Fans Attending A Maatch

[AlwaysConfused]

Can anyone tell me the percentage of Arsenal fans that have actually attended a match? I'm a Saints fan, always have been, and have been to as many matches as I can. Mr AC says it's because you cannot get a ticket to see the Gunners, I think that it is more a case of Arsenal fans being exactly that, 'fans' rather than supporters.

[factor-fiction]

It depends whether you mean worldwide, in the UK, in London, etc.
I suspect the percentages will be equally low for all the top clubs

[Buenchico]

Very few people genuinely support a particular club, rather than just the first team of that club. If they did you'd find them just as keen to watch that club's reserve and youth teams as they are to watch the first team.

Finances also come into it. Most of the kids in the school I taught at were keen Sheffield Wednesday fans but probably fewer than 10% of those kids had ever been to a game, simply because their parents couldn't afford it.

[campbellking]

Arsenal is the most expensive club in London to go to, but also has a massive fan base, so the percentage of attendees in terms of number of fans probably isn't that great.

[Maydup]

Probably quite a low percentage. Its way too expensive to actually attend any Premier League club matches and impossible to get a ticket unless you live within 10 miles and have inherited a membership!

[Gromit]

// More than 170,000 seats were left empty during Arsenal’s home games last season, according to startling new figures which cast serious doubt on the Premier League’s boast of record occupancy on the eve of the new campaign.
Attendance for matches at the Emirates Stadium recorded by the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), which counts the number of spectators who turn up to games, contrasts sharply with the official figure released by the club, which is based on tickets sold.
Data published on the blog 'a is for arsenal' following a Freedom of Information request to the MPS shows the latter recorded an average attendance of 53,788 at the 60,338-capacity ground for all Arsenal matches last season, an occupancy figure of 89.1 per cent.
That is almost 10 per cent lower than the 99.1% average released by the club and would suggest an alarming number of no-shows for matches – 173,945 in total during 2013-14, or an average of 6,550 per game. //