🔵ATTENDANCE & STADIUM CAPACITY

There are two parts to attendance numbers for a club.

1) Each club has a fan base set for the season. During the season if a club is mid table in the league then that number of fans will attend the home games. If it is top of the league, its attendance will be that number + 30% of the fan base. If the club is bottom of the league then the opposite happens and the attendance is 30% lower than the fan base. As you go from the middle to the top or middle to the bottom, the attendance change goes from 0 to 30% in a predictable way. This process will start only some games into the season, when the table has shaped up a bit. For smaller sized leagues, the respective percentages are lower. Some clubs are already at their stadium capacity limit with their average fan base, and generally have a fan base over the average, and will not benefit from this.

2) At the start of each season, the fan base is calculated for each club. If your club is under its leagues average fan base, its fan base will gradually grow towards the average of that league. You will close the gap by 50% each season. Example: You have a 8,000 fan base, but the league average is 30,000. The gap is 22,000 fans, so for the next season your fan base will grow to 19,000. The following season it will grow by 5,500 (50% of the 11,000 gap) to 24,500 and so on. If your club is above its leagues average fan base, it will neither grow or shrink (apart from point 1), unless you relegate, where it will then gradually shrink towards the average fan base of that lower league with the same steps as stated above. If your club promotes to the league where it started again, the attendance will then start growing to its initial fan base or the league average again - whichever is greater. The (starting) average clubs fan bases are fixed.

With a higher attendance, your clubs income will increase and you can improve your squad.

If your stadium is not big enough to accommodate higher attendance numbers, the capacity will get increased each season to accommodate the fans. After your stadium capacity has increased, it won't decrease again. Your ground maintenance costs are dependent on your attendance, not on your stadium capacity.