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Attendance in the league | FA Cup | League Cup | European Cup | ||||||||||
Champion | 0 | Period | Highest avg | In year | Highest | Lowest | Winner | 0 | Winner | 1 | CL: | 0 | |
# 2 | 0 | 2000 - now | 8.297 | 2017 | 12.243 | 3.676 | Finalist | 0 | Finalist | 0 | Best | ||
# 3 | 0 | 1987 - 1999 | 11.009 | 1986 | 14.211 | 3.420 | Semis | 0 | Semis | 1 | CWC : | 0 | |
Highest pos. | 18 | 1970 - 1986 | 10.884 | 1971 | 18.990 | 2.741 | Quarter | 1 | Quarter | 3 | Best | ||
Total years | 55 | 1947 - 1969 | 11.636 | 1969 | 18.020 | 4 |
Someone posted on the Wycombe match-day thread that 7500 home supporters was disappointing and more Oxfordshire public should come out and attend matches.
Well......... As you can see from the stats above, these are our average attendances over the last 70 odd or so years and although we would all like to have our home games sold out every game the history of our club clearly states differently....
Since we moved to The Kassam Stadium our highest average attendance was in 2017 which was 8297 including visiting supporters which will easily average anywhere between 500 - 1000 away supporters so in keeping with 7500 oufc fans regularly attending home matches as the Wycombe match panned out.
The higher averages in the 1960’s and 70’s was down to having a ground with a higher capacity and dare I say a larger amount of visitors attending, it certainly was the case in the 1980’s (my first seasons) as the Cookoo lane end when we were in Division 2 and Division 1 were packed out with 2500 visitors again with around 7500 - 8000 home supporters attending and they were our glory days.....
It is a far cry from our 4 Wembley visits (where supporters could attend) when reports are that we had anywhere between 25,000 - 35,000 yellows cheering our team on.
The unfinished stadium, the lack of pubs, the lack of eating places and the whole match day experience is not the best however there are lots of so called new stadiums that have been built out of town and they will have similar issues.
We have what we have and however the team on the pitch performs either successful or unsuccessful we will only ever have 7500 regular supporters at the last 70 years have proved.
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