Skyblueweeman
Well-Known Member
So...I was just reading the match report for R.Madrids home La Liga game with Elche last night and was astounded to see the attendance at the game. The Bernabeu holds 85,454 and the crowd last night was 63,634. Now, with their size of the stadium, that works out at an attendance of 74% of stadium capacity. I then was thinking about what that represents as a % of Madrids population. According to good old Google, Madrids population is about 3,234,000 meaning that again as a %, last nights attendance equated to 1.96% of the Madrid population.
I then got to thinking about the recent comments/threads (sorry that this is yet ANOTHER one) about our Yeovil attendance and the fact that many said it was disappointing. I did as well actually but when I compared the attendance to local population (11,085 vs 316,900), it came out as 3.5% meaning that statistically, we had a better population:attendance ratio than arguably the most successful football club of all time, albeit for one game!!
I know this is only one game and the Bernabeu will fill for many other games but I just found it interesting. There's many variables that affects one game on it's own but it's interesting that the most successful club in history cannot fill their stadium when they scored 8 goals in their last game!
That's all,
Cheers,
WM
I then got to thinking about the recent comments/threads (sorry that this is yet ANOTHER one) about our Yeovil attendance and the fact that many said it was disappointing. I did as well actually but when I compared the attendance to local population (11,085 vs 316,900), it came out as 3.5% meaning that statistically, we had a better population:attendance ratio than arguably the most successful football club of all time, albeit for one game!!
I know this is only one game and the Bernabeu will fill for many other games but I just found it interesting. There's many variables that affects one game on it's own but it's interesting that the most successful club in history cannot fill their stadium when they scored 8 goals in their last game!
That's all,
Cheers,
WM