Attendance figures

[Sean]

Team                       League   Games     Total      Average
Collingwood Magpies    AFL      11         603,881    54,898
Essendon Bombers      AFL       11         575,232    52,294
Adelaide Crows           AFL    11           461,910    41,992
Carlton Blues              AFL    11           457,418    41,583
West Coast Eagles      AFL    11           448,703    40,791
St Kilda Saints            AFL    11           417,135    37,921
Richmond Tigers          AFL    11           421,207    38,292
Fremantle Dockers      AFL    11            412,213    37,474
Sydney Swans           AFL    11            391,953    35,632
Brisbane Broncos        NRL    13            442,101    34,008
Hawthorn Hawks        AFL    11             369,052    33,550
Geelong Cats            AFL     11             347,016    31,547
Melbourne Demons     AFL     11             324,903    29,537
Brisbane Lions            AFL    11             317,325    28,848
Western Bulldogs        AFL    11             316,551    28,777
Kangaroos                 AFL    11             311,210    28,292
Port Adelaide Power    AFL    11             306,572    27,870
Western Force           S14    5              137,775    27,555
Melbourne Victory   A-L    9              235,153    26,128
Gold Coast Titans       NRL    9              204,971    22,775
NSW Waratahs           S14    6             136,450    22,742
North Queensland Cowboys           NRL    11    217,212    19,747
Queensland Reds        S14    6              108,608    18,101
Brumbies                   S14    6              106,883    17,814
Wests Tigers             NRL    10             170,978    17,098
Canterbury Bulldogs    NRL    12             197,852    16,488
Newcastle Knights      NRL    12             190,563    15,880
South Sydney Rabbitohs    NRL    12       188,448    15,704
Sydney FC                AFC    3                45,871    15,290
Queensland Roar        A-L    9              133,088    14,788
Sydney FC                A-L    10            146,559    14,656
Manly Sea Eagles       NRL    10             145,265    14,527
Parramatta Eels         NRL    11             152,594    13,872
Adelaide United          A-L    9              116,163    12,907
Newcastle Jets          A-L    9              116,044    12,894
New Zealand Warriors    NRL    12          149,314    12,443
Central Coast Mariners    A-L    8        98,294    12,287
St George Illawarra Dragons    NRL   12  145,908    12,159
Sydney Roosters        NRL    11            132,157    12,014
Penrith Panthers        NRL    11            129,946    11,813
Melbourne Storm        NRL    11            128,757    11,705
Canberra Raiders        NRL    11            126,704    11,519
Cronulla Sharks          NRL    12            137,657    11,471
Wellington Phoenix    A-L    9            102,543    11,394
Adelaide United          AFC    3              23,655    7,885
Perth Glory               A-L    9               68,805    7,645
Perth Spirit              ARC    4               15,583    3,896
Canberra Vikings       ARC    4               14,768    3,692
Melbourne Rebels      ARC    3                 9,914    3,305
Sydney Fleet           ARC    4                10,630    2,658
Ballymore Tornadoes    ARC    2               4,867    2,434
Central Coast Rays    ARC    4                 9,293    2,323
Western Sydney Rams    ARC    4             7,368    1,842
East Coast Aces    ARC    3                     4,284    1,428

 

[c-crew]

That's pretty good. Gotta give it to the Victorians for sport, and especially the Victory supporters, having a horrible season and still averaging 26+ thousand.

 

[dibo]

we've done spectacularly on the back of blockbusters - even before the blockbusters we had 6% growth, now it's at 26% with big games to come. if we keep them coming (2 more 17000 crowds), we're looking at maybe more than 35% growth this year.

i reckon that'd have the club just about breaking even after only 3 seasons, or better-than-my-wildest-dreams kinda territory.

 

[c-crew]

lets hope we can keep the averages on the up next season aswell.

 

[FFC Mariner]

Bet the NRL are happy with how the HAL has gone on the Coast. This was their market for the taking and they bottled it. Stupid knuckledraggers.

Playing a few games in the regular season is the best they can do.

You can see why the ARC was canned too - lol

 

[dibo]

lets hope we can keep the averages on the up next season aswell.

if the average gets up around 13000 (as it looks like it should), then similar growth again would have us averaging around 18k (and probably asking for a stadium upgrade).

 

[FFC Mariner]

2nd tier and a roof please Santa

 

[dibo]

2nd tier and a roof please Santa

no bar? give yourself an uppercut son!

 

[FFC Mariner]

2nd tier and a roof please Santa

no bar? give yourself an uppercut son!

