Whilst everyone knows the ending of the final Championship table, not many people know the order of the table in terms of attendances.
Luckily for you all, we have the table here in full, and it’s not like you’d expect!
- Derby – 682,249 total, 29,663 average
- Brighton – 588,145 total, 25,583 average
- Middlesbrough – 566,149 total, 24,627 average
- Sheffield Wednesday – 520,738 total, 22,641 average
- Leeds – 516,261 total, 22,445 average
- Wolves – 463,309 total, 20,157 average
- Nottingham Forest – 452,543 total, 19,676 average
- Ipswich – 436,756 total, 18,989 average
- Birmingham – 404,867 total, 17,603 average
- Fulham – 404,023 total, 17,566 average
- Reading – 397,556 total, 17,285 average
- Hull – 395,568 total, 17,199 average
- Burnley – 384,305 total, 16,709 average
- Cardiff – 378,653 total, 16,463 average
- QPR – 367, 857 total, 15,994 average
- Charlton – 359,541 total, 15,632 average
- Bristol City – 351,705 total, 15,292 average
- Bolton – 346,299 total, 15,056 average
- Blackburn – 325,003 total, 14,131 average
- MK Dons – 302,633 total, 13,158 average
- Preston – 299,801 total, 13,035 average
- Huddersfield – 290,505 total, 12,631 average
- Brentford – 237,120 total, 10,310 average
- Rotherham – 230,578 total, 10,025 average
So as you can see the top three have substantially more than the rest with Derby posting nearly three-times as many as Rotherham.
The top four all managed to achieve at least a play-off place, and so the correlation is there to be seen between attendance and performance on the pitch.