Pacific League attendance less than one-fifth of last year Impact of the new corona November 10, 4:12
The regular season of professional baseball and the Pacific League ended on the 9th, and the number of visitors fell to less than one-fifth of last year due to the influence of the new coronavirus.
The total number of visitors to the Pacific League's regular season was 2,068,952, a significant decrease from the record high of about 11.67 million last year.
It is the first time since 1972, 48 years ago, that the number of visitors has reached the 2 million level.
This season, the number of games was reduced from 143 games for each team to 120 games due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, and it was held without spectators for three weeks after the opening on June 19.
After that, from July 10th, the number of spectators was increased to 5,000, and from September 19th, the upper limit was raised to half the capacity, but the number of visitors throughout the year fell to less than one-fifth of last year. It was a tough result.
By team, ▼ Softbank had the largest number with about 530,000, followed by Lotte with about 390,000, ▼ Orix with about 330,000, ▼ Seibu with about 300,000, and Nippon-Ham with about 280,000. ▼ Rakuten has the lowest number of about 240,000.