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Originally Posted by MIJB#19
Stripping title or missing out on European competitions, I think the fans care more about the former. Going by attendance figures, European competitions tend to not be so important to Italian soccer fans, Juventus has always had trouble to even fill half of their stadium for Champions' League matches. Either the people in charge don't care to get the stadium full, or the fans really don't care until the final stages have been reached. Coincidentally AC Milan couldn't get their stadium above 2/3rd full for games before the semifinals last CL season.
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If you're going by attendance figures to determine the importance of events, then I guess Serie A matches aren't that important to Juve supporters either, since they don't come close to filling the Stadio delle Alpi. Their three highest attendances last year were 33772 (Inter), 39087 (Milan), and 56488 (Palermo, the last home match of the season). This in a stadium that holds over 67,000. Most of the time attendance was below 30,000.
Conversely, here are the CL attendance numbers:
- Rapid Vienna - 49,000
- Bayern - 19,000 (I can't explain that)
- Club Brugge - 35,000
- Werder Bremen - 43,000
- Arsenal - 50,000
For Milan, most of their Serie A matches played in front of 56,000.
In the CL:
- Fenerbahce - 75,000
- PSV Eindhoven - 69,000
- Schalke 04 - 82,000
- Bayern - 71,000
- Lyon - 80,000
- Barcelona - 85,000
It looks to me like the CL creates more interest than Serie A.