Championship Support Analysis 2017/18 (3 replies)

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Congratulations to Wolves and Cardiff on their promotion to the Premier League, the NFWFs have done their bit in relation to this blog with an increase of 1,060 on their away average from last season, whilst an extra 499 on average followed the Bluebirds on their travels.

Overall Leeds United are the best supported club on the road, they averaged 2,966 this season, 191 more than 2nd place Villa with the NFWFs taking third spot with an impressive 2,729, Wednesday were fourth with 2,470 despite an ambivalent season. Six clubs have averaged over 2k away from home in the second tier

Down at the other end of the table Burton Albion were the lowest travellers with 502. Reading finished 2nd bottom on 729 with the Allams ownership at Hull affecting their figures as they finished 3rd bottom and were one of just 3 Championship clubs averaging under four figures with their 921.



Onto the home averages well Aston Villa were 1st with a cracking 32,101, Leeds finished 2nd on 31,525 and Wolves in 3rd on 28,302. 13 of the 24 clubs averaged above 20k including away fans and only one club ended under five figures.

Burton obviously were the club averaging under five figures with a 4,645 average, they were joined in the bottom 3 by Brentford and Millwall.



Craven Cottage proved the most popular ground for away fans with 2,379 on average visiting West London, the newly departed Oakwell finished in 2nd place and Bolton’s Macron Stadium made up the top 3,

No ground in the Championship averaged under 1k visiting fans but it was the clubs out of the way that did attract the fewest with Middlesbrough, Ipswich, Norwich and Cardiff being your least popular trips.



Aston Villa top the net home averages but only just ahead of Leeds by 165, those two sit ahead of Wolves, 7 other clubs have a home average above 20k, Bristol City, Birmingham and Cardiff City drop out of 20k club once you remove the away numbers.

Burton obviously hold bottom spot with a home average of just over 3k which shows their efforts have been fantastic in their two years at this level, Brentford finish second bottom with the only other sub 10k home fan average, Barnsley make up the bottom three.