Bundesliga: attendance for Matchday 31 of 2017-18 (season record in the Top 5 European leagues)

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Borussia Dortmund - Bayer Leverkusen (4-0), on 21/04/2018 - ©  BVB

Matchday 31 of the 2017-18 Bundesliga season drew an average of 51,536 spectators per game, from 20 to 22/04/2018. This is a record this season. No other European Top 5 league has reached the 50,000 spectators per-game mark during a matchday in the 2017-18 season. The Bundesliga have posted a record attendance for the second time this season (an average of 50,135 spectators on Matchday 20, from 26 to 28/01/2018). The average fill rate was 97%.

Borussia Dortmund - Bayer Leverkusen (4-0), on Saturday 21/04/2018 (kick-off at 18:30 CET), was the game that posted the best attendance of the matchday with 81,360 spectators at the Signal Iduna Park (fill rate: 100%). Eight out of nine games drew more than 40,000 spectators.

The average league attendance reached 44,611 spectators per game after 31 matchdays, for an average fill rate of 91%.

  • The 18 Bundesliga German professional football first division. 18 clubs. clubs drew an average of 41,492 spectators per match in 2016-17.
    • Fill rate: 94%.

Bundesliga: 8 out of 9 matches with a 95% fill rate or above

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Borussia Dortmund - Bayer Leverkusen (4-0), on 21/04/2018 - ©  BVB

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