Taken from the Fitbaw Gospel page on FB.
From March 2019 to March 2020 the Scottish Premiership was the most watched league in Europe per head of population for the 4th year running - and the 7th most watched overall despite 23 countries having a higher population
1.8% of the population attend a live game every week - more than any country on EARTH
66% of the population attended a live game that year - more than any other country with over 1m people
By head count alone it is in 7th place - despite being dwarfed in population and global media interest and being marketed poorly by an English broadcaster
3.6m people attended live games
Behind only England, Germany, Spain, Italy, France and Holland purely on attendances alone
More people attended games in Scotland (pop 5.4m) than Portugal (10.5m) Belgium (11.5m) Russia (148m) Turkey (80m) and Poland (40m)
The Premiership had the 9th highest average weekly attendance
The interest is clearly there yet our TV deal pays less than Norway, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, Poland, Denmark, Portugal, Greece, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Spain, England and Russia
18th best financial TV deal in Europe
We are also one of only 2 countries in Europe that hasn’t had even 1 live competitive international game on free to air terrestrial TV (Northern Ireland being the other: both get live England games instead)
Sky Sports also pay more to Rugby League (average 40% less viewers but 160% more pay) woman’s football (average 29% less viewers, 40% less pay) Speedway (average 160% less viewers but 25% more pay) English League one (average 12% less viewers, 60% higher pay)