This article lists the of many '''sports''' competitions around the world with the exception of those for Domestic Professional Leagues such as the NFL or Major League Baseball .
See Also: List of attendance figures at domestic professional sports leagues
This section list attendances at domestic Knock-out cup competitions in order of average attendance. It is very incomplete. In particular, there is a professional football (soccer) cup competition in most countries, and some countries have two.
1 Due to varying figures of 45,000 and 51,300 being given for the two games of the first-round doubleheader, an average figure of 48,150 was used for calculation.
This section lists college and amateur leagues by total attendance. Most remaining amateurism requirements in top level sport were dropped in the late 20th century, and there are now few if any amateur leagues which are of interest to a wide public outside of the United States, where college sports are very popular and at least one significant ice hockey league retains an amateur requirement.
The NCAA championships listed here are all comprised of several separate conferences with varying attendance levels. For example, in American football, 2006 per-game home attendances for the highest level of competition, Division I FBS, ranged from 17,097 for Sun Belt Conference teams to 75,706 for Southeastern Conference teams.1 This includes all regular-season games, Bowl Game s for FBS teams, and playoff games and other postseason games in FCS and lower divisions. It does not include postseason all-star games.
1 The three component leagues of the Canadian Hockey League (the OHL, WHL, and QMJHL) are amateur leagues that draft players from Minor Hockey , and whose players are in turn drafted by the NHL. Players are allowed to move back and forth between the NHL and the CHL, as well as to European professional leagues and US and Canadian college leagues. The minimum age to play in the NHL is 18 while the age range in the CHL is 15 – 21. This prevents older professionals from invading the CHL. Players are paid a stipend but not a regular salary in the mold of the Collective Bargaining Agreement s of other leagues. Teams are for-profit companies.
This section lists the attendances at international competitions between sports clubs. These are usually organised on a continental basis. The teams which compete in these tournaments also compete in the domestic competitions in their home countries.
This table is incomplete.
Note: all stages except Final Four.
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This section lists attendances at competitions between national representative teams sorted by average attendance. Please help Wikipedia by adding more competitions.
- 1The Ashes is Test Cricket, which, unlike all other sports listed here (including the Cricket World Cup), is contested over more than one day (a maximum of 5 days for each match). Therefore it should be noted that these average attendance figures are not indicative of a single day's attendance. The five matches of the 2006-07 Ashes were contested over a total of 22 days, therefore the average attendance for a single day would be 36,969.
- 2Although 32 games were played in the 2003 FIFA Women's World Cup, tickets were sold only for 20 matchdays. A total of 24 matches were scheduled as doubleheaders—18 during pool play, all four quarterfinals, and both semifinals. However, FIFA took attendance separately for each individual match, and the calculation here reflects this practice.
- 3World Baseball Classic and World Cup of Hockey are hosted in different regions of the world to boost attendance; as opposed to being hosted in one region like other international tournaments.
- 4The number of games and the average attendance excludes the two cancelled matches during the tournament (Zimbabwe vs England and Kenya vs New Zealand).
This section lists the most recent attendances at annual championship events (single decider matches) by total attendance, and includes domestic leagues and competitions. It has to be noted that the listed crowd figures are always a reflection of a championship's popularity, rather the capacity of its venue.
This section lists major domestic representative competitions sorted by total attendance. Please help Wikipedia by adding more competitions.
This section lists major All-star Game s sorted by total attendance. Please help Wikipedia by adding more matches.
This section lists attendances which do not fit into any of the sections above.
- NCAA Division I College World Series : The 2005 College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska had a total attendance of 263,475 in 11 sessions, for an average of 23,952. {Link without Title}
- --- The NCAA sells tickets for "sessions" rather than individual games. Some sessions are single games, even when two games are scheduled for the same day, while others are doubleheaders allowing one ticket holder to view both games that day.
- NCAA Division I Baseball: Mississippi State University holds the single game regular season on-campus attendance record at 14,991. They also hold the NCAA's top 2 all-time largest Super Regional attendance record of 12,620 and 13,715 versus Clemson in 2007. Mississippi State has all of the top 13 and 18 of the top 20 on-campus crowds in the history of college baseball.
- had a total attendance of 696,992 in 35 sessions, for an average of 19,914.
- had a total attendance of 199,932 in 34 sessions, for an average of 5,880.
- --- For both basketball tournaments, the NCAA sells tickets for "sessions" rather than individual games. The "play-in" game of the men's tournament, the four regional finals of both tournaments, and both national championship games are single-game sessions; all other games in both tournaments are part of a doubleheader at a specific site.
- NCAA Men's Division I Basketball : The University of Kentucky has won 9 of the past 10 Men's Basketball Attendance titles. The most recent in 2006, saw Kentucky pull in an average of 22,763 fans per contest. Second place went to Syracuse University with an average of 21,587. {Link without Title}
- claiming a more modest 10 million {Link without Title} . This is the highest total for any single sporting event; it should be pointed out, however, that attendance is entirely free and not closely monitored.
- Japan Racing Association : in 2004 8,099,985 racegoers attended meetings in Japan. {Link without Title} Attendances at JRA meetings have fallen every year since 1996, when they were 14,116,684. These numbers do not include the many "local racing" meetings in Japan.
- British horse racing: in 2005 5,896,922 racegoers attended the 1,300 meetings held in the United Kingdom, an average of 4,536. {Link without Title} .
