The New York Mets followed a record-setting year at Citi Field with a sharp attendance decline during their disappointing 2026 season.
The New York Mets set an attendance record at Citi Field in 2025.
One disappointing season later, much of that momentum has disappeared.
Even more striking, the Mets recorded just one sellout all season. That came on Opening Day.
It's a dramatic reversal from 2025, when the Mets drew 3,184,570 fans, their highest attendance since 2008.
The drop coincided with a season that fell far short of expectations in Queens.
After entering the year with one of baseball's largest payrolls and postseason aspirations, the Mets instead spent September playing out the schedule and looking for reasons to believe they can rebound in 2027.
There were still moments when Mets fans packed Citi Field for a major attraction.
Pete Alonso's return to Queens as a member of the Baltimore Orioles produced one of the most emotional nights of the season. Fans repeatedly cheered their former first baseman before Alonso hit his 300th career home run at Citi Field.
But nights like that were the exception rather than the rule.
The contrast is especially stark considering how successful the Mets were at the gate in 2025.
They drew more fans than in any season since their final year at Shea Stadium in 2008. They also drew crowds of more than 40,000 for 48 games in 2025.
A year later, Opening Day was their only sellout.
Restoring the excitement that filled Citi Field throughout 2025 could become another part of the organization's challenge.
The attendance numbers offer a striking measure of how much changed in Queens in a single season.
