What makes a club big?

[Jim-D]

Bernabeau and camp nou are huge grounds but probably only have a sell out 7/8 times per season

Really?

I would have thought, much like here, when clubs are winning every trohpy in sight they are selling out. Although I've seen no evidence either way tbh.

Every time i watch laliga on sky the ground always seems only 60/70% full (unless playing any of the big 4)

[Nem]

Season to date figures:

Club                                  Average            % of Capacity
Barcelona                            85,452                   87.1
Man Utd                              75,786                   99.4
Real Madrid                          71,542                   95.3
Borussia Dortmund                70,461                   84.8
Bayern Munich                      68,400                   99.0
Celtic                                  57,287                    94.1

You better tell me where you got those figures from!

I'm not a sad statto - honest!

[barhell]

Buy a 7 pack and leave it on a radiator..............

In reply to this post i give you a big club.http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/project.php?projectID=104

[Sheriff Fatman]

football365.com stats page - heaven!

[The Baron]

football365.com stats page - heaven!

The online bible.

[Eck]

I consider Celtic one of Europe's big clubs pity there in the weakest league known to mankind.

hard point to argue but thought this was an interesting article.

http://www.sundayherald.com/sport/shfootball/display.var.1168459.0.mighty_mouse_league.php

[matt674]

Buy a 7 pack and leave it on a radiator..............

In reply to this post i give you a big club.http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/project.php?projectID=104

 

[AndrewT]

It's almost as if they're reading this thread.

The latest rich list - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6339941.stm

1) Real Madrid: £202m
2) Barcelona: £179.1m
3) Juventus: £173.7m
4) Man Utd: £167.8m
5) AC Milan: £165m
6) Chelsea: £152.8m
7) Inter Milan: £142.8m
Bayern Munich: £141.5m
9) Arsenal: £133m
10) Liverpool: £121.7m

[The Dundonian]

I consider Celtic one of Europe's big clubs pity there in the weakest league known to mankind.

hard point to argue but thought this was an interesting article.

http://www.sundayherald.com/sport/shfootball/display.var.1168459.0.mighty_mouse_league.php

Yes Eck it's a very good article, unlike most of the highly critical shite that comes from Traynor, Spiers, McNee et all.
i everyone realises how passionate the Scots are for there football,(hence Acidmouses barbed comment trying to get all the Jocks riled and inflamed, he knows its sooooo easy) with all that is good and bad that that brings.

One interesting statistic is my home town of Dundee where the population is 145,000 . The two senior teams in the town , one of which is in the 1st division and both of them having poor seasons have an average attendance of 11,000+.

 (In 2000-2001 both teams in the SPL and doing reasonably well this joint average attendance was 16,000).Take into consideration the 2000 people who watch junior football instead on a Saturday and the 1000+ fans that go through to watch the Old Firm and you can see what sort of percentage of population in the town regularly watch live football!

The same type of support per head of population in big cities like Sheffield and Bristol for example would relate to huge crowds watching Bristol City and Sheffield United and Leeds United would be playing in front of 100,000 every second week!!

[Eck]

I consider Celtic one of Europe's big clubs pity there in the weakest league known to mankind.

hard point to argue but thought this was an interesting article.

http://www.sundayherald.com/sport/shfootball/display.var.1168459.0.mighty_mouse_league.php

Yes Eck it's a very good article, unlike most of the highly critical shite that comes from Traynor, Spiers, McNee et all.
i everyone realises how passionate the Scots are for there football,(hence Acidmouses barbed comment trying to get all the Jocks riled and inflamed, he knows its sooooo easy) with all that is good and bad that that brings.

One interesting statistic is my home town of Dundee where the population is 145,000 . The two senior teams in the town , one of which is in the 1st division and both of them having poor seasons have an average attendance of 11,000+.

 (In 2000-2001 both teams in the SPL and doing reasonably well this joint average attendance was 16,000).Take into consideration the 2000 people who watch junior football instead on a Saturday and the 1000+ fans that go through to watch the Old Firm and you can see what sort of percentage of population in the town regularly watch live football!

The same type of support per head of population in big cities like Sheffield and Bristol for example would relate to huge crowds watching Bristol City and Sheffield United and Leeds United would be playing in front of 100,000 every second week!!

Nice post for someone freezing their bollocks off!!

Acid we await your lucid reply!

and yer wife's still beating you at fantasy footie too!!   

[The Dundonian]

I consider Celtic one of Europe's big clubs pity there in the weakest league known to mankind.

hard point to argue but thought this was an interesting article.

http://www.sundayherald.com/sport/shfootball/display.var.1168459.0.mighty_mouse_league.php

Yes Eck it's a very good article, unlike most of the highly critical shite that comes from Traynor, Spiers, McNee et all.
i everyone realises how passionate the Scots are for there football,(hence Acidmouses barbed comment trying to get all the Jocks riled and inflamed, he knows its sooooo easy) with all that is good and bad that that brings.

One interesting statistic is my home town of Dundee where the population is 145,000 . The two senior teams in the town , one of which is in the 1st division and both of them having poor seasons have an average attendance of 11,000+.

 (In 2000-2001 both teams in the SPL and doing reasonably well this joint average attendance was 16,000).Take into consideration the 2000 people who watch junior football instead on a Saturday and the 1000+ fans that go through to watch the Old Firm and you can see what sort of percentage of population in the town regularly watch live football!

The same type of support per head of population in big cities like Sheffield and Bristol for example would relate to huge crowds watching Bristol City and Sheffield United and Leeds United would be playing in front of 100,000 every second week!!

Nice post for someone freezing their bollocks off!!

Acid we await your lucid reply!

and yer wife's still beating you at fantasy footie too!!   

Nearly home time though Eck start my journey back on Sunday (thank f¤ck)

[Acidmouse]

The leagues shite, that was my original point, nowt has given me the impression otherwise.

She aint logged into the fantasy team for 6months I been playing both.

[matt674]

It's almost as if they're reading this thread.

The latest rich list - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6339941.stm

1) Real Madrid: £202m
2) Barcelona: £179.1m
3) Juventus: £173.7m
4) Man Utd: £167.8m
5) AC Milan: £165m
6) Chelsea: £152.8m
7) Inter Milan: £142.8m
Bayern Munich: £141.5m
9) Arsenal: £133m
10) Liverpool: £121.7m

yeah, saw this on the news this morning - it made me chuckle!!

According to this report Manchester City were down as the 17th richest club in Europe and yet they are riddled with debt (recently over £20million was owed to just 2 people though the sale of SWP enabled some of that to be cleared) and dont even own the ground they play in.

[Rod Paradise]

The leagues shite, that was my original point, nowt has given me the impression otherwise.

She aint logged into the fantasy team for 6months I been playing both.

Shite it may be, but we still seem to be able to beat the English clubs when we play them in Europe....

[Nem]

It's almost as if they're reading this thread.

The latest rich list - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6339941.stm

1) Real Madrid: £202m
2) Barcelona: £179.1m
3) Juventus: £173.7m
4) Man Utd: £167.8m
5) AC Milan: £165m
6) Chelsea: £152.8m
7) Inter Milan: £142.8m
Bayern Munich: £141.5m
9) Arsenal: £133m
10) Liverpool: £121.7m

yeah, saw this on the news this morning - it made me chuckle!!

According to this report Manchester City were down as the 17th richest club in Europe and yet they are riddled with debt (recently over £20million was owed to just 2 people though the sale of SWP enabled some of that to be cleared) and dont even own the ground they play in.

Turnover doesn't actually mean wealth!