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<span class="info_date">Thursday, 07 February 2013 10:42</span> </div>
<p><img src="https://img1.daumcdn.net/relay/cafe/original/?fname=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.isportconnect.com%2Fimages%2Fstories%2Fnews%2FFootball%2FAFCChampionsLeague.jpg" alt="AFCChampionsLeague" style="margin: 5px; float: left;" height="250" width="400">The
Asian Football Confederation (AFC) have seen television audiences for
the Champions League rise by 53% in 2012, up to 262.4 million.</p>
<p>The continent’s premier club football competition saw particular
growth in the Australian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Middle Eastern
markets over the past year.</p>
<p>With overall ratings raised by 90.5 million, Australia, China, Japan
and Korea Republic contributed 224.7 million viewers, which represented a
53% (71.8 million) increase on 2011 and a 78% (98.5 million) increase
on 2010.</p>
<p>AFC Acting President Zhang Jilong said: “Once again, as we have seen
consistently throughout recent years, the popularity of the AFC
Champions League continues to grow.</p>
<p>“The TV audience figures for the 2012 season highlight further that
football fans in Asia want to watch Asian club football in increasing
numbers and they are testimony to the growth within the AFC Champions
League since its creation in 2002. <br> <br> “We are confident that we
can continue to build on the impressive growth that was shown last year
and enhance further the AFC Champions League’s position as the
preeminent club competition in Asian football.”</p>
<p>A total of six matches exceeded 10 million viewers and Guangzhou
Evergrande vs. FC Tokyo drew the largest audience at the Round of 16
stage. 19.2 million viewers tuned in to watch the match.</p>
<p>“Due to the good performance of Guangzhou Evergrande, the impact on
Chinese national sport’s broadcaster CCTV-5 was quickly visible with
both a large increase in the number of games aired in 2012 and also in
the audience numbers,” said Pierre Justo, Director of Sports and Media
at CSM Media Research-KantarSport, who compiled and analysed the data in
China and Korea Republic.<br> <br> “In the end the AFC Champions League
held four of the top 10 football audiences of the year on CCTV-5,
including the two best football audiences of the year. <br> <br> “There
is no doubt that if Guangzhou had made it to the semi-final and final,
the ratings would have been even higher. Indeed CCTV-5 saw its ratings
increase regularly from the start of the group stages to the final
rounds, thanks to the success of Guangzhou.”</p><p> http://www.isportconnect.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=17184:afc-champions-league-tv-viewers-up-53&catid=36:football--soccer&Itemid=42<br></p>
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일단 중국은 진짜 인구가 깡패다....
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올해 서울이 우승 못할거면.... 광저우가 하면 좋겠네요... 아챔판 제대로 키워놓을듯 ㅋ
결승에서 광저우 이기는게 제일 좋지만 ㅋㅋㅋ
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