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Coventry City could be the only football club in the world to have more away fans than home supporters.

The club are averaging a total of 2,222 this season after moving from the Ricoh Arena but when you deduct the away support from these league gates our research confirms there are more people willing to travel to away games than watch Coventry play football at Sixfields.

In total, 34,077 City fans have turned up to watch 21 league matches played at Northampton Town’s ground but 34,561 have gone to the same number of games in League One as part of the Sky Blue Army.

That works out as an average of 1,622 home Coventry supporters in comparison to the average 1,645 that travel to away matches.

Last season at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry were attracting average crowds of 10,900 which put them in the top-five best-supported teams in League One.

This term they have the smallest crowds in the division and ten of City’s lowest ever league gates have all come this season.

This campaign's official average gate would place Coventry among the smallest clubs in League Two with only Dagenham & Redbridge, Morecambe and Accrington Stanley getting smaller crowds.

Five non-league clubs currently have a higher average attendance than the Sky Blues and their lowest league gate of the season, 1,603, against Walsall was beaten by local rivals Nuneaton Town the following weekend.

The Football League sanctioned the move for three to five years, despite vociferous protests from supporters but Sixfields has been boycotted by the majority of home fans.

Instead the Sky Blue Army travel in large numbers to watch Steven Pressley’s side away from home with 6,781 fans descending on MK Dons and 3,866 making the trip to Notts County in February.

There have been upsurges in supporter numbers for some of the big games at Sixfields – the Peterborough game on Boxing Day brought an attendance of 4,905, made up of 2,703 Coventry fans, but the numbers have fallen again following the Sky Blues’ recent poor run of form.

Season tickets for the next campaign have gone on sale this week but with no sign of a return to the Ricoh on the cards, the Sky Blues could break more unwanted attendance records next season.