2024 - 2025 A-League season Match Attendances.

[Wanderboy]

I'll leave it up to others like Matty and Paul to contribute to this thread and the stats. I don't have any official figures.

It wasn't a bad start to the season though with 24 000+ in Auckland and 27 000+ at CommBank.

[mack]

Ultimate a-league says:

• Mariners vs MV - 6953
• Auckland vs Roar - 24492 (2nd highest debut for a new team, 7th highest for a team debut at a new individual stadium)
• Jets vs City - 8032
• WSW vs Smurfs - 24796
• Nix vs WU - 7535
• Bulls vs Perth - ?

[Wanderboy]

58 minutes ago, mack said:

Ultimate a-league says:

• Mariners vs MV - 6953
• Auckland vs Roar - 24492 (2nd highest debut for a new team, 7th highest for a team debut at a new individual stadium)
• Jets vs City - 8032
• WSW vs Smurfs - 24796
• Nix vs WU - 7535
• Bulls vs Perth - ?

Mariners was disappointing.

Jets did well. Nix a bit sad. the weather was good so now excuse.

Bulls - probably 100 plus the same amount of cowbells. What a joke it was to bring them in. Thanks Gallop and Fox.

Some good and bad crowds to start the season. It could have and should have been better.

Mariners were the biggest disappointment of the round considering it was a GF replay. Weather played a part no doubt.

[pseudonym]

Macarthur v Perth

Crowd: 4002 (Twitter - ALeague Crowds)

[Paul01]

2 hours ago, pseudonym said:

Macarthur v Perth

Crowd: 4002 (Twitter - ALeague Crowds)

Was waiting for that one. Campbelltown never comes out before multiple days

[Davo]

 

[Sithslayer1991]

For Macarthur they are slowly going up in crowds its gradual but its gone from high 2000s to low 4000s. Its also amazing the Jets despite being terrible still can get a  better crowd over the Mariners and Nix despite how well their seasons have gone.

 

Fun note Juan Mata is going to be so confused next weekend when he goes from 27,000 crowd to sub 5000 at Western United. That's some Saudi league heritage.

[StringerBellend]

1 hour ago, Sithslayer1991 said:

For Macarthur they are slowly going up in crowds its gradual but its gone from high 2000s to low 4000s. Its also amazing the Jets despite being terrible still can get a  better crowd over the Mariners and Nix despite how well their seasons have gone.

 

Fun note Juan Mata is going to be so confused next weekend when he goes from 27,000 crowd to sub 5000 at Western United. That's some Saudi league heritage.

and basically be playing in a council field in the arse end of nowhere 

[Carns]

7 hours ago, Sithslayer1991 said:

Its also amazing the Jets despite being terrible still can get a  better crowd over the Mariners and Nix despite how well their seasons have gone.

Newcastle sports fans in general are very parochial. The Knights got decent crowds when they are/were **** too. Plus they're a bit starved for sporting options so I think locals get behind them more.

Couple that with the fact that Newcastle has a very strong football heritage.

[mack]

Mariners have the trouble that 70% of their likely audience do not care about anything except a finals series, or late season big games, and their stadium is too big for anyone to bother getting memberships to ensure they don't miss out.

Their biggest season average was 07/08 (12.7k) I believe, and if you look at their matches in that season their big crowds that season are Round 15, 18 and 20, and they were against the Jets, MVC and Sydney FC. Then 19k to their finals home game. They started off the season getting 8k and 9k, got a couple games with 11k then had a huge away game run (4 in a row) before the run into the finals with the big 17.5k, 18.6k and 19.2k games, then 9k to the final game due to severe rain & storms.