- , Australia
- attracted a total of 157,536. The second largest attendance figure in the history of the race.http://www.online-horse-betting.net/index.php
- , 1,890,000 racegoers attended races meetings.http://www.hkjc.com/english/corporate/corp_operation_05-06_results.asphttp://www.horseracingintfed.com/newsDisplay.asp?story=345
- Horse racing in Ireland: 1,447,245 racegoers attended over 319 meetings in 2006, with the largest single meeting is the Festival in Punchestown , achieving a record 85,000 racegoers, up 10% on 2005.http://www.horseracingintfed.com/newsDisplay.asp?story=417
- The record for any professional fight event is the PRIDE and K-1 co-hosted Shockwave / Dynamite match held on 28 August 2002, taking in 91,107 paid spectators held in the Tokyo National Stadium , Tokyo , Japan .http://www.pridefc.com/pride2005/whats_about01.htm
- with an attendance figure of 67,450 on 9 November 2003 at Tokyo National Stadium , Tokyo , Japan .
- with 63,800 spectators.http://www.k-1.co.jp/k-1gp/a002_01.htm
- event held on 3 March 2007, at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio took in 19,049 spectators (the largest verifiable attendance for an event in North America).http://www.thefightnetwork.com/news_detail.php?nid=3365
- Indianapolis 500 , Speedway, Indiana is the largest single-day sporting event in the world, drawing 270,000 spectators annually.http://www.usatoday.com/sports/motor/irl/indy500/2004-05-27-attendance-count_x.htm
- 13,000,000 at Nextel Cup, Busch Series racing, Craftman Truck series, and Whelen racing series. (Average 186,000) (2003)http://mediarelations.officedepot.cc/racing/docs/nascar_background_abbrev.pdf
- --- Daytona 500 : 200,000 racegoers attended the sold out event for the 2005 race day.http://www.grandprixcities.com/raceattendances.html
- Champ Car : 1,961,917 fans. with an average of 150,000 per event.
- --- 2005 attendance of 316,459.http://www.indy.com.au/event/pastevents/index.htm
- held in Melbourne was 301,000 (a drop from the 2006 total.http://www.austadiums.com/sport/event.php?eventid=4223
- held in Montreal was 332,000.http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/story.html?id=9e05d4b0-6014-44e5-adf8-9253250e9f54
- Adelaide event held in Adelaide, Australia 2007 attendance of 286,300 over 4 days
- V8 Supercar Championship Series- Average Attendance in 2006 was 108 000.
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- , France The 2007 Event has an attendance figure of 250,952 over the race day, setting a new official event record.12
- in September 2005.http://www.grandprixcities.com/raceattendances.html
- .http://www.jamiegreenracing.co.uk/dtm.htm
- two-day event held at the Odaiba car park in Tokyo Bay , Japan attracted 34,152 altogether, 18,546 for the Allstar event and for the point-scoring 2nd round, 15,606. The record one-day attendance is 21,000 for its Allstar event held at the Previous Year , making it the biggest Drifting event of them all even for an event which usually requires a small portion of racetrack.http://www.d1gp.co.jp/
- monster truck events including its own Monster Jam and Thunder Nationals series.http://www.monsterjamonline.com/pressBox/Article.2003-10-21.5745
- attracted 70,000 spectators, this is considered to be less then the record in 1990, when 160,000 spectators attended on race day. As with modern seating facilities demanded on F1 circuits, Suzuka can no longer be able to break this record.http://www.suzukacircuit.com/race/cocacola8/
- until 1999, now currently held in Magny Cours attracted 53,000 spectators in 2005, less than the previous year's figure.http://www.racecorporation.co.uk/Bol%20d'Or%202005.htm
- over 3 days, with a raceday total of 131,162, setting a new record for a Moto GP event.http://www.grandprixcities.com/raceattendances.html
- event over the entire weekend.http://www.grandprixcities.com/raceattendances.html
- World Finals at Sam Boyd Stadium , Las Vegas, Nevada sold out taking in a claimed 65,000 spectators, despite its capacity of 40,000.http://www.thomasandmack.com/arenainfo/history.php
- Goodwood Festival Of Speed : Total attendance record for the event is 158,000 in 2003, making it the biggest motorsport event in Britain, with revised ticket sale policies, recent attendance figure has been 150,000.http://www.burkes-peerage.net/sites/common/news/news160703.asp
- is 65,000 in 2004.http://media.montereyinfo.org/?p=8464
- in 2006. http://www.porsche.com/international/accessoriesandservice/classic/world/events/archive/2004-09-01-oldtimer32/
All figures except Turin 2006 from Olympic.org
- held at the Pontiac Silverdome , Pontiac, Michigan was reported to have had an attendance figure of 93,173, which is considered to be a North American indoor attendance record. This figure has been subject to dispute; the Silverdome is not capable of accommodating so many people for such an event and the WWF (as the company was known until 2002) is likely to have exaggerated the figure for marketing purposes. The actual attendance is reported to be approximately 75,000. http://prowrestling.about.com/od/wrestlemania/p/wm3.htm
- The 1992 Summerslam , held at the Old Wembley Stadium in London, England, took in an attendance figure of 80,355, making it the other attendance record for a WWF event.http://encycl.opentopia.com/term/Wembley_Stadium
- Wrestlemania 23 broke the Ford Field attendance record with a crowd of 80,103.
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