Thousands missing from record attendance

Technically West Ham broke their home attendance record at the London Stadium last night with an official attendance of 59,870 which equates to 59,870 tickets sold.

In reality, we know many thousands of West Ham season ticket holders were missing last night who didn’t use their seats!

The fixture changes haven’t helped with the Boxing day match moved to the 27th December and the New Years Day match against Brighton moved to Wednesday evening 2nd January, which was the first day back to work for many people.

Dragging yourself to Stratford on a dark and cold winter night for a midweek game after work is not the most motivating of tasks to want to do and coming straight after Christmas money is often scarce for many which is another factor.

Putting this excuses above aside West Ham real attendance is regularly between 10% and 20% less the official attendance figure published.  At our new stadium capacity of 60,000, that means somewhere between 6,000 and 12,000 season ticket holders were missing last night.