Attendances & crowds

Liverpool's crowds, match by match, since 1892 — the post-war surge, the 1980s trough and the modern expansion, all drawn from the attendance recorded on every individual match page.

Average Anfield attendance by decade

Decade League average League matches All competitions All matches
1890s 11,366 101 10,482 127
1900s 16,762 177 16,905 191
1910s 22,022 116 22,618 125
1920s 31,247 212 32,045 228
1930s 26,313 199 27,721 213
1940s 45,557 76 45,384 84
1950s 37,652 209 38,404 221
1960s 42,291 211 43,030 256
1970s 45,412 208 43,605 284
1980s 36,359 206 34,178 281
1990s 38,389 199 36,177 260
2000s 43,433 189 42,135 277
2010s 47,241 190 46,482 263
2020s 54,476 106 54,834 155

† Averages include the 2020-21 fixtures played under a legal capacity cap. They were real recorded attendances, so removing them would produce a figure that disagrees with the matches beneath it. They are excluded from lowest-crowd rankings, where they would stand in for small crowds rather than restricted ones.