Here is your Matchday Money article for Premier League gameweek 32 (31 March – 01 April 2018), where we will estimate the matchday gate receipts taken at all Premier League games this week using are exclusive methodology which also incorporates season ticket sales.
Here are the Premier League results for gameweek 32:
Crystal Palace 1 – 2 Liverpool
Brighton 0 – 2 Leicester
Manchester United 2 – 0 Swansea
Newcastle 1 – 0 Swansea
Watford 2 – 2 Bournemouth
West Brom 1 – 2 Burnley
West Ham 3 – 0 Southampton
Everton 1 – 3 Manchester City
Arsenal 3 – 0 Stoke
Chelsea 1 – 3 Tottenham
Premier League Matchday 32 Analysis
Brighton once again take home this weeks prize for having the fullest stadium, fans were not rewarded for their efforts as they fell to a disappointing 2-0 defeat to Leicester. In this defeat Brighton achieved a fantastic 99.9% capacity utilisation.
Completing the top 4 were Newcastle, Chelsea and Manchester United, all achieving 99.2% and over. Newcastle fans flocked to see their relegation crunch game with Huddersfield and were duly rewarded with a narrow win. The average for stadium capacity utilisation this week for Premier League clubs was 96.9% despite two clubs in particular achieving a low utilisation.
West Ham are used to being towards the bottom of the utilisation charts and were there once again, achieving an 86.2% utilisation in their 66,000 seater stadium.
Joining them in the 80’s was a doomed West Brom side with fans finally giving up on their soon to be Championship side as they fell to yet another loss.
Manchester United sit pretty at the top of this week’s attendance charts, recording an attendance of 75,038 fans in their comfortable 2-0 victory over Swansea.
Despite having the lowest capacity utilisation this week, West Ham recorded the third highest Premier League attendance this week with 56,882 fans attending their excellent 3-0 win over fellow struggler Southampton. Completing the Top 4 this week was Arsenal and Newcastle who both achieved attendances of over 52,000. The average attendance this week was a high 42,442 with a lot of the big guns playing at home this week.
Watford took this week’s prize of the lowest attendance as 20,393 witnessed their agonising 2-2 draw with Bournemouth. West Brom and Crystal Palace were the only other clubs to have attendances below 26,000.
Manchester lead the way this week in matchday revenue, taking home just over £2.8m and 3 points against Swansea.
Completing the top 4 were again Arsenal, Chelsea and West Ham, all taking in excess of £1.7m, while Newcastle and Everton also both cleared £1m in takings.
At the other end of the scale Stoke and Bournemouth prop up the table due to low away allocations of around 2,000 seats
The average takings were a high £744k, due to the amount of big takings from some of the larger clubs this week.
As mentioned Manchester United took home the prize due to their 75,000 seats and high ticket pricing, with Arsenal a close second and Chelsea a distant third despite taking over £1.7m.
Chelsea charged the highest ticket this week at around £60 for their blockbuster tie against Tottenham, fans feel short changed after the devastating loss to their London rivals while they also look to have surrendered their top 4 chances.
Arsenal, Everton and West Ham all charged around £45 in comparison.
West Brom charged the lowest ticket prices with their commendable £30 as they looked to entice fans to support their troubled squad to no avail.
The average ticket price this week for home games was around £43.
Watford and West Brom took the least from the Premier League home games this week, taking around £450k as due to attendance and ticket pricing respectively.
Home teams had an poor week taking a lowly 13 points from 30.
Leicester lead the way this week after receiving a surprisingly sizeable allocation for their game against Burnley at Turf Moor bringing in around £1m. Huddersfield, Southampton, Manchester City and Tottenham all took home around £90k after being given roughly 3,000 away seats for their respective games.
Stoke playing away to Arsenal languish at the bottom this week after deciding to only take 2,024 seats for the game which finished 3-0.
Premier League away allocations averaged at a high 2,782, after generous allocations by many clubs.
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