Wednesday top of empty seats league

<h1>Wednesday top of the empty seats league</h1>

<div class="viewarticlepanel"><div class="multiimageon" id="MainMultiImage"><div id="MainImageDiv"></div><div id="ImageCaption">Steve Watson against Ipswich before only 17,198 fans</div><div class="offinline" id="ThumbDiv"><div class="thumb"></div><div class="thumb"></div><div class="thumb"></div><div class="thumb"></div><div class="thumb2"></div></div>
<div class="offinline" id="Navigation"><div class="off" id="PreviousBlock1">&laquo; Previous </div><div class="off" id="PreviousBlock1Inactive">&laquo; Previous</div><div class="off" id="NextBlock1">Next &raquo; </div><div class="off" id="NextBlock1Inactive">Next &raquo;</div></div><div class="off noprint" id="divGalleryLink">View Gallery</div></div><div><div class="MPUTitleWrapperClass" id="ds-mpuTitleWrapper"><div class="advertisement" id="ds-mpuTitle">ADVERTISEMENT</div><div id="ds-mpu"><div class="dartiframe" id="WctlDartHtml4" style="width: 300px; height: 250px"></div></div></div></div></div><div>Published Date: 25 September 2008 </div><div class="byline" id="ds-byline">By Simon Meeks</div><div class="ds-firstpara" id="ds-firstpara">SHEFFIELD Wednesday's stay away fans have left Hillsborough the most under-occupied stadium in the Championship.</div><div class="va-bodytext" id="va-bodytext">Average attendances at the Owls home games is 19,005, leaving the 39,814 capacity stadium only 47.7 per cent full in the four games played there.

Wednesday are top of the empty seats league and it could get worse. Gates at the last three home games have only been at the 17,000 mark.

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Top of the Championship stadium filling attendance league are Cardiff City. On average their Ninian Park home is 93.3 per cent full even though their average gate is just 19,031.

Sheffield United's home gates average out at 26,210, leaving the Blades with a healthy 80.3 per cent occupancy of Bramall Lane's 32,609 seats.

Championship newcomers Doncaster Rovers are mid table in the empty seats table. Over three matches played at home and the Keepmoat Stadium has been 74.7 per cent full on average.

Barnsley's stats at Oakwell show 55.3 per cent of the seats taken.

Only Wednesday and Southampton have dipped below the 50 per cent mark.

Top attendance in the Championship last season was at Hillsborough on the last day of the season when 36,208 watched the Owls beat Norwich 4-2.

Biggest gate so far this campaign was at Pride Park on the first day of the season when 33,010 watched Derby play Championship newcomers Doncaster.

Derby have the top average attendance of 29,131, the Blades are second with Wednesday trailing behind Norwich, Wolves, Ipswich, Charlton, Nottingham Forest, Birmingham, Reading and Cardiff.

Average attendance at Hillsborough last season was 21,148. It was 25,631 at Bramall Lane; 11,425 at Oakwell and 7,978 at Doncaster Rovers.
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glad to see............

we've crept back above the 50% mark-stronger together !

 

Wish we had 17000 in every game.

 

If we did we might have afforded a 20 goal a season striker.

 

He could have sat on the bench with Mig watching Oddjob.

 

Or be left out of the side like the 'complete midfielder' Andy Johnson, but still....