How does Toronto Blue Jays' 2025 attendance compare to their best-ever crowds?
When it comes to entertaining home crowds, the Toronto Blue Jays are rolling right now.
They’ve sold upwards of 40,000 tickets for every home game since July 5, and have 18 home games left on the season, starting on this coming Monday.
They’ve won 42 of 63 home games, giving fans a pretty good chance of leaving the ballpark happy. In total, they’ve sold out 23 of those games so far.
But where does their season-long attendance rank against the best seasons in Jays history?
Let’s take a look at how this year compares.
Top 10 Blue Jays attendances of all-time
- 1994, 50,573
- 1993, 50,098
- 1992, 49,732
- 1991, 49,402
- 1990, 47,966
- 2016, 41,878
- 1989, 41,678
- 2017, 39,554
- 1995, 39,257
- 2023, 37,307
All numbers via Baseball Reference
So far, 2025 comes in at 13th, with 33,503 fans per game, which ranks 10th best across the MLB.
While 1992 and 1993 are remembered well as being Toronto’s two World Series championships, 1994 was actually the year that Toronto fans came out to the ballpark the most. As you can see, the biggest push ever was in the first five years of the 1990s, with 1989 and 1995 also finishing in the top 10.
2016 and 2017 saw the two best average numbers of the last decade, though those teams had wildly different fortunes: the 2016 Jays went to the American League Championship Series and had dreams of being a title contender, while the 2017 team won just 76 games and finished fourth in the AL East.
(While it’s the best remembered team of that era, 2015 actually came in 11th, with 34,305 fans per game.)
Rogers Centre capacity changes over the years due to a recent run of renovations mean that the Blue Jays will never be able to reach those 50,ooo+ marks again, unless the ballpark undergoes more renovations.
Toronto’s currently sold 2,110,702 tickets through 63 home games, which puts them out of reach of cracking the top 10 on the all-time list this year. They’d need to average over 50,000 fans a game to reach that total, with the biggest recorded crowd this season hovering just above 43,000.
Bottom 10 Blue Jays attendances of all-time
10. 1977, 21,131
9. 2000, 21,058
8. 2002, 20,221
7. 1978, 19,411
6. 2010, 18,463
5. 1979, 17,675
4. 1980, 17,288
3. 1982, 15,753
2. 1981, 14,247
1. 2021, 9,949
2021 finishes last on this list due to COVID-19-related attendance restrictions, but it hardly had a level playing field against the rest of the years. 1981 is the Jays’ all-time bad attendance average in an otherwise normal season at just 14,247, while 2010 is the worst in the stadium’s history as Rogers Centre.
(If we want to be pedantic, there were no Jays fans at games in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic either, but it hardly felt right putting that year on the list.)
In any case, the Blue Jays, as they’re currently playing, seem pretty safe from avoiding the bottom part of the average attendance list for the foreseeable future.
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