World Cup bump?

Good work TBITM, I just updated the Sydney/City figures and added in the links so it should be easier to update from now on. Like last years.

2013/14 Membership Sales August 5th

Adelaide - 3,408
Brisbane - 3,000
Central Coast - 3,100
Heart - 3,018
Newcastle - 7,000
Perth -
Sydney - 6,422
Victory - 12,766
Wellington - 2,348
West Sydney - 14,285

Total membership sales = 55,347

2014/15

Adelaide United: 4,800
Brisbane Roar: 9,087
Central Coast Mariners: 3,000
Melbourne City: 6,361
Melbourne Victory: 12,041 (+712)
Newcastle Jets: 5,003
Perth Glory : 2,500
Sydney FC: 6,657
Wellington Phoenix: 1,000
Western Sydney Wanderer: 10,098

Total = 60,547

http://www.sydneyfc.com/
http://membership.melbournecityfc.com.au/
http://wanderers.memberhq.com.au/
http://www.membership.newcastlejets.com.au/
http://www.melbournevictory.com.au/

Edited to include Victory update. Crashed through 60k and now over 5k ahead of last years membership mark.

Key differences:

Brisbane & Melbourne City main reasons for increase.
But bear in mind that pretty much all memberships went on sale later this year, and so i only think that the gap will widen.....

Overall great news.

Edited by tambo: 5/8/2014 05:23:43 PM

Victory membership hasn't been updated since Thursday so will be well over 12,000 now considering Cat A cutoff was on Friday. Positive is that despite City tracking at 105% better than last season, they haven't taken any members for Victory. Bodes well for football in Melbourne.

2013/14 Membership Sales August 5th

Adelaide - 3,408
Brisbane - 3,000
Central Coast - 3,100
Heart - 3,018
Newcastle - 7,000
Perth -
Sydney - 6,422
Victory - 12,766
Wellington - 2,348
West Sydney - 14,285

Total membership sales = 55,347

2014/15

Adelaide United: 4,800
Brisbane Roar: 9,087
Central Coast Mariners: 3,000
Melbourne City: 6,356
Melbourne Victory: 11,329
Newcastle Jets: 5,003
Perth Glory : 2,500
Sydney FC: 6,551
Wellington Phoenix: 1,000
Western Sydney Wanderer: 10,098

Total = 59,724

Finally caught up to last season even with the late start. It also doesn't seem as dire for Victory like most here thought. Wellington and jest otoh aren't looking too good

Wanderers 10,098.

Mariners at 3K ...

The Jerks have a membership counter on their membership page:

http://www.membership.newcastlejets.com.au/

Note: it has been confirmed by the club that Pet Memberships are NOT included in the counter.

Yup this is very true. I think Brisbane Roar has finally established itself as one of Brisbane's premier teams, everyone know's who they are now and highly respect them, I've talked to Rugby League fans, AFL fans ect who may not like football and prefer their sports but are full of praise for the Roar and do go and see games from time to time.

Source?

Good membership updates today.

Jets, Brisbane, sydney, city, wanderers all up on the released figures.

Jerks: 5003

I get the feeling The Roar are gaining acceptance in Brisbane .For a long time fans of other codes derided 'boring Soccer'.Nowdays the resistance seems to have faded.
Interestingly there are many Platinum memberships.There was virtually nothing left in the Western stand soon after the holding period for renewing memberships expired.

The change of ownership was a massive factor, after our first championship our owners left and the FFA took control and did very little in terms or trying to grow the club. The Bakries came in and have been slowly growing the club via a number of programs and initiates ever since.

There's no reason why Brisbane can't be a 15k+ team membership wise, the new membership portal should help them go close to that but price could also become an issue.

I agree... In particular because last years grand final wasn't anything amazing game wise.

Hard to prove, but do you think possibly some were converted by the wsw fans and the awesome atmosphere they created. along with the Brisbane fans helped to showcase something different to other sports?

i wonder why Brisbane did not have that much of a growth with their 2 first championships(compared with this time) no matter the answer its great to see

Edited by Swarth: 4/8/2014 05:41:26 PM

Genuine growth thanks to their success, as well as the club being fully in charge of the membership program now. Allowing for the memberships to be paid in monthly instalments.

Was a record almost 1k ago. Absolutely great stuff by the roar. Should go close to securing 12,000 members which would represent a 50% increase on memberships, on what was already a record last season.

Any roar members in this forum? Are ticket prices cheaper this season or is this genuine growth?

