NFL
January 4th, 2013
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By Sportingintelligence
4 January 2013
The NFL has increased its attendance levels from an average of 67,394 fans per regular season game in 2011 to 67,591 in 2012, Sportingintelligence can reveal on the eve of the 2012-13 season NFL play-offs.
As our updated global attendances league table shows (also below), the new figure keeps the NFL comfortably in the No1 place as the best attended professional domestic sports league in the world, by average attendance per game.
There are better attended sports leagues in US College football, as a previous feature on this site explored.
But the NFL holds sway in the world of professional sports.
The German Bundesliga’s top division keeps...
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May 4th, 2012
By Nick Harris
SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year
4 May 2012
As revealed earlier this week, Sportingintelligence's Global Sports Salaries Survey 2012 has again found Barcelona to be the world's best paid sports team.
CLICK HERE to read more detail about the 278 featured teams from 14 leagues in 10 countries from seven sports, employing 7,925 first-team sportsmen earning £10bn a year between them.
This project, in association with ESPN The Magazine in America, has natural 'accounting lag' in some sports: seasons finish at different times in the calendar year. The wages we've considered include the current ongoing seasons in the NBA, NHL,...
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May 1st, 2012
By Nick Harris
SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year
1 May 2012
Barcelona remain the best paid team in global sport measured by average first-team wages, with Real Madrid in second place but Manchester City of the Premier League have stormed into the top three and continue to close the gap on the Spanish giants according to the Sportingintelligence Global Sports Salaries Survey 2012, published this week.
The average first team pay at Barcelona - employees of the world's best player, Lionel Messi - has been calculated at £101,160 per player per week, or £5,260,313 per year in the period under review. That represents...
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