4 of the 16 2011-12 season topflight clubs in Tunisia: 1 Club Africain 25.000 2 ES Sahel 24.000 3 CA Bizertin 13.500 4 ES Hammam Sousse 5.000 www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn.htm www.worldfootball.net
Portugal isnt doing bad, its not a big country by population. Here the av attendances from Iran this season: 1. Persepolis (Tehran) - 27,933 2. Tractor Sazi (Tabriz) - 21,667 3. Esteghlal (Tehran) - 18,553 4. Foolad (Ahvaz) - 9,429 5. Damash Gilan (Rasht) - 6,000Relegated 6. Malavan (Anzali) - 5,200 7. Sepahan (Isfahan) - 4,357 8. Fajr Sepasi (Shiraz) - 4,200relegation playoff 9. Esteghlal Khuzestan (Ahvaz) - 4,000 10. Mes Kerman (Kerman) - 3,994Relegated 11. Zob Ahan (Isfahan) - 2,933 12. Saba (Qom) - 2,667 13. Saipa (Karaj) - 2,467 14. Gostaresh Foolad (Tabriz) - 2,400 15. Naft (Tehran) - 2,067 16. Rah Ahan Sorinet (Tehran) - 1,667
Soccer will probably be the most popular sport in India within 10 years. The new Indian Super League, with big stars, will help a lot. MLS still has a long way to go to become the biggest sports league in the USA/Canada.
Average attendances of the most recent Botola (Morocco) season: Raja : 20.000 KAC : 8.000 MAT : 8.000 WAC : 5.000 HUSA : 3.000 KACM : 3.000 MAS : 3.000 CRA : 2.000 DHJ : 2.000 OCS : 2.000 RSB : 2.000 ASS : 1.500 OCK : 1.200 WAF : 1.200 FAR : 1.000 FUS : 800
That's assuming ( a ) it actually happens (it has been delayed once, a similar league recently never got off the ground) and ( b ) there are actually "big stars" who actually play, instead of just allowing their names to be linked to it in the press.
Yes, highly unlikely that a ramshackle league with few actual "stars" will, in ten years, be transformative enough to displace cricket. Sport space doesn't usually get rearranged that quickly in most nations.
Cricket seems to popular in some regions only. Any sport which has a record crowd of 131,000 must have a degree of popularity, but yes, it's difficult to see cricket being dethroned. The IPL might have been a massive success, bit it's much easier to get worldwide cricket stars to sign deals with IPL clubs that it would be for football.
Wow, who cares if cricket gets dethroned in India? Does anyone see baseball crying about its position behind the NFL? What about basketball? Are they shedding tears over not being number 1? No, they remain popular sports with mass cultural appeal. Whether soccer is number 1 or 2 in India in 1000 years time is irrelevant. What it needs to do is improve its position as number 2, and despite the appeal of Kabbadi and hockey, everything I see points to soccer being number 2. Get to the point where its the equivalent of being the MLB in India - a rich, popular sport that people don't see as foreign but theirs.
I like this map. Whoever did it knows their stuff. Two things I'd counter. Estonia being labelled as a basketball nation is the first. I think its way closer than that, and I would put soccer ahead actually. The second is Cambodia being labelled a volleyball nation, again I think its first and foremost a soccer nation. I made my own map a while back. I've come across this thread and feel like this is the perfect place to put it. While I like that map for showing the different sports that dominate around the world, my map looks at places where soccer is number 1 or 2, which I think helps show just how few nations there are where the game hasn't penetrated into mainstream. I feel that if you are the first of second most popular sport in a country, you are doing very well. After the first two, the national importance seems to drop heavily, wherever you look. Basketball in America is probably the one exception to this. I can't find another country on this planet where there are 3 sports that have the cultural weight of football, baseball and basketball in America. Maybe Australia, although Australia is very unique in that it isn't really a single cultural entity when it comes to sport. Due to its size and separateness, two equally dominant sports (Aussie Rules and rugby league) sprouted in two different parts of the country, while cricket has a more national appeal rounding off the top 3. For me there are 3 nations where the game still has a long way to go: United States, Canada and Australia. I'm not worried about China or India where its number 2 (though the gap between basketball and soccer is China is much smaller than people think). Those nations will evolve to have an incredibly powerful soccer identity, because they dont have the barriers to entry like the US does, and because soccer is already rooted in both countries in a way that it isnt in the US.
Even if soccer is the second most popular sport in the two countries with the highest population, China and India, neither of them has a great national team in the FIFA Rankings. Indonesia, Thailand, and Pakistan are other Asian countries with many people but not great national teams.
ISL (India) average attendances after a few matches: Atlético de Kolkata 60,397 NorthEast United 28,633 Mumbai City 28,000 Chennaiyin 19,430 Goa 16,652 Delhi Dynamos 16,500 Kerala Blasters ? Pune City ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_home_attendances_in_non-European_club_football http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average_attendances_of_European_football_clubs
Atlético de Kolkata 47,448 Kerala Blasters 42,087 NorthEast United 28,633 Mumbai City 22,238 Delhi Dynamos 20,909 Chennaiyin 20,645 FC Goa 17,221 Pune City 7,797
Thank you for these statisticals. I hope that you can upload us even on the attendances of the Pakistan and Bangladesh clubs and above all to put the attenadance ALSO of the leagues beyond the clubs.
I use WorldFootball.Net and www.european-football-statistics for attendance information and both are excellent sites from which extensive data is quoted above and this data seems reliable as it is consistent with other sources. I have always found African data, except for South Africa, very difficult to find and so I am interested - from where has the data for Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Nigeria and DR Congo been obtained, to which season does it relate, and how reliable do we think it is?
