Crowds

Every figure below is drawn from the 118 of 150 played matches that carry a recorded gate (78.7%), spanning 1978–2026. 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 Gate68,393their ground

Best Season63,3331982/83 · average over 3 matches

Season by Season

2026/27 ×259,962

2023/24 ×153,845

2019/20 ×148,302

2018/19 ×350,509

2013/14 ×249,010

2012/13 ×344,261

2010/11 ×448,164

2009/10 ×738,333

2008/09 ×332,000

2007/08 ×225,000

2006/07 ×351,667

2004/05 ×422,000

2003/04 ×438,032

2000/01 ×133,000

1999/00 ×322,667

1997/98 ×120,000

1995/96 ×329,933

1992/93 ×329,000

1988/89 ×160,000

1982/83 ×363,333

1979/80 ×146,059

1978/79 ×252,500

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

Not enough recorded home gates to rank visitors yet.

Grounds, and How Full They Get

Estádio do Sport Lisboa e BenficaLisboa · 38 matches · avg 41,956 · best 65,000 · Capacity 68,10061.6%

Estádio da LuzLisboa · 18 matches · avg 38,826 · best 80,000 · Capacity 120,00032.4%

“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 ×528,040

Wednesday ×1144,112

Thursday ×4140,974

By Kickoff Time

Evening (18:00–19:59) ×636,427

Night (20:00 and later) ×3645,210

Kickoff times cover only the 44 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.