I take a few long looks at the crowd whenever I watch an English Premier League soccer match.

I am always impressed at what appears to be a person sitting in every seat. At every match. For every minute of every match. No matter the weather.

In the winter, the fans stand out a bit more, via TV — all of them wearing their black foul-weather gear, creating little dark-blob islands of individuals, one dark blob per seat.

And they sit there shoulder to shoulder for most of two hours without aid of entertainment from exploding scoreboards and elaborate sound systems. Like, watching the match.

I saw another strong performance by English fans tonight, Manchester City at Bournemouth.

The game kicked off at 8 p.m. in the south of England. The temperature was in the low 40s and the wind was blowing … and I strained to find an empty seat while the teams were playing.

Premier League fans are impressive, as well, for their sheer numbers. According to this table, the Premier League has the third-highest average per-match attendance (36,451) among the world’s professional sports leagues, behind only the NFL (68,400 per game in 2015) and another soccer league, the German Bundesliga (43,300).

The Premier League likely would sell more tickets if its seating availability numbers were higher.

The NFL’s average seating capacity in 2015 was 69,800.

The Premier League’s during the 2015-16 season was about half that, at 38,519.

English soccer has a few big stadiums, but it also has a batch of small ones. Bournemouth’s Dean Court, which seats only 11,464 and is not big enough to provide a high camera position for TV, is the most prominent of the “little” group. Burnley’s Turf Moor seats 21,400.

Actually, eight of the 20 teams in the Premier League have stadiums that seat fewer than 28,000. That the league can average 36,451 is fairly remarkable.

We need to give fans credit, too, for attentiveness.

American sports promoters like to talk about the “fan experience” — and they mean it. Interesting and varied food choices, contests, giveaways, pre-game and halftime/between-inning entertainment, etc.

What English Premier League fans get … is a game and a place to sit.

They rarely move while the game is on. Which is impressive, considering how much beer many of them drank in the hours before the match.

The way it works in England … the fans stream out of their seats the moment the whistle blows to end the first half, and they take care of their business, which might include something to eat or drink, if they are lucky — hard to serve all of a crowd in the 15 minutes of a Premier League halftime.

And then they are back in their seats soon after kickoff for the second half. And seemingly every camera shot shows them back to their elbow-to-elbow positions, sometimes chanting and singing, reacting to every call, attentive as kids on their first day at military school.

The NFL is a bigger business entity than the Premier League — though it could be argued that the latter has more global fans, many of them who do not have a lot of money.

The NFL draws bigger crowds, too, on average, and that doesn’t seem likely to change soon.

But Premier League fans seem are far more attentive and put up with less comfortable situations than do NFL fans.

I’m impressed.