Fatorda records its lowest ever overall attendance figures at ISL this season

PANAJI

WhenFC Goa held Mohun Bagan to a 1-1 draw at Fatorda on Saturday, it wasFC Goa ‘s last home game in the current Indian Super League (ISL)2025-26 season.

Butthat match was attended by mere 2,362 spectators – the third lowestin the history for any ISL game played in Goa ever since thetournament began in 2014.

Ina truncated ISL season, FC Goa played only six games at home duringthis season. But the season will be remembered for shockingly lowattendance figures for most of the matches played at Fatorda.

Theattendance figures for current season show a very dismal picture.Spectators have just stayed away from FC Goa’s home games duringthis season.

Gaur’sfirst match at Fatorda on February 14 against Inter Kashi wasattended by mere 1,577 spectators., the lowest in Goa’s ISLhistory.

Attendanceimproved slightly during FC Goa’s next home game against SportingDelhi on February 26 with 5,160 spectators attending that match,thanks to the free passes given to women spectators.

Thenext two matches at Fatorda against Bengaluru FC (April 4) and OdishaFC (April 10) saw the attendance drop to 2,532 and 2,237respectively.

Gaur’snext match against Mumbai City FC on April 18 witnessed a slight risein the attendance to 4,820.

Insix games, a total of 18,688 spectators attended the matches atFatorda during this season. That makes an average of 3,114 spectatorsper game. This is just 30 percent of last season’s averageattendance.

Duringlast season 2024-25, in 12 games played by FC Goa at Fatorda, 123,548spectators had attended the matches, with an average of 10,295spectators per game.

Thesefigures were slightly better than 2023-24 season. During that season,95.064 spectators had watched the games at Fatorda, with an averageof 8.480 per game.

Butthe current season has been a disaster in terms of crowd attendance.Four out of the six matches played at Fatorda during this seasonoccupy the top-four least attended matches in ISL history at Fatorda.

Thisis a far cry from initial days of ISL. During earlier seasons, thereused to be festive atmosphere inside the stadium, lot of enthusiasmamong the crowd. That kind of atmosphere is clearly missing now.

Theinitial seasons were a huge success, with high TV ratings andattendance figures. The league was able to create a buzz aroundfootball in India that had not been seen before. The buzz andexcitement has fizzled out completely.

ISLMatches at Fatorda during 2025-26 season

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