[Paul01]

Round 1
Mariners v Melb Victory.................6,953
Auckland v Brisbane.....................24,482
Newcastle v Heartle$$...................8,032
Wanderers v Smurfs.....................27,496
Phoenix v Western Fraudsters.......7,535
Bullsh1tters v Perth........................4,002
Total Attendance..78,510 Average..13,085

[Paul01]

Round 2
Bullsh1tters v Newcastle........................3,809
Adelaide v Mariners.................................9,826
Heartle$$ v Melb Victory.......................20,093
Perth v Phoenix.......................................7,074
Auckland v Smurfs.................................14,253
Western Fraudsters v Wanderers............4,207
Total Attendance..59,262  Average.........9,877
Average attendence overall..................11,481

[Paul01]

Round 3
Brisbane v Smurfs...................................8,276
Phoenix v Auckland...............................25,252
Mariners v Perth......................................7,718
Wanderers v Adelaide.............................7,244
Melb Victory v Bullsh1tters.....................11,087
Western Fraudsters v Heartle$$............4,325
Total Attendance..63,902  Average......10,650
Average attendence overall..................11,204

[Paul01]

Round 4
Wanderers v Newcastle.........................6,220
Melb Victory v Brisbane........................11,251
Adelaide v Western Fraudsters.............10,166
Mariners v Phoenix..................................6,493
Smurfs v Bullsh1tters..............................12,194
Perth v Heartle$$.....................................7,338
Total Attendance..53,662  Average........8,944
Average attendence overall..................10,639

We had the lowest attendance for the round, Smurfs had the highest attendance 

[MartinTyler]

Whilst ours is not looking good, apart from Adelaide the trend isn't that encouraging. Given expectations, FC and Victory should be much higher

[StringerBellend]

2 hours ago, Paul01 said:

Round 4
Wanderers v Newcastle.........................6,220
Melb Victory v Brisbane........................11,251
Adelaide v Western Fraudsters.............10,166
Mariners v Phoenix..................................6,493
Smurfs v Bullsh1tters..............................12,194
Perth v Heartle$$.....................................7,338
Total Attendance..53,662  Average........8,944
Average attendence overall..................10,639

We had the lowest attendance for the round, Smurfs had the highest attendance 

By God that's depressing less than the Mariners and half of Sydney FC.

 

[nmh94]

8 hours ago, StringerBellend said:

By God that's depressing less than the Mariners and half of Sydney FC.

 

Less than Perth as well, who make us look like world beaters on the field. This might be unpopular, but it really isn't good enough from our fan base tbh. You would expect a dip for sure given our recent home record, but league worst for the round is embarrassing. We aren't the only supporters who have a mediocre side.

Reality is this - overall crowds this year are up (thanks largely to Auckland)  - we continue to go down (derby excepted, where there were a shitload for Sydney FC fans than normal).

[StringerBellend]

6 minutes ago, nmh94 said:

Less than Perth as well, who make us look like world beaters on the field. This might be unpopular, but it really isn't good enough from our fan base tbh. You would expect a dip for sure given our recent home record, but league worst for the round is embarrassing. We aren't the only supporters who have a mediocre side.

Reality is this - overall crowds this year are up (thanks largely to Auckland)  - we continue to go down (derby excepted, where there were a shitload for Sydney FC fans than normal).

It's not just the recent home record it's the last 8+ years of being mostly shite

Even I was shocked at how low the crowd was on Friday night it was pretty much perfect weather to watch Footy 

[BoyFromTheWest]

Yes, and it's Friday night. Friday night is always lower - work, getting to the game, other stuff have always reduced crowds on Friday nights.

[Sithslayer1991]

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to know why the crowds our low. Doesn't matter if a marquee is on the team or not, the people are sick of losing or looking at a team that doesn't make them proud. They want to win. Under our finals run in Rudan's 2nd year crowds got up to 10,000 average, in Rudan's final year at the end crowd's went down to 5000. The reality is the club needs to win to bring back the party atmosphere.

 

[MartinTyler]

1 hour ago, BoyFromTheWest said:

Yes, and it's Friday night. Friday night is always lower - work, getting to the game, other stuff have always reduced crowds on Friday nights.

We seem to find excuses regardless of day/time. Fact remains that the football hasn't been inspiring enough for a while now to entice people back on a regular basis.

[nmh94]

7 hours ago, Sithslayer1991 said:

Doesn't take a rocket scientist to know why the crowds our low. Doesn't matter if a marquee is on the team or not, the people are sick of losing or looking at a team that doesn't make them proud. They want to win. Under our finals run in Rudan's 2nd year crowds got up to 10,000 average, in Rudan's final year at the end crowd's went down to 5000. The reality is the club needs to win to bring back the party atmosphere.

