The table below lists domestic professional sports leagues from around the world by total attendances for the last completed season for which data is available. The following points should be considered: In some cases, the figures listed are for main season games only. In some sports (mainly North American-centered sports leagues), the main league competition provides each club or franchise with virtually the whole of its attendance and revenue. In others, there are multiple competitions, for example leading English football clubs compete in four competitions each season, but only the league competition is listed below. In some sports, for example cricket and rugby union, international competitions and transnational club competitions provide a significant part of total attendances and revenue. Free or heavily discounted seats may be counted by some leagues. No-shows for paid seats may be included in some cases, but not in others. Not all leagues publish official attendance figures. Various media outlets produce their own figures and sometimes these do not agree, but the differences in the averages given are usually no more than one or two percent. In some cases the official attendance figure released by clubs and/or their league may reflect the ticket sell through rather than the number of people in attendance on the night, this can result in a discrepancy of many thousands of attendees per event. The "leagues" below include pure league competitions, where the team that finishes at the top of the table is declared the winner, such as the Premier League, and hybrid league/knock-out competitions, where the best league performers enter a knock-out phase (also called a playoff) to decide the winner, such as the National Football League. Domestic leagues use either a franchise-based system or a promotion and relegation system. Leagues with a franchise system place, relocate or dissolve teams based on market factors. Leagues with a promotion and relegation system include teams based on their performance in the previous season. Attendance figures for leagues with a promotion and relegation system are more likely to vary each season due to the stadium capacity and support base for participating clubs.
Top men's leagues in total attendance with a minimum of 8 million
LeagueInaugural seasonSportCountriesPyramidlevelSeasonTeamsGamesAveragecapacityAverageattendanceAverageattendance as % ofaveragecapacityTotalattendanceRef(s)Major League Baseball (MLB) 1876 Baseball 1 2024 30 Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) 1949 1 2024 12 National Hockey League (NHL) 1917 Ice hockey 1 2024–25 32 * National Basketball Association (NBA) 1946 Basketball 1 2022–23 30 * National Football League (NFL) 1920 American football 1 2018 32 Premier League (Premier League) 1992 Association football 1 2023-24 20 International League (IL) /Pacific Coast League (PCL) (AAA) 1884 (International League)/1903 (Pacific Coast League) Baseball 2 2019 30 Major League Soccer (MLS) 1996 Association football 1 202429 Fußball-Bundesliga (Bundesliga) 1963 1 2023–24 18 Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División (La Liga) 1929 1 2022–23 20 Lega Nazionale Professionisti Serie A (Serie A) 1897 1 2022–23 20 KBO League (KBO) 1982 Baseball 1 202510 Liga Profesional de Fútbol 1891 Association football 1 202428Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (Brasileirão) 1937 (first iteration)1959 (current iteration)Association football 1 202420 English Football League Championship(EFL Championship) 2004 Association football 2 2022–23 24 Championnat de France de football (Ligue 1) 1930 1 2022–2320 81.0 Fußball-2.Bundesliga (2.Bundesliga) 1974 2 2023–24 18 Liga Mexicana de Béisbol (LMB) /Liga Mexicana del Pacífico (LMP) 1925 (LMB)/1945 (LMP)Baseball 1 2019/2019–2026 Eastern League (EL) / Southern League (SL) / Texas League (TL) (AA) 1902 (TL)/1923 (EL)/1964 (SL) 3 2019 30 Australian Football League (AFL) 1897 Australian rules football 1 202418 65.44 Liga MX (Liga MX) 1943 Association Football 1 2022–23 53.35
* Seating room only
Top women's leagues in total attendance League Inauguralseason Sport Country Season Teams Matches Attendance Average Total scope="row" Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) 1997 1 2023 12 These statistics include only regular-season games. In 23 playoff games of 2022, average attendance was 8,889. scope="row" National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) 2013 Association football 1 2023 12 scope="row" Women's Super League (WSL) 2011 Association football 1 2023–24 12 scope="row" Liga MX Femenil 2017 Association football 1 2023–24 18 scope="row" Professional Women's Hockey League (PWHL) 2023 Ice hockey 1 2024–25 6 scope="row" Frauen-Bundesliga 1990 Association football 1 2022–23 12 scope="row" AFL Women's (AFLW) 2017 1 2024 18 108 scope="row" A-League Women 2008 Association football 1 2023–24 12 scope="row" Northern Super League 2025 Association football 1 2025 6 scope="row" NRL Women's Premiership (NRLW) 2018 Rugby league 1 2023 10 4 regular-season matches are missing attendance numbers. These averages are against the 44 matches for which we have attendance numbers. scope="row" Suncorp Super Netball 2017 Netball 1 2023 8 scope="row" Damallsvenskan 1973 Association football 1 2023 14 scope="row" WE League 2020 Association football 1 2022–23 11 scope="row" Liga Mexicana de Softbol 2024 Softball 1 2024 6 scope="row" Women's National Basketball League 1981 Basketball 1 2022–23 8 scope="row" Women's Big Bash League (WBBL) 2007 Cricket 1 2018–19 8 scope="row" Division 1 Féminine 1974 Association football 1 2022–23 12 scope="row" Vrouwen Eredivisie 2007 Association football 1 2022–23 11
Outdoor sports This list is sorted by average attendance per game/match, with a minimum of 2,000. It covers leagues which normally would play in an outdoor stadium, as opposed to those that use indoor arenas. Some outdoor league stadiums are equipped with either retractable or non-retractable roofs where weather conditions (such as rain or extreme heat/cold) would not allow a game to be played or watched effectively, comfortably or safely without such cover.