Top 20: Bundesliga ranks No. 1 with highest average league attendance

A list compiling the average attendances of football divisions across the world reveals that the Bundesliga is the most well-supported league in world football, with its average of 43,177 frequenting German top-flight matches each week.

The English Premier League - the competition that demands the most lucrative television deals and splurges the most money in the transfer market - is second, while Spain's La Liga is third.

(Courtesy: makegameeveryday.com)

Major League Soccer continues to undergo a steady growth, and promisingly sits just over 2,000 short of the Italian Serie A - a division which is 95 years older.

The greatest disparity seems to be in the Chinese Super League, which regularly welcomes attendances of around 22,580 but gets very little exposure in the western world and has a national side languishing in 84th of the FIFA World Rankings.