Nick Harris @sportingintel The best attended single division in Europe is the Premier League; third best is England's Championship; and ninth best is England's League 1 - staggering levels of support.
Yet we should **** all over that to allow Man City and Chelsea's hordes of foreign B team players to have a run out in an empty stadium in a league they can't be promoted from. Wonderful idea.
Slightly misleading as it’s not based on average attendance and is instead accumulated attendance. Essentially it doesn’t account for the extra games.
The Championship is still impressive, even if it's worked on averages... Bundesliga Premier League La Liga Championship Serie A Ligue 1
Was a bit of an anomaly to have Newcastle in there, not only for home attendances but also away. With TWS that’s 2 very big cities with 1 club, can’t see it being as high this season. Interesting that the media ****fest over this today for both PL and Championship is ignoring the extra games played.
If you want a laugh go onto YouTube and type in ArsenalFanTV . Believe me, you're guaranteed a tumble rumble.
You sure? The figures I'm looking at (from the Uefa report) suggest this list of averages for 2016/17: Bundesliga Premier League La Liga Serie A Bundesliga 2 Ligue 1 Championship
Based on how quickly they paid for their new stadium, they are the best-run club in the country. Just not in terms of building a successful team.
No, I'm not sure at all, I think I ****ed it up. Might have helped if I'd actually read that far into the report and seen the averages were already in there.
Interesting then re the media fanfare today about this when the PL and Championship are exactly where you’d expect them to be in terms of average attendance. If anything Bundesliga 2 being ahead of the Championship is a negative. Facts, good story n all that.
Indeed, though as you pointed out with Newcastle, the figures can be massively swayed by the clubs that happen to have been relegated from the top flight. In Bundesliga 2 last season, VfB Stuttgart averaged 50,573 and Hannover 96 averaged 36,647, there was also St. Pauli, FC Nürnberg and Dynamo Dresden with big numbers.
“We are below midway [in the table] and it's not acceptable given the constraints the chairman provided for me at the start of the season, which I understand." Is it just me or does that statement from Brownie make no sense what so ever?
