Interesting statistics are Ajax's average attendance for home games in the Arena. For Dutch League games: 47.000. For Champions League games: 50.000. For Europa League games: 35.000. And PSV averages about 32.000 for home games in the Dutch League, and only 22.000 for the Europa League. Eredivisie average attendances are really good, 6th in Europe, pretty much on par with Ligue 1 and not that far behind the Serie A either. Confirms that Dutch people are satisfied with the state of Dutch football. And to go a bit further into this, PSV played at home against Glasgow Rangers last season in the last 16 knockout phase of the Europa League, 26.000 attendance. And Ajax played against Anderlecht in the last 32 knockout phase, 42.000 attendance. And that's the knockout phase, a year before that they played them in the group stage, 36.000 attendance. And Anderlecht and Rangers are big names compared to the Scandinavian clubs. PSV played against Kopenhagen in the group stage of the Europa League 2 years ago, only 16.000 attendance. That's half the attendance of what they have against small Dutch clubs like RKC, VVV and Excelsior.
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