Huge increase in Bundesliga attendances
There has been a huge increase in the number of Bundesliga spectators per game on average. The 2017/18 season is the second most attended Bundesliga season ever.
| Borussia Dortmund fans. | Photo: Borussia Dortmund |
According to numbers from the Deutsche Fussball Liga (DFL), 43.879 tickets were used per match on average during the 2017/18 season - the second highest number of used tickets since the first Bundesliga season in 1963/64. The number includes free tickets for instance, but unused tickets are not considered.
Only the 2011/12 season (44.293 on average) had more spectators. In the previous season (2016/17), 40.693 tickets were used on average which means there has been an eight percent increase.
However, there has been a decrease in the 2. Bundesliga. An average of 17.743 ticket holders were registrered during the 2017/18 season while there were 21.650 spectators on average during the 2016/17 season.
In comparison, according to Worldfootball.net, there were 38.297 spectators per match on average for the English Premier League games during the 2017/18 season.
