Crowds
Every figure below is drawn from the 1,757 of 4,279 played matches that carry a recorded gate (41.1%), spanning 1910–2026. A match with no figure is left out rather than counted as an empty ground — the archive stores an unknown gate as a zero, and averaging those in would quietly drag every number on this page down. 1 match was played behind closed doors and is excluded.
Biggest Away Gate115,000
Best Season61,844
Season by Season
Average gate per season, newest first; each bar is scaled against the best season shown. A season missing from this list has no recorded gate at all, which is not the same as a season nobody attended.
By Competition
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup55,039
UEFA Champions League48,376Cândido de Oliveira Super Cup45,000Portuguese League40,689
UEFA Europa League40,445
Portuguese Cup28,936League Cup26,150Lisbon FA Honour Cup21,667Lisbon Championship8,250
UEFA Champions League48,376Cândido de Oliveira Super Cup45,000Portuguese League40,689UEFA Europa League40,445Portuguese Cup28,936League Cup26,150Lisbon FA Honour Cup21,667Lisbon Championship8,250Competitions with fewer than 3 recorded gates are left out — one match is not an average. Pick a competition to scope the whole page to it.
Who Fills the Ground
Marseille73,493
Liverpool69,210
Real Madrid68,564
Feyenoord68,539
Barcelona68,018
Manchester United65,304
FC Porto63,958
Internazionale60,036
Juventus58,821
AGF Aarhus57,216
Ajax56,268
Sporting CP55,773Average gate at our ground by visiting club, minimum 3 recorded meetings.
Grounds, and How Full They Get
Estádio da Luz31.5%
Estádio do Sport Lisboa e Benfica68.2%
Estádio Nacional do Jamor67.8%
Estádio do Restelo111.9%
Estádio Municipal Dr. Alves Vieira144.9%
Estádio do Bessa Séc. XXI40.3%“How full” divides the average gate by the ground’s capacity today. Grounds shrank when they went all-seater, so a historical average can exceed a modern capacity and read over 100% — the old Estádio da Luz is the clearest case. Minimum 3 recorded gates per ground.
When We Draw a Crowd
By Day of the Week
By Kickoff Time
Kickoff times cover only the 600 recorded home gates that carry a time as well as a date — most of the archive stores midnight where the time is simply not known, and those are excluded rather than filed under a small-hours kickoff that never happened. The day of the week, by contrast, is trustworthy on every row.
Biggest Crowds
Record Gates
Quietest Recorded
v TirsenseHome500
v UD LeiriaHome1,000
v CampomaiorenseHome1,500
v GD ChavesHome2,000
v Estoril PraiaHome2,000Sign in and mark the matches you attended to see which of these crowds you were part of.