I think their memberships are one of the cheapest in the league. I saw them and the CCM twitter page bantering as to which had the cheapest membership. Shame it doesn't seem to be making much difference. Have no idea how the club isn't running on a hard loss. They must have some very good rental deal with the stadium.

CCM at 4252 around 500 in front of this time last year.

Excellent effort considering the dire effort on the pitch last year.
Puts some of the other clubs to shame tbh

Can anyone comment on how Kiwis approach sporting memberships in general? I imagine because of the popularity, that union memberships would be high. How do the other major sports fair in NZ in regard to memberships though? Is it a Phoenix/football issue, or a cultural thing with the Kiwis.

A contributing factor to the Nix would be that Kiwis probably aren't too interested in supporting their side play in an Australian comp. How would that appeal to Kiwis?

WSW doing one match memberships ?

Join what will be a record breaking crowd at the Sydney Derby next Saturday October 8 with our exclusive Sydney Derby one match pack -

See more at: http://www.wswanderersfc.com.au/article/one-and-five-match-anz-active-support-memberships-now-available/6ep35u57b778zp2sslp2zowg#sthash.vsdpjM31.dpuf

@ Lookatmooy

The one match membership is the workaround for the dumb rule that says only members can stand in active areas. The result is clubs started selling one match memberships to active areas.

If they try to pull that off and add to their membership tally that will be an all new low for the way memberships even work. Basically anyone buying a ticket for the game will be a "member" now all of a sudden we'll probably see their membership figures rise to 25k+ 

If they have used this sort of deceitful tactic in the past, it's no wonder they seem to have double Syd fc members yet a smaller average crowd attendances. Seems they are picking up the bad habits from GWS...

Yes wanderers members are fake according to Davo lol.

Davo i think you need to settle down, you are jumping to a heap of conclusions. Its is a work around to make sure Wanderers active end is as full as possible.

How dare you compare us to that Rabble in GWS, fuck me dead thats low lol.

Hahaha I may have over reacted, especially with comparing WSW with GWS, it shall not happen again. And after reading the article I understand it's to get around the stupid rule of members only in active areas. However i hope they don't try to add it to their official tally. Otherwise it undermines the stats and makes them somewhat useless for comparison to previous years. 

lol you are better than that post you made, honestly i am not a fan of the one match memberships but the 5 match memberships are a great idea

Club Total 2016/17       [%] (Total 15/16) (Total 14/15)

1) Melbourne Victory:   23,187  [85.7%]    (27,054) (24,200) 
2) Western Sydney Wanderers:  18,294  [99.7%] (18,349) (18,706) 
3) Sydney FC:    9,864  [75.0%]    (13,153) (11,510)
4) Melbourne City:   9,521  [102.4%]  (9,298) (11,759)
5) Newcastle Jets:    7,270  [78.5%] (9,264) (10,003)
6) Adelaide United:  7,419  [85.1%]   (8,720) (9,505)
7) Perth Glory :   6,105  [85.9%]   (7,109) (6,298)
8) Central Coast Mariners:   4,252 [70.3%] (6,048) (6,242)
9) Brisbane Roar:  3,936 [73.6%]  (5,347) (12,113)
10) Wellington Phoenix:  2,639  [52.4%]  (5,035) (4,185)

TOTAL:  92,487   (109,377) (114,521)

15/16 = 109,377 ........ as of round 1 2015 membership count was:   89,437
14/15 = 114,521 ........ as of Round 1 2014 membership count was:  97,252 
13/14 =   94,520 ........ as of Round 1 2013 membership count was:  86,352

Legend: #black = no change since update. #blue = change < 100 since last update, #green = 100 - 500, #violet = change > 500 since last update. 
Stats are taken from the individual club membership pages, the main a-league tally as well as directly from club representatives.

A massive jump this past week. ANd we are now officially at a higher number than we were in round 1 of last year and in 13/14. And believe it or not we may even crack 14/15 record by round 1. Quite an achievement all things considered. 

Big increases from Victory, CIty and Adelaide especially.

All in all everyone went up by quite a margin. No club did poorly. Obviously with the launch of the A-league it was to be expected but still great to see. Even lil old Phoenix got above the 50% threshold from last year. Still shocking but at least they got a good kick along in the past week.

Why aren't you a member though? And rocking up to the biggest game on the fixture to stand in the active?

Huh?? I am a member, but of Syd FC. And yeah I will be at the game but had to buy a ticket for it obviously. 

No no. This was in regards to WSW 1 game membership to allow non members into the terraces. 

Wanderers 18336 this morning.

I'm not a fan of the smaller "memberships" being included in total tallies but I'd like to see a break down of all the tiers of membership each club has, including the smaller "memberships".

Season 2015-16 figures, from the a-league website, this date last year:


The latest figures, via http://www.a-league.com.au/membership :

Pretty much every club up. Damn good.

Have no issues with the 5 match memberships, that's more than 1/3 of the season and it can slide. But 1 match would be farcical to add to the "membership" tally.

Yep except for Wellington, Sydney and Victory. 

Victory and Sydney were always going to be lower this time around as last year they were both off the back of making grand finals whereas struggled last season.

Wellington? Didn't realised it was possible to go more backwards, but there's always a first...

But all other clubs doing well.

i completely agree i would like to say the wanderers are not so desperate to do that but maybe the wanderers admin like metrics as much as the ffa like


i forgot that the 1 game memberships are just to allow extra people into the RBB, i very much hope they dont count them because yes that is GWS ish but i agree i would love to see a breakdown of them too

WSW are GWS AF

what do people attribute the late membership rise to?

On the demand side.... first round of the season.

On the supply side... gotta haul ass to get those applications processed before round , lest you want some unhappy campers

Mv's a bit disappointing so far considering the goal of 30 was set. You'd think they will only get a few thousand more.

I think they were just essien' with us

Looking at the figures Melbourne Victory's loss is Melbourne city gain. Amazing that city has signed all its members before the season has started. The balance has swung in melbourne to city side.

Yeahnah...