Crowds at matches in the Coca-Cola Football League have broken the 16 million barrier for the fourth consecutive season. In total, more than 16.2m supporters attended the 1,656 matches played during 2007/08.

The Football League has enjoyed a sustained period of attendance growth since the mid-eighties with crowds more than doubling in that time. In recent seasons gates have reached their highest levels for nearly 50 years.
The Coca-Cola Championship is now the fourth most watched League in Europe, with its total audience of 9.4m fans being bettered only by the Premier League, Germany's Bundesliga and Spain's La Liga.

Audiences for matches in The League's top division averaged 17,022 during 2007/08 with 195 matches being watched by a crowd of more than 20,000 and six by more than 30,000.

This season also saw Coca-Cola League 1 record its highest set of attendance figures for 36 years with nearly four and a half million fans going through the turnstiles. In total, crowds rose by 6.7 per cent, taking the average crowds up to just under the 8,000 mark.

There was similar good news in Coca-Cola League 2, where a 5.1 per cent increase took average crowds beyond the 4,300 mark. Barnet FC, though, recorded a 2,109 average.