Bundesliga Attendance Figures Dominate Europe

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I used the stats fea­ture at ESPN Soc­cer­net to cal­clu­ate the clubs with the best atten­dances. Out of the top 20 atten­dances in Europe, Ger­many had 9 clubs. This post is to equip you with a tool to help pro­mote our great league. Because, while we are in a slump in the Cham­pi­ons League and don’t make all the news with £80 mil­lion trans­fers, we have the most com­pet­i­tive league, the funnest league and the best attended league in the world. And we’ll get a team back to the final of the UCL.

There are so many glo­ri­ous clubs in Europe, yet half of the teams in the Bun­desliga (from grand to aver­age) inhabit the best atten­dance list. Bay­ern, Dort­mund, Schalke, HSV, Hertha, Koln, Stuttgart and Frank­furt beat out the likes of Liv­er­pool, Chelsea, Valen­cia, Atletico Madrid, Juven­tus, Roma, PSV, Ajax, Galatasary and Porto.

Spain, Eng­land and Italy will make claims to being the great­est league in Europe. And if you base it solely on recent Cham­pi­ons League per­for­mances, they have some valid­ity. How­ever, since 2000 Valen­cia, Juven­tus, Liv­er­pool and Chelsea have all made the Cham­pi­ons League finals from these leagues. Yet none of these sto­ried teams couldn’t out­draw Ein­tra­cht Frank­furt last year. That’s right: Ein­tra­cht Frankfurt!

And while I do rec­og­nize that sta­dium issues pro­hibit some clubs from doing bet­ter, the fact that they can’t get their act together to build a sta­dium just shows that Ger­many is the best run league out there. In the time it took Liv­er­pool to cre­ate fancy sketches, Hof­fen­heim built a stadium.

Below is a table of the top 20 clubs, attendance-wise. I’ve noted the posi­tion in their league in rela­tion to atten­dance (note that only Eng­land could get a third team in the list) as well as the clubs final posi­tion. Note that while other coun­tries fig­ures seem closely related to how well a club is doing (kudos to New­cas­tle United fans), Ger­many had 3 teams in this list that were in the bot­tom half of the table. So the next time some­body dis­par­ages our grand league or tries to tell you that there is only one big team in Ger­many, trot out these numbers.

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