{"id":233422,"date":"2025-10-22T21:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/233422\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T21:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T21:26:09","slug":"hammers-supress-london-stadium-attendance-figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/233422\/","title":{"rendered":"Hammers supress London Stadium attendance figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claretandhugh.info\/london-stadium-bio\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">London Stadium<\/a> and West Ham have taken the unusual step of not publishing an official attendance for last night\u2019s loss against Brentford.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Just twenty-four hours before the game, the club published a preview on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whufc.com\/news\/bowen-we-want-create-winning-culture\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WHUFC.com<\/a> in which it proudly claimed \u201cNuno\u2019s first at home in front of a sold-out 62,500 crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    Most Read on West Ham News<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>We probably won\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p>Previous freedom of information requests from 2023, 2024 and 2025 have revealed the average real attendance is 50,444, which includes cup games.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The London Stadium and West Ham have taken the unusual step of not publishing an official attendance for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-233422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}