Valencia support unwavering as Mestalla leads attendances and away ends sell out | OneFootball

Valencia’s support is relentless at Mestalla and on the road, with numbers to back it up.

According to AS, Mestalla has the league’s highest average attendance after the first 15 home games, a 90.6% occupancy rate. Recent long trips to Oviedo and Sevilla, 806 and 656 kilometres away, saw only six tickets go unsold across the visiting allocations.

The travelling support has produced sell-outs in nine of 15 league away games, with the visits to Vallecas and Getafe classed as technical sell-outs because visiting allocations were not reserved due to logistics and stadium works.

Valencia did not win away this season until Getafe on 18 January. Even before that, fans emptied the away ends at Osasuna, Barcelona, Girona, Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid, taking 580, 290 at the Johan Cruyff, 300, 612 and 561 respectively. The Madrid allocation was priced at 70 euros, with the club outside the 30-euro agreement.

Before that first away win, the only trips that did not sell out were Espanyol on a Tuesday, Alavés on a Monday and Celta on 3 January.

After the Getafe victory, as Carlos Corberán’s side picked up six wins in the last 10 rounds, demand surged. The Levante derby’s 513 allocation went in six minutes, and 600 were taken for Villarreal. The only post-Getafe exception was Real Betis at La Cartuja on Sunday 1 February, with 155 of 400 sold.

Source: AS