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Attendance figures for European competitions

June 26, 2008

After we have talked already about attendance of the different leagues, we take a closer look at the three main European competitions and their attendance figures.

We will start first with the Euroleague regular season, where three teams average more than 10,000 spectators per contest. And the winner is Maccabi Tel Aviv which averaged an 11,000-person sellout in the first seven games of Euroleague 2007/08.

  1. Maccabi Tel Aviv 11,000.0 in attendance per game
  2. Panathinaikos 10,357.1
  3. Lietuvos Rytas 10,296.4
  4. Real Madrid 8828.6
  5. Unicaja Malaga 8692.9
  6. TAU Ceramica 8300.0
  7. Brose Baskets Bamberg 6957.1
  8. Olympiacos 6071.4
  9. CSKA Moscow 5642.9
  10. Partizan Belgrade 5444.4
  11. Union Olimpija 5214.3
  12. Zalgiris Kaunas 4953.0
  13. Efes Pilsen Istanbul 4928.6
  14. Montepaschi Siena 4892.7
  15. Axa FC Barcelona 4645.0
  16. Aris TT Bank 4428.6
  17. Lottomatica Roma 4215.1
  18. Le Mans 4042.9
  19. Virtus VidiVici Bologna 3915.1
  20. Fenerbahce Ülker 3785.7
  21. Chorale Roanne 3414.3
  22. Cibona Zagreb 3342.9
  23. Prokom Trefl Sopot 2914.3
  24. Armani Jeans Milano 2364.3

This comes out to an average of 5777.0 spectators per game: A bit surprisingly, this number is lower than that of the ACB. In games played amongst purely the top 16, the total average of the competition moves up to 7300.3. Here, OAKA of Panathinaikos averaged the most spectators.

  1. Panathinaikos 13,833.3
  2. Maccabi Tel Aviv 10,833.3
  3. Lietuvos Rytas 10,625.0
  4. Real Madrid 10,133.3
  5. Unicaja Malaga 9866.7
  6. TAU Ceramica 7666.7
  7. Fenerbahce Ülker 7500.0
  8. Olympiacos 7000.0
  9. Partizan Belgrade 6698.0
  10. Montepaschi Siena 5372.0
  11. Axa FC Barcelona 5347.0
  12. Zalgiris Kaunas 5000.0
  13. Lottomatica Roma 4928.7
  14. CSKA Moscow 4666.7
  15. Efes Pilsen Istanbul 4166.7
  16. Aris TT Bank 3166.7

So much for the Euroleague, but who are the ULEB Cup’s biggest crowds? In calculating, we considered averages for the group phase, in which every team had give home games. And the top team here may be a huge surprise, as it comes from the Czech Republic: CEZ Nymburk.

  1. CEZ Nymburk 6481.0
  2. ALBA Berlin 5479.0
  3. Pamesa Valencia 5280.0
  4. ASK Riga 4966.0
  5. ASVEL Villeurbanne 4699.0
  6. Siauliai 4640.0
  7. SLUC Nancy 4260.0
  8. KK Bosna Sarajevo 4200.0
  9. Elan Béarnais Pau-Orthez 4040.0
  10. Spirou Charleroi 3900.0

Including at 54 teams in the ULEB Cup, we come to an average of 2635.1 spectators per game in the group phase.

Finally, we have the third competition, the FIBA Euro Cup. Here, averages reported are only for the Group phase, in which each team had three home games. And the leader in terms of attendance comes from Russia.

  1. Ural Great Perm 4866.7
  2. Cholet Basket 3440.3
  3. Dexia Mons-Hainaut 3000.0
  4. Lappeenranta 2541.7
  5. Tartu Rock 2233.3

The average attendance of the group phase in this competition is 1849.9.

N.B.: All numbers come from the excellent attendance tables at Bulgarianbasketball.com. Neither the Euroleague nor FIBA were able to deliver us official figures after several requests.

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Comments: 8
  1. super16
    17 years ago

    Very interesting figures…

    To me, they definitely discredit Jordi Bertomeu’s ambition to request arenas with a minimum capability of 10000 seats.

    Most of the clubs that already meet this criteria are obviously unable to fill 50% of the arena (Olympiakos, Efes Pilsen, FC Barcelona, Lottomatica Roma, Vidivici Bologna, Fenerbahce Ulker)

    Look at AJ Milano. The team plays in a 12000 seats facility and records a 2364 average attendance.

    Has it any sense to request that small clubs (for instance Sopot, Le Mans, Roanne, Kaunas) build or upgrade their facilities (knowing that the probability that they go to the Top16 round is generally quite low)?

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  2. xl
    17 years ago

    super16 >>>>

    “Has it any sense to request that small clubs (for instance Sopot, Le Mans, Roanne, Kaunas) build or upgrade their facilities (knowing that the probability that they go to the Top16 round is generally quite low)?”

    generally, before speaking about Kaunas Zalgiris you should be more informed about this team and Euroleague. they haven’t passed to Top16 only few times through history, and the present arena is really too small to that team, because the potential attendance of the visitors is more than 10000 seats. the ticket sell outs to EL games usually are done in 1-2 days…

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  3. Eric
    17 years ago

    3414 for Roanne ????
    It seems some kind of over-rated.

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  4. name 2 super16
    17 years ago

    Tell me one thing. If Rytas can fill their arena, why Zalgiris couldn’t do that? In Lithuania Zalgiris is much more popular and have much more thans than Rytas team. Btw, Zalgiris arena probably will have 14 7000 seats during basketball games.

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  5. xl
    17 years ago

    name 2 super16 on June 27th, 2008 5:21 pm >>>>>>>>
    Zalgiris arena takes 5000 seats and it is always filled with 99% !!! The new planned arena will have 15000 seats and it will be fully filled as well. Fans in Lithuania are : ~70% for Zalgiris and Rytas has only 30%…

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  6. name 2 xl
    17 years ago

    xl:
    I now, I am Lithuanian 😉 It seems you didn’t understood something.. My previous post was dedicated to super16 🙂

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  7. xl
    17 years ago

    name 2 xl on June 27th, 2008 10:43 pm >>>>>>>>
    sorry, wrong understood you 😉

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  8. brikala
    17 years ago

    3414 is not over-rated for roanne

    we played our euroleague games in clermont ferrand , with 5 k seats

    3400 with people driving 250km each home game is a very good score

    our new home court ( 5k 200 seats ) should be there in 2 seasons
    our home games in french league are sold out ( 3200 seats ) since 2 seasons

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