Huddersfield sports fans

Quote: brearley84 "8k went to watch from town..i dont know what you was expecting??

we can only dream of 8k on a tuesday night for a run of the mill cup game.

saturdays league game will be a decent crowd too i would think prob a few will be going to watch that instead of coming to watch us friday night
But you can't compare numbers. Soccer is a massive market sport which attracts big crowds. The top club has a 75,000 average attendance, they even have people who buy tickets simply to have a ticket and then don't attend. The top club in RL attracts only 15-16,000. Towns average attendance last year would have made them one of the top three supported RL teams in this country.

Plus Town are one of only three league soccer clubs in the third most densely populated areas outside London. The other two, West Midlands and Greater Manchester, have 6 and 8 clubs respectively and Town had the lowest average attendance of any of the clubs from those areas currently playing in their division or higher. Town got promoted last year and saw their attendances increase by only approx 1,000 fans. That's an increase of about 7%, not much. In fact their crowds haven't increased much for 5 years despite an increasing feel good factor and a boom in general attendances.

The only way you could genuinely compare our crowds to Towns is as a proportion of the top clubs. Ours vary between about 40-50% of the top clubs. Towns are 20%. Town would need to be filling the stadium every week before you could begin to say their crowds were comparable to ours. They aren't.

It's about time we ended this "Huddersfield is a soccer town" myth. It isn't, it is a town that has been deprived of sporting success for many, many years and has whole generations of fans who either don't watch sport or support teams from outside the area.