Overseas attendances v Our attendances

[Arabmariner]

This site is interesting.I've often heard negative comments regarding attendances to Mariners games and Australian league games in general but it's surprising how well  attended our games are when comparing them to most European countries.

You can click on the individual countries in the column on the left of the page and find all the attendances for individual teams there.

Ignoring the big five Italy,Spain,France,England and Germany you'll find we are better attended than many famous clubs in well established leagues all over Europe.In particular countries in the old eastern bloc like Romania,Bulgaria and surprisingly Croatia.

Even our lowest crowd last year compares well with some of them.

http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn.htm

 

[Bear]

wow, I didnt know Croatia failed so badly

Massive LOL to Wales, Ireland, and half of Scotland

 

[Paolo]

Average attendence of football leagues around the world. A-league coming in at number 13.

1. Bundesliga - 39 426
2. EPL - 36 076
3. La Liga - 29 124
4. Serie A - 23 180
5. J-League 1 - 21 840
6. Ligue 1 - 21 817
7. Eredivisie - 18 732
8. Bundesliga 2 - 18 140
9. Campeonato Brasileiro Serie A - 17 461
10. Primera Division Argentina - 17 363
11. Championship - 17 022
12. MLS - 16 770
13. A-League - 15 363

 

[dibo]

i see that we're really not far off anyone below about number 3 - i can see our long term averages steadying around the high teens / low twenties. if we could do that across a 10 or 12 team league, that's a big gross attendance: 20k x 12 teams x 3 rounds = 3.9 million across the season. that's quite a bit bigger than rugby league (3.3 million over 201 matches last season).

it's also 196 matches to be shown on TV - six a week for 33 weeks, not including finals (which is why there'll be a FTA deal - there's enough to go around, and there's enough to make a decent highlights package).

that's the sort of thing that gets sponsors really interested.

 

[From the dug out]

Great post, well done.

 

[RADINHO]

wow, I didnt know Croatia failed so badly

Massive LOL to Wales, Ireland, and half of Scotland

Eastern Europeans don't have their keen on for coming to the games