The Premier League's £14.95 pay-per-view experiment averaged 39,000 viewers per game over the first two rounds of matches, new figures have revealed.
Going by the figures from the nine matches, if you take the £14.95 fee and multiply it by the average of 39,000 viewers for the PPV games, you get £583,050.
Depending on how much of that financial pie goes to Sky Sports, BT Sport, or the Premier League, that is still likely to be a bigger windfall than what would happen if fans were allowed to return to stadiums.
Three of the matches got fewer than 10,000 viewers, so if you take 10,000 and multiply it by £14.95, you get £149,000.
According to the Premier League, the average ticket price for a Premier League ticket was £32 for the 2019/20 season, before Covid hit.
If you take the 2,500 fans who went to the Amex in August and multiply it by £32, you get £80,000.
Even if you increased this to 5,000 fans, as the French government permitted in September, before lowering it to 1,000 due to rising Covid cases, that would bring in £160,000.
If fans are allowed to return to Premier League stadiums, and it is, at present, a big if, it is unlikely that supporters will be allowed to fill 10% of a stadium as Covid cases continue to rise.
So why would clubs ditch it unless the amount of people allowed into stadiums goes well above that percentage?
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Going by the figures from the nine matches, if you take the £14.95 fee and multiply it by the average of 39,000 viewers for the PPV games, you get £583,050.
Depending on how much of that financial pie goes to Sky Sports, BT Sport, or the Premier League, that is still likely to be a bigger windfall than what would happen if fans were allowed to return to stadiums.
Three of the matches got fewer than 10,000 viewers, so if you take 10,000 and multiply it by £14.95, you get £149,000.
According to the Premier League, the average ticket price for a Premier League ticket was £32 for the 2019/20 season, before Covid hit.
If you take the 2,500 fans who went to the Amex in August and multiply it by £32, you get £80,000.
Even if you increased this to 5,000 fans, as the French government permitted in September, before lowering it to 1,000 due to rising Covid cases, that would bring in £160,000.
If fans are allowed to return to Premier League stadiums, and it is, at present, a big if, it is unlikely that supporters will be allowed to fill 10% of a stadium as Covid cases continue to rise.
So why would clubs ditch it unless the amount of people allowed into stadiums goes well above that percentage?
If you want to read the full story, click here.
http://www.sussexlive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/brighton-premier-league-rivals-likely-4647432