Could have said Giuseppe Meazza for Inter instead of San Siro
I keep hearing this over and over by foreigners. I wonder who started this rumour that the stadium has two names because I only ever hear non Italians saying this. It’s an interesting phenomenon.
i think PES listed as Giuseppe Meazza for Inter and San Siro for AC Milan
Technically the name of the stadium is Giuseppe Meazza, but until 1979 it was called San Siro (name of the district of Milan where the stadium is located), almost everyone still calls it “San Siro”. I remember an Inter season ticket campaign called “See you at San Siro” and some old Milan tickets with the writing “Giuseppe Meazza”, both names, are in fact interchangeable for the majority of fans and even for the two clubs who often use them alternatively or together (Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in San Siro)
Can someone explain why Inter Milans is much higher than AC Milans? Wouldn’t have thought selling the same number of tickets would result in that much of an average attendance swing.
Much higher? how?
801 higher for a stadium where you would expect it to be the same. That’s quite a big difference.
I didn’t mean any offence, literally just wondering why there’s an 800 bigger difference than you would expect.
First probably both milan and inter has sold out all their tickets in their home sector in serie a so inter just had a bigger away crowds in san siro and its basically only been 6 home games lol
Fair enough. Appreciate the response.
I thought AC Milan would have more fans
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Schalke and Hamburg are on 11 and 14 lol
Top 5 supported clubs outside the top flights
- Schalke
- Hamburg
- Hertha
- Kaiserslautern
- Sunderland
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Nur der HSV.
Wir sehen uns in 2 Wochen zum Pokal :) Ich liebe diese zweite Liga, weiß gar nicht, ob man wirklich aufsteigen möchte, die Stimmung ist echt immer fantastisch.
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Top 5 supported second tier clubs in top 5 league nations. Weird stat.
Its top 5 supported clubs in world who aren’t in the top league of their country. It’s a weird stat but since '73 it’s all we have to be proud of.
You Mackems are a class lot
I was at the FA cup game at your place last season. Nearly died celebrating that offside goal at the end.
Good chance we go up if Stewart doesn’t get injured that game.
Hope you had a nice away day. I was watching it with my mate who’s a Sunderland fan
Some clubs in Serie B could be higher like Palermo or Sampdoria or Bari but a lot of people don’t bother going to the stadium it it’s not Serie A or a promotion playoff, it’s kinda sad because half of them support juve/inter/milan instead of their local club
The whole point is that they aren’t in the top flight but still get very large crowds. Its a good metric of how loyal the support is.
…so they couldnt be higher?
Yeah like we could easily say the same for the Top 5 supported clubs outside the top flights.
If their stadiums would simply be bigger they could have a even higher attendance. I would even throw my club in the ring and say, if Cologne had a stadium with 60k+ capacity, we would also be in that list.
😭😭Exactly. they could be higher but they aren’t so they’re not…
If my grandmother had wheels, she’d be a bike
They merely failed to get a higher ranking
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Old Trafford? I assume that count is done at the start of the game not the end…
Remember that Manchester United turns the surrounding area to a tourist hub due to the magnitude of the club, they may not have had the best years on the pitch but they’re still a big fucking institution that makes a killing commercially so I’m sure tourists fill up Old Trafford too
But I do wonder how many years that aura (I hate this word) alone is gonna carry the club. 10 years with no PL or CL and only an FA Cup and a Europa League to show for them. There are 10 years olds alive today that weren’t alive when United last won the PL. I wonder how long their past achievements will carry them.
On the other hand, I’m friends with maybe a couple City fans lol I also wonder when, if ever, they will replace United as the go-to club to pick in England once they start watching football.
If things continue as is then probably in 15 years
Yeah probably because people get there at the start to watch the game and then leave at the end…
Are these the 5 biggest stadiums for a club side?
Seeing a match at Westfalenstadion is on my bucket list
you can for like 20 bucks, better seats are of course more but anyway. Plus Dortmund isnt that far from cities like Amsterdam (2 hrs), Bruxelles (3 hours), Hamburg (3 hours), Bruges (ok 4 hrs is a lot). So you could maybe combine it with some other bucket list thing you might wanna do
I went for the 2001 Uefa Cup final. However it wasn’t as bit as it is now back then.
Still a boss stadium though.
I’ve only seen one but it was quite an iconic match
And then you watch a match of Terzicball and question all the decisions in your life that lead you to watch that game.
Should be called Giuseppe Meazza for AC Milan right?
Being on the waiting list for season tickets really sucks lol
god, I hate that name
Oh, never knew the original name tbh. But I kinda get the feels, if you follow NBA, it’s like the iconic Lakers’s Staples Center being changed to Crypto.com Arena which is absolutely hideous.
Sounds like a PES 2004 fictitious stadium they use include in the game
To me Schalke still plays in Parkstadion
Thought Liverpool would be on this list.
I’m glad they aren’t made like college stadiums in the USA.
Just a note, German clubs report tickets sold, not actual attendance. I don’t know about Spain or Italy, but English clubs report how many people actually came rather than how many tickets were sold.
its attendance in Madrid. which shows perfectly how fucked the ticketing system is. you can’t buy a ticket as a Madridista a week before game because of 40k queue on website, in 20 minutes they are sold out because socios are buying pretty much everything to sell it on 3rd party websites. i was in madrid 2 weeks ago and getting tickets officially was the most depressing and dreadful experience i’ve ever had
They have started to ban that practise in England and makes it much fairer to get in.
Problem in Spain is that if the Presidents do this then they will loose the next election.
In Spain is actual attendance.
Another thing to note about German clubs is their stadiums fit more people in due to standing. This is banned in most other countries and would drastically reduce the average attendance number at all of these clubs.
That’s actually not ture English clubs use tickets sold.
The difference is German match tickets are so much cheaper and their public transport is A LOT cheaper. (They own our railways companies and use the profits to subsides there own ticket prices for trains).
(They own our railways companies and use the profits to subsides there own ticket prices for trains).
DB is subsidized by goverment with billions annually, Abellio the dutch company, that runs trains in scottland also runs trains in germany. This sounds like a conspirency theory to me, would you mind providing a source for it?
Abellio left the uk market and scotrail is now run by the scottish government and their other stuff is now a uk based company.
so did DB, cuz they sold uk arriva business to a us investment fund, now lets hope, that german newspapers don’t start asking for refunds on the 1,5 bullion loss they made on that, cuz german taxpayers and consumers paid for it…
English clubs use tickets sold too. I went to Arsenal vs Fulham a few years ago and the stadium was maybe 75% full, yet Arsenal announced the attendance was 59k or something. It was laughably obviously false.
Would the list be different if it wasn’t the top 5 leagues? I can’t imagine any teams beating this outside of the top 5?
It would be more interesting as a percentage of attendance vs max capacity.
This way, it’s just big teams with bigger stadia. There’s going to be “smaller” teams with max capacity every match that don’t get the credit because they just have less seats.