Crowds

[StringerBellend]

Polishes my keep going through being totally shite badge.

I go with my dad every home game and meet up it's what you do, I've spat the dummy a few times on here post game but by Tuesday arvo I'm already looking forward to the next game.

Showing once again how footy can be cruel, I couldn't go the victory game had concert tickets for ages. 

Watching the replay it's obviously the best game at home for years.

Heaps and heaps have dropped off around me as a few on here would know..I don't blame em the football has been mostly dire for about 8 years now 

Edited March 22 by StringerBellend

[mack]

The Nix game crowd was 3698, their lowest ever home crowd at Wellington. And their second lowest after a match they played in Dunedin a long time ago. Excluding all the COVID impacted games of course.

[PedroPony]

11 hours ago, mack said:

The Nix game crowd was 3698, their lowest ever home crowd at Wellington. And their second lowest after a match they played in Dunedin a long time ago. Excluding all the COVID impacted games of course.

It's a very poor ground for football. 

[BoyFromTheWest]

It was pretty dire - not a great ground.

[Midfielder]

On 31/03/2025 at 7:17 PM, mack said:

The Nix game crowd was 3698, their lowest ever home crowd at Wellington. And their second lowest after a match they played in Dunedin a long time ago. Excluding all the COVID impacted games of course.

In many ways thats the A-League, only SFC, MV, WSW, Perth (if they can ever get a decent side again), similar for the Roar are going to get decent crowds... more recently Auckland as well.... just off the pace is Newcastle if they can get a decent side and Adelaide..  all the rest struggle....

Its kinda why WSW is important to the league as a whole.... over 200K registered players, by my count 11 former NSL clubs and large state league clubs... parts of WS are Football heartland especially in the south west... and more recently the Hills playing numbers are exploding... 

[Zelinsky]

On 31/03/2025 at 7:17 PM, mack said:

The Nix game crowd was 3698, their lowest ever home crowd at Wellington. And their second lowest after a match they played in Dunedin a long time ago. Excluding all the COVID impacted games of course.

Off topic (kind off): my wife is Greek, and I've developed a bit of an interest in their super league = first tier. If we feel that the AL is lagging, their crowd attendance figures are genuinely depressing. Games with less than 1000 onlookers are a reality. 

https://www.transfermarkt.com/super-league/besucherzahlen/wettbewerb/GR1

[nmh94]

On 31/03/2025 at 7:17 PM, mack said:

The Nix game crowd was 3698, their lowest ever home crowd at Wellington. And their second lowest after a match they played in Dunedin a long time ago. Excluding all the COVID impacted games of course.

The Kiwis love a bandwagon, and that goes both ways. Wellington got some very good crowds when they were near the top last year, but they have all well and truly jumped off now that they aren't going well. At the other end of the Kiwi bandwagon scale, a great crowd of 18342 in Auckland today.

Edited April 5 by nmh94

[BoyFromTheWest]

There were several big events in Wellington that weekend that apparently took people away from football - especially when the team have been performing...

[Sithslayer1991]

To be fair the Nix crowd makes sense. They went from a high of 2nd. to season over with 6 games to go with the bland football Chiefy implements. Usually though its consistently above 6000 crowd.

I also think the NZ derby has hurt them a lot. They had 3 games where they were outplayed by the new boys on the block and do something every Nix team has failed to do for 17 years, win a trophy. Pretty deflating if your a Nix fan.

[Smoggy]

On 05/04/2025 at 4:45 PM, nmh94 said:

The Kiwis love a bandwagon, and that goes both ways. Wellington got some very good crowds when they were near the top last year, but they have all well and truly jumped off now that they aren't going well. At the other end of the Kiwi bandwagon scale, a great crowd of 18342 in Auckland today.

Auckland's struggles will come regardless of what they do this season. They will have crowds under 5k...just give it time.

[Midfielder]

Melbourne City .... Saturday night game....

Under or over 15+

[Sithslayer1991]

51 minutes ago, Midfielder said:

Melbourne City .... Saturday night game....

Under or over 15+

Possible to get 15k because of school holidays. But whose to say how much the $1 player registration and no NRL played a part in the high crowd. I will be extremely happy if its >12k

[nmh94]

4 hours ago, Midfielder said:

Melbourne City .... Saturday night game....

Under or over 15+

Weather is forecast to be good, so I will go over - just. 

Closest to the pin - I'll go 15241.

[Smoggy]

I will go around 14k. I wont be there unfortunately.

Could be a big crowd final game down at Campbelltown for a change….could be a bit on it.

[Unlimited]

13k on a Sunday night with lots of free tickets… I’d say 17k next Saturday considering it’s a more premium time slot and I’m sure there will be kids who will ask to go again 

[Carns]

I think even 15k is too ambitious. Another 13k again will be impressive if they don't have the ticket deals again.

[Pup55]

I'd be shocked if we beat the crowd figure from Sunday.

7:30pm on a Saturday feels better for us, but it knocks a lot of the kids and families out. As an example, I was in x 6 on Sunday at 5pm with wife + kids + grandparents, but will be flying solo on Saturday.

Should still be a good crowd - I'll go 12,000.

[Smoggy]

17 minutes ago, Pup55 said:

I'd be shocked if we beat the crowd figure from Sunday.

7:30pm on a Saturday feels better for us, but it knocks a lot of the kids and families out. As an example, I was in x 6 on Sunday at 5pm with wife + kids + grandparents, but will be flying solo on Saturday.

Should still be a good crowd - I'll go 12,000.

It's school holidays though..

If we had been playing like this all season and challenging top spot we would be up near 18k..

Let's hope that's next season.

[Davo]

I'm in the same position as Pup. I've brought my son to pretty much all of the 5pm games but he's still a bit young for the 7:30 ones as it's too late by the time we get home.

Last weekend I was there with my son, my dad, my brother, and my niece. For the City game it'll just be me, dad, and brother as it's too late for the kids. I'd imagine there will be plenty of others in that position. Plus when kids come that means both parents can come. When the kids don't come one parent has to stay home with them.

All that, plus not having the $1 ticket deal, plus all the semi regular fans who went last week and probably won't go two weeks in a row, makes me thing this will be a bit smaller. And I can't see City having a bigger away bay than WU.

[SBW]

Anywhere between 12-14k is fine

[MartinTyler]

It's the last home game of the season, we're playing well against 2nd place so it should be a decent and very important game. With it also being school holidays, I think that parents can make this one exception regarding kids being out late.