If you are a tourist soccer and you are looking for the best game quality in terms of the investment you make for a ticket, this study will give you the compass to know where to plan your international travels.
The “Soccer Price Index 2022“of the agency BudgetAir offers nine categories in which it analyzes variables from 28 first division leagues such as: ticket prices, player market value, global value to identify where it is more expensive to watch football and where fans get the best value for money.
The data analyzed are from the past year, just when the finances of the world football was under economic pressure from the pandemic. A season in which player salaries, transfer fees, transfer fees and ticket costs were affected.
Stadium closures, reduced capacity or interruptions in league schedules caused clubs to suffer huge financial losses. An example is the Chelsea, that despite winning the league champion, losses of 174.4 million euros were recorded, while, in contrast, the Bayern munich it was the only champion of the eight major European leagues to make a profit in the 2020-’21 period.
The Bundesliga and the Premier League the variables of the study lead, among others: the comparison of the cost of attending matches in the stadiums of different countries; the quality of football in each league in relation to the market value of the players, the number of goals scored per game and the performance of their teams in continental competitions.
Ticket price collection took place between November 30 and December 12, 2021. Four matches of the 2021-22 season were stitched for each league, and in each case the lowest option was selected.
According to the indexCost for quality”, Shows the score where fans get the best value for money. The first competition on the list is the Premier League, while the Superliga of Greece is the last. This item was calculated using an average of the ticket prices of each league, weighted by a quality score compiled from the results of the representative teams of each league in their respective continental competitions. The results were then weighed by the market value of the national leagues. The continental competitions analyzed were: AFC league champion (Asia); UEFA Champions League (Europe); CONCACAF Champions League (North and Central America); CONMEBOL Copa Libertadores (South America); UEFA Europa League (Europe); FIFA Club World Cup (World). The results of the last two tournaments were used.
In this category, Mexico was 6th with 77.83 points, its highest position in all the variables analyzed in the study. In contrast, the MX League went to the bottom of the table, to the 23rd place, in two indices: “Regular match seat along the sideline” with an average price of 11.58 dollars and in the “Average goals per match” can be generated 2 , 46, a figure that is between the series of the Brazilian league (Serie A) and the Polish (Ekstraklasa).
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Reference-www.eleconomista.com.mx