Attendance statistics German Bundesliga season 2003/04

[jonam]

Attendance statistics German Bundesliga season 2003/04:

http://www.schwatzgelb.com/fanservice/attendances0304.htm

(There is a diagram available at the bottom of the site. I don't know whether it works with other browsers than Iexplorer)

At the moment Germany's Bundesliga has the highest average attendance in the world regarding football (soccer). It is 36.558 but till 2006 some new stadiums will be completed and maybe an average of 40.000+ isn't out of reach. Also depends on which teams relegate and promote.


Germany's stadiums for World Cup 2006:

http://www.schwatzgelb.com/fanservice/stadiums.htm


jonam, http://www.schwatzgelb.com

[Bobby Trendy]

wow ... how fascinating darling

[jonam]

I've updated the list!

[ur_land]

Can you give us some help interpreting your table? On the chart at the far right, is the first column home attendance? What is the second column?

Thanks!

[jonam]

first column: average home attendances 03/04

second column: actual stadium capacities (which are changing as some stadiums are in building or redeveloping phase)

-> in "diagram2" the average attendance of the home team is compared to the actual stadium capacity. That isn't very objective as some capacities were raised during the season thus decreasing the average utilisation of these stadiums. In fact it was just easier for me to set up the diagram this way.

Btw, last weekend an average of 45.687 spectators passed the gates which is a new all time high for Bundesliga! Plus Bundesliga will have the highest average attendance this season world wide and Borussia Dortmund will set a new record for the highest average club attendance world wide ever (BVB (03/04 till now): 78.964 - ac milan (91/92): 77.868 - napoli (84/85): 77.597).

[jri]

Gotta tell you though (maybe they don't care). Bundesliga does a lousy job of marketing their product worldwide. This is no longer insignificant (blunder).

An example: Fox shows a BL game of the week each week in US. Only once have they shown Hannover (w/2 Americans) in past 10 games. It is basically inexcusable that they are not showing Hannover at least 1/2 the time...so simple...(Fox has to accept whatever feed BL/tv partner gives them)

As well, the league is just not as known (players) or respected like England, Italian, Spain. Sure, European success has something to do w/it, but so does marketing...

It is amazing, though, to see the revival in Germany, and yes, they are going to have outstanding attendence leading into WC 2006 (and shortly thereafter)...

[Philip in London]

The figure aren't very impressive when you take into account that Germany has over a third more people than any other Western European country, that it is only an 18 team league, and that the ticket prices are very low (starting at about 9 Euros).

[Rommul]

and that the ticket prices are very low (starting at about 9 Euros).

I have friends who can back this up.

[Rommul]

Let see how the attendance is affected if Rudi Voller gets his wish that fewer foreigners are allowed in the league.

[M]

Nice analysis. One question: why does Bayern have a lower claimed max capacity than 1860?

[jonam]

The capacity of the Olympiastadion, Munich varies as the amount of terrace places varies (the 1860 and FCB home supporters have different terrace sections) and as 1860 sell all of the 69.000 tickets while FCB normally only sell 63.000 tickets because the front rows have a restricted view (due to the ad boards).

1860 need the money of their one and only sell-out match while FCB take care that every spectator has an unrestricted view.

To my surprise yesterday's Munich derby (FCB home team) had an attendance of 69.000 (source: kicker.de) to 71.000 (fcb.de, bundesliga.de). I'll try to get infos why they sold more than 63.000 tickets and in case it were even 71.000, how that happened.

[AussieVamp2]

That's interesting, hadn't realised that it was relatively cheap (compared to some other crazy prices) to go to German soccer.

Paying off in terms of bums on seats at least, it seems.