International breaks are usually an opportunity to check out articles with various statistics or interesting anecdotes from the footballing world. The German portal Die Falsche 9 (false nine) decided to do an article with fan statistics, so it ranked the 72 most watched clubs in the Top 5 European leagues since the start of the season. 365 clubs were included, or to be precise, all clubs from the first three ranks in all 5 leagues, and Barcelona came on top, with an average attendance of 83,383 spectators per match. The second and third places are held by the Bundesliga players – Dortmund (80,783) and Bayern (75,000), the third is Manchester United (74,674), followed by the Italian giants – Milan (72,169) and Inter (70,365), and in the TOP 10 are also Olympique Marseille (62,877), West Ham (62,447), Schalke (62,194) and Tottenham (61,530).Der @FCBarcelona hat in den europäischen Top 5 Fußballnationen die durchschnittlich meisten Zuschauer in der Saison 2022/23! Von den 365 Mannschaften, in den ersten drei Ligen in Europas Topnationen, haben diese 72 Mannschaften die meisten Zuschauer! 🏟️ pic.twitter.com/PKyigM0KSB— Die falsche 9 (@die_falsche_9) September 25, 2022 Only Roma (an average of 16,000 more fans than city rivals Lazio) and Arsenal have more than 60,000 spectators per game, while Atletico is more watched than Real Madrid at the start of the season. The works at the Santiago Bernabeu are also responsible for this, which is why it is still impossible to use the full capacity of the stadium. Currently, the best English clubs – Liverpool and Manchester City, are placed in the 15th and 16th positions, with slightly more than 53,000 spectators per match, followed by Betis (52,677), followed by a series of German clubs: Eintracht, Monchengladbach, Cologne, Hertha, Hamburger, Stuttgart. Gladbach, for example, is the smallest city in Europe (about 250,000 inhabitants) with a visit of almost 50,000, while Hamburger is the most watched second division club on the continent. Interestingly, Paris Saint-Germain is not even the second most watched club in France, as Lyon averages 121 more visitors than Messi, Mbappe, Neymar and co.If there was a Champions League for supporter choreography, @BVB would win that. pic.twitter.com/rW346kcXEO— Cristian Nyari (@Cnyari) March 18, 2015 Of course, we have to put all the mentioned numbers in a special context. The capacity of Princes’ Park, for example, is 47,929, and Lyon’s is 59,000. Likewise, the capacities of Etihad and Anfield are around 53,000, so City and Liverpool practically cannot have a better attendance than the existing one. It is similar with Chelsea (33rd place) or Juventus (36th), whose matches are attended by fewer people on average than Sunderland’s in the Championship.Laporta explains how almost 35000 Germans invaded Camp NouAnd while certain stadiums cannot accommodate all those interested, some are half-empty. Among them Diego Armando Maradona in Naples, as one of the most unpleasant surprises, considering how Napoli play this season. The former ’San Paolo’ accommodates almost 55,000 people, and this season only 35,657 fans come on average.##NAJAVA_MECA_6672745##When it comes to the lower leagues, the situation is as follows: the most watched Spanish second division is Malaga (20,221), and third division Deportivo La Coruna (16,733). Bari (26,740) dominates Italian Serie B, and Cesena (7,093) dominates Serie C. We have already stated that the most watched German and English second leagues are Hamburger and Sunderland. Among the third league players are Dinamo Dresden (21,475) and Derby County (27,109). When it comes to France, the leader of League 2 is expected to be Bordeaux (18,061), while in the third rank the most visited stadium is Nancy (7,161).
