Green Bay Packers draw the most fans to Lambeau Field in five years
GREEN BAY, Wisc. – Despite the Green Bay Packers' sometimes uninspired play in 2022, fans turned out in large numbers to watch the team at Lambeau Field.
Lambeau averaged 78,075 paying fans per game, compared to 77,991 the year before, and the most since 2017's average of 78,093. The highest average all-time was 78,414 in 2015, when the Packers were 10-6 and finished second to the Vikings in the NFC North. Total attendance for eight regular-season games this season was 624,599.
The Packers were 8-9 and missed the playoffs for the first time in four years by losing to Detroit 20-16 at Lambeau Field in the last regular-season game of the season. Before that, the Packers won four consecutive games, including victories over playoff teams Miami in Florida and Minnesota at Lambeau.
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The Packers were 5-3 at Lambeau Field this season, with their two biggest wins coming at home, 31-28 against the Dallas Cowboys on Nov. 13 and 41-17 against the Minnesota Vikings on Jan. 1. Both teams qualified for the playoffs.
The highest attendance this season was 78,433 for the Cowboys game, which featured the return of former Packers' coach Mike McCarthy, now the Dallas head coach.
According to ticket marketplace Vivid Seats, these were the top five and bottom five games this season, based on secondary market average ticket prices.
Hottest Packers tickets
Oct. 9, 2022, NFL International Series: New York Giants vs Green Bay Packers, $710
Nov. 13, 2022 Dallas Cowboys at Green Bay Packers, $417
Sept. 25, 2022 Green Bay Packers at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, $404
Oct. 2, 2022 New England Patriots at Green Bay Packers, $334
Sept. 18, 2022 Chicago Bears at Green Bay Packers (Sunday Night Football), $322
Cheapest Packers tickets
Oct. 23, 2022 Green Bay Packers at Washington Commanders, $131
Nov. 6, 2022 Green Bay Packers at Detroit Lions, $133
Jan. 8, 2023 Detroit Lions at Green Bay Packers (Sunday Night Football), $154
Dec. 19, 2022 Los Angeles Rams at Green Bay Packers (Monday Night Football), $180
Nov. 17, 2022 Tennessee Titans at Green Bay Packers (Thursday Night Football), $184
Road-game attendance is harder to measure, but Packers fans are known for traveling well. It is the most-cited reason for why the Packers were the last team to play an international game. Teams hosting international games routinely refused to play Green Bay overseas because they knew they could draw a lot of Packers fans to their own home stadiums.
When the NFL adopted a 17-game schedule, it mandated that every team must play an international game at least once every eight years and the Packers did so on Oct. 9 in London against the New York Giants. How many Packers fans attended the game is not known, but London was awash with people wearing green and gold that week, and Packers President and CEO Mark Murphy suggested that up to two-thirds of Tottenham Hotspur's 62,850 seats were filled by Green Bay fans.
For the most part, fans behaved themselves at Lambeau Field in 2022. Green Bay Police reported 26 arrests at Lambeau Field this season and 64 ejections. The two rowdiest games were the back-to-back contests against the Cowboys on Nov. 13 and Tennessee Titans on Nov. 17. Those two games accounted for 46% of arrests and 31% of ejections. The Cowboys game included five arrests and 11 ejections and the Tennessee game seven arrests and nine ejections.
This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: Green Bay Packers draw the most fans to Lambeau Field in five years
