2022-23 Premier League: attendance for Matchday 18 (40,979 spectators on average per game)

Matchday 18 of the 2022-23 Premier League season, the English league's second matchday since the end of the 2022 World Cup, scheduled from Friday 30/12/2022 to Sunday 01/01/2023, drew an average of 40,979 spectators per game. The average stadium fill rate was 98.7%.

West Ham United FC - Brentford FC (0-2) on Friday 30/12/2022 (kick-off at 19:45 local time, 20:45 CET) was the match that posted the best attendance with 62,467 spectators at the London Stadium (62,500 capacity), for a fill rate of 99.9%. Four other matches drew more than 50,000 spectators.

The average attendance in the Premier League is 39,708 spectators per game after 18 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 98.1%.

• 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…