EPL attendance levels last season "were the highest in England's top division for 64 years, and more people attend Premier League games each season than in any league in the world, at almost 14 million," according to Nick Harris of the London DAILY MAIL. A Daily Mail study of the world's major leagues shows that "only Germany's Bundesliga can top the Premier League in any measure of turnstile success -- fans attending per game." The Bundesliga's figure of 42,609 fans per game is the "biggest average in world football and the second biggest average in global professional sport" -- after the NFL. The Premier League averaged 36,695 fans per game last season "to be the second best attended football league per game by some margin" ahead of La Liga in third (26,955 fans per game), then Italy’s Serie A (23,385), with Mexico's Liga MX (22,271) pushing France's Ligue 1 (21,155) out of the top five. In terms of "total fans through the turnstiles, the Premier League, with 20 teams and 380 matches had 13.94 million fans coming through the turnstiles last season, or almost a million more than in the Bundesliga, where the 18 teams played 306 games." The study looked at 34 leagues around the world, including the top divisions from 33 nations across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia -- plus the Championship from England as well (DAILY MAIL, 11/15).
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| Source: LONDON DAILY MAIL |
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| Source: LONDON DAILY MAIL |