They have sold 1,000 memberships in about 2 weeks if i remember correctly. Pretty amazing.

NVM.

Edited by aufc_ole: 4/8/2014 04:36:08 PM

roar 9087

9087 for the Roar. Record?

9585

To be honest, I'm not sure how they can azzaMVFC aside from Zutto09's suggestion - which helps somewhat and that indeed directly relates to the FFA and their scheduling. Some of the early arvo kick-offs and the extreme Summer heat. That would certainly help to a degree, but not too substantively - crowds were already very good/promising, even during those times, during early last season and the difference of a later kick off those days - I'm not sure how great?

In many ways guys Glory were or even ARE already 'near' drawing the kind of crowds we all hope to see. Their crowd average last season was the second highest in their A-League history - 9,400 or so may not sound that impressive, but it's only a few hundred off 9.7k they drew, season one of the A-League (When some of the lustre of NSL-era, still Nick Tana owned, Glory still lingered!)!

It would've been higher had the club not seen that Edwards fiasco/and or that downturn in results it did under Lowe circa Jan, which put us out of the finals race. 10k crowds and a new record level of memberships for their A-League time, is only just around the corner - better scheduling and a better run of results and Glory might do even better! No baby out of the bathwater needed, just a few more tweaks. Lowe's 're-appointment' was a disappointment to a few of we hard-cores or some such, but many of the thousands won't care too much, aslong as this season's team is performing and getting the results, playing in conditions and at times of the day that make for a good day/evening out.

Edited by GloryPerth: 3/8/2014 11:48:52 PM

Give perth more saturday 700pm kickoff..

WSW have cracked 9500 apparently

Well it looks like the FFA needs to do a bit more to grow the game in Perth. I know you guys have some fantastic junior clubs and development coaches, a high participation level in both juniors and seniors, so there's no reason why Perth Glory shouldn't have a lot more members. The FFA is much bigger than basketballs governing body, work needs to be done!

It's partly true - Perth has variety too, as seen in, ironically, 'purple patches' for the Wildcats, Glory and now Wildcats support again. Same too with Western Force. Now that's something Adelaide don't and have never had. We even had the Western Reds NRL/Super League team for a brief period? Not trying to provoke WA v SA thing FTR.

But anyway, you guys aren't wrong and I suffer it often with those I'm surrounded by. But same time, we have cosmopolitan elements and our experiences don't necessary reflect the whole reality. Go to Freo, Subi and other areas closer to the city and it may be different. Freo's had Labor members too, where the wider city and state have slanted Liberal, state-wise and nationally for a long while now. I guess Freo and the like can be classed as the inner city, Cafe Latte-type areas of the city though, so perhaps not quite representative of the 'burbs. :/

I think it comes down to Chicken and the Egg and the isolation aspect is something we can't deny and are ever fighting, to bring and keep all sorts of events over here, to mixed success. The Chicken and the Egg, includes some of my above examples - the reason why some of these variety of activities don't exist/flourish here, IS because they WERE tried here in the past and didn't last for whatever reason. That is again why it's a fight in a variety of fronts, from the Arts, Sports, Big Events etc... to have things over here. If people keep up their level of interest in the Wildcats... Glory can return to levels anywhere near their heyday, as too Force, if the NRL can brave a move here, Hopman Cup Tennis keeps drawing crowds, the Art Gallery persists with displays from New York etc... The Fringe Festival's and co continue to be a big success, then perhaps Perth can start to prove it's bit more cosmopolitan than it's past reputation has suggested... Dullsville which some NY Magazine tagged us ('one of the most boring cities') in the late 90s , which we still haven't quite gotten over.

Edited by GloryPerth: 3/8/2014 12:48:06 AM

2014/15

Adelaide United: 4,800
Brisbane Roar: 8,554
Central Coast Mariners: 2,200
Melbourne City: 6,294
Melbourne Victory: 11,329
Newcastle Jets: 4,563
Perth Glory : 2,500
Sydney FC: 6,551
Wellington Phoenix: 1,000
Western Sydney Wanderer: 9,312

Total = 57,103

thank fuck i live in sydney, some places sound painful to live in

Adelaide is just as big of an AFL bubble really, but luckily it is still close enough to the rest of the states to not be sucked into the vortex completely. This allows a small amount of variation in sporting interest, but Perth/WA unfortunately does not have that luxury.



Edited by heart_fan: 2/8/2014 03:38:57 PM