I suppose the question is, how many people are using them to see the Roar? Are people using them to just see Broncos and Reds? Similar question would need to asked of Allianz membership where we have Waratahs, Roosters, and SFC.

Suncorp Stadium already has 5039 seats allocated for yearly stadium membership. These are SOLD OUT.

http://www.suncorpstadium.com.au/Memberships/Membership_Packages.aspx

Imagine if you can get a membership for all the codes in your city, it would be mutually beneficial for every league.

Melbourne football membership: Your choice of MH/MV + your choice of AFL + Storm + Rebels. Access to GA of all home games. I'd buy that.

Those numbers for the Roar are clearly false. We had around 3800 members last season, we've broken through the 5000 mark comfortably at this stage.

And pv4, there's Suncorp Stadium memberships available. Probably around 1000-2000 of them are at every game, and aren't counted in the official membership tally. Good value if you like both rugby codes and football, or even just two of them.

http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/melbournevictory/

15,645

Whats Sydney's like today?

Brisbane would probably have a higher take up of memberships if they had a smaller stadium

if i were in charge of brisbane roar i'd be pushing for a suncorp-year-pass so you get your broncos fans & roar fans on season passes all year round. could do some serious damage with them, i reckon.

Why should Brisbane be getting the second highest memberships? They play in a state where membership is not part of the tradition for sport. Its only since the Lions rocked up that it was introduced. It is taking hold though. The Broncos actually got membership above 50% of average attendance in the last two seasons and The Reds have had a 400% increase in that time too.

These stats are unofficial so take what I say with a grain of salt, but premierships wont grow a fanbase alone. All clubs need to engage the local community.

Since the numbers are unofficial it has to be taken with a grain of salt, but they are a worry largely because Brisbane should be getting around the second highest in the league, but look no where near it despite winning the grand final for the past two seasons, and a shift towards a membership culture in QLD in other football codes.

I personally won't criticise the numbers until the season starts and we have a better idea of the actual membership count.

Thanks, i really should read other peoples posts. btw I've now fixed it

As per my previous post Melbourne Victory were at 15,300 late last week

Still unofficial for the Roar. I'm not sure why you feel the need to attack our crowd figures considering we average the 2nd highest in the comp.

Are these numbers confirmed?
If so what more do the Brisbane public want, or would they prefer to just goto one game a year if Roar make the Grand Final.

Are Sydney still doing that deal where kids under 12 get a free membership if they play in a team or something along the lines of that?
This season would be the perfect time to hook them in with the rest of their families.

And brisbane were aiming for 10k:S

Adelaide 2000 (August 10th)
Brisbane 2500 (August 12th)
Central Coast 2300 (August 10th)
Heart 4000 (September 12th)
Newcastle 9008 (September 17th)
Perth 5000 (August 10th)
Sydney 7000 (September 9th)
Victory 15300 (Septmber 12th)
Wellington ?
West Sydney 2000 (September 12th)

Edited by tbitm: 18/9/2012 02:00:31 AM

Also they have changed it so they are ticketed members and financial members, you can be both or one or t'other.

http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/adelaideunited/seasontickets

what is the difference for aufc between member & season ticket holder - privilege-wise as well as $ investment? what do you pay extra, and what do you actually get?

it would definitely count as 6...otherwise we'd be a well off club. last year a whole heap of kids memberships were given away for free (or for a very low price) to all green gully juniors from memory..so that boosted numbers as well..

i suppose the A League clubs are becoming like AFL clubs with spitting out all of this crap about so called member numbers, i never believe any of them!

The only club with actual members is AUFC, we have an AGM on the 10th of October.

I agree. Anything above 7,000 would be fine in my opinion as it still means growth from year to year. 9,000 was always an ambitious target.

Year 1 was 5,300 I believe. Then 6,700 last year. But I've wondered as well whether a family membership counts as 1 or 6?

I'm not sure how you would get financial reports from clubs. They're all privately owned, so there's no obligation to provide members with financial reports - unlike actual member owned clubs like AFL clubs. I'm sure it's been discussed before, but it's probably more accurate to say that in the A League, we're season ticket holders rather than members.

I agree though. 4,000 sounds a bit disappointing at this stage. We should be looking at 6,000+ by Round 1. During the season, they will release things like 5 game memberships which might then help push the final numbers up if we're doing well on the pitch.

But betting agencies and even things like 442's season predictions have us bottom two or three in the league at the moment. I'm bemused by all that because I think we've got a stronger squad than last year. But maybe we're fighting a general feeling that we might struggle this season.

Last year around mid december (before the christmas derby) Melbourne Heart started selling three game memberships, it wouldn't surprise me if they were added to last year's membership count...so with that in mind, i very much doubt that our total membership count (of last season) was at 6,500 for the start of or a few weeks in to the season

I think it's fair to say that 9,000 is not a realistic goal, if we have a good start to the season (so that more people buy these 3 game memberships), particularly at home...i wouldn't expect more than 7,200 if the figure of 6,500 is correct

The Heart had something like 4,500 from what I know....but once again, withouth anyone publishing their numbers, you will never know for sure. The one thing which also interests me is the break down of eg Adult Memberships to children...eg I just did a family membership which is 2 Adults and includes 4 kids (even if you don't have 4 kids under 11 or so)....so that counts as 6.

They should just publish revenue earned from Memberships, Corporate boxes, etc...we are entitled to this knowledge as we are paying members!

Pretty sure Heart had around 5k members first season.
But the Melbourne sports market has a huge membership culture.
Not so in Sydney, FC has never had over 7k members, so for WS, if they can get 3k or more first year, that's great.
Their rivalry will build on from there and that'll help both clubs grow.