Fair play.
Sunderland - 39,871
Leeds - 36,819
Sheffield Wednesday - 29,038
Ipswich - 29,027
Southampton - 28,924
Middlesbrough - 26,732
Cardiff City - 25,803
Hull City - 24,267
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Fair play.
Sunderland - 39,871
Leeds - 36,819
Sheffield Wednesday - 29,038
Ipswich - 29,027
Southampton - 28,924
Middlesbrough - 26,732
Cardiff City - 25,803
Hull City - 24,267
That doesn't apply to Ipswich. They haven't been in the Premier League since 2002. spent the last four seasons before this in League One. Average Championship league position 2002-2019 (17 seasons) was 11.3. Cardiff City in the same period never went into League One, got to the Premier League twice and spent 18 seasons in Championship with an average league position of 9.6. Clearly a better record for City in the last two decades.
Watford and QPR pretty much sold out too. Only Blackburn with what may be considered a poor crowd (13000)
We’re averaging around 22k so far this season
We have played top flight football twice in the past 60 years or so. Spent 20 years dying on our arses in a decaying stadium, better known for for football related violence that what happened on the playing field. Since going up to the championship we've been half decent, and apart from Dave Jones' sides (sporadically) and Warnocks for about 3-4 months, the football has been pretty shit. Another important factor is how a community is formed, and how a football club becomes the pivot within that Community, Cardiff have never been that. An interesting study would be why some football clubs get such fantastic support when they haven't been that successful, but it seems that the club is entwined within the culture of the Town or City.