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Yep I meant the league as a whole, a league is the sum of its clubs amd that is why I thought the EFL was the best supported league in the world,but as I say I could've made it up to fit some 'I hate top flight football' agenda 😁
The German FA run Bundesliga 1 & 2, so they average 31k* a game in their competitions & over a season 19m will attend.
The Football League run the Champ, L1 & L2 & they average 10.2k* a game in theirs, & over a season 16.9m will attend.

So no the EFL is not the best supported league in the world.

*Figures taken from the table above of average attendances across 2013-2018
 
The German FA run Bundesliga 1 & 2, so they average 31k* a game in their competitions & over a season 19m will attend.
The Football League run the Champ, L1 & L2 & they average 10.2k* a game in theirs, & over a season 16.9m will attend.

So no the EFL is not the best supported league in the world.

*Figures taken from the table above of average attendances across 2013-2018
Flippin Germans busting my myth, I have a few Premier league supporting mates that I need to apologise to 😁
 
The disrespect the BBC website shows the championship is astounding,I was trying to find out the Forest score yesterday.They had premiership,Scottish premiership,women's football and even German football before the championship.I had to scroll down and go into scores to find out the result,I thought the championship was one of the highest attended leagues in Europe.
Are you sure?
When I looked it was Prem League, Scottish Prem, then Championship.
Then Women's and European.
Which is usually the case.
 
This Saturday it's

Premier League
Scottish Cup (which is lucky as I wanted to know who Banks O'Dee are playing)
SPL
Championship
 
I watched the first episode of that BBC doc about about the Premier League the other day.

I was surprised to hear the PL described as a super league in a news report from the time just before it kicked off.

As I was only really young then I have grown up with the PL and didn't realise it was much more than just a rebrand from the old division 1.
It was just a rebrand of the old Division 1. Then Sky wiped all history of previous football and never spoke of it again.
 
Behind the SPL is a bloody cheek as well. The scotch pie league is awful. I can understand but dont agree with their diversity agenda to push womens football, and they have the rights, but i would rather know sunderland were getting beat than chelsea womens team. i wish they would just keep separate womens football from the mens i am not interested one iota.
 
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Agree that WSL gets overhypes coverage on the bbc site. I dont remember scottish leagues being above champiobship until recently. So agree with original poster to some extent. Scots league used to be bottom of pools coupon too.
 
If you go on BBC football and tap on Sores and Fixtures each league is there and each day that week . If you tap on the game you are interested in the teams , current score ,who scored etc are all there.
 
This Saturday it's

Premier League
Scottish Cup (which is lucky as I wanted to know who Banks O'Dee are playing)
SPL
Championship
I think the Scottish Cup will drop down the order on Saturday morning.
I've seen that before. No idea why.
 
It's the women's football that irritates me, even though I fully understand why they're over-promoting it and to an extent I think I'll have to get over it as it's good for the game and equality for it to grow, but the interest levels are just nowhere near the same right now which is what rankles.

The top of the table clash in the WSL had an attendance of 2,264 at Brighton for £4 an adult ticket, with a season ticket being £40

Brilliantly cheap tickets and yet we took more away fans on a 350 mile round trip to Coventry in the 2nd division than watched the team at the top of the WSL.

The best attendance this season is 8,705 and that was Arsenal playing Chelsea at the Emirates with tickets at their highest being £8, and that is by quite a long way the highest attendance of the season.

The highest attended match in the Championship this season was 29,043 over 3 times higher than what was by far the best attended WSL match and 39 times higher than some of the matches.

The WSL matches are regularly being beaten comfortably for attendance by teams in League Two, let alone the Championship, so it does seem daft to have it placed higher than all of them when it comes to coverage.

It's often difficult to even find the coverage of Championship football on the BBC website right now, and it's something I've always enjoyed reading.
 
Just to keep people updated the BBC order of results tomorrow is

PL
SPL
Women's World Cup Qualifying
Scottish Cup (no round stated assume its 1st round)
Championship
 
The most irritating thing for me is when I read a football headline and click on it only to find out it is women's football (which I have no interest in). I feel like I have been deliberately duped 🙂

"Chesea knock 6 past Arsenal in 9 goal thriller"

Wow, I didn't even know they were playing. I wonder how many Lukaku scored.
Oh fiddlesticks. Not again.
 
The German FA run Bundesliga 1 & 2, so they average 31k* a game in their competitions & over a season 19m will attend.
The Football League run the Champ, L1 & L2 & they average 10.2k* a game in theirs, & over a season 16.9m will attend.

So no the EFL is not the best supported league in the world.

*Figures taken from the table above of average attendances across 2013-2018
Surely Sunderland being relegated from the premier League will have pushed the EFL way past the bundesliga. MASSIVE WINKY SMILEY THING. :sneaky:
 
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