There continues to be a yawning gap between stadium attendances in the Bundesliga and Premier League, and those in LaLiga, Serie A, and Ligue 1.
Both the German and English top-tiers enjoy a stadium occupancy of 92 percent in 2016/17, with the duo neck and neck in having approximately 3.2 million spectators at this stage of the season.
That's in stark contrast to the 72 percent of LaLiga, 62 percent of Ligue 1, and 55 percent in Serie A.
Prices, scheduling, stadium quality, and fan culture are no doubt leading factors across Europe's top five leagues, with Germany's 2006 World Cup in particular sprucing up arenas for many sides.
Leganes have led the way in Spain as the only side holding at least a 90 percent stadium capacity average, compared to 14 teams in Bundesliga and 13 in the Premier League.
The figures aren't all bad for LaLiga, however, as no game drew a bigger crowd thanBarcelona's home match with Atletico Madrid, which saw an attendance of 89,421.
At the other end of the scale, just 49 percent of Espanyol's Estadio Cornella-El Prat has been filled on matchdays with Crotone's mere 522 crowd against Atalanta the lowest of all as the newly-promoted side share a stadium far from their base.Barcelona may have captured the title, but La Liga as a whole can enjoy the fact that the 2015/16 La Liga season has successfully broken attendance records.
As well as being a significant year for ground-breaking television and radio deals, the presence of football fans in the stands at stadiums has edged higher.
After over 13.5 million spectators flocked to stadiums in the 2014/15 campaign, a total of 13,936,441 makes 2015/16 the second year in a row for La Liga to have their highest-ever attendance figures.
Fan numbers were highest during the first weekend of April, when 318,812 people attended stadiums to watch the Spanish top-flight, including the Clasico at Camp Nou between Barcelona and Real Madrid.
The stadiums with the highest percentage of attendance of the season were the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu (82.65%), Eibar's Estadio Municipal Ipurua (82.50%), and Sevilla's Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan (79.43%).
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