Top 10 European clubs with the highest average attendance

The world-famous ‘Yellow Wall’ at Borussia Dortmund’s WestfalenstadionFootball is all about its fans. The beautiful game as we know it is driven by the passion and dedication of the fans for their sides. In today’s global setting, clubs have moved on from being local entities and have expanded their fan bases all over the world. With the top European clubs entertaining millions of die-hard supporters based in the furthest corners of the globe, has the importance of home based fans decreased of late?In a nutshell, the significance of supporters turning up to back their respective teams, week-in week-out, can never be ignored. When the so called global clubs like Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United, Chelsea and Bayern Munich play at home we already know of the millions of hopes and expectations working behind them from afar. But what use is the boundless passion of millions in a stadium full of empty seats? No matter how big the global presence of a club is, without the physical manifestation of the support through the local fans, twitter followers and Facebook likes on official club pages is worth as much as a Rolls-Royce in the middle of an ocean.We do acknowledge that average attendance of any football club is hardly a yardstick to measure the dedication of a club’s local support. Factors like Stadium capacity plays a detrimental factor and there’s also the presence of a handful of away fans to consider.Hence, this is just the list of the top 10 European clubs when it comes to the average attendance per match during 2013/14. However, some of the names here just might surprise you.

#11 Clubs ranked 30 to 11

Here are the clubs that did not make the Top 10 but made it to the Top 30 in Europe. Among the clubs ranked 11 to 30, five clubs each from the EPL and Bundesliga make it to the list. Three clubs in this list have an average attendance of just over 50,000 but it is not enough to make it to the Top 10. 

Rank	Club	Average Attendance in 2013/14	Country	Rank in 2012/13
11	Ajax	50,905	Netherlands	10
12	VfB Stuttgart	50,500	Germany	11
13	Newcastle	50,395	England	9
14	Manchester City	47,075	England	14
15	Eintracht Frankfurt	47,055	Germany	13
16	Celtic FC	46,810	Scotland	15
17	FC Internazionale	46,245	Italy	16
	Atletico Madrid	46,245	Spain	22
19	FC Koln	46,235	Germany	30
20	Feyenoord	45,755	Netherlands	19
21	Hannover 96	45,635	Germany	21
22	PSG	45,420	France	24
23	Liverpool	44,670	England	20
24	Benfica	43,615	Portugal	26
25	Rangers	42,935	Scotland	18
26	Chelsea	41,480	England	28
27	Sunderland	41,090	England	33
28	Werder Bremen	40,655	Germany	31
29	Napoli	40,630	Italy	37
30	AS Roma	40,435	Italy	35