Christina Gough
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Carolina Panthers - Statistics & Facts
The Carolina Panthers are a professional football team that competes in the National Football League (NFL) in the league’s National Football Conference (NFC) South division. The Panthers are a relatively new franchise, having been established in 1993 and playing their first competitive game in 1995. Since then, the franchise value of the Carolina Panthers has grown significantly, reaching a valuation of 3.6 billion U.S. dollars in 2022. The Panthers have also made eight play-off appearances since their inception and have an all-time regular season winning percentage of 47.2 as of the beginning of the 2023 season.
How are the Carolina Panthers performing financially?
The Carolina Panthers are currently owned by David Tepper, who purchased the franchise from founder and previous owner Jerry Richardson in 2018. Between 2018 and 2022, the Panthers’ valuation had increased by almost 57 percent. Compared to the value of other NFL franchises, the Charlotte-based outfit ranked 26th in 2023. Meanwhile, when looking at the revenue generated by NFL teams, the Panthers reportedly earned 530 million U.S. dollars in 2022.How many Carolina Panthers fans attend live games?
In total, the Carolina Panthers welcomed more than 642 thousand fans to the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina in 2022. Not only was this an 11 percent increase on the regular season home attendance of the Carolina Panthers in 2021, it was the highest figure recorded for the franchise based on data available since 2006. The increase in attendance coincided with a reduction in ticket prices, as the average ticket price of attending a Panthers home game decreased by nearly nine percent in 2022 over the previous year. Despite an increase in the total number of home supporters at the Panthers’ stadium, the average attendance at the team’s home games across the season was slightly lower in 2022 than in 2021.How many people follow the Carolina Panthers on social media?
As of April 2023, the Panthers had more than five million followers in total across Facebook and X (formerly known as Twitter). Before August 2018, Facebook was a more popular avenue for Panthers fans to engage with one another online. Since then, however, X has played a larger role in the franchise’s social media presence. By April 2023, the Panthers had accumulated 3.08 million followers on X and 2.18 million followers on Facebook.
