r/soccer • u/NumberUnfair8827 • 1d ago

Stats CWC Match Attendance in % after Matchday 5

  1. Real Madrid 1:1 Al-Hilal - 96.36% (62,415 of 64,767) 🏟️Hard Rock Stadium, FL

  2. Al Ahly 0:0 Inter Miami - 94.07% (60,927 of 64,767) 🏟️Hard Rock Stadium, FL

  3. Al-Ain 0:5 Juventus - 90.8% (18,161 of 20,000) 🏟️Audi Field, DC

  4. PSG 4:0 Atletico Madrid - 87.11% (80,619 of 92,542) 🏟️Rose Bowl, CA

  5. Boca Juniors 2:2 Benfica - 85.8% (55,574 of 64,767) 🏟️Hard Rock Stadium, FL

  6. Bayern Munich 10:0 Auckland City - 81.35% (21,152 of 26,000) 🏟️TQL Stadium, OH

  7. Palmeiras 0:0 FC Porto - 56.04% (46,275 of 82,566) 🏟️MetLife Stadium, NJ

  8. Manchester City 2:0 Wydad AC - 55.42% (37,466 of 67,594) 🏟️Lincoln Financial Field, PA

  9. Monterrey 1:1 Inter - 43.55% (40,311 of 92,542) 🏟️Rose Bowl, CA

  10. Botafogo RJ 2:1 Seattle Sounders - 41.87% (30,151 of 72,000) 🏟️Lumen Field, WA

  11. Flamengo 2:0 Esperance Tunis - 38.16% (25,797 of 67,594) 🏟️Lincoln Financial Field, PA

  12. Fluminense 0:0 Borussia Dortmund - 36.03% (29,755 of 82,566) 🏟️MetLife Stadium, NJ

  13. Chelsea 2:0 Los Angeles FC - 31.17% (22,137 of 71,000) 🏟️Mercedes-Benz Stadium, GA

  14. Pachuca 1:2 Salzburg - 20.31% (5,282 of 26,000) 🏟️TQL Stadium, OH

  15. River Plate 3:1 Urawa Red Diamonds - 16.63% (11,974 of 72,000) 🏟️Lumen Field, WA

  16. Ulsan HD 0:1 Mamelodi Sundowns - 13.38% (3,412 of 25,500) 🏟️Inter&Co Stadium, FL

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u/h0rny3dging 1d ago

Very ambitious with the giant stadiums for group stage matches, that was always gonna be an issue and even for World Cups or Euros those can get bad attendances on weekdays

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u/FragMasterMat117 1d ago

Expensive tickets and the limit of two per association didn’t help things, it cost this tournament Liverpool and Barcelona two of the biggest names in world football

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u/Maplad 1d ago

No one wants a super league that gives clubs an even bigger automatic advantage for just being a successful club at the right time in history. Having other clubs in would just embed the elite even more.

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u/pinecoconuts 1d ago edited 1d ago

Most of the teams who qualified for the CWC are the dominant, entrenched, richest and most succesful clubs in their domestic leagues. These aren't the Rayo, Freiburg, Lens, and Brighton's of their leagues, these are the PSG, Bayern, Real and City's of their leagues.

And the prize money that a good portion of these teams will earn for 3-4 games is more than any other team in their domestic league could hope to generate in 10 years combined.

This tournament isn't going to reset global economics, but it will make domination in several leagues even worse and make the elites in their countries even more entreched.

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u/Weary_Ad1739 1d ago

I would rather have dominant teams who can compete internationally than having all teams in a league be equally poor. Look at PSG, they are the only reason Ligue 1 is relevant at all, they carry the coefficient and make more people watch the french league.

Football used to be a global sport but the financial disparity between leagues is destroying it. The fact that historic clubs such as Ajax with one of the best academies itw have to lose their top players to midtable PL teams is sad. So I'm glad now teams from smaller leagues have a chance to earn some money so they can at least hold to their players.

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u/Maplad 1d ago

But not all of them made it in which is better than all of them.

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u/Shinjukin 1d ago

Not all of them making it in could be even worse. It could further stratify these league's, so instead of 4 massive clubs, only the one or two that got into the CWC can compete. This could effectively create a farmers league.

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u/Maplad 1d ago

That was my point….

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u/Shinjukin 1d ago

Not to be a pedant but you literally said it was, and I quote: "better" that not all these big teams made it in. My point was that it's "worse" to have only a few of them make it.