Sabtu, 31 Maret 2012

Declining audiences, Italian Football Big Loss


The reduced number of spectators to come to the stadium to be one cause of the loss of Italian footballAccording to a report made ​​by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) in conjunction withPricewaterhouseCoopers and arelcarrying Italian football suffereda loss of 428 million euros last season.

Losses were increased by 80 million eurosor 23 percentfrom a loss the previous seasonOnly 19 of the 70 top clubs from the fourdivisions are able to make profits.

Overall, revenue from football has decreasedwith only earned 2.8billion euros, a 1.2 percent decline from the previous season.

Top divisionSerie A, noting the majority of these losses (82percent), although it decreased two percent of their share in theseason 2009/2010Production costs increased 1.5 percent to 2.9million euros, resulting in a loss of 428 million euros.

Howeverit should be noted that the rate of increase in production costs have been reduced significantly from 6.8 percent in winter2009/2010and 6.4 percent in winter 2008/2009to just 1.5 per cent at present.

One of the factors that cause increased loss is a decrease in the number of spectatorswho reached four percent in the fourthdivisionRecorded only 13.3 million people who entered the stadium in the season 2010/2011.

Increasing decline in the number of viewers is most prevalent in the lower divisionswhile Serie A only decreased 2.4 percentwhile thefourth division decreased the number of spectators reached nearly20 percent.

The result they lost 22.4 million euros from ticket revenues inprofessional footballfrom 275.4 million euros to 253 million euros.Proceeds from tickets are only ten percent of revenues Italian clubs.

The stadium filled on average 56 percent of its capacity in Serie A.While the Champions League matches this percentage increased to 67 
percent.

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