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Basketball Bundesliga Draws More Than 1.3 Million for '12-13 Regular Season

Alba Berlin was the league leader with an average attendance of more than 10,000 fans as the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) again broke the 1.3-million attendance mark during the '12-13 regular season. Alba drew a total of 170,535 fans, well above second-place Brose Baskets Bamberg's 115,600. A total of 1,312,909 people attended the 306 regular season games. The number equaled an average attendance of 4,291. BBL CEO Jan Pommer said, "We have, on a high level, confirmed the trend of last season -- and I'm conviced that the fan interest will be undaunted for the very interesting playoff matchups." The previous record from the '11-12 season of an average of 4,322 people per game was missed by only 0.7% (BBL).

Basketball Bundesliga Regular Season Attendance '12-13
Club Total Attendance
Average Attendance
Alba Berlin
170,535
10,031
Brose Baskets Bamberg
115,600
6,800
ratiopharm Ulm
102,000
6,000
Bayern Munich Basketball
101,880
5,993
Telekom Baskets Bonn
94,320
5,548
TBB Trier
73,460
4,321
Fraport Skyliners Frankfurt
73,164
4,304
Eisbären Bremerhaven
64,050
3,768
Neckar Riesen Ludwigsburg
56,831
3,343
New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig
56,211
3,307
EWE Baskets Oldenburg
56,041
3,297
s.Oliver Baskets Würzburg
53,380
3,140
BBC Bayreuth
53,264
3,133
Phoenix Hagen
52,756
3,103
Artland Dragons
50,979
2,999
LTi Gießen 46ers
49,489
2,911
Walter Tigers Tübingen
47,389
2,788
Mitteldeutscher BC
41,560
2,445
Total 1,312,909
4,291
Source: Beko Basketball Bundesliga

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