Uppercut duly meted out.

ps - Is it my addled brain or was behind the goals alcohol free in V1 (or for a while). 

 

[dru]

2nd tier and a roof please Santa

no bar? give yourself an uppercut son!

Uppercut duly meted out.

ps - Is it my addled brain or was behind the goals alcohol free in V1 (or for a while). 

Your addled brain as the bay has never been dry.

The North west corner i believe may of been/is a dry area.

 

[Jesus]

If we were to average closer to 18, I would expect that an expansion would be forthcoming. But we are not there yet. A 2nd tier home end, with 2 bars, and a roof...sounds almost too good.

 

[dibo]

Team 	Hosted 	Average	Highest	Lowest	Total
MEL 	9	26,128	31,884	20,939	235,154
QLD 	10	15,452	21,475	8,815	154,523
SFC 	10	14,665	18,457	10,732	146,649
ADL	9	12,907	25,039	10,256	116,163
NEW 	10	12,909	16,433	8,112	129,091
CCM 	8	12,290	18,686	8,113	98,322
WEL 	10	11,683	18,345	8,039	116,833
PER 	10	7,553	9,614	6,252	75,532
Totals 	76	14,109	31,884	6,252	1,072,267

they're some seriously good numbers for season 3, considering the original plan was to get an average of 10,000 through the gate. only one club has failed to do that, and they've come 6th, 7th and 8th in successive seasons so no surprises there. melbourne's numbers are great but even if you take them out, the average of nearly 12500 is pretty solid.

aside from the obvious success of wellington (11683 beats the hell out of 3000 or so), the central coast and newcastle are driving much of the growth, both up hard on last years numbers - the jets by 1467 or 13% and us by 2459 or 25%. that follows growth of 28% and 24% last year - the littlest teams are pushing some big numbers around!

 

[adz]

Good to see the A-League pretty much taking over the NRL on these stats. Victory doing well but I'd like to see them pushing up into the middle of the AFL teams there, and go for 30-35k average.

This table also proves that Victorians do love their sport, but not just any old shit, *cough* Melbourne Storm *cough* 2007 Premiers *cough* average crowd 11,705.

 

[northernspirit]

Good to see the A-League pretty much taking over the NRL on these stats. Victory doing well but I'd like to see them pushing up into the middle of the AFL teams there, and go for 30-35k average.

This table also proves that Victorians do love their sport, but not just any old shit, *cough* Melbourne Storm *cough* 2007 Premiers *cough* average crowd 11,705.

made all the more remarkable when you consider the NRL's MASSIVE advertising budget, general media bias with far more media coverage, imagine if we had the sort of exposure they have been enjoying... the a-league has done so much better than i ever thought possible being an old northern spirit fan and getting excited when 4,000 people rocked up to a game... Those stats show AFL is first daylight then NRL and us, with a few more teams and extra derbies we could compete with the NRL on averages albeit relying on Melbourne to continue pulling big crowds to lift our crowd averages in the same way that the Broncos are doing for the NRL

 

[Jolly_Roger]

I remember posting in the old forum in the early days and we were taking about our crowd base of 5500 people. Its amazing how it has changed.

I am not sure how we should read into things after the sydney and melbourne games. xmas holiday period and all, i'll be interested to see how the crowds play out in our remaining games

 

[dibo]

take the measure from our worst crowd of the year -

season 1 - 5194
season 2 - 4644 (granted, there'd been a monsoon)
season 3 - 8113

i think that's a really good indication of our base.

 

[marinersman]

It's possible we can see the highest aggregate attendance in history this weekend, although I think it will just fall short.

Tards-Sheep Shaggers, 25,000 (tards fans will still think they can make the four)
Mariners-Scum, 17,000
Qld-Flying Circus, 30,000 (could even be more, the rednecks consider this the biggest game of the season even without it being so important)
Perth-Adelaide, 6,000 (unfortunately Perth are at home).

This would be a total of 78,000. Mssive round coming up boys and girls.

 

[kevrenor]

It's possible we can see the highest aggregate attendance in history this weekend, although I think it will just fall short.

No, so far it is on track for the highest:
Melbourne -  25,489
Us - 19,238
Roar - ?
Glory - ?

BTW our season total is 117,718 over 9 home games so far - average of 13,080

 

[Jeff (LouMacari)]

Great to see Bluetongue full finally!

 

[pjennings]

Great photos - never dreamed I'd see that when I watched the boys in a training match around 3 years ago in front of maybe 20 people that we would get to this stage. Onwards and upwards!!!