This article lists the attendances of many sports competitions around the world with the exception of those for Domestic Professional Leagues such as the NFL, Major League Baseball or the AFL Grand Final.

Domestic professional leagues
This section list attendances at domestic knock-out cup competitions in order of average attendance. It is very incomplete. In particular, there is a professional football (soccer) cup competition in most countries, and some countries have two.
1 Due to varying figures of 45,000 and 51,300 being given for the two games of the first-round doubleheader, an average figure of 48,150 was used for calculation.

Domestic knock-out cup competitions
This section lists college and amateur leagues by total attendance. Most remaining amateurism requirements in top level sport were dropped in the late 20th century, and there are now few if any amateur leagues which are of interest to a wide public outside of the United States, where college sports are very popular and at least one significant ice hockey league retains an amateur requirement.
The NCAA championships listed here are all comprised of several separate conferences with varying attendance levels. For example, in American football, 2006 per-game home attendances for the highest level of competition, Division I FBS, ranged from 17,097 for Sun Belt Conference teams to 75,706 for Southeastern Conference teams.
1 The three component leagues of the Canadian Hockey League (the OHL, WHL, and QMJHL) are amateur leagues that draft players from minor hockey, and whose players are in turn drafted by the NHL. Players are allowed to move back and forth between the NHL and the CHL, as well as to European professional leagues and US and Canadian college leagues. The minimum age to play in the NHL is 18 while the age range in the CHL is 15 – 21. This prevents older professionals from invading the CHL. Players are paid a stipend but not a regular salary in the mold of the Collective Bargaining Agreements of other leagues. Teams are for-profit companies.

College, semi-professional and amateur leagues
This section lists the attendances at international competitions between sports clubs. These are usually organised on a continental basis. The teams which compete in these tournaments also compete in the domestic competitions in their home countries.
This table is incomplete.
Note: all stages except Final Four.

International club competitions
This section lists attendances at competitions between national representative teams sorted by average attendance. Please help Wikipedia by adding more competitions.

The number of games and the average attendance excludes the two cancelled matches during the tournament (Zimbabwe vs England and Kenya vs New Zealand). Competitions between national teams
This section lists the most recent attendances at annual championship events (single decider matches) by total attendance, and includes domestic leagues and competitions. It has to be noted that the listed crowd figures are not always a reflection of a championship's popularity, rather the capacity of its venue.

Domestic club championship events

International club championship events

Domestic club competition final (two decider matches)

International club competition final (two decider matches)
This section lists major domestic representative competitions sorted by total attendance. Please help Wikipedia by adding more competitions.

Competitions between domestic representative sides
This section lists major All-star games sorted by total attendance. Please help Wikipedia by adding more matches.

Miscellaneous

NCAA Division I College World Series: The 2005 College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska had a total attendance of 263,475 in 11 sessions, for an average of 23,952.[31]

• NB: The NCAA sells tickets for "sessions" rather than individual games. Some sessions are single games, even when two games are scheduled for the same day, while others are doubleheaders allowing one ticket holder to view both games that day.
  NCAA Division I Baseball: Mississippi State University holds the single game regular season on-campus attendance record at 14,991. They also hold the NCAA's top 2 all-time largest Super Regional attendance record of 12,620 and 13,715 versus Clemson in 2007. Mississippi State has all of the top 13 and 18 of the top 20 on-campus crowds in the history of college baseball. Baseball
  
  NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship: The 2007 tournament had a total attendance of 696,992 in 35 sessions, for an average of 19,914.
  
  
  
  • NB: For both basketball tournaments, the NCAA sells tickets for "sessions" rather than individual games. The "play-in" game of the men's tournament, the four regional finals of both tournaments, and both national championship games are single-game sessions; all other games in both tournaments are part of a doubleheader at a specific site.
    NCAA Men's Division I Basketball: The University of Kentucky has won 9 of the past 10 Men's Basketball Attendance titles. The most recent in 2006, saw Kentucky pull in an average of 22,763 fans per contest. Second place went to Syracuse University with an average of 21,587. [32] Basketball
    
    The WBC Heavyweight match of Larry Holmes vs Gerry Cooney, held on June 11 1982 at Caesars Palace, took in 29,214 spectators, making it the highest in any boxing matches held in Nevada. Boxing
    
