KHL attendance thread

[Rigafan]

By Teams?

Best I can find! Team names are in Russian but its a recent list

 

[Acallabeth]

Just checked and saw that the previous season had a KHL average attendance record with 6.492 (+1.4%).

Some details here.

It fell to the 3rd place in Europe though, due to Switzerland and Germany's more rapid growth at that time:

Regular-Season average league attendance Europe & Asia
1	Switzerland - National League	7,074
2	Germany - Deutsche Eishockey Liga	6,523
3	Russia - Kontinental Hockey League	6,486
4	Sweden - Swedish Hockey League	6,056
5	Czech Republic - Extraliga	5,724
6	Finland - Liiga	4,236
7	Austria - EBEL	3,163
8	Great Britain - Elite Ice Hockey League	3,043
9	Slovakia - Extraliga	2,379
10	France - Ligue Magnus	1,940

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Earlier season's threads for reference or possible merging:

KHL attendance thread 2016-17
KHL attendance 2015-2016
KHL attendance 2014/2015

 

[vorky]

Regarding the KHL & attendance. Some clubs with smaller venues are taking the league´s average down (DEL having the same problem). Too much disparity with arenas´ capacity. But it will be fixed soon when the new venues are finished, see the table below. The "new normal" will be 10-12,000 seats instead of around 6000 seats. No other European hockey league has made such huge progress since the 2010s. The biggest progress is with 10,000+ venues, around 12% in 2008 to 62% in the upcoming future. And, what is very positive, small venues with around 5,000 seats are disappearing. If these clubs stay in the league, there will be just four such venues (5k) comparing to almost 50% in the early days of the league. And if new teams join, especially outside Russia, they will definitely come to the league with big, over 10,000 seats, venues.

Guessing it is just a matter of time when the KHL will be the most attended (on average) league in Europe. Btw, the KHL is now the most attended league in total numbers - around 4,8 million (regular-season 19-20) to around 2,3 million in the second-best league (DEL). And SKA will be the best without any doubt, it is a matter of time.

Edit:
Looks like we can add the city of Ufa to the category of proposed 10,000+ venue. If all goes well, of course.

 

[Rigafan]

Regarding the KHL & attendance. Some clubs with smaller venues are taking the league´s average down (DEL having the same problem). Too much disparity with arenas´ capacity. But it will be fixed soon when the new venues are finished, see the table below. The "new normal" will be 10-12,000 seats instead of around 6000 seats. No other European hockey league has made such huge progress since the 2010s. The biggest progress is with 10,000+ venues, around 12% in 2008 to 62% in the upcoming future. And, what is very positive, small venues with around 5,000 seats are disappearing. If these clubs stay in the league, there will be just four such venues (5k) comparing to almost 50% in the early days of the league. And if new teams join, especially outside Russia, they will definitely come to the league with big, over 10,000 seats, venues.

Guessing it is just a matter of time when the KHL will be the most attended (on average) league in Europe. Btw, the KHL is now the most attended league in total numbers - around 4,8 million (regular-season 19-20) to around 2,3 million in the second-best league (DEL). And SKA will be the best without any doubt, it is a matter of time.

Edit:
Looks like we can add the city of Ufa to the category of proposed 10,000+ venue. If all goes well, of course.

Lada need to build a new arena and get back in the league.

Also thanks for the chart its very interesting to see the growth that is happening and hopefully it is only going to be to the benefit of the league going forward.

A point - KRS 'Beijing' will never play in their big fancy Beijing arena, lets be honest!

 

[vorky]

I am 100% sure Lada will not build a new arena in the next two decades if ever. Why? Their new arena for 6,600 seats was built in 2013 to replace the old arena (3,000 seats as in the table in 2008). All the problem with their new 6,6k arena is very simple, so its capacity was projected as too small from day one. Unfortunately, it was "trendy" in Russia to build venues for 6-7,000 seats back in time. Admiral is another victim of this trend. Today we see a very similar trend but with bigger venues (12,000), lucky for us, the venues are bigger. But I would prefer even 15,000+ venues for cities with over one million inhabitants (Novosibirsk for example).

I would like to see the same, if not better, growth in other European hockey leagues. If I am correct, I just see two venues in Switzerland & Finland, one in DEL.

As I heard, KRS is going to the venue (National Indoor Stadium) where the 2022 Olympics will be held. But, yeah, COVID is an issue.

 

[filip85]

I would like to see the same, if not better, growth in other European hockey leagues. If I am correct, I just see two venues in Switzerland & Finland, one in DEL.

Third one with 12.000 is one the way, in Zurich.

 

[vorky]

Third one with 12.000 is one the way, in Zurich.

I should be clear about what I mean. I discussed the development for the last decade. So, construction of 10,000+ venues. In Switzerland, I know about U/C venue in Zurich & Vaudoise Aréna in Lausanne. But, yeah, I admit, I made a mistake, Lausanne´s arena is smaller than 10,000 seats.

Two venues in Finland, I mean one in Tampere & HIFK Helsinki. And DEL´s one is in Munich.