Over the past years, professional sports leagues have gained significant popularity, offering great entertainment to fans in the stadium and back home watching on television. The Major League Baseball is a North American sports organization grouping two leagues with a total of 30 teams: the National League and the American League, with 15 teams each. In 2019, a cumulative total of 68.49 million fans watched MLB games live in the stadium. This high figure can be attributed to the fact that each team plays a total of 162 regular season games, equating to a total of 2,430 games across the league.
Total regular season attendance of selected sports leagues worldwide in 2019
(in millions)
*The source adds the following information: "Best guesstimate from local information; the IPL has been consistently poor in measuring and publishing accurate crowd levels."
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Sporting Intelligence. (December 21, 2019). Total regular season attendance of selected sports leagues worldwide in 2019 (in millions) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1120142/total-sports-attendance-by-league/
Sporting Intelligence. "Total regular season attendance of selected sports leagues worldwide in 2019 (in millions) ." Chart. December 21, 2019. Statista. Accessed November 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1120142/total-sports-attendance-by-league/
Sporting Intelligence. (2019). Total regular season attendance of selected sports leagues worldwide in 2019 (in millions) . Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: November 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1120142/total-sports-attendance-by-league/
Sporting Intelligence. "Total Regular Season Attendance of Selected Sports Leagues Worldwide in 2019 (in Millions) ." Statista, Statista Inc., 21 Dec 2019, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1120142/total-sports-attendance-by-league/
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Total regular season attendance of selected sports leagues worldwide in 2019 (in millions) [Graph], Sporting Intelligence, December 21, 2019. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1120142/total-sports-attendance-by-league/
