Our average attendance this season in the league was 23,024, the average for Serie A was 22,597
I though this article by Patrick Barclay was interesting. The critics and many of us may feel that Championship football is pants but thousands and thousands of fans per week vote with their feet suggesting it ain't that bad to watch.
Torygraph article 
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Norwich City: 24,527
Leicester City: 23,508
Wolves: 23,371
Charlton: 23,024
WBA: 22,311
Ipswich: 21,645
Southampton: 20,767
Sheffield Wed: 20,745
Coventry City: 19,123
Hull City: 18,024
Watford: 16,876
Stoke City: 16,378
Bristol City: 16,144
Crystal Palace: 15,670
Cardiff City: 13,914
QPR: 13,761
Plymouth: 13,000
Preston NE: 12,646
Burnley: 12,380
Barnsley: 11,424
Blackpool: 8,825
Scunthorpe: 6,474
Colchester: 5,508
interesting that we got more than WBA who were winning more and playing better football. It was their second season down so maybe not a like for like comparison. We shall see how many ST we sell but early indicators from the expensive Centre Circle Club seats is very positive.
Also a lot of those teams have bigger capacities. I wonder what the median average would be rather than the mean average.
Add this to our huge away support and very impressive I say.
Avge in Serie A: 22,597
Serie B: 5,789
La Liga: 30,025
2A: 8,112
Bundesliga: 39,045
Bundesliga 2: 17,786
norwich's crowds are 'very impressive' lets see how many we get turn up in a few seasons time if we don't get promoted
I live in Norwich and believe me theres not much else to do around here for the natives..:-)
theres always something to do on the farm u know
Norwich City: 24,527 17th
Leicester City: 23,508 22nd
Wolves: 23,371 7th
Charlton: 23,024 11th
WBA: 22,311 Ist
Ipswich: 21,645 8th
Southampton: 20,767 20th
Sheffield Wed: 20,745 16th
Coventry City: 19,123 21st
Hull City: 18,024 3rd
Watford: 16,876 6th
Stoke City: 16,378 2nd
Bristol City: 16,144 4th
Crystal Palace: 15,670 5th
Cardiff City: 13,914 12th
QPR: 13,761 14th
Plymouth: 13,000 10th
Preston NE: 12,646 15th
Burnley: 12,380 13th
Barnsley: 11,424 18th
Blackpool: 8,825 19th
Scunthorpe: 6,474 23rd
Colchester: 5,508 24th
Palarses attendance is pretty poor considering where they finished.
Millwall.....
I thought they spent most of their time sh@gging their sisters........?
;o)
Norwich City: 24,527 17th
Leicester City: 23,508 22nd
Wolves: 23,371 7th
Charlton: 23,024 11th
WBA: 22,311 Ist
Ipswich: 21,645 8th
Southampton: 20,767 20th
Sheffield Wed: 20,745 16th
Coventry City: 19,123 21st
Hull City: 18,024 3rd
Watford: 16,876 6th
Stoke City: 16,378 2nd
Bristol City: 16,144 4th
Crystal Palace: 15,670 5th
Cardiff City: 13,914 12th
QPR: 13,761 14th
Plymouth: 13,000 10th
Preston NE: 12,646 15th
Burnley: 12,380 13th
Barnsley: 11,424 18th
Blackpool: 8,825 19th
Scunthorpe: 6,474 23rd
Colchester: 5,508 24th
Looking at the lowest attendances ...... takes you back to those days in the 70's & 80's when a decent Valley gate would have been similar to Colchester's today. (Not to mention playing at Sainsbury's)
And of course, we only had around 8,000 capacity (similar to Blackpool this season) when we first returned
to the 3-sided Valley. Ha! the days of 'Target 10,000' ........
And only around 16,000, same as Palace, Bristol C & Stoke, to see us first promoted to the Prem.
Look around you, next time you go to The Valley - we've come along way, further than most, further than we could even wildly have hoped to expect.
Not unless their sisters name is Dolly..:o) Alroight moy luvly!! Baaaaaaaaaaaa!!
;o)
The trick is not to get an ugly one......:-)
Blimey Ohhaah, and I thought I was a "glass half empty" type...
I was thinking about this earlier, and i don't expect we will maintain the giddy heights we have this season, but there are a lot more newbies who will stick with it than we thought, and they will pass on that legacy. Wherever we are in two or three seasons, seven seasons in the top flight has re-ignited a Charlton spark in the local area, and there are families who have come back into the fold. I really believe that we have a far brighter future than we had ten years ago, and we have a new generation who will want to support their local team, despite the onslaught from the greedy four and their paymasters at Sky.
Looking at the general non-Premier league picture, living abroad I am immensely proud when I show my Portuguese friends the Sunday papers, and they see (some) Conference games pulling more people then their Premier League. They really are in awe of it!
Whatever you think, England is so far ahead of anywhere in the world in terms of genuine supporters, we have that, at least, to be proud of.