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2023 NWSL Attendance

NWSLAnother strong week on the 2023 NWSL attendance front in Week 22, as the league’s final week of the regular season saw big crowds across the board.

All league home matches are accounted for in this year-end summary save one: a Week Five Houston/North Carolina game was eventually recorded as an abandoned match because of weather conditions, and no attendance number was reported.

In good news for the league’s 2024 planning, all 12 matches on the final two weeks of the regular season saw big crowds across the board: all 12 teams drew numbers exceeding their season average. Only one team saw attendance go down, with the Chicago Red Stars off some 17 percent. However, with new ownership in place in the Windy City, we’d expect a turnaround in 2024.

This season saw a little more stability for the league on the facilities front. Washington Spirit played its entire home schedule at Audi Field–no more heading to the suburbs and Loudoun County for matches–while NJ/NY Gotham FC played all home games at Red Bull Arena.

Overall, 2023 NWSL attendance is up 32 percent over 2022.

These 2023 NWSL attendance numbers for the regular season are current as of Oct. 16, 2023, and drawn from the NWSL website as well as independent media reports.

  Team Av. Totals Gms 2022 YoY W22
1 SD Wave FC 20,718 227,893 11 8,729 1.37 30,312
2 Angel City FC 19,756 217,313 11 19,105 0.03 22,000
3 Portland Thorns FC 18,918 208,094 11 15,543 0.22  
4 OL Reign 13,610 149,706 11 6,844 0.99  
5 KC Current 11,353 124,878 11 7,659 0.48  
6 Washington Spirit 10,876 119,637 11 5,955 0.83 15,479
7 NJ/NY Gotham FC 6,293 69,224 11 4,415 0.43 9,005
8 Orlando Pride 6,005 66,053 11 4,385 0.37 8,504
9 Racing Louisville FC 5,999 65,989 11 6,048 -0.01  
10 Houston Dash 5,857 58,569 10 5,644 0.04  
11 NC Courage 5,384 59,225 11 4,545 0.18  
12 Chicago Red Stars 4,848 53,332 11 5,863 -0.17 8,004
  TOTALS 10,432 1,366,581 131 7,894 0.32 93,304
  WEEKLY AV.           15,551

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