 6,196 miles
Reading - 6,074 miles
West Brom - 5,790 miles
Huddersfield - 5,748 miles
Luton - 5,532 miles
Peterborough - 5,416 miles
Sheffield United - 5,030 miles
Stoke - 4,812 miles
Nottingham Forest - 4,630 miles
Birmingham - 4,524 miles
Derby - 4,510 miles
Coventry - 4,436 miles

Obviously calculation of mileage varies depending on where you look, but even then there's only Swansea that can compare when it comes to distance travelled.
 
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