The number of bullfighting events in 2023 increased by 11% compared to 2019, with 4.5 million tickets sold.
The annual figures for bullfighting events in 2023 are positive, but not better. There have been 11% more events than in 2019, the last year before the pandemic, 2.7% fewer than in 2022, and more than 4.5 million tickets sold. This was published by Diego Sánchez de la Cruz de la Cruz Libre Mercado in a study by La Economía del Toro.
A total of 2.6 million people attended a total of 300 bullfights in the first and second class bullring. The best figure, as every year, was at the Pamplona bullfighting fair, which was packed every Sanfermines day. Las Ventas, with a total of 868 784 tickets sold, and Seville, with 212 625 tickets sold, attracted the most spectators during the year.
La Asociación Nacional de Organizadores de Espectáculos Taurinos (ANOET) presented its 2023 report, highlighting an increase of 11% compared to pre-pandemic data, but 2.7% compared to 2022 figures. In Spanish bullfighting arenas, 403 bullfights have been reported, 341 bullfights without horses and 297 bullfights with picadors.
The study shows that September has definitively overtaken August as the bullfighting month par excellence. Castilla La Mancha and Castilla León were crowned as the Autonomous Communities with the highest number of shows. Andalucía is the biggest organiser of bullfights and the Community of Madrid the biggest organiser of novilladas.
