Chelsea "sold a higher percentage of tickets for their home games than any club in England last season," according to Henry Chard of SKY SPORTS. Stamford Bridge -- a ground the Premier League champion is planning to redevelop -- was at 99.8% capacity "on average during Chelsea's march to the title." The results, from a Sky Sports study which analyzed the official number of tickets sold for each game, "compared the stadium capacities of all 92 clubs in England’s top four tiers." Ticket sales "include those seats allocated to season tickets, whether occupied or not for individual matches, and the capacities do not take into account areas cordoned off by clubs." Swansea was next on the list (99.3%), with third-placed Arsenal (99.27%) "selling 59,992 seats per game in their 60,432 Emirates Stadium." ManU’s Old Trafford "has the biggest capacity of any club ground in the country" and 98.99% of tickets were snapped up on average across the season, while West Ham -- which is set to move to the Olympic Stadium next season -- completed the top five with 98.69% of places at Upton Park taken." At the other end of the scale, Carlisle United’s Brunton Park "saw the smallest uptake of tickets as a percentage of capacity" -- just 24.04% of the 18,202 capacity was in use during the '14-15 season (SKY SPORTS, 7/18).
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| Source: SKY SPORTS |
