Menu
Download the app

SBJ subscribers – Enhance your experience with the revamped iOS app

International Football

Borussia Dortmund Tops Europe's Attendance Mark With An Average Of 80,482

Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund finished the '12-13 season with the highest attendance of any European club, according to final figures from Stadionwelt. Dortmund sold out all 17 of its home games and averaged 80,482 in attendance. Premier League club ManU averaged 75,530 for second place and La Liga outfit FC Barcelona averaged 71,350. The Bundesliga has 11 clubs in the top 30, which is by far the most of any European league. The EPL has six teams in the top 30, and La Liga had three (Stadionwelt).

TOP 30 May 2013
Rank   Club Country League Average attendance Number of home games Total attendance Capacity Attendance %
1. - Borussia Dortmund Germany 1 80,482 17 1,368,195 80,645 99.80%
2. - Manchester United  England 1 75,530 19 1,435,063 76,212 99.10%
3. - FC Barcelona Spain 1 71,350 19 1,355,657 98,787 72.23%
4. Bayern Munich Germany 1 71,000 17 1,207,000 71,000 100.00%
5. Real Madrid  Spain 1 68,876 19 1,308,650 80,162 85.92%
6. - Schalke 04 Germany 1 61,171 17 1,039,912 61,673 99.19%
7. - Arsenal
England 1 60,079 19 1,141,507 60,355 99.54%
8. - Hamburg SV Germany 1 52,916 17 899,574 57,000 92.84%
9. - Newcastle United  England 1 50,517 19 959,826 52,387 96.43%
10. - Ajax Netherlands 1 50,490 17 858,330 52,960 95.34%
11. - VfB Stuttgart Germany 1 50,054 17 850,919 60,405 82.86%
12. - Borussia Mönchengladbach Germany 1 49,722 17 845,266 54,010 92.06%
13. - Eintracht Frankfurt Germany 1 48,044 17 816,750 51,500 93.29%
14. Manchester City  England 1 46,974 19 892,506 47,726 98.42%
15. Celtic Scotland 1 46,917 19 891,415 60,982 76.94%
16. Inter Milan Italy 1 46,654 19 886,426 80,065 58.27%
17. Fortuna Dusseldorf  Germany 1 46,026 17 782,447 54,500 84.45%
18. Rangers  Scotland 4 45,964 19 873,312 50,549 90.93%
19. - Feyenoord Rotterdam Netherlands 1 45,147 17 767,500 51,137 88.29%
20. - Liverpool
England 1 44,749 19 850,224 45,276 98.84%
21. - Hannover 96 Germany 1 44,359 17 754,100 49,000 90.53%
22. Atlético Madrid Spain 1 43,921 19 834,500 54,851 80.07%
23. AC Milan Italy 1 43,651 19 829,378 80,065 54.52%
24. Galatasaray
Turkey 1 43,262 17 735,452 52,650 82.17%
25. Paris St. Germain France 1 43,235 19 821,466 47,428 91.16%
26. Benfica
Portugal 1 42,366 15 635,489 65,647 64.54%
27. FC Nuremberg Germany 1 41,518 17 705,804 50,000 83.04%
28. Chelsea
England 1 41,462 19 787,786 42,522 97.51%
29. Shakhtar Donetsk  Ukraine 1 41,203 15 618,049 50,000 82.41%
30. FC Cologne
Germany 2 40,646 17 690,989 49,968 81.34%

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2013/06/13/International-Football/European-Football-Attendance.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Global/Issues/2013/06/13/International-Football/European-Football-Attendance.aspx

CLOSE