There's a total of 17.1m of us attending the 1,656 league matches played during 2009/10, an increase of 4.4% on last season and the highest aggregate crowd figure since the 1959/60 campaign.
The average Football League crowd is now higher than 10,000, having more than doubled over the last quarter of a century.
What recession?
The Coca-Cola Championship is still the fourth most watched league in Europe with a total audience of more than 9.9m fans. Crowds grew by 0.3% this season and averaged 17,949.
Only Germany's Bundesliga (13.1m), the Premier League (12.9m) and Spain's La Liga (11.0m) get bigger match attendances, with English soccers' second tier, once again, attracting more supporters than Italy's Serie A (9.1m) and France's Ligue 1 (7.6m).
Crowds for matches in Coca-Cola League One averaged 9,136, see that go down with Norwich, Leeds and, er, Southend going, while League Two was 3,853, crowds in those divisions increasing by an incredible 21%!
New Football League Chairman, Greg Clarke, said: "Attracting more than seventeen million fans into their grounds is an outstanding achievement by Football League clubs, particularly in the current economic climate. Our clubs are focussed on attracting a new, family audience to football and those efforts are clearly working. I would like to thank everybody that has been to one of our matches this season for supporting their club and our competition."
For the full article, go here:
www.football-league.co.uk/latestnews
For the S24 article on the new chairman of the Football League, go here:
www.southendunited-mad.co.uk/feat/edy4/
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Coca-Cola Football League One 2009-2010
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| Team | MinCrowd | MaxCrowd | AveCrowd | TotCrowd |
| Leeds United (P) | 17,635 | 38,234 | 24,817 | 570,806 |
| Norwich City (C) | 23,041 | 25,506 | 24,657 | 567,111 |
| Southampton | 16,402 | 30,890 | 20,982 | 482,594 |
| Charlton Athletic | 14,636 | 23,198 | 17,407 | 400,365 |
| Huddersfield Town | 11,269 | 21,764 | 14,381 | 330,769 |
| Millwall | 6,617 | 17,632 | 10,834 | 249,200 |
| Milton Keynes Dons | 8,528 | 16,713 | 10,289 | 236,663 |
| Swindon Town | 6,183 | 14,508 | 8,393 | 193,048 |
| Southend United (R) | 6,382 | 10,329 | 7,718 | 177,518 |
| Bristol Rovers | 5,322 | 11,448 | 7,042 | 161,985 |
| Brighton & Hove Albion | 4,711 | 7,784 | 6,466 | 148,736 |
| Gillingham (R) | 3,840 | 10,304 | 6,335 | 145,713 |
| Brentford | 4,200 | 9,031 | 6,017 | 138,409 |
| Exeter City | 4,106 | 8,549 | 5,832 | 134,143 |
| Tranmere Rovers | 4,317 | 8,694 | 5,670 | 130,426 |
| Wycombe Wanderers (R) | 3,899 | 8,400 | 5,544 | 127,517 |
| Colchester United | 3,601 | 10,064 | 5,529 | 127,180 |
| Carlisle United | 3,731 | 8,728 | 5,210 | 119,840 |
| Leyton Orient | 2,669 | 8,013 | 4,937 | 113,551 |
| Yeovil Town | 3,469 | 7,484 | 4,664 | 107,274 |
| Oldham Athletic | 2,833 | 8,569 | 4,630 | 106,493 |
| Stockport County (R) | 3,281 | 7,768 | 4,420 | 101,669 |
| Walsall | 2,929 | 8,438 | 4,026 | 92,613 |
| Hartlepool United | 2,465 | 9,504 | 3,683 | 84,728 |