    2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia: Total ticket sales 1.6 million. [33] Commonwealth Games
    
    2006-07 Commonwealth Bank Series - 425,622 (average 30,401) Cricket
    
    Tour de France (France and neighbouring countries) the organisers claim 15 million spectators every year [34], with the Guinness Book of Records claiming a more modest 10 million [35]. This is the highest total for any single sporting event; it should be pointed out, however, that attendance is entirely free and not closely monitored. Cycling
    
    Gaelic Athletic Association: attendance at GAA championship events in Ireland in 2003 (including both Gaelic football and hurling) was 1,962,769. [36] Gaelic Games
    
    PGA Tour: 2004 attendance was over 10 million. [37]
    PGA Tour's FBR Open: drew 536,767 spectators in 2006, [38] more than any other golf tournament in the world. [39]. This is a routine PGA Tour event which is played on a course which can accommodate exceptionally large crowds. Attendances at most events, including the major championships, are capped well below this level.
    U.S. Women's Open attendance in 2005 was 131,298. [40]
    The 2006 Open Championship attracted 230,000 spectators. Golf
    
    Japan Racing Association: in 2004 8,099,985 racegoers attended meetings in Japan. [41] Attendances at JRA meetings have fallen every year since 1996, when they were 14,116,684. These numbers do not include the many "local racing" meetings in Japan.
    British horse racing: in 2005 5,896,922 racegoers attended the 1,300 meetings held in the United Kingdom, an average of 4,536. [42].
    Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival: a total of 730,110 in 2005 includes the major events e.g., Melbourne Cup, Caulfield Cup (93,825 in 2005) and Cox Plate (44,189 in 2005) [43] held in Melbourne, Australia
    Kentucky Derby: 2006 event in the United States attracted a total of 157,536. The second largest attendance figure in the history of the race. Horseracing
    
    The record for any professional fight event is the PRIDE and K-1 co-hosted Shockwave/Dynamite match held on 28 August 2002, taking in 91,107 paid spectators held in the Tokyo National Stadium, Tokyo, Japan. Mixed Martial Arts
    
    Motor racing
    
    Indianapolis 500, Speedway, Indiana is the largest single-day sporting event in the world, drawing 270,000 spectators annually. Motorsport
    
    Suzuka 8 Hours: The motorcycle endurance race held in Suzuka attracted 70,000 spectators, this is considered to be less then the record in 1990, when 160,000 spectators attended on race day. As with modern seating facilities demanded on F1 circuits, Suzuka can no longer be able to break this record. Motorcycle sport
    
    Goodwood Festival of Speed: Total attendance record for the event is 158,000 in 2003, making it the biggest motorsport event in Britain, with revised ticket sale policies, recent attendance figure has been 150,000. Historical event
    Summer Olympics
    Winter Olympics
    All figures except Turin 2006 from Olympic.org
    
    2004 Athens Olympics: 3.8 million tickets sold.
    2000 Sydney Olympics: 6.7 million tickets sold
    1996 Atlanta Olympics: 8.3 million tickets sold
    1992 Barcelona Olympics: 3.0 million tickets sold
    1988 Seoul Olympics: 3.3 million tickets sold
    1984 Los Angeles Olympics: 5.7 million tickets sold
    2006 Turin Olympics: 0.9 million tickets sold [44]
    2002 Salt Lake City Olympics: 1.525 million tickets sold
    1998 Nagano Olympics: 1.275 million tickets sold
    1994 Lillehammer Olympics: 1.21 million tickets sold
    1992 Albertville Olympics: 0.9 million tickets sold
    1988 Calgary Olympics: 1.6 million tickets sold Olympics
    
    In 2004 attendance at the 64 ATP tournaments and four Grand Slam events was 6,004,648. [45]
    U.S. Open (Flushing Meadows): total attendance at the 2005 event was 659,538. [46]
    Australian Open (Melbourne Park) - total attendance for 2007 Australian Open held in Melbourne was 554,858. [47]
    Wimbledon Championships: total attendance at the 2005 event was 467,188. [48]
    French Open (Tournoi de Roland-Garros) : total attendance at the 2004 event was 413,419. [49] Wrestling
    
    Average attendances of European football clubs
    2007 Australian football code crowds
    World football (soccer) attendances