Real Madrid, Atletico, Bayern, Liverpool, Villarreal, Benfica, Manchester City, Chelsea – this is the top 8 squad in this season's Champions League. If we rank by the population of cities, what is the ranking of the top 8 cities in the Champions League? Villarreal officially gave the answer: on the miracle of the Champions League, it has to be a yellow submarine!
Chelsea is located in London, with a population of 8.982 million;
Both Real Madrid and Atletico are from Madrid, a large city with a population of 3.223 million;
Bayern Club is located in Munich, a city of 1.472 million people;
Manchester City is located in Manchester, a large city of 5.53 million people;
The home of the Benfica Club, Lisbon, Portugal, a city with a population of 5.05 million;
The population of Liverpool, also 4.97 million;
Villarreal, a small town of 50,577 people!
London, Madrid, Liverpool, Munich, Manchester, these are all famous football cities, rich in heritage, football culture prevails, and talents continue to flow. The London metropolitan area has Teams such as Chelsea, Arsenal, Tottenham and West Ham; Manchester has the twins of Manchester United and Manchester City.
Villarreal is an exception – the city has only 50,000 people, and without the football card, I am afraid that the vast majority of people around the world would not know them.
This is a fact that makes Villarreal club and fans extremely proud. In the Champions League quarter-finals, Villarreal eliminated Serie A giants Juve 4-1 on aggregate to reach the top eight of the Champions League again – although this is not the first time they have reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League. As early as the 2005-06 season, the yellow submarine led by Riquelme reached the final four of the Champions League and created a miracle.
The Marca newspaper once made a statistic: the comparison of the population of the city and the attendance of football clubs. Villarreal is far ahead again:
Villarreal fans
Villarreal, with a population of 50,577, has about 16,000 seats per La Liga home. In other words, if Villarreal has a La Liga/Champions League at home, about 1/3 of the people in the city will go to the scene to watch the ball, whether men, women or children, as long as they can shout and move, they must go to the home stadium to cheer for the team. Such a football atmosphere is really enviable.
Villarreal keeps working wonders. In the 2020-21 Europa League, the yellow submarine won the championship, which was the first major event in the history of the team in nearly 100 years. In the 2021-22 season, Villarreal reached the top 8 of the Champions League and they will receive generous prize money:
The prize money of the 10-year coefficient in The European war is 13.64 million euros, the participation fee of 15.64 million euros, the group stage wins 1 game for 2.8 million euros, the draw is 930,000 euros, the round of 16 is 9.6 million, and the top 8 is 10.6 million, which has reached 58.81 million euros. Counting the UEFA market pool prizes, Villarreal won 70-80 million prizes in the Champions League.