Why the Camp Nou is not going nor Tato?

For the first time in five years, the Nou Camp no leads the field with more people in their stands in Spain. Attendance at the Barça coliseum has plummeted this season and in the eleven games played to date, the average number of spectators who have come to the Blaugrana venue has been 71.698. A good amount but clearly down from other years and that they have already passed through the Real Madrid stadium, Valencia, Seville or Villarreal.

This decrease begins to be accused in the last matches where the Camp Nou has offered a bleak image, especially in the Copa del Rey and League matches with Valencia. In some of those duels, not even the half ticket could be obtained. Empty seats, silences and murmurs are part of the latest settings of the largest stadium in Europe. But how did you get here if two years ago, It was the stadium that received the most people per game in the entire Old Continent? Why is this happening? Well, to find an answer as precise as possible, it is convenient to take into account five factors, all of them capitals that are calling into question the future expansion of the field:

1- The crisis: obviously fans and partners are not immune to the economic context. Being a member costs money and going to football usually involves in addition to the entrance fee, spending on dinner and transportation. The thing is not to shoot rockets and that significantly influences the situation described. If on top we add tickets with exorbitant prices…

2- The schedules: Barcelona has been playing at some strange times lately. The 16 hours on Saturdays have become a classic and 22 weekday hours in another. How do you expect a full stadium if on a Wednesday a game ends at midnight and it is more than likely that the person who is going to see the game will go to bed at the earliest at 2 hours?

3- Inequality: Madrid and Barcelona go for a walk at home and the only emotion is generally to see how many goals they will be able to score. Competitiveness suffers and so the public.

4- Boring game. Barcelona has turned its dynamic football touch and continuous arrival into a tostón, in a monologue that makes his rival impatient. The excellence of Guardiola's early years has given way to predictability.

5- It's not that Tato doesn't go, but simply that we are talking about one of the largest fields in Europe and the fact that they have 70.000 people seem little. But nevertheless, that figure in any other venue would be a very good entry.

Current season:

#	Team		Total amount	Matches	Average
1		Real Madrid	801.134	11	72.830
2		FC Barcelona	788.683	11	71.698
3		Atletico Madrid	561.800	12	46.817
4		Valencia CF	434.200	12	36.183
5		Athletic Bilbao	401.650	12	33.471
6		Real Betis	392.940	12	32.745
7		Sevilla FC	340.251	11	30.932
8		Elche CF	292.821	12	24.402
9		Real society	265.359	11	24.124
10		Málaga CF	235.749	11	21.432
11		Celtic vigo	217.316	11	19.756
12		Espanyol Barcelona	235.379	12	19.615
13		Villarreal CF	186.820	12	15.568
14		Levante UD	165.731	11	15.066
15		Granada CF	171.216	12	14.268
16		CA Osasuna	149.931	11	13.630
17		Real Valladolid	145.595	11	13.236
18		Vallecano Ray	112.448	11	10.223
19		UD Almería	112.254	11	10.205
20		Getafe CF	74.189	12	6.182
	Total		6.085.466	229	26.574

Season 2009-10

#	Team		Total amount	Matches	average
1		FC Barcelona	1.481.680	19	77.983
2		Real Madrid	1.422.200	19	74.853
3		Atletico Madrid	780.788	19	41.094
4		Valencia CF	780.100	19	41.058
5		Sevilla FC	739.380	19	38.915
6		Athletic Bilbao	694.200	19	36.537
7		Espanyol Barcelona	554.483	19	29.183
8		Real Zaragoza	470.700	19	24.774
9		Málaga CF	439.372	19	23.125
10		Sporting Gijon	407.673	19	21.456
11		Deportivo La Coruna	386.396	19	20.337
12		CD Tenerife	363.816	19	19.148
13		Villarreal CF	333.865	19	17.572
14		Real Valladolid	326.548	19	17.187
15		CA Osasuna	315.687	19	16.615
16		Racing Santander	310.678	19	16.351
17		Xerez CD	307.810	19	16.201
18		RCD Mallorca	255.584	19	13.452
19		UD Almería	233.053	19	12.266
20		Getafe CF	221.500	19	11.658
	Total		10.825.513	380	28.488