Bundesliga sets new attendance record

[SwissGCZ]

The 05/06 season concluded with an average attendance of 40'775. Impressive...

[SportBoy333]

Its impressive but you have big cities and big stadiums and little competition from other sports. The stadia are all modern. The population of Germany is spread out well which means there are cities with a lot of people all over so these clubs have a lot of potential people to draw from.

[SwissGCZ]

Its impressive but you have big cities and big stadiums and little competition from other sports. The stadia are all modern. The population of Germany is spread out well which means there are cities with a lot of people all over so these clubs have a lot of potential people to draw from.
But most important of all, tickets are affordable... (unlike the Premiership)

Anybody have the numbers for the other four major European leagues?

[Jaison]

Plus, most of the stadia have standing terraces, which will give a small but significant overall increase in attendance numbers.

[RichardL]

Plus, most of the stadia have standing terraces, which will give a small but significant overall increase in attendance numbers.
it isn't so much the terraces themselves, as much as the extra capacity they allow. Premiership games are on the whole sold out, and there are a number of teams who'd get more if they had a higher capacity. Whether higher capacities would allow the premiership to match the Bundesliga's 40,000 is a different matter. I don't think, unlike the Bundesliga, the premiership could boast eight clubs with an average of over 40,000 with higher capacities alone.

[geego]

Anybody have the numbers for the other four major European leagues?
You've this web page (http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn.htm). I don't know how reliable is the information there, but for a rough idea it will do.

[Hazzathewazza]

You've this web page (http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn.htm). I don't know how reliable is the information there, but for a rough idea it will do.

Interesting to see that Englands 2nd and third divisions are far superior than Germanys and the Championship is higher than Portugal, Scotland, Russia and Holland!!!

[ForeverRed]

Gosh I can't wait for the World Cup..

[musicl]

EPL has a better people to seats average though.

[leg_breaker]

The problem with England is that the teams are clustered together in places like London, the midlands and the North West, rather than an even spread, so you have teams like Bolton, Blackburn, Fulham, West Brom etc who are right next door to huge clubs, so they're not going to get very high crowds.

Also ripoff ticket prices.

[Mephistor]

In Germany you have competition of other sports for example handball, cycling, motorsport or ice-hockey but soccer is number one.

People are growing up with this virus named soccer. In the ruhr area, also my home area, your father takes you very early at the stadium to watch soccer and sometimes you get a member pass of a football club before you get your birth pass.

This record is impressive...

[LaLigaLover]

but the soccer level is second-rate.
second-rate league.
there LaLiga EPL and Serie A exist , who care second-rate Bundesliga.

[kraftwerk]

Here are some pics of the last Bundesliga day of the season 2005/06.
There were 436,341 fans in the 9 stadiums, that means an average attendance of 48,482. That`s really impressive...

Hamburg, 57,000 spectators (Hamburger SV - SV Werder Bremen)

http://www.stadionwelt.de/stadionwelt_fans/templates/fanfotos_fussball/deutschland/hamburger_sv/saison20052006/liga_34/130.jpg


Hannover, 47,387 spectators (Hannover 96 - Bayer 04 Leverkusen)

http://www.stadionwelt.de/stadionwelt_fans/templates/fanfotos_fussball/deutschland/hannover_96/saison20052006/liga_34/110.jpg


Cologne, 49,000 spectators (even though 1.FC Cologne was just scaled down to the 2nd Bundesliga) (1. FC Köln - Arminia Bielefeld)

http://www.stadionwelt.de/stadionwelt_fans/templates/fanfotos_fussball/deutschland/1_fc_koeln/saison20052006/liga_34/120ns.jpg

[kraftwerk]

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Nürnberg, 45,817 spectators (1. FC Nürnberg - Hertha BSC Berlin)

http://www.stadionwelt.de/stadionwelt_fans/templates/fanfotos_fussball/deutschland/1_fc_nuernberg/saison20052006/liga_34/110.jpg


Wolfsburg, 30,000 spectators (VFL Wolfsburg - 1.FC Kaiserslautern)

http://www.stadionwelt.de/stadionwelt_fans/templates/fanfotos_fussball/deutschland/vfl_wolfsburg/saison20052006/liga_34/120.jpg


Duisburg, 27,113 spectators (MSV Duisburg - 1. FSV Mainz 05)

http://www.stadionwelt.de/stadionwelt_fans/templates/fanfotos_fussball/deutschland/msv_duisburg/saison20052006/liga_34/110.jpg

[kraftwerk]

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Frankfurt, 49,500 spectators (Eintracht Frankfurt - Borussia Mönchengladbach)

http://www.stadionwelt.de/stadionwelt_fans/templates/fanfotos_fussball/deutschland/eintracht_frankfurt/saison20052006/liga_34/110.jpg


Gelsenkirchen, 61,524 spectators (FC Schalke 04 - VfB Stuttgart)

http://www.stadionwelt.de/stadionwelt_fans/templates/fanfotos_fussball/deutschland/fc_schalke_04/saison20052006/liga_34/110lb.jpg


Munich, 69,000 spectators (FC Bayern München - Borussia Dortmund)

http://www.stadionwelt.de/stadionwelt_fans/templates/fanfotos_fussball/deutschland/fc_bayern_muenchen/saison20052006/liga_34/110.jpg



source of all pics: stadionwelt.de

[|--LdC--|]

The other top european leagues (serie A, la liga, premiership) could learn from the Germans, fantastic stadiums and cheap tickets, football is sport for the people not for the rich...
P.S. the same goes for Portugal were the price of tickets is ridiculous...

[steveedster]

The other top european leagues (serie A, la liga, premiership) could learn from the Germans, fantastic stadiums and cheap tickets, football is sport for the people not for the rich...
P.S. the same goes for Portugal were the price of tickets is ridiculous...


well its not really a matter of that, many of the Germans new most impressive stadia were developed with the World Cup in mind, Im sure for example if England won the right to host the WC you would see a new stadium for Liverpool @ 60,000, a new stadium for Birmingham City ( yes thats right but it is planned) @ 50,000, then also new ones for Tottenham and Everton, extension to Newcastle, etc etc. many of these are already planned, but it would take something like the WC to justify. (altho I here Liverpool and Birminghams will be going ahead with in the next 5 years anyway). As well as Arsenals new stadium, Man City's new one etc which have been builT without the need for a WC.

plans can be seen at this site under the developments section...

http://www.footballgroundguide.co.uk/

But yes I agree about the ticket prices, too high! However I suppose they are needed to attract the top players :rolleyes:

[The Old Lady Hertha]

but the soccer level is second-rate.
second-rate league.
there LaLiga EPL and Serie A exist , who care second-rate Bundesliga.

*yawn*

Considering that Germany has less racist fans (besides some teams who are at the bottom of the food chain), I'm not surprised that we have a better attendance record. All the neutral fans in some teams like Getafe maybe put off by the ultras.

[RichardL]

The other top european leagues (serie A, la liga, premiership) could learn from the Germans, fantastic stadiums and cheap tickets, football is sport for the people not for the rich...
P.S. the same goes for Portugal were the price of tickets is ridiculous...
it's only the terracing that's cheap compared to most leagues (because they don't have any). Seats at Bundesliga games aren't mucn cheaper than comparible seats in Serie A or La Liga. Everywhere is cheaper than the premiership.

[musicl]

80million people live in Germany..........thats well over 20 million people more than live in England.