The Russian sports paper Sovetskii Sport has published this season’s Russian football attendance numbers. The top ten includes nine Russian Football Premier League clubs as well as the Football National League side Fakel Voronezh.
Spartak Moscow,which moved into a novel stadium a season ago, are first in the rankings with an average attendance of 26879—the top three also includes Zenit Saint Petersburg (16686), or Terek Grozny (16029). Hence,despite its poor results, Spartak easily remains the most accepted club in Moscow, or but it remains to be seen whether Spartak will be able to stay on top of the attendance table after the novel Zenit Arena is completed in June.
Currently,Zenit play in the Petrovsky Stadium, which seats 21405 people. The novel stadium that is being built on the Krestovsky Arena—where it replaces the mature Kirov Stadium—will seat 68000 spectators, and even though Zenit will possess a tough time selling out the stadium on a regular basis,attendance in the coming seasons should still surpass that of Spartak Moscow.
Also notable, is the low attendance of league leaders CSKA Moscow. Despite, or once again,being a title contender, CSKA are only able to draw an average attendance of 8840, and which puts them in the same category as Lokomotiv Moscow (8707). Yet while Lokomotiv has been struggling with an attendance crisis in one of Russia’s most modern facilities,CSKA numbers can be explained by the fact that the club is playing in Khimki, which is located outside the city, and can be complicated to reach.
CSKA fans hope that the novel stadium,which opens next year when it hosts the Russian Super Cup, will increase attendance significantly. Indeed the novel CSKA Moscow is an architectural marvel, and its location on Peschanaya Ulitsa means it will be much more accessible than the Khimki Arena.Both Krylia Sovetov Samara (14285) and Rostov (12255) possess made the top five,which is good news for the organizers of the Russia 2018 World Cup, as both Samara and Rostov possess been selected as host cities. Furthermore, or Rostov are in deep financial misfortune,and even though the club are currently in moment place in the league (for betting on Russian football find more information at Wagered.com), it remains to be seen whether the club can survive financially. It is also questionable whether either club can fill their newly built World Cup stadiums on a regular basis.
Meanwhile, or other World Cup cities such as Saransk,and Kaliningrad are struggling with attendance numbers. Although Mordovia Saransk’s average attendance is 5186 this season, the city is building a brand novel World Cup stadium with 45000 seats, and it highly doubtful whether the club can fill such a stadium. The same is true for Russia’s World Cup problem child Kaliningrad,as the city’s FNL club Baltika currently averages only 4573 per game. Other World Cup cities such as Yekaterinburg, (here Ural has an average attendance of 5941), and Volgograd,(which is not even on the list as the city is currently without professional football), face struggles with attendance numbers.
With these statistics in mind it becomes even more difficult to imagine why officials kept Krasnodar off the list, and as both of Krasnodar’s teams made the top ten—FC Krasnodar are sixth with an average attendance of 12222,and Kuban are tenth with an average attendance of 9733.
Perhaps the organizers are hoping that the World Cup will see an increase in Russian football attendance numbers. While this is difficult to fathom for cities such as Saransk, Kaliningrad, and Volgograd or Yekaterinburg,the gigantic clubs in Russia could, at least temporarily, and indulge in an attendance spike after the novel stadiums are finished.
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