The Blaugrana fief has recorded its worst visitor numbers so far this century
The Camp Nou has been tainted by the bad season that Barca signed. Leo Messi’s departure first and the team’s march across the track has later been noted in a stadium that has recorded its worst average attendance yet in the 21st century, not counting the year it was held behind closed doors. played because of the corona crisis. Barely 53,982 spectators per game, a figure that confirms the disconnection of a grandstand in need of fresh air after the best years in its history.
“We need the supporters. We want normalcy and encouragement. Without the fans, we are much less of a team, it turns out,” said Xavi Hernandez on April 23, days after the great ‘invasion’ of Germans from Eintracht Frankfurt at the Camp Nou. That day, 30,000 fans of the rival team invaded Blaugrana’s fief, populating the stands that were mostly empty this year and confirming a trend that started last year when, on average, nearly 22,000 Catalans stopped going to Barça during home games.
And it is that this season was a confirmation. Last year it went from the average 76,051 spectators who attended Camp Nou before the corona crisis to just 54,223 in the first year after the pandemic. That figure continued this year with a total of 53,982 fans per game. Never before in this century, not even in the five years without titles of the Gaspart era, had records been this low. That Barça averaged more than 60,000 spectators.
The main reason for this downturn is the departure of a team that fell too early from the goal to fight for the League. The team led by Ronald Koeman rushed to ninth place and not even when full capacity was allowed due to the improvement of the situation with the coronavirus, it was able to snag a hobby that had already been disconnected. Only against Real Madrid on October 24 was it possible to exceed 80,000 fans and only against Espanyol and Atlético de Madrid was the 70,000 mark crossed, a figure previously common in the Camp Nou.
If there was a day when it was clear that the Blaugrana fans could no longer tolerate the bad situation the team was in, it was the game against Deportivo Alavés. That meeting, played on October 30, recorded the worst entry of the century, not counting the restrictions imposed by the pandemic. Sergi Barjuan’s Barça played in front of 37,278 fans; Such low numbers hadn’t been seen since 2001, when just 30,000 followers gathered to watch the 4-0 thrashing of the culé with two goals and two assists from Javier Saviola.
Source: La Verdad
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