There is an undoubted winner in the recently concluded Ancona championship, and he is called the public. The numbers at the Del Conero stadium, but also and above all away, demonstrate this and are testimony to how, in these three years since Mauro Canil’s arrival in Ancona, the enthusiasm for the red and white colors has progressively rekindled. The numbers of season ticket holders, for example: just over a thousand last year, 2500 this season. Or the average spectators at the Passo Varano stadium: average 4092 this year (in a stadium with 14 thousand spectators, Transfermarkt data), in fourth place behind Cesena with 9627 average spectators in a stadium with 23860 seats, behind Spal with 6336 in a stadium, the Mazza, which holds 16,134, and in Pescara with 4,418 spectators in the Adriatic, a 20,476-seater facility.
In short, Ancona ranks first in the rankings in terms of average spectators, with numbers growing significantly compared to the 2807 average spectators last year – still in fourth place behind Cesena, Reggiana and Rimini – and compared to the 2109 in the first year of the Canil era -Tiong, sixth place behind Modena, Reggiana, Cesena, Pescara and Siena. To understand Ancona’s numbers, at a national level, it may be useful to also take a look at the other groups: higher figures than Del Conero, in group A, only in Vicenza, 7964 average spectators at Menti, and in Mantua, 5675; in the south, in group C, in Catania, record of the C series with an average of 16960 spectators per match, in Avellino, 6438, in Taranto, 5486, in Benevento, 4917, in Castellammare di Stabia, 4209, in Crotone, 4144, and in Foggia, 4098. Two in the north, three in the center and six in the south: Del Conero, despite an extremely difficult year, has numbers that are twelfth in the Italian Serie C stadium, out of the sixty participants in the three Lega Pro groups A look at the past is of further comfort: in 2016-17, the year to forget, the year of bankruptcy, the average at the Passo Varano stadium was 1663 spectators. In the 2009-10 season, the last in Serie B, the average was 5551.
The record of the Ancona fans, the passion despite a championship lived below expectations and with many, too many difficulties, are exalted in the away data, which sees Ancona in 36th place overall in Italy with 411 spectators in tow, seventh in Serie C behind only Avellino (642), Mantua (475), Juve Stabia (457), Vicenza (455), Cesena (449) and Padova (446), but also ahead of Serie B teams such as Ternana, Spezia, Venezia and Ascoli, and also from Serie A, such as Empoli and Udinese. On these numbers, between Del Conero and the traveling fans, the club can start building a future again, starting from today’s meeting scheduled in Hong Kong between owner Tony Tiong and CEO Roberta Nocelli. Typhus in Ancona is a certainty.
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