The Madrid-City match today will fill the 100,000 seats of Melbourne Cricket Ground. Yesterday the "sold out" sign was hung, according to the organization. Although the cheapest ticket cost €55 (the most expensive reached €180), the sales rate was very high and yesterday the higher-priced tickets sold out.

Today's match will become the football match with the highest attendance at Melbourne Cricket Ground (built in 1954 for the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games), surpassing the 95,446 spectators who attended the Melbourne Victory-Liverpool match in 2013 (the sporting event with the largest crowd in this stadium is the Collingwood-Carlton Australian football match held on 26-09-1970 and brought together 121,696 spectators). There is only one football match in the history of Australia that exceeds the 100,000 people at the Madrid-City match, and that is because it was part of the 2000 Olympic Games: the Spain-Cameroon match played at Olympic Stadium in Sydney, with 104,098 fans.

Expectation. Madrid is the team that is having the most pull in Australia out of the three playing in the International Champions Cup. The Madrid-Roma match had 80,000 spectators. Twice as many as in the City-Roma match, where only 40,000 were reached. The data is surprising considering the historical link between Australia and the UK and that the most followed league is the Premier...

The 100,000 fans that will fill the stands of the Melbourne Cricket Ground today contrast with the average attendance at A-League matches in Australia: last season saw an average of only 13,048 spectators. However, the trend in the following of this sport in a country where Australian football (a hybrid between football as we know it and rugby) reigns is increasing. For example, in the 2010-11 season, an average of 8,793 fans attended the stadiums, and since then, the number of attendees has been increasing each season, surpassing 13,000.