
Average attendance of major US sports leagues 2023
National Football League (NFL) during the 2022-23 season stood at almost 70 thousand fans. This made it the highest attended professional sports league in North America. By contrast, the average home game attendance in the National Hockey League (NHL) during the 2022-23 season stood at just under 17 thousand. The NFL is a professional football league in the United States that was founded in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association.
The average regular-season home game attendance in the