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Aussie Rules in top 5 largest crowds
« on: March 28, 2007, 05:27:13 PM »
The AFL doesn't do to shabby with average crowds per game. In the top 5.

NFL                     - 67,738
German Bundesliga - 40,775
AFL                     - 35,250
EPL                     - 33,875
MLB                    - 31,423
Canadian FL         - 29,343
La Liga (Spain)     - 29,029
Japanese Baseball - 23,552
Serie A (Italy)      - 21,968
Ligue 1 (France)   - 21,576

MLB has 75 million people per year go to games  :o. Next is the NBA, NHL and NFL around the 20 million mark while the EPL has 12 million. The AFL has just over 6 million all up but when you add in the fact the US has 15 times the population and England about 5 times, Aussie Rules is bloody popular for a smallish populated country like Australia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sports_attendance_figures

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Re: Aussie Rules in top 5 largest crowds
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2007, 08:22:24 PM »
In terms of most watched sport per capita that is fantastic but when comparing to some of the European soccer competitions you need to look at ground capacity some EPL teams have stadiums that only hold 25 to 30 K  like West Ham, Blackburn, Portsmouth, Wigan, Watford whereas clubs like Man Utd and Arsenal are the only two stadium that hold 60K or more. So on that evidence those figures can tend to be a little misleading but nevertheless great to see the AFL up there.