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MLB Attendance: Which Teams Gained, Lost The Most Fans In 2025?

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(Photo by Tom Wilson/Getty Images)
(Photo by Tom Wilson/Getty Images)

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(Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with the season’s final numbers)

With a strong final weekend, MLB finished slightly up in attendance in 2025.

MLB drew 71,409,421 million fans, with an average of 29,459 fans per game. That’s up from last year’s 71.348 million total. The average attendance was actually down slightly. MLB averaged 29,544 fans per game in 2024, but it had 12 lost dates compared to six in 2025.

Attendance Declines

The Athletics’ shift to Sacramento has had little impact given their already dismal numbers. The Rays, however, were forced into Steinbrenner Field by Tropicana Field damage and are drawing 6,802 fewer fans per game.

Even so, the biggest drops belong elsewhere.

The Cardinals, once among baseball’s best draws, have seen their attendance crater. After missing three million fans last year for the first time in a normal season since 2003, they drew 2,250,007 this year—7,754 fewer per game than 2024, which itself was down nearly 5,000 per game from 2023.

The revenue effects from dropping 12,000+ fans per game over two years are dramatic. Using a modest ballpark figure of a $100 per cap (revenue per attendee), attendance-based fan revenue would have declined nearly $100 million from 2023’s numbers to 2025. Because of how MLB shares ticket revenue, 52% of that revenue would have been the Cardinals’, meaning their direct decline would have been tens of millions of dollars.

The Orioles are the other biggest decliner. Baltimore has drawn 22,769 fans per game this season after averaging 28,162 fans per game in 2024.

Attendance Gains

The biggest attendance gainers in 2025? That would be Mets. New York is drawing 9,831 more fans per game compared to last year and topped three million fans for the first time since 2009. The signing of Juan Soto isn’t the only driver, but it illustrates how increasing fan interest in a team can be highly lucrative. While the Cardinals’ fan revenue has likely declined significantly, the Mets revenue from increased attendance will likely have increased by tens of millions of dollars this year.

The Tigers, one of the AL’s best this season until their recent slide down the standings, have seen a nearly 6,000 fan per game boost, while the Giants saw a nearly 3,000 fan per game jump.

The Padres have also seen another attendance increase, as they finished with a team-record 3.437 million fans, second best in the majors. This is the third straight season in which San Diego has topped three million fans. They had done so only once in franchise history before that.

Dodgers Dominance

The Dodgers have long been the biggest draw in baseball, but this year, they’ve reached new levels. Los Angeles finished their home schedule with 4.012 million fans in attendance, making them the first MLB team to top four million fans in a season since the Yankees in 2008 (the last year of the old Yankee Stadium).

While the Dodgers are clearly the most popular team at home in terms of attendance, with a strong finish this week they will likely draw the most fans on the road, as well. The Dodgers averaged an MLB-best 35,703 fans per game on the road. The Tigers are the worst road draw, averaging 25,744fans per game.

2025 MLB Attendance Totals

Here’s how all MLB teams stack up attendance wise with five days to go this season:

TeamTotALAVGCHANGE
FROM 2024
Los Angeles Dodgers4,012,47049,537880
San Diego Padres3,437,20142,4351,317
New York Yankees3,392,65942,408511
Philadelphia Phillies3,375,45741,672145
New York Mets3,184,57039,3169,831
Chicago Cubs3,017,98337,2591,336
San Francisco Giants2,925,82336,1213,024
Atlanta Braves2,903,16735,842-1,805
Toronto Blue Jays2,849,93535,1842,082
Boston Red Sox2,776,49634,2781,439
Houston Astros2,727,87733,677-1,326
Milwaukee Brewers2,650,08932,7171,394
Los Angeles Angels2,615,50632,290468
Seattle Mariners2,538,05331,334-219
Detroit Tigers2,413,44229,7965,972
Colorado Rockies2,404,61330,058-1,302
Texas Rangers2,397,07129,593-3,142
Arizona Diamondbacks2,393,97329,555643
St. Louis Cardinals2,250,00727,778-7,754
Cincinnati Reds2,170,96326,8021,812
Cleveland Guardians2,051,36025,325-378
Washington Nationals1,916,76823,664-624
Baltimore Orioles1,803,65522,546-5,616
Minnesota Twins1,768,72822,109-1,985
Kansas City Royals1,748,80121,8601,387
Pittsburgh Pirates1,525,02518,827-2,412
Chicago White Sox1,445,73818,072140
Miami Marlins1,156,77714,281856
Tampa Bay Rays786,7509,713-6,802
Athletics768,4649,487-2,042

Biggest Average Attendance Gains In 2025

TeamATTENDANCEAVGChange
New York Mets3,184,57039,3169,831
Detroit Tigers2,413,44229,7965,972
San Francisco Giants2,925,82336,1213,024
Toronto Blue Jays2,849,93535,1842,082
Cincinnati Reds2,170,96326,8021,812
Boston Red Sox2,776,49634,2781,439
Milwaukee Brewers2,650,08932,7171,394
Kansas City Royals1,748,80121,8601,387
Chicago Cubs3,017,98337,2591,336
San Diego Padres3,437,20142,4351,317
Los Angeles Dodgers4,012,47049,537880
Miami Marlins1,156,77714,281856
Arizona Diamondbacks2,393,97329,555643
New York Yankees3,392,65942,408511
Los Angeles Angels2,615,50632,290468
Philadelphia Phillies3,375,45741,672145
Chicago White Sox1,445,73818,072140

Biggest Average Attendance Declines In 2025

TeamAttendanceavgChange
St. Louis Cardinals2,250,00727,778-7,754
Tampa Bay Rays786,7509,713-6,802
Baltimore Orioles1,803,65522,546-5,616
Texas Rangers2,397,07129,593-3,142
Pittsburgh Pirates1,525,02518,827-2,412
Athletics768,4649,487-2,042
Minnesota Twins1,768,72822,109-1,985
Atlanta Braves2,903,16735,842-1,805
Houston Astros2,727,87733,677-1,326
Colorado Rockies2,404,61330,058-1,302
Washington Nationals1,916,76823,664-624
Cleveland Guardians2,051,36025,325-378
Seattle Mariners2,538,05331,334-219

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