With the home season now over and Cardiff having just completed their third season back in second tier of the Football pyramid, it is worth having another look at how our crowds our standing up. I've taken out any reference to Scotland so the teams in the table all compete in the "English" league. We will finish in our best position for many years but the crowds have deserted us.

In our first season back at this level we averaged 15,569; this dropped to 12,976 last season and this has fallen to 11,720 in 2005-2006. Four thousand fans have vanished in three years!

1. Manchester United 68,470
2. Newcastle United 52,017
3. Liverpool 44,223 
4. Manchester City 43,016 
5. Chelsea 41,884 
6. Arsenal 38,174 
7. Everton 36,704 
8. Tottenham Hotspur 36,068 
9. Aston Villa 34,581 
10. Sunderland 33,644 
11. West Ham United 33,605 
12. Middlesbrough 28,421 
13. Birmingham City 27,340
14. Charlton Athletic 26,193 
15. West Bromwich Albion 25,456 
16. Bolton Wanderers 25,355
17. Norwich City 24,992 
18. Sheffield Wednesday 24,853 
19. Ipswich Town 24,253 
20. Derby County 23,883 
21. Wolverhampton Wanderers 23,624 
22. Sheffield United 23,493 
23. Southampton 23,469 
24. Leeds United 22,355 
25. Leicester City 22,234
26. Coventry City 21,073   
27. Blackburn Rovers 20,783 
28. Fulham 20,756 
29. Wigan Athletic 20,581 
30. Reading 20,073
31. Nottingham Forest 19,958 
32. Hull City 19,841
33. Portsmouth 19,817
34. Crystal Palace 19,457
35. Watford 15,337
36. Stoke City 14,432
37. Preston North End 14,404
38. Swansea City 13,881
39. Plymouth Argyle 13,679
40. Queens Park Rangers 13,441
41. Huddersfield Town 12,994
42. Burnley 12,461
43. Cardiff City 11,720

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