Major League Baseball as a whole continues to show modest attendance gains in the post-pandemic, post-rules-change era, climbing for the fourth consecutive year in 2026.
For the Chicago Cubs, however, despite another competitive season, attendance was down slightly from 2025 to 2026. Last year, the Cubs eclipsed the 3 million mark for the first time since 2019, but took a step back in 2026 to 2,969,583. The drop, which was almost 50,000 tickets sold, was a decline of about 1.6%. Not a huge drop, but notable in a climbing environment, and when the team was competitive.
One caveat? The two games in Japan to kick off the 2025 season counted as Cubs home games, and had attendance over 40,000 – a figure that you’re not going to see at Wrigley Field in the cold months of March and April outside of the home opener.
That is to say, attendance didn’t fall off of a cliff in 2026, though it’s down 10% from where it was at the heights of the 2007-09 era and again in the 2015-18 era. Ticket prices have, of course, climbed to offset any revenue loss there, and ticket sales are a relative minority of the overall revenue picture for the organization.
The real blow comes in the postseason, where the Cubs got five home games in 2025, and zero in 2026. The gate receipts get split among the teams and the players, but ancillary revenue around the park and concessions, that is all a huge boon to the organizations that make a deep run in the playoffs with multiple home games.
Relative to the rest of the league, the Cubs saw the 6th most attendance in baseball in 2026, trailing the Dodgers, Yankees, Padres, Blue Jays, and Phillies. In average road attendance, the Cubs were second highest in baseball, behind only the Dodgers.
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