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Nottingham Post
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Peter Smith

How Nottingham Forest rank in all-time attendance of 92 clubs with Derby County in sights

Nottingham Forest are ranked 21st out of the current 92 clubs in England's top four divisions when it comes to all-time league attendance.

Forest average a crowd of 18,311 as they prepare to welcome fans back to the City Ground next season after a long campaign of behind closed doors football.

That puts the club just 99 fans and one place behind Derby County, who come in at 20th.

Manchester United are way out in front as the only club to average more than 40,000, while there is not much to separate Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham, Newcastle, Chelsea, Everton and Manchester City.

The are seven more clubs who average more than 20,000 and 18 who average in the higher teens, with figures studiously compiled by european-football-statistics.co.uk.

Harrogate Town, promoted from the National League for their first taste of league football last summer, have only been able to host a crowd for one home game. Forest Green Rovers were the visitors when 410 people were in the stands back in December.

Forest have averaged a crowd of more than 20,000 for all-but three seasons this century and it was 28,144 before the pandemic struck in 2019/20. That was the best part of 1,300 more than they were getting through the doors at Pride Park.

Who is in the division furthest away from their status in real life?

Bournemouth would be 15th in League One for crowds with 7,278, compared to their current place fighting for the play-offs in the Championship. Brighton and Fulham are mid-table Championship for attendances.

At the other end of the spectrum, Sunderland are 10th in the Premier League for attendances but are currently third in League One.

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