The Dodgers have hit an attendance milestone that no Major League Baseball team has achieved in 17 years, and it might be that long before it happens again.
Los Angeles finished its 2025 home schedule with a total attendance of 4.01 million, a franchise record, representing the first time any MLB club has surpassed 4 million since both the Mets and Yankees did so in 2008—the final year of their former stadiums.
With an average per-game attendance of 49,537 this season, the Dodgers’ typical draw was larger than the individual capacities of every other MLB ballpark, as ongoing design and development trends across baseball have increasingly favored smaller venues. The team’s 2025 attendance, meanwhile, happened as it defends its World Series title from last year—its first full-season championship since 1988—and it had another peak-level season from superstar Shohei Ohtani.
The Japanese two-way phenom is firmly in line to win a second straight National League MVP award, and his massive global popularity has helped further boost the Dodgers’ attendance beyond their already-perennial status as MLB’s best. Forty-six of the Dodgers’ 81 home games exceeded 50,000 in attendance, no home game fell below 40,000, and the club had 25 sellouts.
The Dodgers’ draw, meanwhile, is a bright spot in an overall MLB attendance situation that remains in line to eke out a small increase for a 2025 regular season ending this Sunday. The league is currently up by 0.2% as gains by teams such as the Dodgers and Mets have been countered by sharp drops by teams such as the Cardinals, Orioles, and Twins. The A’s and Rays, meanwhile, are playing this season in minor league venues.
Still, the full-season increase would mark MLB’s first three-year streak of attendance gains since 2005–2007.
“It’s a continuation of the momentum that we’ve seen in the game,” MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said last week at the Front Office Sports Tuned In summit. “We are playing in two minor-league ballparks, which is a little bit of a drag on your attendance, but despite that, we’re going to be above 70 million [in total attendance] again, which I see as a real accomplishment for the sport. That momentum is really important going into 2026.”
