The scorching heat wave is nothing compared to the enthusiasm of fans for baseball. The KBO League in the 2024 season has attracted 8 million spectators for the least number of games in history.
A total of 47,978 spectators entered the four stadiums across the country (cancellation of rain in Jamsil) where professional baseball games were held on the 13th. Gocheok, where the KIA Tigers-Kium Heroes game was held, recorded 10,000 spectators (16,000), while 15,109 in Daegu, 11,748 in Daejeon, and 5,121 in Changwon visited the ballpark for information.메이저사이트
The KBO League in the 2024 season, which had accumulated 7,988,527 spectators in 545 games on the 11th until the 11th, succeeded in surpassing 8 million spectators for the fifth time in history (three consecutive years from 2016 to 2018 and 2023). This is a remarkable pace that has advanced the previous 693 games in 2016 by 144 games, with the record of the least number of games in history (549 games).
Despite the all-time scorching heat and the end of the regular season, the KBO League maintains an average of more than 10,000 spectators in all 10 clubs. Until the 13th, the overall average crowd was 14,638, an increase from the average crowd of 14,529 at the time of 7 million.
LG Twins topped the list with 19,220 spectators on average. LG’s average attendance increased from 18,974 on July 27, when the 7 million mark was reached.
The second place is Samsung Lions with 17,443, the third-place Doosan Bears with 17,297, the fourth-place KIA Tigers with 17,249, the fifth-place Lotte Giants with 16,267, and the sixth-place SSG Landers with an average audience of more than 15,000 on average, while KT Wiz has 11,741, Hanwha Eagles with 11,345, NC Dinos with 14,17 and Kiwoom Heroes with 10,349.
The cumulative number of spectators is also increasing rapidly in all 10 clubs. Doosan, in particular, became the first among the 10 clubs to surpass 1 million cumulative spectators in the game against LG on the 8th. Following this, LG will likely reach 999,414 people, Samsung 994,254 people and KIA 948,704 people, soon achieving 1 million cumulative spectators.
Meanwhile, the KBO League in the 2024 season, which did not dampen the box office atmosphere despite the Paris Olympics and all-time heat wave, achieved 8 million spectators while playing about 76.3% of the total schedule, and is also on the verge of breaking the record of the largest number of spectators (840,688 people) in a season in 2017.