Lowest Premier League Attendance: Really?
Simone Ernser
2025-04-14 20:35:05
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The lowest crowd in Premier League history? Only 3,039 people were in attendance for Wimbledon versus Everton on 26 January 1993. This remains the lowest crowd in Premier League history, with those 3,039 fans seeing Everton defeat the south London club 3-1 on a cold, wet January night at Selhurst Park.
Wimbledon were in the second year of ground-sharing with Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park, after their own Plough Lane stadium was deemed unfit to host football and unsuitable for redevelopment in a post Taylor report-era. There aren’t exact numbers available, but it’s believed that there were at least as many away fans there to support Everton on the night as paying spectators following Wimbledon.
The 40 lowest attendances in Premier League history all belong to Wimbledon at Selhurst Park, ranging between that record low of 3,039 and 8,835 versus Crystal Palace (as an away team in their own stadium) between the inaugural 1992-93 season and April 2000.
Lamar Hahn
2025-04-14 18:22:01
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The match boasted a crowd of just 3,036, the smallest in Premier League history.
Come the end of the 1992-3 season Wimbledon would finish above Everton, one point and one place higher in 12th position.
Aracely Rath
2025-04-14 17:01:07
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Well, you don’t even have to look for individual crowds in most cases, these are some of the average crowds in the first ever Premier League season of 1992/93 (Newcastle averaged 26,511 that season in the second tier).
20,455 – Everton
18,754 – Chelsea
24,403 – Arsenal
24,698 – Man City
27,878 – Spurs
29,594 – Villa
29,228 – Leeds
If you looked deeper, you would find far lower individual crowds for all of these clubs, either that season or in others since.
Sick of life under Graeme Souness (we can sympathise!) and got only 24,561 for a home game with QPR.
On 4 May 1994, 10 days before they played Man Utd in the FA Cup final, so not a terrible season, Chelsea played at home to Coventry and had a ‘crowd’ of only 8,923!
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