Dallas Cowboys draw largest crowds of all 32 NFL teams during 2022 regular season

The NFC East featured the teams with the most and least attendance for the 2022 regular season. According to the NFL’s official attendance figures, the Dallas Cowboys once again topped the league, meanwhile, the scandal-plagued Washington Commanders ranked last out of the 32 teams.

Dallas has ranked first in average home attendance every year since the opening of AT&T Stadium in 2009. The stadium capacity of 100,000 when expanded is No. 2 in the league. SoFi Stadium can contain just a few hundred more.

The Cowboys averaged 93,465 fans per home game in 2022, up from 93,421 in 2021. Second in attendance behind Dallas were the New York Jets with an average of 78,009 fans per home game.

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The Commanders, who finished the 2022 season with an 8-8-1 record, averaged 58,106 fans per game. The NFL’s overall average for all 32 teams was 69,389 in 2022, according to FiveThirtyEight.

Dallas’s other NFC East rivals, the Giants and the Eagles, ranked No. 3 and No. 12, respectively.

Jerry Jones’ Cowboys are still the most valuable sports franchise in the world. The team is worth a whopping $8 billion, which is $1.8 billion more than the No. 2 most-valuable team, the New England Patriots. The Cowboys have managed to post massive valuations despite not claiming the Lombardi Trophy since 1995.

Of the world’s 50 most valuable sports franchises, the NFL oversees 30 of them, according to Forbes. The staggering numbers prove how dominant the NFL’s grip on American sports culture has become. Football became the nation’s favorite sport to watch for the first time in 1972 and hasn’t lost steam since.