Report reveals numbers behind Tottenham’s astonishing popularity in South Korea – Spurs Web

Soccer.London have revealed {that a} staggering 12 million South Koreans out of a inhabitants of 51 million, say that they’re Tottenham Hotspur followers.

Tottenham’s pre-season tour to Korea was not solely successful from a sporting viewpoint, with the gamers doing the laborious yards and getting minutes below their belt in two pre-season friendlies, however it was additionally successful commercially.

Spurs followers flocked of their 1000’s to welcome the group on the airport and to the open coaching periods, whereas the stadiums have been packed out for each their matches.

Soccer.London have now revealed that Tottenham are probably the most watched and finest supported abroad membership in South Korea by far.

Tottenham’s match in opposition to Workforce Ok-League on Wednesday was reportedly streamed on-line by two million folks, making it the only greatest streamed sporting occasion in Korean historical past, and it’s stated that the Sevilla recreation was anticipated to hit comparable numbers.

Over the 2 matches at Seoul and Suwon, a complete of 108,000 folks have been in attendance, with tickets for the 2 matches allegedly being bought out in 25 minutes and 20 minutes respectively.

Soccer.London state that Spurs’ chief monetary workplace Todd Kline was on tour in Korea, and used the chance to maximise the membership’s exceptional reputation within the nation to try to create generations of followers.

The report claims that South Korea has now turn out to be Tottenham’s second greatest e-commerce market behind the UK, with year-to-date gross sales within the nation being half of the UK and almost twice as huge as within the USA.

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Some might need assumed that the South Korean followers are principally Son followers fairly than Spurs followers however that fantasy was debunked throughout this tour.

The reception that the Tottenham gamers and employees received, clearly confirmed that the followers in Korea have developed a reference to the membership.

Whereas a lot of them might need began following Spurs due to Son, a major proportion of them will possible proceed to assist the membership even after the ahead departs.