Summary edit

DescriptionSwindon Town home attendances since 1889.PNG	Graph of Swindon Town F.C.'s average attendances since 1889
Date	19 July 2007
Source	self-made using data below obtained from [1]
Author	Foxhill
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Notes edit

• Attendances for Swindon Town were recorded from 1889 onwards.
• Spike between 1910-15 correlates with the team winning the Dubonnet Cup and Southern Charity Cup, appearing in two FA Cup semi-finals and being crowned champions of the Southern League.
• No football was played during World War I.
• Trough begins at 1939 on start of World War II, football was played until 1940 even though the League was suspended. Games resumed in 1945.
• The post war spikes correlate with the team reaching Round 5 of the FA Cup in 1952 and 1963.
• The spike beginning at 1965 represents increased attendance up to the successful 1969 promotion and League Cup, Anglo-Italian Cup and Anglo-Italian League Cup wins.
• The trough between 1971 and 1985 shows falling attendances as the club is relegated from Division 2 to Division 4.
• The final peak corresponds to Swindon Town being promoted to the Premier League in 1993.
• The final trough corresponds to the teams relegation from the Premier League, First Division and Second Division into the Third Division (since renamed League Two) and their 2007 promotion to League One.

Source data edit

Year - Season end year, so for season 1901-02 the figures are reported as 1902. Average - <total attendance> / <games> Games - Matches played at home for which there are attendance figures Total - The total attendance of the above matches