For the first time in football history, more than 10 clubs across Europe sold at least one million tickets each for league games in the same season, and five of the 11 who achieved it were from the Premier League in 2016-17.
West Ham stormed into that elite group in seventh place as they took up residence at the London Stadium.
Barcelona sold most tickets for their league games, or almost 1.49m at an average of more than 78,000 per La Liga game and were following in total aggregate sales by Manchester United (1.