City are actually doing better than I expected. It's poor but to be expected.

After last years bad PR about the Villa situation and a rather inconsistent season, many seem reluctant to want to renew this year.

Success, both in terms of results and a proactive style of play, will assist in achieving some growth but we will only see a star signing truly bring the interest. It must be executed far better next time though.

Didn't City say they wanted 14k members this season? They obviously won't reach it, but they certainly have the money to generate enough PR and get a good marquee.

I suppose like any business they don't want to spend more money when they know they won't get a return. Still, it'd be great to see them bring over two decent European stars as marquees.

A lot will come down to Brisbane and whether they have a huge late surge. Last weekend was promising and the way the club is playing could indicate that they may very well get a big increase in memberships in weeks to come which was incomprehensible weeks ago. A 3-4k increase is still possible for them.

My guess is that they wanted to NYC up and running properly first. Now that they already have designated players signed up over there, they will likely to focus their attention to Melb City this time around. There's a good chance Koren will be off by season's end if not sooner, and there's also a chance that Mooy will be off too. Mooy is providing exceptional value to the a-league at the moment and will be very hard to replace.

Would be good. City definitely have a lot of potential.

As a Victory fan, I want City to get bigger, purely so that the two can have the biggest sporting rivalry in Melbourne.

team ground reserved ga number
Adelaide United    Coopers    $432    $292    4k
Brisbane Roar    Suncorp    All reserved    $265+    3.3k
Central Coast    Central Coast    $280+    $200    3.3k
Melbourne City    AAMI Park    $250+    $240    5.4k
Melbourne Victory    AAMI Park    $245+*    $238/$245    20.2k
Newcastle Jets    Hunter    $325/$235/$160    $160/$150    5.5k
Perth Glory    nib    $450+    $295    3.9k
Sydney FC    Allianz    $350+    $230/$250    6.8k
Wellington Phoenix    Westpac    All reserved    NZ$189+    1.6k
W. Sydney Wanderers    Pirtek    $295+    $225/$250    15.1k

Why do Adelaide and Perth have such high membership prices,
Phoenix seem to have low membership prices why do they have such low numbers.

Really interesting stats nickk.. Can't believe how high the Adelaide and Perth reserved seat memberships are. I know they play out of smaller stadiums, but those stadiums are never full. The only time Coopers is full is when they play Victory.

Somewhere off in the distance my year 12 economics teacher is saying 'price elasticity of demand.' Good on Adelaide for knowing how to make their numbers sing. Cheapest rent, most expensive tickets, club reaks even. Works for me.

Looking at the list it's pretty obvious who gets to charge the big bucks. Shit stadium = cheap tickets. The exception is MV, but that's because bigger numbers give them to freedom to pitch low.

MV 26229

Club Total 2015/16 (Total 14/15)

1) Melbourne Victory: 26,229 (24,200)
2) Western Sydney Wanderers: 17,577 (18,706)
3) Sydney FC: 11,639 (11,510)
4) Newcastle Jets: 8,179 (10,003)
5) Adelaide United: 7,840 (9,505)
6) Melbourne City: 7,713 (11,759)
7) Brisbane Roar: 5,994 (12,113)
8) Central Coast Mariners: 5,511 (6,242)
9) Perth Glory : 5,135 (6,298)
10)Wellington Phoenix: 3,612 (4,185)


TOTAL: 99,429 (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.

As expected big jump from Brisbane which is good to see, but they will certainly won't get anywhere near the figure they got last year. On the plus side, they get more game day ticket buyers.

Only the phoenix didn't increase by more than 100 memberships this past week, and considering the news yesterday I severely doubt they will sell anymore.

Source: http://www.a-league.com.au/membership

Edited by GloryPerth: 30/10/2015 01:48:42 AM

That is dated yesterday but interestingly enough Davo's tally has 1,000 more members?

Either the Roar should be on 6,081 on this tally or they gave an incorrect figure the week before.

