Reading FC is an English Association Football Club which currently plays in the second tier of English football (currently known as the EFL Championship).

This presentation details their performance in the English Football League system, and average attendances from 1921 to the present day.

Data is taken from the European Football Statistics Website (https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk) by web scraping.

The data on Reading FC is collected by web scraping from the European Footbal Statistics Website. It details the final league position, league tier, and average attendance for every Reading FC season since 1920.

A sample of the data is below:

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##    Year Pos Tier League position Ave. Attendance
## 16 2019  20    2              40           14991
## 17 2018  20    2              40           16656
## 18 2017   3    2              23           17505
## 19 2016  17    2              37           17285
## 20 2015  19    2              39           17022
## 21 2014   7    2              27           19171

The data is plotted below as an interactive time series.