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Hail Hail The Celts are here. on 15:49 - May 17 by WeWereZombies
It's not a Premiership contrived statistic, it comes from a UEFA report and applies to all Scottish football, league and non-league, not just the top tier. There's always something of interest when you go to a new Scottish ground.
No it doesn’t.
‘For the third year in a row, football fans across Scotland have recorded significantly higher top-flight attendances per capita than any other league in Europe.’
‘The SPFL’s William Hill Premiership welcomed 18.5 attendees per 1,000 people at matches in season 2024/25.’
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Hail Hail The Celts are here. on 22:04 - May 17 by Danny_G
No it doesn’t.
‘For the third year in a row, football fans across Scotland have recorded significantly higher top-flight attendances per capita than any other league in Europe.’
‘The SPFL’s William Hill Premiership welcomed 18.5 attendees per 1,000 people at matches in season 2024/25.’
'Stats last year showed that Scotland had 21.3 attendees per 1000 people at matches across its top four divisions – the highest figure across Europe. 👏👏 This attendance per capita was over 65 per cent higher than second placed country Netherlands, which has 12.9 attendees per 1,000 people.'
Hail Hail The Celts are here. on 15:49 - May 17 by WeWereZombies
It's not a Premiership contrived statistic, it comes from a UEFA report and applies to all Scottish football, league and non-league, not just the top tier. There's always something of interest when you go to a new Scottish ground.
The "per capita" bit is not written anywhere in the UEFA reports published since 2023. It is cited as a source by the SPFL (because it does contain total attendance figures) and then the SPFL calculations are published online which are what you and the BBC are reporting. The "per capita" is not UEFA, it's the SPFL painting a good picture of their league. Nothing wrong with that per se, it's good marketing material.
Not just me saying this BTW. Key phrases in this being "According to the SPFL", "the Scottish leagues claim", etc...:
"While the Scottish Premiership and the wider SPFL couldn’t lay claim to the highest total number of fans last season, Scottish football was once again the highest attended among Europe’s top nations on a per capita basis. According to the SPFL, Scotland recorded significantly higher top-flight attendances per capita than any other European league. Using the data from UEFA’s report, the Scottish leagues claim that the Scottish Premiership’s support represented 18.36 of every 1,000 people in Scotland. Which was apparently twice that of the second best nation by the same metric - which was Portugal’s Primera Liga, which had 10.23 fans for every 1,000 people in Portugal. The Dutch Eredivisie (9.16) was third, followed by the Premier League, which had 6.77 fans per every 1,000 people in England attend games last season."
Should also say that they aren't special in this regard. The EFL do the same thing by just changing the measure to something good for them. The EFL is the "Highest Attended League Body in Europe". They've picked the stat that puts them top and uses that for their press releases.
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