Why does Tony Pignata keep buying 50 memberships every day just to stay ahead of city?

He keeps rabbits

Let's throw stones now buddy. Sydney are in the Cup final too and their whinging has got them a lot of press.

It looks like http://www.aflsouthafrica.org official site is out of order for the time being.

City have just overtaken Sydney in memberships

LOL!!

Well done City.

Well done City

lol

City has beaten Victory twice easily. lol.

That's great, hopefully their crowds can start nudging 10000.

Then a 15k should be the least to expect then. fit inline with what fc usually gets at smaller games. We'll see how many members actually turn up in tonights game.

Via @FootyIndustry

Na mate they reckon 10k is a good effort apparently.

What's the point of this table? AFL memberships have been on sale less than a month, most teams yet to even launch

Just wondering if anyone is able to fill in the gaps in terms of membership numbers for the following:

North Queensland:

2009–10:
2010–11:

Gold Coast United:

2009–10:
2010–11:
2011–12:

For right now, it is just to show the running total of FFA memberships.  Wookie keeps updating it all year for the 3 codes.  It isn't for a direct comparison between the codes at any one time really.

CCM passed 5500 last Friday

http://forum.insidesport.com.au/803247/Furyontracktobreakmembershiprecord?PageIndex=2
As of first game 10-11 fury had approx 3.5K and 30% less than that in 09-10

The latest A-League Club Membership Tally from, www.A-League.com.au/membership:


Over to you Davo. :)

Dream on. Last season 4 of your games were sub 10k and over half were sub 13k. And 8/13 were sub 15k the season before.

Good question MCMH - Oh wow, your question has prompted me to look and I found this even earlier thread about the forum - for those 2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons. But unfortunately, we couldn't compile much in way of info back then:

http://forum.insidesport.com.au/1140708/Membershipnumbersfor1011and1112seasons

Ah, found this for GCU:
http://www.theroar.com.au/2012/02/15/whats-to-be-done-with-gold-coast-united/
Feb 2012 -

There's this too, just in Fury's last days - not so much firm figures, but gives you an idea of where they were striving to be, but were falling short:
www.foxsports.com.au/football/a-league/north-queensland-fury-dropped-from-a-league-after-being-unable-to-front-15million-for-licence/story-e6frf4gl-1226014174045

Recent years the revived, NPL-based Fury entity, with Rabieh Krayem as Chariman suggested they have been aiming for 5k members as part of their push to be re-admitted into the A-League at some point: Jan 2014 - http://www.foxsports.com.au/football/a-league/simon-says-plans-being-made-to-reinstate-expansion-north-queensland-fury-into-the-aleague/story-e6frf4gl-1226806412802

SFC - 11,356
Shitty - 11,373

TBF, Citeh has had 3 A-l games in Melbourne and 2 Cup home matches already this year and we have had 1 away derby, 1 home game and an away Cup game in outskirts of Sydney.

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

1) Melbourne Victory:   25,282  [93.5%]    (27,054) (24,200) 
2) Western Sydney Wanderers:  18,793  [102.4%] (18,349) (18,706) 
3) Melbourne City:   11,379  [122.4%]  (9,298) (11,759)
4) Sydney FC:    11,356  [86.3%]    (13,153) (11,510)
5) Adelaide United:  9,495  [108.9%]   (8,720) (9,505)
6) Newcastle Jets:    8,310  [89.7%] (9,264) (10,003)
7) Perth Glory :   6,727  [94.6%]   (7,109) (6,298)
8) Central Coast Mariners:   5,674 [93.8%] (6,048) (6,242)
9) Brisbane Roar:  5,650 [105.7%]  (5,347) (12,113)
10) Wellington Phoenix:  3,907  [77.6%]  (5,035) (4,185)

TOTAL:  106,573   (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.

2 weeks have gone by since my last update, and the two clubs that have stalled with regards to membership numbers are WSW and Perth Glory (can't see them hitting their target). Big jumps by City, Brisbane and CCM. 

We are growing at a rate of 2k per week overall now. And I think we will see a further slow down as the next month or two passes as the season is now getting into full swing. If we are lucky we may hit last seasons total in a fortnight from now but I doubt it unless certain clubs make bigger jumps. Expecting WSW and Sydney to climb a little higher too. 

I still think we will probably end up at around 113k-114k overall. 

In my honest opinion, next season we must have 8 of the 10 clubs getting 10k members
Victory 
WSW
Sydney 

Are all locks to get 10k
City are now nearly becoming locks to get 10k
Adelaide are nearly there this season and should aim to break 10k as a base next season
The Jets have done it 2 years ago and should strive for it next season
Brisbane too have done it in the past and as a major city and being the only team should do it,
So too Perth.

The only 2 that probably can't are CCM and Wellington

Won't we have a dodgy 3 membership packs that get thrown around post Christmas and our numbers will be boosted to 125k?

Ah yes, the old AFL's way!!!

One thing that strikes me is the complete lack of relationship between membership numbers and crowds. There are just so many factors to throw in to influence crowd numbers, that membership numbers are rendered virtually meaningless.
Mariners have more members at present than Brisbane but 20K turned up last night, and there is no way there Mariners will get that sort of crowd at all in the forseeable future.
The biggest blindspot is Sydney FC, who consistently pull in much larger crowds than there membership numbers, possibly due to 3 reasons....1. there is at present no need to secure a sport due to the stadium size, 2. the junior blues (uncounted) free membership and 3. the hidden factor, about 2-3K stadium trust members that turn up each week that would never buy a sydney FC membership as it would be financially pointless to do so but yet are not counted in the tally. 

Cost is a factor as well....was it last year or the year before when Jets opened up the $10 membership deal, spiking up dramatically their numbers? It is simply not a level playing field.