After the ok to increase the capacity, the fans are counted. Udinese meditates on the need for mini-season tickets
UDINE. Once the capacity has increased, now the fans have to be redone. After the CTS stamp that gave the green light to a maximum of 75% of stadium attendances, adding another quarter to what had been happening since the beginning of this season, Massimo D’Azeglio comes to mind who in 1861 let himself go to a prediction that has remained famous over the years: “Italy made, now we have to make Italians”. Because with the reopening of the facilities there was not a boom in attendance in the first days of the championship. In short, very few “sold out” even if the capacity was reduced to 50 percent. Inter at the Meazza was the club that has had the most spectators on average so far in the three home games played: 33,006 out of a total of 75,923 seats, while Milan at San Siro has collected 31,446 fans per game. Behind the two Roman ones at the Olimpico and Napoli leaders with 20,600 spectators out of 54,726 of total capacity. Further behind Juventus, which had a capacity index very close to 100% in the pre-Covid era and which put 17,250 people on average out of 41,507 inside the Stadium.
And Udinese? In terms of attendance, it comes immediately after the big ones, but the data must be read carefully, beyond the 36,626 tickets detached (according to what the portal Transfermarkt). Because Udinese has already played 4 games at the Rizzi and because they have already faced two popular opponents such as Juventus and Napoli. On average, the spectators in Friuli so far have been 9,157 and less than those of the home matches of Salernitana, Bologna and Fiorentina, and from here the club will have to start again in the hope of returning to the 20,329 average spectators recorded in the last complete season, without events at closed doors, that of the 2018-19 championship, when Udinese had 13,105 subscribers who alone would be a conspicuous part of the 18,858 who would represent 75% of the capacity of Friuli from the first meeting in October, after the break, Sunday 17 at 15 against Bologna.
It is clear that Udinese is meditating, beyond the statements of the dg Franco Collavino, who spoke on the subject hoping for a complete reopening and declaring himself satisfied with “an 80% filling percentage”. 80% of the half. Less than 10 thousand spectators. For this reason, among the hypotheses there is also a subscription campaign, perhaps done in cycles. Five games, for example: there are 15 to finish the championship, three annual passes at discounted prices could be launched to encourage the constant influx of fans who, it should be remembered, will still have to show the Green pass to enter. “Let’s go ahead and work to get to 100% as soon as possible,” declared the Undersecretary for Sport, Valentina Vezzali. Fingers crossed before the end of the year.
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