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The National Football League was the major sports league with the highest average attendance in North America in the 2013-2014 season, with an average of 68,397 people attending each game. Home games of the Dallas Cowboys had an average attendance of 90,069. NFL average attendance-additional information. A total of 17.36 million fans attended NFL games during the 2014 regular season and each team welcomed an average total of more than 542,000 spectators to their home games across the season. The team with the lowest average regular season attendance in 2014 was the Minnesota Vikings, who attracted an average home crowd of 52,238 fans. The Vikings’ home attendance has decreased sharply compared to 2013 when each home game was watched by an average of 64,019 fans in the stadium. The newest stadium in the NFL is the Levi’s Stadium, the home of the San Francisco 49ers. The stadium opened in July 2014 and has a capacity of 68,500, expandable to 75,000. The average attendance per game is higher in the NFL than in the NCAA, but since there are nearly four times as many NCAA D-I teams, they pull in more fans overall. Using 2006 as a baseline, both the NCAA and NFL look relatively similar in 2012 as they did six years ago. The statistic depicts the average per game attendance of the five major sports leagues in North America (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and MLS). Figures are for the most recently completed season unless otherwise noted. The average per game attendance at Major League Soccer games was 19,151 during the 2014 season. Total paid attendance for the 2007 regular season averaged 67,738 fans per game and increased to 17,341,012, topping last yearayearâ s-all time mark 17,340,879. 17340879A â our teams and players are most appreciative of the large and fervent crowds THAT make nfl games,so unique A â Said Nfl. commissioner roger goodell In 2014, the average NFL game drew 68,776 fans, more than 25,000 fans per game more than the next-highest league (the German Bundesliga, 43,500). Here are the 17 top professional sports leagues based on average attendance.
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