Crowds

Every figure below is drawn from the 47 of 480 played matches that carry a recorded gate (9.8%), spanning 1981–2026. A match with no figure is left out rather than counted as an empty ground — the archive stores an unknown gate as a zero, and averaging those in would quietly drag every number on this page down.

Biggest Away Gate47,374their ground

Best Season59,1132023/24 · average over 1 matches

Season by Season

2023/24 ×159,113

2019/20 ×235,000

2018/19 ×116,454

2016/17 ×125,010

2014/15 ×122,447

2013/14 ×336,013

2012/13 ×216,416

2010/11 ×123,449

2007/08 ×212,747

2006/07 ×228,114

2005/06 ×122,727

2000/01 ×143,000

1996/97 ×145,000

Average gate per season, newest first; each bar is scaled against the best season shown. A season missing from this list has no recorded gate at all, which is not the same as a season nobody attended.

By Competition

UEFA Cup Winners' Cup19 gates · best 120,00055,039

UEFA Champions League137 gates · best 120,00048,376 Cândido de Oliveira Super Cup3 gates · best 70,00045,000 Portuguese League598 gates · best 135,00040,689

UEFA Europa League57 gates · best 80,00040,445

Portuguese Cup19 gates · best 59,11328,936 League Cup24 gates · best 50,31426,150 Lisbon FA Honour Cup3 gates · best 40,00021,667 Lisbon Championship4 gates · best 15,0008,250

Competitions with fewer than 3 recorded gates are left out — one match is not an average. Pick a competition to scope the whole page to it.

Who Fills the Ground

FC Porto3 gates · best 45,38044,460

Average gate at our ground by visiting club, minimum 3 recorded meetings.

Grounds, and How Full They Get

Estádio do Sport Lisboa e BenficaLisboa · 17 matches · avg 27,164 · best 59,113 · Capacity 68,10039.9%

“How full” divides the average gate by the ground’s capacity today. Grounds shrank when they went all-seater, so a historical average can exceed a modern capacity and read over 100% — the old Estádio da Luz is the clearest case. Minimum 3 recorded gates per ground.

When We Draw a Crowd

By Day of the Week

Tuesday ×343,038

Wednesday ×729,618

Saturday ×626,259

By Kickoff Time

Evening (18:00–19:59) ×528,465

Night (20:00 and later) ×1027,047

Kickoff times cover only the 17 recorded home gates that carry a time as well as a date — most of the archive stores midnight where the time is simply not known, and those are excluded rather than filed under a small-hours kickoff that never happened. The day of the week, by contrast, is trustworthy on every row.