MLB attendance per season, 1901 to 2025
MLB attendance per season stood at 71.4M in 2025, up 0.1% on the previous period.
MLB drew 71,409,421 fans in 2025. The record is 79,484,718, set in 2007. The 2020 season was played without fans, and the table records zero.
How it is measured
The series sums each club's reported home regular-season attendance across the American and National Leagues, from the team tables of the SABR Lahman Baseball Database (updated each December, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0). Postseason games are not included.
What the curve shows
Attendance grew from 3.6 million in 1901 to 20.9 million in the post-war 1948 season, then climbed with expansion and new stadiums to 70.3 million by 1993. Work stoppages cut visible notches: the split 1981 season drew 26.5 million, and the 1994 strike season stopped at 50.0 million in August. The 2007 peak of 79.5 million has not been matched since. After the empty 2020 season and a restricted 45.3 million in 2021, the gate recovered to 71.4 million by 2025.
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