Umberto Gandini pampers Olimpia and Virtus

The words of Umberto Gandini

Lega Basket Serie A President Umberto Gandini spoke to Il Sole 24 ore: “C’è desire for great basketball. Last year we reached preCovid attendance levels, with a return leg that came close to 4 thousand average attendance rising to 6,591 in the Scudetto playoffs culminating with a finals series ended after 7 games that attracted over 11 thousand spectators on average". Lega Basket Serie A President Umberto Gandini è satisfied with the results achieved in these three and a half years, after holding the helm of Italian basketball at the height of the Covid tsunami.

"Meanwhile, the latest Sponsor Value research by StageUp and Ipsos, revealed that those interested in Serie A grew 51 percent from 2019 to 2023, from 10.8 to 16 million. The trend è consolidated. And the research also highlighted an increase in the female audience and between 25 and ì 44 years old. Our goal remains to fill more and more sports arenas and to tell in the best and most transversal way possible the exploits of the clubs’ protagonists. With this in mind, I want to thank the owners’who continue to make great efforts to make the championship more and more exciting and balanced. Clubs that are continuing towards more and more professionalization and growth in all their structures, following the directions of the Manual for the National Professional License that we introduced from last season".

"Are Milan and Bologna destined to dominate this season as well? They are the favorites. The duopoly does not worry me, becauseé it exists in all the major European leagues. It has to be a stimulus for other companies; even if they have lower budgets", he concluded.