In January of 2023, an average of 76% of fans will have seen a LaLiga match

It’s not until the 2021–2022 season that LaLiga‘s next season actually begins. According to LaLiga figures produced by Palco23 under the sponsorship of CaixaBank, the league has registered an average attendance of 76% between matchdays sixteen and nineteen of the First Division with 974,179 cumulative spectators.

Although this is an increase over the 66.5% recorded in the 2020-2021 season and the 72.5% recorded on the same day of the 2019-2020 season before the beginning of the pandemic, it is still much behind the 80.1% recorded in the same month last year.

Due to Valencia CF, Real Betis, FC Barcelona, and Real Madrid all participating in the Spanish Super Cup, two league matches were postponed in January, skewing the statistics. Up until the beginning of the new year, the competition had amassed 5.4 million viewers, or an average of 76.3%.

Last month, the Real Sociedad vs. Athletic Club match at the Reale Arena had the highest relative attendance with 38,229 out of 39,400 seats full (96.8%). There were a total of five additional games in the tournament where 90% or more of the seats were filled.

This section’s lowest average attendance was recorded during the Son Moix match between RCD Mallorca and RC Celta, which drew 12,210 spectators, or 50.3% of the stadium’s total capacity.

The match between Barça and Getafe also drew the largest crowd in terms of raw numbers (79,814). This is 83.2 percent of the overall attendance. The match between Getafe CF and Real Betis at the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez had the fewest total spectators (11,573) in the lower division.

Average attendance was 75.5% in August, 77.5% in September, 75% in October, 76.6% in November, and 80.1% towards the conclusion of the year. The average attendance rate for the month of January was 77.7% on the seventeenth day.

The January attendance for the second division was 55.6%. On average, 55.6% of Second Division matches were attended by fans between match days 22 and 25, compared to 54% in 2020-21 and 50.3% in 2019-20.

The average attendance for games played in the Spanish second division through January was 5.4 million. There were an average of 55.4% of people in attendance at matches in this category in August (328,515), September (503,785), October (505,779), November (425,550), December (364,800), and January (58.5%).

There were 9,237 people that saw Burgos CF play FC Andorra, with an attendance rate of 79.6 percent. However, just 21.4% of the stadium’s capacity was reached for the match between UD Ibiza and FC Cartagena at Palladium Can Misses. That’s only 1,826 fans.

The Andorra vs. Albacete game on January 21 at 9:00 p.m. at the Estadi Nacional had the fewest spectators, with only 1,220 individuals braving the weather to watch the game. The upper-division match between UD Las Palmas and Racing de Santander was played in the Gran Canaria Stadium, where 24,294 fans showed up (equal to 75% of the stadium’s capacity).

On day 23, the Villarreal affiliate hosted Real Zaragoza at La Cerámica; 11,659 spectators showed out to watch the game, the highest attendance for a Villarreal affiliate this season by a wide margin (49.6%).