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ACB remains leader in attendance

June 16, 2008

UPDATE (16/6/2008): BallinEurope checked the attendance figures of the different European leagues and has compiled some stats based on the averages. We didn’t see any big surprises, as Spanish ACB still tops the list.

The ACB is by far the league that has the best averages in 2007/2008. Second prize goes to Italy, while France takes the bronze medal. The total ranking is incomplete because we could not get figures from several European leagues, including those for Israel, Belgium or Poland. And the figures we took into account are only those for the regular season.

UPDATE (16/6/2008): Figures for the Russian Superleague and the Adriatic League have been added.

So here is the ranking of the leagues according to information available to the public or received by BallinEurope.com from qualified sources:

  1. ACB (Spain): 6387.00 in attendance per game
  2. Lega (Italy): 3740.81
  3. ProA (France): 3503.56
  4. Bundesliga (Germany): 3469.75
  5. LEB Gold (Spain): 2944.44
  6. Superleague (Russia): 2276.76
  7. Baltic Elite Division: 2238.97
  8. ProB (France): 1720.00
  9. Beko League (Turkey): 1363.31
  10. A1 (Greece): 1228.29
  11. Adriatic League: 1179.62
  12. ProA (Germany): 1039.12
  13. Finland: 865.67
  14. LNBA (Switzerland): 678.93
  15. ProB (Germany): 636.11
  16. Baltic Challenge: 420.73

When it comes to the attendance for individual European teams, we see a common name at the top of the list: CAI Zaragoza, which is averaging an incredible 10,200 fans per game in Spain’s 2nd division, LEB Gold. Other top spots are also dominated by Spanish teams starting with MMT Estudiantes Madrid and Unicaja Malaga at numbers 2 and 3. The first non-Spanish team is Virtus Bologna, in 7th place.

UPDATE (16/6/2008): The figures for the ACB have been corrected with official figures from the ACB League. We have also added figures from the Russian Superleague and Adriatic League (excepting KK Zadar, KK Split and Geoplin Slovon, none of which published attendance figures within boxscores).

For this ranking, we had no figures for the French teams, only general attendance figures for the league were provided without details per team.

  1. Basket CAI Zaragoza (LEB Gold): 10,200.0 in attendance per game
  2. MMT Estudiantes (ACB): 9641.0
  3. Unicaja Málaga (ACB): 9152.0
  4. Real Madrid (ACB): 8917.0
  5. Tau Ceramica (ACB): 8629.0
  6. DKV Joventut (ACB): 7744.0
  7. CB Granada (ACB): 7498.0
  8. La Fortezza Virtus Bologna (Lega): 6989.2
  9. ALBA Berlin (Bundesliga): 6907.9
  10. Brose Baskets Bamberg (Bundesliga): 6864.7
  11. Pamesa Valencia (ACB): 6864.0
  12. Scavolini Spar Pesaro (Lega): 6447.2
  13. Bruesa GBC (LEB Gold): 6300.0
  14. Capitol Valladolid (ACB): 6182.0
  15. Iurbentia Bilbao (ACB): 5747.0
  16. Cajasol (ACB): 5353.0
  17. ViveMenorca (ACB): 5310.0
  18. Grupo Begar León (ACB): 5285.0
  19. Barons/LMT (Baltic League): 5235.6
  20. Alta Gestión Fuenlabrada (ACB): 5099.0

Some big names in European basketball place a bit lower in the rankings, such as like Montepaschi Siena (4987.5 per game), FC Barcelona (4629.0), Panathinaikos (4360.4), Benetton Treviso (2698.6), Zalgiris Kaunas (2384.1) and Efes Pilsen Istanbul (1098.0).

NB: Please note that all figures are official figures published or communicated by the leagues or transmitted by league officials to BallinEurope.com.

UPDATE (16/6/2008): The numbers from the Russian Superleague and the AdriaticLeague have been calculated by the BallinEurope.com team. The numbers from LEB Gold were provided by the “Spanish Calculator” and represent those from the first part of the season only.

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Comments: 15
  1. Ziv
    17 years ago

    some of the leagues you mentioned do post figures but it still require gathering them and analysing. a raw estimation (by me) would say israel has about 1,500 fans per game. maccabi has about 3500 regularly which can rise when facing top oppnents. champions from Hulon and hapoel jerusalem has about 1,500 per game (which is about full-house).
    anyway – nice job done. those numbers are interesting. there are many fans in rather unnoticed locations (Latvia for example BiH teams used to have big numbers in the adriatic), i’d guess that Kazan has the highest attendence in russia and that’s part of the reason why the national team was playing there.
    interesting post.

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  2. Christophe
    17 years ago

    @ziv
    which leagues do you mean?

    If anyone has official figures of other leagues, please email them to us

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  3. Ziv
    17 years ago

    Adriatic and Russian leagues do publish the nubmers along with the box-scores . it does require checking all the games.

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  4. Non-official correspondent
    17 years ago

    http://www.acb.com/redaccion.php?id=49393
    ACB official numbers
    Christophe, the Russian league attendance numbers were published on every single game this season and on previous seasons on the league official web site. The only problem is doing all that math..

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  5. sum
    17 years ago

    The average for the swedish league would be around 1000. In top is Plannja who averages around 1900..

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  6. carlos
    17 years ago

    well i am from spain and that´s true my team is estudiantes i´ve got a carnet and i always go to see this fantastic team. is true taht this team never won anything but the best thing is in every game the fans are over there even if is the worst game to see. i love this team, and i give you an advice. if you have the chance to visit madrid go to see a game for estudiantes

    thank you.

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  7. alex
    17 years ago

    akasvayu girona(acb) has 3900 per game..

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  8. RodmanCAI
    17 years ago

    El CAI a la ACB, el año que viene repetiremos.

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  9. Zgz
    17 years ago

    Ese Cai!! The first!!
    Zaragoza the best city of europe in basketboll

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  10. Alex
    17 years ago

    Baltic Elite Division: 2238.97: Is it completely correct ?
    Anyways your blog is seriously much informative

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  11. Christophe
    17 years ago

    this is the average as it has been given by the Baltic league

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  12. Spain is different
    17 years ago

    We re the best league in Europe,thought the attendence here a Leb gold club can win Real.

    The leader is Cai,a new acb team.

    Too many distances till between other sports

    Viva el Cai,viva darren-Philip

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  13. Leo
    17 years ago

    Maybe you forgot to put Legadue (Italy) in the list. Last season that league averaged 2390 in attendance per game.

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  14. Nancy !
    17 years ago

    the list is wrong , there aren’t the maccabi tel aviv and lietuvos rytas vilnius ??? !!!

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  15. k
    15 years ago

    in Finland the average is nowadays closer to 1000.

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