 

But in terms of league averages, someone has to win/lose. Just saying the answer to team x improving crowds is winning is a fallacy, because one teams win is by definition another teams loss. Fact also is Perth outdrew us last week, despite being, by any measure, a worse side. They haven't exactly been successful in the longer term either - last year's wooden spooners. For all our talk of passion, we love an excuse not to turn up.

Edited Tuesday at 04:42 AM by nmh94

[StringerBellend]

38 minutes ago, nmh94 said:

But in terms of league averages, someone has to win/lose. Just saying the answer to team x improving crowds is winning is a fallacy, because one teams win is by definition another teams loss. Fact also is Perth outdrew us last week, despite being, by any measure, a worse side. They haven't exactly been successful in the longer term either - last year's wooden spooners. For all our talk of passion, we love an excuse not to turn up.

What else is there to do in Perth?

[Nathg]

In season 2, our group of members hit 16, family and friends all going to the games. There’s 3 of us left now, myself, dad and a mate. My mate has little intention of attending games, I think he is just keeping his foundation member number active. Dad lives in Kiama, will probably make half the games if lucky. I downgraded to a GA membership and will move to sit with them on games I can/bother to go to.

The other 13? Majority of them wouldn’t even watch a game when on free to air. They’ve lost interest. I’d say that has happened to thousands of fans. 

Edited Tuesday at 08:05 AM by Nathg

[Edinburgh]

2 hours ago, StringerBellend said:

What else is there to do in Perth?

Go to Fremantle 

[Carns]

2 minutes ago, Nathg said:

The other 13? Majority of them wouldn’t even watch a game when on free to air. They’ve lost interest. I’d say that has happened to thousands of fans. 

My mates who I used to go with are in the same boat, wouldn't even know that a game was on.

I haven't been a member for years but still follow the club/league.

[Smoggy]

At the start it was me, my son and my father in law going to every home game plus all NSW away games. My father in laws last game was that Brissy SF at Parra, not been back since. He asks how we are going but doesn’t watch on tv either these days, cant see him coming back again.

My son is 17 now and I reckon his generation has been hit hard you know. 10 to 12 years is very different when you are 17 as when you were aged 5 to 7 seems l way back, you cant even remember much of it. It’s not like a 46 year old looking back to 36. He shows intermittent interest is the best way to describe it, if he comes in and I have a game on the tv he will stand for a few mins and watch it and then say he has something to do. If I ask if he want to come to a game it gets a ‘hmmm maybe…depends….’…..I have got to the point I can’t be arsed going to game if he doesn’t tbh..

We will both be at the derby next week anyway.

[Smoggy]

10 hours ago, Smoggy said:

At the start it was me, my son and my father in law going to every home game plus all NSW away games. My father in laws last game was that Brissy SF at Parra, not been back since. He asks how we are going but doesn’t watch on tv either these days, cant see him coming back again.

My son is 17 now and I reckon his generation has been hit hard you know. 10 to 12 years is very different when you are 17 as when you were aged 5 to 7 seems l way back, you cant even remember much of it. It’s not like a 46 year old looking back to 36. He shows intermittent interest is the best way to describe it, if he comes in and I have a game on the tv he will stand for a few mins and watch it and then say he has something to do. If I ask if he want to come to a game it gets a ‘hmmm maybe…depends….’…..I have got to the point I can’t be arsed going to game if he doesn’t tbh..

We will both be at the derby next week anyway.

And oh yeah...my wife had a season ticket first few seasons so 4 of us went, but she didn't go to so many, doesn't really follow sport tbh.

Happy times sat down in the south end at Parra watching my son messing about on the grass bank with other kids. Doing the ice cream run for the family. Wish I was back there.

Edited Tuesday at 09:06 PM by Smoggy

[GunnerWanderer]

Same here game day use to be about up to a dozen of us I can’t get anyone to go any more even the first derby this season… I ended up sitting with my son he had a big group

good news is my son who use to love it still goes he went with 2 mates on friday he goes to more games than me now 😎