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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Damn, Frankfurt growing fast, didnt they just announce 100k a couple of years ago?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Koln is huge, wow. Always loved that badge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

half of those could end up playing in the 2nd league next season

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

3 of them are, don't pretend like Hamburg is special.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Im surprised i dont see Werder Bremen on the list, how much do they have? Speaking of big traditional clubs i would have expected them up there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Union Berlin is quite a surprise

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It's not. Small stadium that's always packed and noisy and based in a suburb in Berlin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, and....um...crap I can't remember the other ones. But trust me they're big too. Ja?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Big surprise for me. Thought Schalke was from a small city. Hamburg and Frankfurt for example are known for their fans

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Bayern is the biggest club in the world by members, second is Benfica. Schalke and Dortmund are still bigger than any British club (ManU is the biggest), pretty crazy stuff in terms of member numbers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There's no point in making this comparison. Different teams and leagues have different membership conditions.

My club, Corinthians, has 30M supporters yet I believe about 100k members bcs not all can afford a membership and it doesn't actually give you many benefits if you don't go often to the stadium. Not to obviously mention how expensive it can be compared to our supporters' average income. Membership is not traditionnally in our culture.

Here paying for a membership usually grants you a discount to go to the stadium (season tickets are not really a thing in Brazil). Germany has the 50+1 so fans have power. Having 100k members under our circumstances is already fabulous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Well but that's the same in Germany. Most fans aren't members.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

UK clubs dont have a members system so you cant really include them in the discussion. You have no basis for saying Schalke and Dortmund having larger support than Man U or Liverpool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

My basis is the source I linked in my other comment, and literally ManU do have a club membership system lol, as do Liverpool. Its a football club in the end mate, those have members

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Real Madrid has 2 types of membership. Socios are capped and get voting rights in things concerning the club, has been closed for over a decade I think. Second is Madridista Club which is uncapped and has over a million members

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

328k deeply involved football fans simply gone from the Bundesliga. And you can kinda feel that loss too because not only a quality team can make a game seem big but also a huge fanbase talking about it before and after.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The fact we got ~5000 new members since relegation boggles my mind. Love me some organic growth.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

How much a membership cost?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Cool number