AFL to set regular season total attendance record this season
May 5, 2004 - Arena Football League (1987-2008) (AFL I) News Release
NEW YORK â The Arena Football League will set a regular-season total attendance record this weekend when eight games are played over Saturday and Sunday.
Regular-season total attendance through 13 weeks of the 2004 AFL season is 1,403,318, slightly more than 55,500 fans away from the current regular-season record of 1,458,830, which was set last season. The AFL is averaging 96,784 fans per weekend. There are four weeks left in the regular season.
This will be the League's sixth attendance record of the season. Week 1 (128,175 total; 14,242 average) broke four AFL attendance records â highest Week 1 total, highest Week 1 average, highest total for any week, and highest average for any week.
The AFL also reached one million fans faster than in any previous season, reaching the milestone in 81 games vs. 88 in 2003.
The 2004 season is on pace for 1,645,328 fans, which would represent a 13-percent increase over the previous record of 1,458,830 set in 2003. Following are the top five regular-season total attendance seasons in AFL history:
TOP FIVE REGULAR-SEASON TOTAL ATTENDANCE SEASONS
SEASON ATTENDANCE
2003 1,458,830
2001 1,217,673
2000 1,145,134
1996 1,132,821
2002 1,115,185
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