Deportivo fire up the Riazor cauldron for next Sunday

In the First, Second and Third. Commitment sport spirit with the team of his loves he breaks his own records. No one wants to lose a crucial battle to advance against Real Madrid Castile on Sunday (19:00, TVG-2) on Riazor, and the fans who never give up do their part. The club just arrived 25,013 members in an unimaginable number in the category, and this can only be compared with the last ones that the blue and white enjoyed. First division, when more than 80% of Riazor’s capacity was covered only by cards. In the last 19 seasons, only in those three seasons between 2015 and 2018, the last one he played in the first division, the A Coruña team had even more support than the current one, since in two of them it exceeded 26,000, and in the last one, 27,000.

Only when he won League (2000) and Cup centenary (2002), and in the immediately preceding years, this massive support for the city that beats with its club was even more abundant, because according to unofficial data, there were around 30,000 followers. However, he currently has more partners than in nine of his last twelve top-flight campaigns, and also more than he had in his last four forays into Other.

Deportivo’s current season ticket record is elusive and far from the social reality of the First Federation opponents they face, except for the affiliates Madridhe Barcelonahe Athletic and Real, who drink from their first teams. To them should be added Athletiche Betishe Valencia and Sevillejust like him Zaragoza compile a select list of nine Spanish clubs that, according to the reference website Transfermarkt, currently have more subscribers than Deportivo, all (with the exception of the San Sebastian team) located in cities much larger than A Coruña.

Added to this explosion of tickets was the mass sale of tickets for Sunday’s game. Yesterday at the end of the day there were some 7429 seats have already been shipped (Only 794 remained in the upper and lower stands, 30 euros each), an unprecedented number because the sportsman had to buy more than 19,000 for the promotion final. Never has a match of the third category gathered so many fans, as 27,215 gathered at the stadium on June 11, 2022.

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However, last weekend’s meeting between Murcia and Barcelona Athletic It gathered 27,831, which set a new record, although in this case tickets for the audience were sold at a symbolic price of one euro. The real dimension of these data is visible in the first league day last weekend, when only four pitches ( Camp Nouhe metropolitanhe Benito Villamarin and Anoeta) surpassed them, while even in Getafe, Almeria, Majorca, Valladolid, Vallecas and Pamplona They could boast that they had gathered so many people.

Riazor has already headed for an incredible attendance at Deportivo-Unionistas on January 8, marking the restart Lucas Perez with blue and white, because it gathered 23,745 spectators in the stands. On this occasion, the exceptionally high sell-out rate of season tickets and ticket sales for next Sunday’s game together predict an even higher attendance than that and turn the Coruña stadium into a cauldron of sportsmanship.