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Our Away Support: 6th best last season

Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:02 am

This report from the other board cropped up on NewsNow this morning:

Cardiff City were the 6th best supported team away from home in last seasons Championship.
On average Cardiff took 1,501 fans to away matches in the Championship. Incredibly that's less than half the numbers that Leeds took. They averaged 3,484 away fans at each game last season.
After Leeds came Forest, Norwich, Leicester and QPR before City in 6th place.
The worst supported side in the Football League away from home were Morecambe. They managed to take and average of 123 fans to each League 2 game.
The worst Championship team were Scunthorpe.
Cardiff's average attendance of 23,157 was the 6th highest in the division.
The most fans City took to an away game was 3,344.
Look here for the full stats report

Re: Our Away Support: 6th best last season

Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:40 am

I'm surprised at QPR, Norwich and Leicester being above us. But Leeds had the 4th best away support in the country (including Premiership sides) a season or 2 ago. As far as (away) support goes, they are a huge club

Re: Our Away Support: 6th best last season

Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:44 am

Fair play to Norwich because it must be tricky to get to some away games like it is for Cardiff because we're more out of the way than most. QPR and Leicester I'm not too surprised about because they're both quite centralised with regards to other clubs.

Re: Our Away Support: 6th best last season

Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:49 am

Zabier wrote:Fair play to Norwich because it must be tricky to get to some away games like it is for Cardiff because we're more out of the way than most. QPR and Leicester I'm not too surprised about because they're both quite centralised with regards to other clubs.

QPR's support is usually quite poor though, generally down to them being London's poor relation and being surrounded by big clubs with very good support

Re: Our Away Support: 6th best last season

Tue Aug 02, 2011 8:01 am

How did bubbles affect us? EG Swansea

Re: Our Away Support: 6th best last season

Tue Aug 02, 2011 8:33 am

The problem we have is any close games where we would take huge support tends to be restricted to a limit on numbers we can take. Also adding to that the restrictions our fans face it is not suprising we are sixth.

Re: Our Away Support: 6th best last season

Tue Aug 02, 2011 8:36 am

BigGwynram wrote:The problem we have is any close games where we would take huge support tends to be restricted to a limit on numbers we can take. Also adding to that the restrictions our fans face it is not suprising we are sixth.



Exactly, we hardly ever get full allocations :evil: