"Heung-haeng tailwind"The average crowd of 10,000 people exceeded 2 million among the minimum paid spectators in K League 1 history

Sep 27, 2024

'Heung-haeng tailwind'The average crowd of 10,000 people exceeded 2 million among the minimum paid spectators in K League 1 history
Seoul World Cup Stadium/ K League1/ FC Seoul vs Incheon United/ Spectator/ Photo by Kwak Dong-hyuk
K League 1, which has continued its popularity this season, exceeded 2 million cumulative paid spectators.

K League 1 recorded a total of 2,07,730 cumulative spectators this season, with 6,332 entering the 32nd round of Pohang-Incheon match and 11,219 entering the match against Daejeon-Ulsan match on the 27th. Last year, K League 1 exceeded 2 million spectators for the first time in 10 years since the 2013 season and the first time since the total number of paid spectators in the 2018 season.

This season, it also reached 2 million spectators for the second consecutive year. In addition, the K League 1 recorded the minimum number of spectators exceeding 2 million since the introduction of the promotion system with 2 million people entering for the first time in 190 games last season, and this time, it exceeded 2 million spectators in 188 games, breaking the record for the smallest game in a season.

In addition, K League 1 has consistently maintained more than 10,000 spectators since the opening of this season, and currently has 10,690 spectators.

Last season's K League 1 averaged 10,733 spectators per game and 2,447,147 spectators in total, marking the highest number of spectators in a single K League 1 season since the paid-per-view tally.



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