Germany's Bundesliga Has The Second-Highest Attendance Of Any Pro Sports League

Sportingintelligence.com revealed that the German Bundesliga was only topped by the NFL as the best-attended professional sports league in the world. The NFL has increased its attendance levels from an average of 67,394 fans per regular season game in '11 to 67,591 in '12. The Bundesliga’s top division keeps the No. 2 spot thanks to a new seasonal record of 45,116 fans per game in '11-12, up from 42,673 the season before. The English Premier League has leapfrogged the Australian Football League into third place. Both those leagues saw season-on-season declines, but the decline was sharper in the AFL. The top 10 leagues are shown below, as are the two biggest indoor leagues, the NBA and NHL. The NHL overtook the NBA. The MLB attracted more fans in total per season than any pro league in the world (almost 75 million in '12), but fewer on average per game than the NFL (Sporting Intelligence).

Top Sports League Attendances: By Average crowd, Most-Recent Season
Outdoor
Rank		Sport		League		Season	Average	Total
1.	American Football			NFL		'12-13 '11-12	67,591 67,394	17,303,347 17,252,949
2.	Football			Bundesliga		'11-12 '10-11	45,116* 42,673	13,805,496 13,057,899
3.	Football			EPL		'11-12 '10-11	34,602 35,190	13,149,095 13,372,318
4.	Aussie Rules Football			AFL		'12 '11	32,748 36,428	6,778,824 7,139,854
5.	Baseball			MLB		'12 '11	30,895 30,366	74,859,268 73,425,568
6.	Football			La Liga		'11-12 '10-11	28,462 29,128	10,815,670 11,039,808
7.	Canadian Football			CFL		'11 '10	27,882 27,192	1,979,639 1,957,851
8.	Baseball			NPB (Japan)		'11 '10	24,965 25,626	21,569,760 22,141,003
9.	Football			Serie A		'11-12 '10-11	22,493 24,031	8,547,308 9,131,780
10.	Cricket			IPL		'10-12 '09	Figures too unreliable to continue 23,763 (max)	1,402,000 (max)
Indoor
1.	Hockey			NHL		'11-12 '10-11	17,455 17,126	21,470,155 20,928,036
2.	Basketball			NBA		'11-12 '10-11	17,274 17,319	17,100,861** 21,302,370

* Highest average ever in that league.
** Season and number of games curtailed by strike