2025–26 EFL Championship, Attendance Map [2024-25 league figures]
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By Bill Turianski on the 10th of September 2025; twitter.com/billsportsmaps.
Links…
-2025–26 EFL Championship (en.wikipedia.org).
-Table, fixtures, results, stats, attendances, etc… ENG-Championship [2025-26] (worldfootball.net).
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The map
The map shows the average attendance of the 24 clubs of the 2025-26 EFL Championship (England/2nd division). The clubs’ badges are arranged around the coast of Britain, in grouped boxes. They are grouped by Counties or Regions.
The circles-with-club-badges represent each club’s home league average attendance for 2024-25 – the larger the circle, the higher the club’s attendance last season. Each circle-with-badge points to the club’s home-venue location. That home-venue location is listed on the map, along with the club’s home-county or home-region…
• 4 clubs from Yorkshire: Middlesbrough [of North Yorkshire], Hull City AFC [of the East Riding of Yorkshire], Sheffield United, Sheffield Wednesday [both of South Yorkshire].
• 3 clubs from Greater London, plus 1 club from the surrounding areas of the Home Counties: Charlton Athletic, Millwall, Queens Park Rangers, Watford [of Hertfordshire].
• 3 clubs from the West Midlands: Birmingham City, Coventry City, West Bromwich Albion.
• 2 clubs from East Anglia: Ipswich Town [of Suffolk], Norwich City [of Norfolk].
• 2 clubs from the East Midlands: Derby County [of Derbyshire], Leicester City [of Leicestershire].
• 2 clubs from Hampshire: Portsmouth, Southampton.
• 2 clubs from Lancashire: Blackburn Rovers, Preston North End.
• 1 club from Bristol (ceremonial county): Bristol City.
• 1 club from North Wales: Wrexham AFC.
• 1 club from Oxfordshire: Oxford United.
• 1 club from South Wales: Swansea City AFC.
• 1 club from Staffordshire: Stoke City.
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The English 2nd division is the 10th highest-drawing association football league in the world…
-Chart by billsportsmaps.com. Attendance figures from worldfootball.net, and from en.wikipedia.org.
The EFL Championship cumulatively drew 22,022 per game last season [2024-25]. Only in Germany can you see a higher-drawing second division.
And these days, like the German 2nd division (2. Bundesliga), the English 2nd division’s impressively high attendance is strongly influenced by whom exactly gets relegated (or promoted) into their division that year. The bigger the clubs going down from the top flight (or coming up from the 3rd tier), the larger the 2nd division’s attendance will be the following season.
And so a couple of seasons ago (in 2023-24), the EFL Championship had its highest drawing season in 72 years, drawing 23.0-K per game {source: european-football-statistics.co.uk/[Attendance]}. Why? Because in 2023-24, Sunderland (at 40-K per game), Leeds (at 35-K per game) and Leicester (at 31-K per game) were all stuck in the second tier, plus there were a dozen other clubs in the 2nd division that year that drew above 20-K.
So for this season, on that basis, with 16 clubs in the 2nd tier set to be drawing above 20-K (including 3rd division champions Birmingham City, who drew a full-house-26.2-K last season), one would expect attendance to increase. And after 4 games, it has, with the Championship currently [11 Sept 2025] drawing about 600-per-game higher than last season, at 22.6-K.
In case you’re wondering, the 2nd division had its highest drawing season in 1947-48, at 26.5-K per game; this was two seasons after the resumption of play following the end of World War II.
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-Blank relief map of UK, by Nilfanion at: United_Kingdom_relief_location_map.png (commons.wikimedia.org).
-Blank relief map of Greater London, by Nilfanion (using UK Ordnance Survey data), at File:Greater London UK relief location map.jpg.
-Ipswich jersey segment from footyheadlines.com. -Middlesbrough 2025-26 jersey badge, photo via footyheadlines.com.
-2024-25 Attendance figures from worldfootball.net/[attendance/eng-championship].