Average attendances of football clubs around the world: Borussia Dortmund - Germany - 80,000 Manchester United - United Kingdom - 75,000 Bayern München - Germany - 71,000 FC Barcelona - Spain - 71,000 Real Madrid - Spain - 70,000 Schalke - Germany - 61,000 Arsenal - United Kingdom - 59,000 River Plate - Argentina - 54,000 Borussia Mönchengladbach - Germany - 52,000 Hertha - Germany - 51,000 HSV - Germany - 51,000 Ajax - Netherlands - 50,000 Newcastle United - United Kingdom - 50,000 VfB Stuttgart - Germany - 50,000 Kerala Blasters - India - 49,000 Eintracht Frankfurt - Germany - 47,000 Manchester City - United Kingdom - 47,000 1. FC Köln - Germany - 46,000 Atlético de Madrid - Spain - 46,000 Celtic - United Kingdom - 46,000 Internazionale - Italy - 46,000 Atlético de Kolkata - India - 45,000 Feyenoord - Netherlands - 45,000 Hannover 96 - Germany - 45,000 Paris Saint-Germain - France - 45,000 Liverpool FC - United Kingdom - 44,000 Benfica - Portugal - 43,000 Club América - Mexico - 43,000 Guangzhou Evergrande - China - 42,000 Orlando City - United States - 42,000 Rangers - United Kingdom - 42,000 Boca Juniors - Argentina - 41,000 Chelsea - United Kingdom - 41,000 Sunderland AFC - United Kingdom - 41,000 Tigres - Mexico - 41,000 1. FC Nürnberg - Germany - 40,000 AS Roma - Italy - 40,000 SSC Napoli - Italy - 40,000 Werder Bremen - Germany - 40,000 AC Milan - Italy - 39,000 Beijing Guoan - China - 39,000 Seattle Sounders - United States - 39,000 Galatasaray - Turkey - 38,000 LOSC - France - 38,000 Olympique de Marseille - France - 38,000 Rosario Central - Argentina - 38,000 Everton - United Kingdom - 37,000 Juventus - Italy - 37,000 Aston Villa - United Kingdom - 36,000 Fenerbahçe - Turkey - 36,000 Newell's Old Boys - Argentina - 36,000 Valencia CF - Spain - 36,000 New York City FC - United States - 35,000 Tottenham Hotspur - United Kingdom - 35,000 Urawa Red Diamonds - Japan - 35,000 Olympique Lyonnais - France - 34,000 West Ham United - United Kingdom - 34,000 Athletic Club - Spain - 33,000 Fiorentina - Italy - 33,000 Fortuna Düsseldorf - Germany - 33,000 PSV - Netherlands - 33,000 Shakhtar Donetsk - Ukraine - 33,000 Sporting - Portugal - 33,000 RC Lens - France - 31,000 AS Saint-Étienne - France - 30,000 CF Monterrey - Mexico - 30,000 Cruzeiro - Brazil - 30,000 Mainz 05 - Germany - 30,000 Real Betis - Spain - 30,000 Sevilla FC - Spain - 30,000 Southampton FC - United Kingdom - 30,000
Australia: Melbourne Victory 21,808 Sydney FC 18,682 Brisbane Roar 14,957 Western Sydney Wanderers 14,860 Newcastle Jets 11,949 Adelaide United 11,225 Melbourne City 9,933 Perth Glory 9,418 Central Coast Mariners 9,398 Wellington Phoenix 8,201 Indonesia: Arema 27,860 Persija 20,756 Persib 18,502 PSPS 16,713 Persebaya 14,442 Persipura 13,747 Sriwijaya 11,715 Persisam 10,591 Persik 10,527 PSM 10,082 Persijap 9,431 Persela 7,562 Bontang FC 6,949 Persema 6,231 Persiwa 6,110 Persiba 4,971 Pelita Jaya 4,629 Persitara 2,928 Korea: Suwon Samsung Bluewings 19,608 FC Seoul 17,013 Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors 13,165 Pohang Steelers 9,801 Ulsan Hyundai 7,032 Jeju United 6,712 Incheon United 4,569 Gyeongnam FC 4,541 Seongnam FC 3,755 Jeonnam Dragons 3,365 Busan IPark 3,254 Sangju Sangmu 2,558 Russia: Zenit 18,952 Terek Grozny 18,019 Kuban Krasnodar 14,046 Anji 13,739 Ural 13,222 Lokomotiv Moscow 12,884 FC Krasnodar 12,303 Krylia Sovetov 11,880 Spartak Moscow 11,644 FC Rostov 11,533 Amkar Perm 10,717 CSKA Moscow 9,693 Dynamo Moscow 7,860 Rubin Kazan 7,388 Volga 6,553 Tom 5,487 South Africa: Kaizer Chiefs 18,470 Orlando Pirates 12,476 Mamelodi Sundowns 11,533 Bloemfontein Celtic 8,146 Ajax Cape Town 8,110 Polokwane City 6,743 Maritzburg United 6,223 Mpumalanga Black Aces 4,852 AmaZulu 4,783 Golden Arrows 4,766 Pretoria University 4,583 Platinum Stars 3,616 Bidvest Wits 3,333 SuperSport United 3,069 Free State Stars 2,520 Moroka Swallows 2,220
MLS: Orlando City 42,135 Seattle Sounders 39,479 New York City 35,526 Impact de Montréal 25,245 Los Angeles Galaxy 23,043 Vancouver Whitecaps 21,750 Houston Dynamo 21,472 Portland Timbers 21,144 New York Red Bulls 21,036 Real Salt Lake 20,538 Sporting Kansas City 20,316 San Jose Earthquakes 18,000 Colorado Rapids 17,692 Philadelphia Union 17,026 FC Dallas 15,906 Chicago Fire 14,273 Columbus Crew 13,064 DC United 13,006 New England Revolution 12,429 Toronto FC -