San Siro, the UEFA report on the spectators

The temple of world football remains Wembley, it is like those author’s author’s author, but at the box office the great success of the last season is San Siro. Milan beats everyone. In 2024-25, between championships, national cups and European cups, he detached over three million and eight hundred thousand tickets, with Inter in slight advantage over Milan (almost two million total against one and eight). Extraordinary figures that confirm the trend: compared to the darkest years, today the Italian stadiums hold the comparison with the Spanish ones, only England and Germany travel on unattainable figures. Inter (third in Europe for overall data) and Milan (sixth) drag the system, but in the top ten there is also Rome thanks to the affection of its fans.

desire for football

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The European Club Talent and Competition Landscape, The UEFA annual report on the season just ended that we present exclusively confirms the desire for football. Over 240 million spectators between clubs, nationals and women: 114 million for all Serie A, 80 (impressive data) for the minor categories, 20 for cups (+13%). Over 35 teams exceeded million global spectators. In this ranking, United is in command with over 2.2 million. Only Real Madrid holds the comparison in the new Bernabeu: 2 million. In third place is Inter, in the sixth Milan.

Inter and Milan

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For the Nerazzurri one million 996 thousand spectators, for the Rossoneri one million 808 thousand. In the championship, however, Milan commands (one million 360 thousand against one million 340 thousand): on average, 69 thousand and 67 thousand spectators respectively. A wall that often disguises himself as twelfth on the pitch. In the cups, thanks also to the largest number of games played, Inter is ahead: 470 thousand against 290 thousand.

100% Germany

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Borussia (fourth with 1.95 million) and Bayern (fifth with 1.88) are between Inter and Milan. The two German stadiums have a 100 percent filling percentage (such as Liverpool and Arsenal). Inter are 88%, Milan at 89%: here is the big difference, but also the growth margin. Only Real Madrid (85%) and Atletico (86%) are further down among the first fifteen in Europe.

Rome from Top 10

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After Milan there are Arsenal (7a), Tottenham (8th) and Liverpool (9th), three big premier in the standings. The top 10 closes Rome with one million 609 thousand spectators: almost 1.2 in the championship in which the filling percentage is the best in Italy, 91%. To make a comparison: the “worst” German clubs in this special ranking fill at 93%. In the first thirty -five places there are thirty clubs of the five large championships and five “intruders”: Benfica, Ajax, Rangers, Feyenoord and Galatasaray.

Premier Rules

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Of course, the premier plays a category of his own: 15.3 million spectators in the last season (+5%). In second place head-to-head Germany-Italy: 11.8 against 11.7 million, but our data is stable while the Bundesliga loses 2%. So Spain with 11.4 million (+3%). The Data of Holland, 6.1 million (+10%), behind France (8.5 million) are remarkable. A premier game has an average of over 40 thousand spectators in front of Germany (almost 39 thousand, the championship is 18 teams), Italy (30,700) and Spain (30 thousand). Then France (29 thousand) and Holland (20 thousand).

shorter recoveries

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Data scattered on Italian football. The Serie A is the championship in which the teams line up more players (31.7 on average). We are also first for players lent. Instead, we are last, among the five top championships, by game time: in the premier, with recoveries, the match arrives almost 100 minutes, in Italy 97.2. The average of the championships is 98.5, that of the European cups 96.2 (the UEFA recommendation is not to overdo the recoveries).

type team

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In this football of turnover you can certify the duration of the titular formation: an hour. The most deployed eleven play together for 62 minutes, then the five substitutions (4.4 the average) change everything. Italian coaches are among the most requested in the world after the Spaniards (99) and the Portuguese (90): they were 52, like the Serbs, in ’24 -25. But in Europe only the Spaniards do better: 48-41.