This.

Fact is, despite Wanderers' higher membership numbers, both Sydney clubs are about neck and neck. 

Seems there are a lot of Wanderers 'fans' that only turn up to games like the one at ANZ, probably bought a shirt in the inaugural season and have probably only been to 3 or 4 games since. 

Were also top the league for most of last season.

I'd rather play Sunday evening than Saturday arvo, and come on it's hardly an arctic breeze one light jumper and jeans and you're well warm. I'm not even saying it's that bad a crowd, but then neither are most of ours and Wanderers are the first to jump all over it if it's anything under 17k

haha its pathetic with all the success and close-distance population they have that they can give us shit for getting decent crowds at allianz. Will get even worse for wanderers as the season goes on id imagine

To be fair, its Brisbanes biggest game of the season also.

It is disappointing that WSW got less than their membership tally on their first nonderby home match. Even more so that their new home ground has a larger capacity and they were screaming for a bigger stadium due to demand. Hopefully next home game they get more than 20k to justify expanding parra and for the sake of the A-League

Sunday evening, cold weather in Sydney, playing Newy. 13k is fantastic I reckon.

Games with less than 5k attendance Seasons 1-12 NOT including Finals matches. Total season games in brackets

Season One 10(84) 11.9%
Season Two 12(84) 14.3%
Season Three Nil(84) 0.00%
Season Four Nil(84) 0.00%
Season Five 13(135) 9.6%
Season Six 34(165) 25.2%
Season Seven 15(135) 11.11%
Season Eight 5(135) 3.7%
Season Nine Nil(135)0.0%
Season Ten 2(135)0.2%
Season Eleven 1(135)0.7%
Season Twelve 0(15) 0%

Games between 5k and 10k attendance Seasons 1-12 Not including Finals. Total season games in brackets

Season One 28(84) 33.33%
Season Two 22(84) 26.9%
Season Three 20(84) 23.8%
Season Four 38(84) 45.2%
Season Five 79(135) 58.5%
Season Six 82(165) 49.7%
Season Seven 54(135) 40.0%
Season Eight 56(135) 41.4%
Season Nine 46(135)34%
Season Ten 60(135)44.4%
Season Eleven 53(135)39.3%
Season Twelve 6(15) 40%

Games between 10k - 15k attendance Seasons 1-12 NOT including Finals matches. Total season games in brackets

Season One 31(84) 36.9%
Season Two 26(84) 31.0%
Season Three 34(84) 40.5%
Season Four 28(84) 33.33%
Season Five 24(135) 17.8%
Season Six 36(165) 23.63%
Season Seven 48(135)35.6%
Season Eight 39(135) 28.9%
Season Nine 48(135)35.6%
Season Ten 44(135)32.6%
Season Eleven 54(135)40.0%
Season Twelve 5(15)33.33%

Games with between 15k - 20k attendance Seasons 1-12 NOT including Finals matches. Total season games in brackets

Season One 11(84) 13.1%
Season Two 12(84) 14.3%
Season Three 16(84) 19.0%
Season Four 7(84) 8.3%
Season Five 11(135) 8.1%
Season Six 7(165) 4.2%
Season Seven 10(135) 7.4%
Season Eight 21(135) 15.6%
Season Nine 27(135) 20.0%
Season Ten 12(135)8.9%
Season Eleven 13(135)9.6%
Season Twelve 2(15)13.33%

Games with more than 20k attendance Seasons 1- 12 NOT including Finals matches. Total season games in brackets

Season One 4(84) 4.8%
Season Two 12(84) 14.3%
Season Three 14(84) 16.7%
Season Four 11(84) 13.1%
Season Five 8(135) 5.9%
Season Six 6(165) 4.4%
Season Seven 8(135) 5.9%
Season Eight 14(135) 10.4%
Season Nine 14(135)10.4%
Season Ten 17(135)12.6%
Season Eleven 14(135)10.4%
Season Twelve 2(15)13.33%                                  

My understanding is that virtually from day one SFC had a deal with SFS to play all home games there unless the SFS was unavailable for some reason. It looks like the parties to that agreement cannot see any reason to terminate it.

Lol wanderers fans tried to give us so much shit for only getting 15.5k against Mariners last week (even though it looked much more like 17k but that's another story).
The team to have made 3 GFs in the last 4 seasons only with 13.2k = tragic!

Regular Season

Season Nine(135) 1,761,161
Season Ten(135) - 1,689,510
Season Eleven(135) 1,662,729
Season Eight(135) 1,661,830
Season Seven(135) 1,415,782
Season Six(165) 1,384,902 .
Season Five(135) 1,322,475
Season Three(84) 1,227,273
Season Two(84) 1,085,829
Season Four(84) 1,023,147
Season One(84) 920,219
Season Twelve(15) 249,637

Regular Season Averages by season

Season One 10,955
Season Two 12,927
Season Three 14,610
Season Four 12,180
Season Five 9,796
Season Six 8,393
Season Seven 10,487
Season Eight 12,310
Season Nine 13,046
Season Ten 12,515
Season Eleven 12,317
Season Twelve 16,643

Season average, by average

Season Twelve 16,643
Season Three 14,610
Season Nine 13,046
Season Two 12,927
Season Ten 12,515
Season Eleven 12,317
Season Eight 12,310
Season Four 12,180
Season One 10,955
Season Seven 10,487
Season Five 9,796
Season Six 8,393

Finals Attendances

Season One(6)126,237
Season Two(6)177,672
Season Three(6)154,118
Season Four(6)143,819
Season Five(7)151,206
Season Six(7)121,635
Season Seven(7)119,147
Season Eight(5) 105,255
Season Nine (5) 128,566
Season Ten (6) 137,825
Season Eleven (5) 117,122

