09-27-2022, 07:13 PM
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Lynn Worthy: Kansas City Royals’ home attendance dropped to lowest level since the 1970s this season
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Following the Kansas City Royals’ final home game of the season Sunday, which featured the largest comeback in franchise history, players and coaches tipped their hats to the home crowd to acknowledge the fans in a gesture of appreciation. That crowd of an announced 18,350 represented the second-largest of the season’s final six-game homestand. It was also an above-average crowd for the Royals this season, who recorded their lowest average attendance in more than three decades.
The Royals drew 1,277,776 fans at Kauffman Stadium this season over 80 home dates, for an average of 15,972 per game. The last season they posted an average attendance below 16,000 per game — not including the past two seasons, with attendance limitations in place because of the pandemic — came in 1975, when they drew 1,151,836 over 77 home games for an average of 14,959 per game.
The Royals entered this week ranked 26th in Major League Baseball (out of 30 teams) in average home attendance, ahead of the Pittsburgh Pirates (15,772), Tampa Bay Rays (13,927), Miami Marlins (11,158) and Oakland Athletics (10,019).
The Royals did not have full seating capacity available for all home games last season, and no fans were allowed to attend games during the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.
The Royals’ average attendance figures for the previous 10 full seasons were as follows:
2010: 20,192
2011: 21,289
2012: 21,748
2013: 21,614
2014: 24,154
2015: 35,438
2016: 33,577
2017: 29,755
2018: 20,557
2019: 18,496 (Includes 25,454 for June 13 ‘home’ game in Omaha)
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