The London Stadium and West Ham have taken the unusual step of not publishing an official attendance for last night’s loss against Brentford.
The official attendance, which relates to tickets sold, is usually published by the club on its website and by media partners, including the BBC and Sky Sports.
Just twenty-four hours before the game, the club published a preview on WHUFC.com in which it proudly claimed “Nuno’s first at home in front of a sold-out 62,500 crowd.”
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TV cameras and media picked up on the thousands of seats with Sky Sports highlighting them but no one reported the official attendance post-match.
Boycott organisers Hammers United claimed there were fewer than 40,000 present last night, which, if true, means over 22,500 people with a ticket failed to turn up on Monday night.
We probably won’t know the real attendance until the Newham Council-led London Stadium Safety Advisory Group meets and their figures are subjected to a freedom of information request, which takes a further 20 working days.
Previous freedom of information requests from 2023, 2024 and 2025 have revealed the average real attendance is 50,444, which includes cup games.
When averaging Premier League games only, it rises only to 52,053, showing the levels of missing supporters each and every game at the London Stadium for the last three years.