Champions League: the economic face-to-face of Shakhtar Donetsk - AS Roma (21/02/2018)

With more than 12 million fans on social media (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram), AS Roma (Serie A TIM) has over 7 times as many as Shakhtar Donetsk (Premier-Liga, UKR), which has a total of over 1.65 million, as the two teams prepare to face one another in the first leg of the Round of 16 of the 2017-18 Champions League at the OSK Metalist Stadion Kharkiv (UKR), on Wednesday 21/02/2018 at 20:45 CET.

The Italian club have an average attendance of 36,273 spectators at the Stadio Olimpico after 25 matchdays in the 2017-18 Serie A TIM (fill rate of 51%), while Shakhtar Donetsk drew an average of 7,256 spectators at the OSK Metalist Stadion after 20 matchdays of the Premier-Liga (fill rate of 19%). It should be noted that Shakhtar Donetsk are currently not playing home games in their usual stadium the Donbass Arena, which has been partially damaged by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine in the Donbass region since 2014. In the league as well as in the Champions League, the Ukrainian club plays matches in Kharkiv, a city located more than 300km from Donetsk.

The sqaud value of AS…