Avilés bursts the box office: from the 800 spectators with whom the season began at the Suárez Puerta to the full house of the final for promotion

2023-06-16 04:05:00

This season there have been great football evenings at the Suárez Puerta which have helped a lot to bring more and more people to the field, but there have also been popular meals on the pitch, ticket promotions and a lot of initiatives aimed at to increase the social support that Real Avilés has in the city. Work has also been done to increase the number of subscribers, with a campaign that concluded with 1,852 members, achieving a significant increase compared to the previous season (1,024) and spectacular when compared to 2020-21, before the entry of Diego Baeza to the entity, when Real Avilés only reached 520 members.

Little by little, the club has been adding ingredients to the shaker and the final result could be seen in the last game of the season, the final for promotion against Recreativo de Granada, when 6,700 spectators gathered, after the defeat ( 0-2), they could not celebrate the long-awaited promotion of their team, but they did experience an afternoon in which it was very clear that their team is more alive than ever.

The trajectory from the beginning of the season to the end has had its ups and downs, especially in sports, but the number of fans who came to the field has generally been growing. In the first game at the Suárez Puerta, against Coruxo, just over 800 spectators attended the field, surpassing a thousand in the following ones, against Gimnástica Torrelavega and Vetusta. The worst entry of the course came on matchday seven, against Palencia Cristo Atlético, with 783 spectators in the stands. The beginning, with a very renewed Avilés, was not easy and by then the team was in the middle zone of the table.

The first great day of the season in terms of fans who went to the pitch was the derby against Marino, in which more than 1,700 spectators were in attendance. But if there was a game that changed the trend, it was the one that pitted the Blue and Whites against the leader, Arenteiro, comfortably exceeding 2,000 fans. The club worked hard so that that day, in an important match against the team that finally won direct promotion and with which they drew (1-1) at the Suárez Puerta, there would be a lot of people on the pitch. Taking advantage of Antroxu, people were encouraged to go in disguise to the field and it worked. A party that finished convincing the fans that the time had come to support their team.

The following games were all or above or close to 3,000 spectators, something inconceivable a very short time ago. The team, in addition, was getting better and better, climbing places in the classification until placing second, the place in which the competition ended. With these precedents, the play-off for promotion to the Second Federation was expected to be a true football party from Aviles. And yet expectations were exceeded.

In the first tie, against Gernika, 4,400 spectators were reached, practically the full capacity of the Suárez Puerta. And in the second, the grand final, the club put up several extra stands until 6,700 people pushed what they could to take the team to the First Federation. It couldn’t be, but the seed has been planted.