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While in Premier league the traditional is on stage St. Stephen’s Day with high-level challenges like the one between Leicester me United manchester and the London derby between Arsenal me Chelsea, in Italy the experiment of the 2018/2019 season was not carried out. An attempt in which, as he recalls Soccer and Finance, the A league He bet on a single day of football, which opened the Frosinone-Milan at 12.30 p.m., continued with five games at 3 p.m. and three at 6 p.m., and closed at 8.30 p.m. for the great match between Inter and Naples, in San Siro.
The portal highlights the economic aspects of Boxing Day: “However, the results of that soccer drunkenness had revealed the goodness of the choice to go out to the field during the holidays. More than 254,000 spectators came to the stadium to follow the games, with an average of 25,405 fans per game (at the end of the year the average for Serie A will be 25,068 spectators per game, the highest since the 2009/10 season)Among the six clubs that have registered the highest number of spectators is Inter, with 63,946 against Napoli compared to an average of 62,073.
And even the numbers on television were positive: “Throughout the entire day of Boxing Day, more than 670 thousand average viewers chose the pay TV channels of the Comcast group, with a participation of 6%. In particular, Serie A stood out with 5 million accumulated average viewers for the matches of matchday 18. Good results in terms of audience for the matches of the 15 (including Atalanta-Juventus and Diretta Gol), which collected an average of 1 million 847 thousand viewers. In prime time, Inter-Napoli was seen by an average of 2 million 251 thousand viewers. The 5 million media outlets exceeded the average of 4.8 million that Series A records each day on television in the first round (91.5 million in total in the first 19 days), also taking into account that in the count of San Esteban’s average ratings for challenges streamed on DAZN “.
Calcio & Finanza concludes: “In short, looking at the numbers alone, there would have been excellent reasons to re-propose the format in later seasons. However, Serie A -after a series of reasoning- had chosen to return to the past, “releasing” the ball holidays. According to rumors, the “cost-benefit” analysis of the Santo Stefano operation had led the Lega councilors to make this decision: the results obtained would not have compensated for the controversy related to the breaking of certain habits.“.
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