As the European competitions come to an end, BallinEurope goes over the various leagues to see which teams attracted the most fans into their arenas. We begin with the FIBA EuroChallenge, the third level of European competition.

For the calculations, only the regular season, the Top 16 and the playoffs have been taken into account. The preliminary round has not been analyzed. Due to the structure of the competitions, not all teams played the same amount of games, and unfortunately the attendance figure for the decisive playoff game between Virtus Bologna and Telekom Baskets Bonn is missing. So here we go for the list of the 32 participating teams.

1 Ural Great 4000,0
2 Telekom Baskets Bonn 3817,6
3 Cholet Basket 3504,4
4 Virtus Bologna 3173,7
5 Dexia Mons 3166,7
6 Ostende 3140,0
7 Belgacom Liege 2466,7
8 EWE Baskets Oldenburg 2243,8
9 BC Kalev Cramo 2100,0
10 Energa Czarni 2066,7
11 BC Triumph 1937,5
12 Tartu Rock 1900,0
13 Siauliai 1750,0
14 Lokomotiv Rostov 1666,7
15 Hapoel Jerusalem 1666,7
16 Eiffel Towers 1583,3
17 Hyères-Toulon 1550,0
18 Khimik 1533,3
19 Cajasol Sevilla 1383,3
20 Eclipse Amsterdam 1271,4
21 BK Ventspils 1233,3
22 CSK Samara 1216,7
23 BC Kyiv 1200,0
24 Deutsche Bank Skyliners 1126,6
25 Proteas EKA AEL 1100,0
26 Galatasaray 995,0
27 Sumykhimprom 933,3
28 Allianz Swans Gmunden 733,3
29 KK Zagreb 733,3
30 Benetton Fribourg 566,7
31 Olympia Larissa 433,3
32 Keravnos 156,7

Source: FIBA Europe Boxscores, BIE Calculations

Ural Great Perm from Russia has the best average of the competition, finishing just in front of Telekom Baskets Bonn from Germany. Third place goes to Cholet Basket from France while Virtus Bologna earns fourth spot.

The 96 games of the regular season averaged 1737.7 people per game, while 48 Top 16 games averaged 2161.2 spectators per game.

The game with the largest attendance was Ural Great’s playoff game against BC Triumph, with 5000 people while the game with the lowest attendance was a Keravnos Nicosia (Cyprus) home game against Ural Great Perm, with only 70 official spectators recorded.

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