Red Cloud Posted May 29, 2007 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 anyone else hear the comment during the game yesterday on sky that the Championship is the 4th most watched league in Europe? and we're in it! (still wake up some mornings thinking we blew it)Stuff the gash and their glorious league one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiderHider Posted May 29, 2007 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 I heard that too, but from another source.SO thats Premiership, La Liga, Series A, CHAMPIONSHIP, Bundesleager or whatever, then the French one, le Championship, SPL etc..., no actually SPL comes below League II. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Private Cider(cider army) Posted May 29, 2007 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 CHAMPIONSHIP ATTENDANCE TOPS FRENCH AND ITALIAN LEAGUES 2005-Jul-28 09:44English football's second tier, The Championship, is the fourth best attended football competition in Europe. Last season it attracted 9.8 million fans, ahead of Italy's Serie A and the French League.The Championship, sponsored by Coca Cola, is a re-branding of Football League Division One which sits immediately below the FA premier League, currently the world's most popular league.While The Championship is inevitably a league that clubs and their fans want to leave as soon as possible for the riches of the Premiership, it is intensely competitive and its play-off format ensures that clubs half way down the table are never entirely out of the promotion race before the very last embers of the season. The play-off final itself has been described as the richest game in world club football. It is certainly the most tense.While the cumulative attendance figure for The Championship is marginally ahead of the top leagues in Italy in France, there are considerable more games played in a 24 club rather than 18 club league. Average attendance for last The Championship was 17,591.A report in the Daily Telegraph suggests that chairmen of clubs in The Championship will seek a place in the Inter Toto Cup when they meet today.The Championship is ramping up its brand proposition and underscores the fact that while it may not be a stage for the highest quality football, it can lay claim t o being the most exciting. Officials point out that with 20 games to go last season, every team still had hopes of promotion, Play-Off qualification or survival. On 8 May 2005 the fate of nine clubs depended on the crucial final day results.Fifty five per cent of fans live within a 10-mile radius of The Championship club they support and 40% of players in England's U21 squad and 41% of those in Wales' U21 squad during the 2004/05 season came from Championship clubs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giles_23_bcfc Posted May 29, 2007 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 I heard that too, but from another source.SO thats Premiership, La Liga, Series A, CHAMPIONSHIP, Bundesleager or whatever, then the French one, le Championship, SPL etc..., no actually SPL comes below League II.the championship was higher attened than Serie A. It was the Premiership, La Liga and the Bundesliga that were the top 3, then the Championship. Does that make us a bigger club than Celtic then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elhombrecito Posted May 29, 2007 Report Share Posted May 29, 2007 As it says in the article, that's aggregate attendances not average attendances. The Championship has 24 teams, compared to 18 or 20 in the major European leagues. That's quite a few more games!But still, it's a damn sight better than League 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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