Yep great initiative. They will need it this season after what happened last year.

Club Total 2015/16 (Total 14/15)

1) Melbourne Victory: 23,261 (24,200)
2) Western Sydney Wanderers: 16,573 (18,706)
3) Sydney FC: 9,455 (11,510)
4) Newcastle Jets: 6,652 (10,003)
5) Melbourne City: 6,417 (11,759)
6) Adelaide United: 5,125 (9,505)
7) Perth Glory : 4,360 (6,298)
8) Central Coast Mariners: 3,473 (6,242)
9) Brisbane Roar: 3,552 (12,113)
10)Wellington Phoenix: 2,218 (4,185)


TOTAL: 81,086 (114,521) ........ as of Round 1 2014 membership count was: 97,252 (rd 1 2013 was 86,352)


Legend: #blue = change < 100 since last update, #violet = change > 100 since last update. #black = no change since update.
Stats are taken from the individual club membership pages, the main a-league tally as well as directly from club representatives.

Adelaide 6,063 just announced on their Twitter.

Big jump!

Edited by victory>heart: 16/9/2015 09:36:09 PM

The latest figures, via http://A-League.com.au, just for sake of posterity and comparison:



Total Members: 80,973

When/how did the Mariner's membership total drop?! Is the difference their Pet Memberships being removed from the count?!

Anyway, I guess you don't need to fret too much Davo, as the member count gets closer to the 2012/13 season start mark - IIRC that was around 85k? :-k

Expect the usual surge come the week leading up to Round 1 and those signing up first couple weeks into the season too. Even despite Roar's uncertainty lingering, this expected late surge may well take the league's total much closer to 100k? :-k

Edited by GloryPerth: 17/9/2015 03:00:48 AM

I doubt we'll even hit 100k in total unless of course they fudge the numbers. We're 18k away. Definitely possible but don't take it for granted.

I don't know how the FFA thought the league was going to crack 130k then 125k members when the writing was on the wall with no club signing up any profile players. The issues surrounding Brisbane and Newcastle add up to no more than 10k in memberships, so even with that in mind we'd need to be at over 100k by now if we had any chance of hitting that 125k mark.

We shall see how the next two weeks go. At this stage if we hit the rd 1 2013 fig of 86 I would be happy.

Absolutely no advertising whatsoever.

More members than Adelaide, Brisbane, CCM, City, Perth and Wellington combined \:d/

Very true.

Not sure why it would have dropped, however CCM aren't selling pet memberships this year.

Business as usual

Usually the media does it for us...for free. But nothing to get the general fans excited I guess. i swear last year it was different. Oh that's right the media were all over it. Must have been because some big player was going to be suiting up for City. Funny how you get that sort of exposure.

Early years the league made it's own ads. No excuse sorry.

Do we even have an ad for this year?

Looks like the FFA and HAL have had big problems to contend with this off-season which has taken away from actually promoting the upcoming season :cry:

How pathetic an excuse

Here's the ad that played during the ad breaks for the Crows game last weekend.

https://www.facebook.com/adelaideunitedfc/videos/10156269583670019/

It's corny, but it worked \:d/

Also I accidentally clicked "memberships will decline from last year" when I didn't want to vote.

Shit I can't change my vote ](*,)

Thank you for that clarification rbs - Was just going by Davo's own updates, which now makes me question:





Davo you updated the Mariners total by 178 from 3,434 to 3,621 on the 7th of September - from where exactly did you source this?! You obviously since revised it down according to the info from the A-League's official site? :?

Flip-side, it's a measure of how the A-League has grown, matured, if the league and it's clubs still build up to 85-90k members come season start - given these circumstances? I think the league will grow by more than the 5k Davo predicts, in the coming couple weeks - that's if most of the clubs grow by 2-3k each in that coming period. AU already grew by a thousand recently, so perhaps things aren't quite so dire? :-k

Sa,me date last season:-

Adelaide United: 6,118
Brisbane Roar: 10,024
Central Coast Mariners: 4,100
Melbourne City: 7,688
Melbourne Victory: 17,693
Newcastle Jets: 7,462
Perth Glory : 4,295
Sydney FC: 9,527
Wellington Phoenix: 2,846
Western Sydney Wanderers: 15,668

Total = 85,421

This is true. I never had fox so i couldnt watch it. But i still saw adds everywhere. Billboard at the cinema and on radio.

Now we are on a fta network and we seem to be doing less.

Very silly

Signed up for my memberships with the family.

Judging by their admin last yer they should be out in time for next season

In a few ways, this just shows what I mean. Apparently AU have grown by 900 or so since the A-League.com's tally. Phoenix have clearly grown by 400 or so in the past week. WSW, Glory and SFC are tracking similarly to last season. Jets and even City aren't too far off their marks from last season (Jets had an understandably slow start too)? Victory are tracking ahead and are already near max - that faster growth covers up for some of the slow growth elsewhere too. In a couple weeks, AU can still push to 7k or so, City and Jets 9k each, Glory to 6k, SFC to 11k, WSW will be capped and even Mariners pushing 5k again? There's always that late push, weeks leading up to the season and early season start itself.

The Mariners figure on that tally is out of date - the club's community manager posted on the Mariners forum on Friday:

Yes that's true. Well this is the price you pay when the ffa have to pay the a-league players more. So when you say that the pfa have the game's best interest at heart, it's not really true is it when the opportunity cost is spending less on marketing the game.

Pretty disappointed that we have to cover Brisbane's slack. FFA shooting themselves in the foot not taking the licence from the Bakries. So many members yet to sign on because of the absolute circus that is surrounding the club.

Sydney - 10,000
City - 6,578

We've just hit 10,000.

Should definitely pass last year, but unsure if we'll hit the 13k target.

I revised it after i saw that the figure changed on the a-league site. I get my figures from a number of sources, sometimes from the mouth of the club directly. I can't remember in this instance whether I used the official figure or the one reported to me directly.

The reason i'm doing the updates is because it creates a continuous discussion point. The official tally gets updated once a week and sometimes is very slow. I guess I could stop altogether but i think it's good to see the comparison compared to previous seasons.