J.League Revenues, Management, Economics, etc.

http://apgsports.com/2014/03/27/japanese-professional-baseballs-twenty-year-long-slump/

The article above is about NPB, but mentioned a little about J.League. I'm just an observer from outside Japan so I don't know the competition between the sports leagues and the sports enthusiasm there. Is it true that J.League eroded the NPB revenue and interest of the sports fans? When I watched a (streaming) NPB match, the spectators in the stadium still amazed me, it's just like watching football actually, but is it possible that football eventually can beat baseball popularity in Japan?

Maybe my questions not about J.League economics, but from the article we can concluded that expansion and media management are important for a sport league, and J.League should also aware of this in the future.

 

NPB has some serious issues. But theres a war between them and fans of the 2 leagues really doesnt like each other. Casual Japan that will say middle aged company japanese are baseball fans, but workers, people from provincial towns and youngones are following football.

The biggest problem is TV, the main argument baseball fans has about unpopularity of football is that its not shown on national TV. Sattelite TV is becoming bigger, but mentally Japanese only think the old analogue 6 TV networks are real TV and sattelite are for nerds (Japanese on TV still living in 1990). However the interesting fact is the real reason why Baseball is shown on national TV compared to football is National TV doesnt pay any money to NPB or their Clubs for the TV rights at all.

 

http://www.gazzetta.it/Calcio/Ester...re-addio-apertura-clausura-901013982525.shtml

Someone went back, someone goes forward.
Argentinian Primera Division won't be anymore in 2 stages from August 2015.

 

Good for them unfortunately Japan still mirroring themselves in NPB, at least no allstars game anymore.

 

The 2015 of Japanese football

 

http://www.nikkansports.com/soccer/news/1719884.html

That's what J League proposed to the clubs from the start of the next season:
1) equality dividend would be 3M Euro to every J1 club, 1,3M to J2 clubs and 300k to J3 clubs
2) 27M as the capital for bonus dividend to the top J1 clubs with the winner getting half of it and the rest will be distributed according to the place in table (up to 4th or 6th team in the table)
3) 2,6M to the winner of the league
4) for demoted teams the financial help will span for 2 years

This means that the winner of the league will be getting around 18,5M (bonus+league winning+dividend).

 

Anyone knows what is common around Europe?

In Norway, the winner gets around 2,5 mill euro in prize money alone, and along with other bonuses etc the total is close to 4-5 mill euroaccording to this article: http://www.nettavisen.no/sport/fotball/tippeliga-lagene-kjemper-om-flere-millioner/3423151726.html

What are the numbers in for example Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and Portugal? And for that matter Korea, Australia and China?

 

I think they're good numbers for Asian football without big economic powerhouses.
I'd have loved to see more money in J3. 300K seems too few.

 

Those teams have budgets like 3-4M Euro, some aren't even that good (Fujieda had earnings of 140M yenfor last season, that's about 1,2M Euro). So it's great money for them. I think the method they utilised was getting an average budget of the clubs from previous years and make the dividend rougly as 10% of that sum.

 

http://bylines.news.yahoo.co.jp/murakamiashishi/20161128-00064884/

Average numbers of people on the stands grew this season everywhere. 10k+ people watching a game in J3 or 30k+ in J2 makes Japan pretty awesome not only in Asia but entire world I assume.

 

And this is awesome. Talking about structure, J. League is one of 15 finest football systems in the world. Maybe top 10 in 10 years.

 

For a top 5 economy, it's not exactly an amazing achievement..

 

Friday 11-11-16 21:43
V-Varen Nagasaki and Feyenoord enter partnership
https://www.feyenoord.com/feyenoord...aren-nagasaki-and-feyenoord-enter-partnership

What do you think of it?

 

In China the CSL has CSL company as the League's Commercial management agency, 60% of the incomes of the CSL company is divided equal to all 16 clubs, in 2016 season, each club recieved 60 million RMB ( 8.71 million USD) from the CSL company, the league has no special bonus for champions or higher ranked clubs in the table.

in 2016 season, CSL company has a Total income of 1.5 billion RMB (217.78 million USD), and Total Expenditure 978 million RMB (141.9655 million USD)

main incomes includs:

Broadcast Rights: Ti'ao power (8 billion RMB for 5 years, 1 billion RMB for 2016 season)

Sponsorship

in million RMB

Company------------ Counrty---------Sponsorship
China Ping'an------ China----------- 181.5--------- Title Sponsor
Nike--------------- USA------------- 100----------- Kits Sponsor
Ford--------------- USA-------------- 40
JD.com------------- China------------ 35
Carlsberg---------- Denmark---------- 20
DHL---------------- Germany---------- 20
Red Bull----------- Austria---------- 20

Partner

Company-------- Counrty---------Sponsorship
Ledman--------- China----------- Free LED

Partner and Supplier

in million RMB

Company------- Counrty---------Sponsorship
TAG Heuer------ Switzerland------ 40
Shell Oil------ USA-------------- 20

 

Wow Evergrande lost big

Also, do you have any ideas on why Yanbian had such massive profit? Especially considering their very low gate receipts. Was this a one-time sale of a star player?

 

They're going to blow. Their income is all inside China, beside Nike no one is trying to see more of CSL.
The opposite of J. League.

 

Very interesting!

Also didn't know the average attendance was that high! 24,159 makes them the 4th highest attended domestic competition in the world or something ? Ahead of both J.League, Serie A and Ligue 1?

Do you have the attendance numbers for the previous couple of seasons too? It's not that long time ago since they were far behind J.League in attendance I think..

 

Chinese Jia-A League attendance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Jia-A_League#Attendances
Chinese Super League attendance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Super_League#Attendances

Average attendance of CSL was far behind J-League before 2011, untill Guangzhou Evergrande promoted to CSL and the trend for large-scaleinvestment started

 

Interesting. I see in the 2011 to 2014 seasons the average attendance seemed to be quite stable around the 18000 mark, and then mainly because of newly-promoted Chongqing who averaged 37 000+ it soared to 22 000 the next season. And then 24 000+ this year with particularly Jiangsu and Liaoning ( cause of their big signings) seeing major increases as well as the newly-promoted teams having much higher attendance than the ones who got relegated ( Shenxin who got relegated had only around 7000 while promoted Yanbian had 19 000).


But when you have 4 major clubs who averages between 35 000 and 45 000 as well as the 2 Shanghai clubs who could probably easily reach those numbers too it's probably likely to just continue to increase.

Very different from J.League who only got Urawa who sees anything near those numbers. Albirex used to be high too,but that's many years ago, and Gamba doesnt seem to be able to fill their new stadium quite yet either. And the likes of Kashima, FC Tokyo and Marinos continues to play infront of less than half-full stadiums.

 

Mexico averages about 26500, so CSL is fifth. Still a remarkable achievement.

 

Japan has Baseball as most popular sport so that attendance of J-League is respectful while in China no outdoor sports could compete with CSL

 

China has 1.3 billion people. What are we talking about?