Chicago Cubs Attendance Records by Baseball Almanac

Chicago Cubs Attendance Data

Baseball Almanac presents the Chicago Cubs attendance records for every season and ballpark in their history including home game averages, season totals, a league average for comparison & a link to a league total chart.

"Wrigley Field fans go in for resigned sarcasm; it befits a franchise whose top-level incompetence has been a marvel of consistency since World War II." - Thomas Boswell in Why Time Begins on Opening Day (1984)

Year

Ballpark Name

Attendance

Game Average

Season Total

N.L. Average

1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890

23rd Street Grounds

Lake Front Park

Lake Front Park (II)

West Side Park

1,983
1,548
1,924
1,636
1,551
1,952
2,987
2,549
1,552
2,080
2,261
3,418
3,366
2,194
1,475

65,441
46,454
58,691
67,887
66,708
82,000
125,452
124,880
87,667
117,519
142,438
217,070
228,906
149,175
102,536

33,305
34,116
37,268
31,473
32,054
37,655
50,549
76,394
77,041
94,063
119,968
175,211
159,148
169,069
97,005

Year

Ballpark Name

Attendance

Game Average

Season Total

N.L. Average

1891

1892

1893

1894

1895

1896

1897

South Side Park

West Side Park (II)

2,649

1,484

3,492

3,541

5,749

4,811

4,741

181,431

109,067

223,500

239,000

382,300

317,500

327,160

166,591

151,882

185,396

202,298

240,773

241,748

240,570

Year

Ballpark Name

Attendance

Game Average

Season Total

N.L. Average

1898

1899

1900

1901

West Side Park (II)

5,584

4,633

3,405

2,930

424,352

352,130

248,577

205,071

197,674

211,790

228,686

240,004

Year

Ballpark Name

Attendance

Game Average

Season Total

N.L. Average

1902
1903
1904
1905
1906
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
1929
1930
1931
1932
1933
1934
1935
1936
1937
1938
1939
1940
1941
1942
1943
1944
1945
1946
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951
1952
1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
1975
1976
1977
1978
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013

West Side Park (II)

Weeghman Park

Cubs Park

Wrigley Field

3,740
5,557
5,629
6,579
8,443
5,452
8,422
8,174
6,833
7,338
6,763
5,406
2,596
2,783
5,816
4,589
5,149
6,063
6,244
5,361
6,952
9,139
9,311
8,086
11,420
15,153
14,854
19,041
18,764
13,928
12,658
7,716
9,310
8,995
9,083
11,624
12,359
9,316
6,946
7,034
7,625
6,601
8,154
13,373
17,329
17,601
15,972
14,846
15,142
11,541
13,224
9,854
9,717
11,374
9,173
8,598
12,726
11,074
10,382
8,629
7,528
12,093
9,280
7,821
7,851
12,065
12,803
20,552
20,280
20,407
16,656
16,791
12,536
12,776
12,669
17,776
18,831
20,353
14,898
10,672
15,423
18,268
26,182
26,686
23,239
25,281
25,632
30,765
27,701
28,928
26,256
32,562
32,659
26,643
27,228
27,041
32,186
34,739
34,438
35,196
33,248
37,032
39,138
38,753
39,040
40,153
40,743
39,610
37,814
37,259
35,589
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263,700
386,205
439,100
509,900
654,300
422,550
665,325
633,480
526,152
576,000
514,000
419,000
202,516
217,058
453,685
360,218
337,256
424,430
480,783
410,107
542,283
703,705
716,922
622,610
885,063
1,159,168
1,143,740
1,485,166
1,463,624
1,086,422
974,688
594,112
707,525
692,604
699,370
895,020
951,640
726,663
534,878
545,159
590,972
508,247
640,110
1,036,386
1,342,970
1,364,039
1,237,792
1,143,139
1,165,944
894,415
1,024,826
763,658
748,183
875,800
720,118
670,629
979,904
858,255
809,770
673,057
609,802
979,551
751,647
641,361
635,891
977,226
1,043,409
1,674,993
1,642,705
1,653,007
1,299,163
1,351,705
1,015,378
1,034,819
1,026,217
1,439,834
1,525,311
1,648,587
1,206,776
565,637
1,249,278
1,479,717
2,107,655
2,161,534
1,859,102
2,035,130
2,089,034
2,491,942
2,243,791
2,314,250
2,126,720
2,653,763
1,845,208
1,918,265
2,219,110
2,190,308
2,623,194
2,813,854
2,789,511
2,780,465
2,693,071
2,962,630
3,170,184
3,100,262
3,123,215
3,252,462
3,300,200
3,168,859
3,062,973
3,017,966
2,882,756
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210,377
298,795
333,034
341,789
347,652
330,028
439,014
43,7053
366,970
403,971
341,970
353,941
213,425
303,768
381,454
295,142
171,516
359,775
504,572
498,373
492,728
508,727
542,581
544,213
615,050
663,740
610,137
615,714
680,817
572,977
480,167
395,353
400,013
457,164
487,961
525,529
570,103
588,397
548,712
597,206
544,169
471,168
496,824
657,588
1,112,763
1,298,559
1,221,343
1,185,590
1,040,077
905,500
792,394
927,465
1,001,690
959,302
1,081,196
1,102,450
1,270,575
1,249,316
1,335,620
1,091,438
1,13,6016
1,138,223
1,204,519
1,358,114
1,501,547
1,297,143
1,178,536
1,257,912
1,388,517
1,443,738
1,294,144
1,389,610
1,414,860
1,383,374
1,388,377
1,589,186
1,675,577
1,764,868
1,760,340
1,039,866
1,792,285
1,795,774
1,731,786
1,857,680
1,861,123
2,061,180
2,041,606
2,110,320
2,040,959
2,058,014
2,009,261
2,637,470
1,843,416
1,793,589
2,169,949
2,277,526
2,401,674
2,380,436
2,480,194
2,481,346
2,309,294
2,273,813
2,512,690
2,583,685
2,598,741
2,756,384
2,755,082
2,571,627
2,563,111
2,547,018
2,592,218
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Year

Ballpark Name

Game Average

Season Total

N.L. Average

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