Major soccer tournament stadiums in Portugal are mostly empty. Trip after trip, season after season. This is an obvious result. Just look at the numbers.
The causes are also relatively easy to identify. The main reason, from the outset, has to do with the deep imbalance in the “distribution” of club preferences. Benfica, Sporting and Porto. Three “ghosts” “absorb” a significant segment of the current audience.
However, the problem cannot be treated insignificantly.
There are, at this time in the tournament, five clubs that do not reach, on average, two thousand spectators per match at home when subtracting assists in receiving the three “big” ones: Casa PiaAnd FC AraucaAnd Saint ClaraAnd Portimonense that it Estoril. Many of the matches didn’t even take a thousand people into the stands.
Why? The question forces itself, even to be able to bypass the obvious answers. In this sense, the zero zero Talk to three of the supporters of Logos that occupy the «tail» ranking for help: Saint ClaraAnd FC Arauca that it Casa Pia.
Opinion of three supporters
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