EuroLeague fans post 18% jump in average attendance, set new record / News - Basketnews.com

The 2023-24 season has seen EuroLeague fans attendance increase by 18% compared to last year. Six clubs sold at least 90% of their available tickets, with Partizan breaking the all-time record for average attendance.

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The EuroLeague has recorded a 18% rise in attendances for the 34 rounds of its 2023-24 regular season, with a record high average crowd of 10,383 fans.

The organizing authority of the top basketball competition in Europe issued a release, revealing the numbers that show an increase from last year's 8,748 fans per game.

Moreover, six clubs sold at least 90% of their available tickets this season and that number could have been even higher; Maccabi Playtika Tel Aviv announced over the summer that it had sold all of its season tickets for 2023-24, but after playing before a crowd of 10,559 on opening night, it was forced to relocate all of its home games to Belgrade and play most of them without any spectators.

Partizan Mozzart Bet Belgrade led the league in both average attendance and fill rate at 19,916 and 99%, respectively. The other top teams in fill rate were Zalgiris Kaunas (96%), FC Bayern Munich (95%), Olympiacos Piraeus (94%), LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne (94%) and Virtus Segafredo Bologna (90%).

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The league-average fill rate of 82% was an increase of 2% over the previous season.

Seven clubs averaged more than 10,000 spectators per game, leading to a total number across all games of 3,000,841, which is 300,000 more fans than the previous season!

After Partizan, the leaders in overall ticket sales were Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade (17,842), Zalgiris Kaunas (14,773), Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens (14, 526) and Anadolu Efes Istanbul (12,165).

The figures of Partizan and Crvena Zvezda have been boosted by playing more games at the larger Stark Arena.

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