Would dearly love to know if we are pulling shenanigans with our member count. Wouldn't surprise me to hear we're counting memberships given as part of the NPL juniors program.

Anyway, part of the reason those costs are so high is because they are for new memberships. Renewals get a decent discount on that. Like $295 -> $225

That's because the a-league update sporadically. I use the figures that the club broadcasts, and the ffa slowly catch up.

From the 30th of Oct:

Wellington Phoenix ✔ @WgtnPhoenixFC
MEMBERSHIP UPDATE: 228 sold last 4 days now 3891. Thankyou! Need to get to 5k+. Go to http://goo.gl/fjaL3W or YFs https://goo.gl/iAPqLW

Went to the game last night, and pretty sure they put up on the big screen that Victory had gone up to 26,538 members. I'm sure this number will come out today/tomorrow.

Surely it's time that Melb City start doing some firing. Their aim was to reach 13k this season, looks like they will barely reach just over half that. Scott Munn surely has to go now. And JVS is proving to be just as inconsistent as last season. It's actually amazing how inconsistent they are.

They have all the potential in the world. This season is the best squad City-Heart has ever had.

Most of that is Mooy though.

Wanderers 17631 after Sunday's game.

Wellington Phoenix ‏@WgtnPhoenixFC 21m
4023 Members - THANK YOU! Let's get to 5000 now to #savethenix! Options at http://goo.gl/T4ukvW or donate $ at https://goo.gl/TKpwrA

Club Total 2015/16 (Total 14/15)

1) Melbourne Victory: 26,538 (24,200)
2) Western Sydney Wanderers: 17,631 (18,706)
3) Sydney FC: 11,639 (11,510)
4) Newcastle Jets: 8,218 (10,003)
5) Adelaide United: 7,928 (9,505)
6) Melbourne City: 7,918 (11,759)
7) Brisbane Roar: 5,994 (12,113)
8) Central Coast Mariners: 5,601 (6,242)
9) Perth Glory : 5,135 (6,298)
10)Wellington Phoenix: 4,023 (4,185)


TOTAL: 100,625 (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.

Still waiting on Sydney, Perth and Brisbane to update but either way i think we're getting very close to our total for this season. 5 of the clubs recorded less than 100 members each this past week, and that figure is only going to slow down in the coming 2-3 weeks. I think we'll probably total off at around 103k - 104k. It will result in a total 9% drop from last season. All in all not a bad result when you consider all the turmoil. To think that only a few years ago our total didn't even reach the 100k mark and that was even during good news period, so we've definitely made ground.

Next season will be interesting. With some good news stories flowing in and perhaps a couple of marketable marquee players to boost the feel good news articles, we should see the membership figure closer up to the 120k mark. Assuming of course that we don't have unrest at more than one club (which is likely to happen to at least one club) and that we're still not dealing PFA issues nor Savethenix campaigns.

Waiting to see what happens but really can't see the likes of Piovacari, Holosko or Koren being resigned at their respective clubs, and now that there are 2 positions available for international marquees, I reckon we could see a real injection, at least from Melb City as they have LOTS of catching up to do.

Can Melbourne continue to sell any form of membership after the Etihad games are over?
AAMI really should have been 40K - you can blame John Brumby

John Brumby made the contract with Etihad/AFL in regards to stadia size approx 10 years before he was Premier?

Cool story bro!

Edited by Joffa: 5/11/2015 10:35:51 PM

Edited by Joffa: 5/11/2015 10:47:24 PM

The decision to reduce the stadium capacity to 31K, from the 40K+ that Melbourne management wanted, was from John Brumby's government

The Wikipedia information is misleading.
The stadium was delayed as the Brumby govt needed Melb to sign on as a tenant. Melb wanted a 40K+ capacity. The Brumby govt compromised with 31K from 20K. The chickens are coming home to roost.

3 of the 4 clubs playing out of AAMI are quite happy with the size of the ground. It's a problem for us but the right decision by the government IMO.

As for memberships, I believe they'll keep selling GA memberships throughout the season.