2022-23 Premier League: attendance for Matchday 17 (39,694 spectators on average per game)

Matchday 17 of the 2022-23 Premier League season, the English league's first matchday since the end of the 2022 World Cup, scheduled from Monday 26 to Wednesday 28/12/2022, drew an average of 39,694 spectators per match. The average stadium fill rate was 98.5%.

Manchester United FC - Nottingham Forest FC (3-0) on Tuesday 27/12/2022 (kick-off at 20:00 local time, 21:00 CET) was the match that posted the best attendance with 73,608 spectators at Old Trafford (74,879 capacity), for a fill rate of 98.3%. Three other matches drew more than 40,000 spectators.

The average attendance in the Premier League is 39,626 spectators per game after 17 matchdays (the 10 matches on Matchday 7 were postponed due to the period of national mourning following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, and four other games were postponed on Matchdays 8 and 12), for an average fill rate of 98.2%.

• The 20 Premier League clubs posted an average attendance of 39,989 per game in 2021-22, for an average fill rate of 97.7%.
• Over 15 million spectators in total attended the matches of the English league last season, an…