Attendance Figures for European Competitions (EuroCup)

June 1, 2009

In our second part of our report on the attendance figures of the different European competitions, we take a closer look today at the EuroCup, the second highest level of competition in Europe. You can find here the first part of our analysis which covered the FIBA EuroChallenge.

For this analysis, we took the games from the regular season as well as those of the Top16 phase. So we have some teams that have only 3 games in their calculation while others have 6. Some games had no official attendance figure in the box score, so we could not take these into account. So here we go for the list of the 32 participating teams.

1. Lietuvos Rytas 7008.4 spectators per game (last year: not qualified)
2. Brose Baskets 6066.6 (NQ)
3. CEZ Nymburk 5469.0 (6481.0)
4. Asvel Villeurbanne 5059.0 (4699.0)
5. Iurbentia Bilbao 5000.0 (NQ)
6. Pamesa Valencia 4550.0 (5280.0)
7. Crvena Zvezda 4407.6 (2400.0)
8. Fortitudo Bologna 4322.0 (3100.0)
9. Spirou Charleroi 3882.7 (3900.0)
10. Kalise Gran Canaria 3508.3 (2830.0)
11. Barons Riga 3500.0 (NQ)
12. KK Zadar 3250.0 (2700.0)
13. ASK Riga 3117.0 (4966.0)
14. Turow Zgorzelec 3000.0 (1620.0)
15. Unics Kazan 2750.0 (NQ)
16. Benetton Treviso 2683.3 (3034.4)
17. Khimki Moscow 2666.6 (3200.0)
18. Azovmash Mariupol 2635.0 (2674.4)
19. Chorale Roanne 2500.0 (NQ)
20. Aris Thessaloniki 2333.3 (NQ)
21. Artland Dragons 2333.3 (2850.0)
22. Hemofarm Vrsac 2266.6 (2320.0)
23. Turk Telekom Ankara 2250.0 (1720.0)
24. Bnei Hasharon 2100.0 (NQ)
25. Dynamo Moscow 1666.6 (2000.0)
26. Buducnost Podgorica 1582.0 (1492.0)
27. Lukoil Akademik 1333.3 (2100.0)
28. FMP Zeleznik 1066.6 (1080.0)
29. STB Le Havre 950.0 (NQ)
30. Besiktas Istanbul 666.6 (860.0)
31. Maroussi Athens 603.0 (NQ)
32. Panellinios Athens 442.0 (550.0)

Source: EuroCup Website, BIE Calculations

The Lithuanian team of Lietuvos Rytas not only won the competition but also was the number one in terms of attendance. The second place went to the Germans of Brose Baskets Bamberg while last year’s spectator leader CEZ Nymburk finished third. One of the biggest raisers in terms of average attendance is the Serbian Crvena Zvezda who moved up from 2400 to more than 4400 spectators on average.

In general, the average attendance in the EuroCup increased by 14.7% versus last year’s edition of the ULEB Cup. However, the general attendance went down but the total number of games has been reduced dramatically with the number of team included in the competition going down from 54 to 32.

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This post was published on June 1, 2009