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Originally Posted by adzii_nufc
European attendance records last season:
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1) Borussia Dortmund - total fans 1.367m Average: 80,463
2) Barcelona - total fans 1.475m Average 77,632
3) Man United - total fans 1.431m Average: 75,335
4) Real Madrid - total fans 1.388m Average: 73.081
5) Bayern Munich - total fans 1.239m Average: 72,882
6) Schalke 04 - total fans 1.046m Average: 61,578
7) Arsenal total fans 1.079m Average: 59,992
8) Hamburg total fans 905,278 Average: 53,252
9) Marseille total fans: 1.005m Average 52,917
10) Newcastle total fans: 956,823 Average 50,359
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Bold are the standout ones, Dortmund had a pretty dire year but kept the attendance up, Lewandowski, Goetze and co all gone yet the fans still turn out, Newcastle were fighting relegation all the way down to the last day. It's no wonder Mike won't leave.
Barca and Madrid is the confusing one if someone can interpret incase I'm thinking wrong. It appears they rarely sold out their stadiums last year 
Edit: If anyone can explain what Liverpool's defence was doing there... Rodgers... |
Dortmund is Dortmund. The football club or the way of life should I say sits alone in Dortmund, those attendances just reconfirms what you see on the tele. Bayern Munichs average is disappointing considering its supposed following and oh yeah cost of tickets being virtually nil vs PL tickets! That doesn't add up ! Hamburg owns the city. Schalke has its history, bit like Dortmund.
RM have the obvious threat of AM and the following they have. If you tune in to matches vs lower level opposition you will see a fair few empty seats at RM. RM don't own the city unlike Barcelona who seemingly do. Espanyol cannot compete. Having said that Barcelonas average is low if you compare it to RM, this being stadium capacity > average attendance..
rounding off the numbers..
Barca = 99k capacity with an average attendance of 78k
RM = 81k capacity with an average attendance of 73k
on average Barcelona have more empty seats than RM which throws out what I said above of Barca owning the city.
Man Utd is the impeccable average on the list. Everyone else has a big loss. Arsenal comes in second behind Man Utd. Hardly surprising. London is red after all
it also has to be said the EPL has restrictions on broadcasting of games, 3pm kick offs etc. which helps getting stadiums filled.
Marseille isn't soo much of a surprise with them having a decent'ish season. Started well then fell off. PSG fail to make the top 10 with a bigger stadia capacity and well Lille with the biggest in Ligue 1 flop
It does have to be mentioned though that these could be ticket sold averages rather than bums on seats averages. I could be wrong, the Arsenal average makes me ponder tbh.. "and the attendance today is sixtythousandmillion"... no mate it isn't! nonetheless the city is still red