UK Championship Attendances : 2018 Season

The movement up and down for this middle competition (there are three in total) means there are more changes each year than the other two. That makes year to year comparisons more difficult. There was also the fact that four sides went into the Qualifiers, while the other eight to the Shield competition. The former can mean promotion to the elite Super League while the latter a winner of the shield and others trying to avoid relegation.

Three teams arrived and three left. Hull KR went up to SL and Leigh came down. Bradford and Oldham dropped to League One, with Barrow and Toronto coming up. The 2017 total was 358,800 and 2018 339,925. The Summer Bash festival was (disappointingly) well down in 2018 and Toronto had to play three games away from their Lamport home. Had those factors been different, then the total 2018 would have been about the same as the year before.

Below the two seasons are compared by club, with a percentage change for those there both years. Then the regular season is separated from the play offs. The four sides that played in the Qualifiers are shaded purple for the last two columns and they all had increased attendees in that competition. The teams that were in the Shield series all went down bar one.

	Rk	Team	2017	2018	+/-	Reg	P/O
	1	Toronto	-	6,372	-	5,781	7,850
	2	Leigh	-	3,247	-	3,539	2,445
	3	Toulouse	1,873	2,553	36%	2,437	2,979
	4	Featherstone	2,624	2,094	-20%	2,316	1,486
	5	Halifax	1,825	2,008	10%	1,752	2,945
	6	Barrow	-	1,223	-	1,239	1,164
	7	Batley	1,028	1,028	0%	1,082	881
	8	Dewsbury	1,028	969	-6%	1,001	853
	9	London	892	909	1%	861	1,042
	10	Swinton	775	772	0%	840	522
	11	Sheffield	583	684	17%	704	630
	12	Rochdale	832	579	-30%	549	690
	-	Hull KR	7,429	-	-	-	-
	-	Bradford	3,877	-	-	-	-
	-	Oldham	774	-	-	-	-