Regular season plus finals

Season Nine(135) 1,761,161 + (5) 128,566 = 1,889,727
Season Ten(135) 1,689,510 + (5) 137,825 = 1,827,335
Season Eleven(135) 1,662,729+ (5) 117,122 = 1,779,851
Season Eight(135) 1,661,830 + (5) 105,255 = 1,767,085
Season Seven(135) 1,415,782 +(7)119,147 = 1,534,929
Season Six(165) 1,384,902 +(7)121,635 = 1,506,537
Season Five(135) 1,322,475 +(7)151,206 = 1,473,681
Season Three(84) 1,227,273 + (6)154,118 = 1,381,391
Season Two(84) 1,085,829 + (6)177,672 = 1,263,501
Season Four(84) 1,023,147 + (6)143,819 = 1,166,966
Season One(84) 920,219 + (6)126,237 = 1,046,456
Season Twelve(15) 249,637 + (15) = 249,637

Season One(84) 920,219 + (6)126,237 = 1,046,456
Season Two(84) 1,085,829 + (6)177,672 = 1,263,501
Season Three(84) 1,227,273 + (6)154,118 = 1,381,391
Season Four(84) 1,023,147 + (6)143,819 = 1,166,966
Season Five(135) 1,322,475 +(7)151,206 = 1,473,681
Season Six(165) 1,384,902 +(7)121,635 = 1,506,537
Season Seven(135) 1,415,782 +(7)119,147 = 1,534,929
Season Eight(135) 1,661,830 + (5)105,255= 1,767,085
Season Nine(135) 1,761,161 + (5) 128,566 = 1,889,727
Season Ten(135) 1,689,510 + (4) 137,825 = 1,827,335
Season Eleven(135) 1,662,729+ (5) 117,122 = 1,779,851
Season Twelve(15) 249,637 + (15) = 249,637                                

WSW and City fans better show up next week raining or not, sunday night or not, those are pretty poor numbers for their first proper home games of the season (proper being their normal home ground, spotless)

Round Three
Melbourne City v Perth Glory - 8,076
Central Coast Mariners vs Brisbane Roar - 7,073
Adelaide United v Melbourne Victory - 14,908
Wellington Phoenix v Sydney FC - 7,365
Western Sydney Wanderers v Newcastle Jets - 13,247

Round Total (5 games) - 50,669
Season Total (15 games) - 249,637

Round Average (5 games) - 10,134     
Season Average (15 games) -  16,643

NEXT WEEK - looking a lot more promising

City/Reds - 13,000 (weather looks good)
Jets/Sydney - 12,000 (Jets going well and FC fans must travel surely)
WSW/CCM - 16,000 (prime slot so will be a lot bigger than Sunday night)
Roar/PG - 14,000 (standard Roar Sunday crowd coming up)
Vic/Nix - 24,000 (always draw well on cup eve)

TOTAL - 79,000.

Would be lovely to crack 80,000, hopefully Jets, City and Roar can draw a bit more than predicted.

So after three rounds, the only teams to give a higher attendance than Brisbanes first game was the two derbies.

There is no reason SFC cannot play at least five of their games a season at either Kogarah, Belmore or Liechardt. Belmore has the best Public transport link, Kogarah feels like a better home base and technically i thick Liechardt is central to Eastern Sydney.

Victory share their games between two stadiums, and if we want to really become the biggest club in the country, we need to have a similar approcah in my opinion.

belmore, liechardt and campbelltown all deserve packed crowds, their tv look does no justice to the game experience at the grounds when they rafters are full

What they should do is bite the bullet and play at Hutt Recreational park. If it fits 9k with temporary seating, it cant cost that much to make it permanent. If they signe a deal to play 7-9 games a year there (no night games. They barely play any anyway) for 3 years they will (owners) probably do it for free.

We (a-league fans) are to precious about our stadium criteria. We are like a high maintenance girlfriend. It has to be this and that and blah blah blah......

Thise who complain about Ballymore, Hutt, Belmore, Kogarah, South Melbourne Stadium. Seriously, go to clubs like Everton, Milan and Chelsea. There holes. The only difference is that they are packed full of fans and have atmospheres out of this world.

If all clubs just played in suitable stadiums (hello SFC) it would be a much more atractive game day atmosphere.

13247

Round Three
Melbourne City v Perth Glory - 8,076
Central Coast Mariners vs Brisbane Roar - 7,073
Adelaide United v Melbourne Victory - 14,908
Wellington Phoenix v Sydney FC - 7,365

Wonder how much it costs the league to ship a team across the ditch to receive little in return from gate sales, memberships and tv money.

bbbut herp derp Auckland, Welly 2, Singapore and Tahiti 4 da er league.

Yup. Splashing out $150m or whatever is going to help them survive

At the moment they have a 4 year extension with additional extensions under condition. They can be dropped in 4 years, 7 or 10. Not much incentive to build. 

Adelaide had the same crowd last week against WSW. 

Victory twitter said we took 700 away to Adelaide, but it looks like a lot of Victory fans bought tickets from other areas once the away area sold out and just came in anyway.

Either way, great, great showing.

I'm convinced for Wellington to survive they need to build a 10-15k stadium.

Keep on filling it like the past two weeks and Adelaide United have a massive case to fill in the ends, upgrade the facilities and turn it into Australia's best 25k boutique venue.

Was tempted to sneak into the womans for a quick piss ;)
For games like that the stadiums limitations come to light

For the away support? You had the bottom two bays packed and the two above a bit more sparse