Well, I can guarantee you that if 11000 upsets you then you aren't going to be happy.

Maybe it's also the fact we have seen no progress. If this is such a great result we need to be capitalising on this with expansion. But we are not. Why?

Everything comes back to potential

In a closed off elite league rigged for entertainment value, 11,000 for the West Sydney team is shit. This is a team that was often pushing its capacity hosting its second biggest rival

6,000 is good for a bottom table fringe team in an open league, and 2,000 is good for a second tier that is predominately player development. Elitists might choke on these figures but the most important thing is viability, and that comes from the top teams as we see time and time again all over the world

Too many people are hung up over this one size fits all 10,000 figure. The potential of each region is vastly different. And if the A League was tipped to average 10,000 when it was just the NSL with a coat of paint, then 13 years later its hardly a benchmark

In the same time the EPL has been in the same 34-36k attendance range. Growing attendances is one thing, but growing revenue at the gate is another. Compare the ticket prices to 13 years ago. There's the other half of the story there. That not including the fact you're ripping in to a team's crowds when their stadium is under construction, which is frankly baffling. WS is averaging 14k this year playing in two stadiums their fans hate with a passion. That's bloody good going.

Melbourne City v Adelaide United @MRS - 8103 (source: herald sun)

newish video

NJ v WP = 10,877
SFC v CCM = 13,511

Source - Ultimate A-League

MCI v NUJ = 7,990

It’s really sad because it was a great game. Arzani could be a future Socceroo and nobody would even know where he started his career.

A lot more freebies thrown around last sunday especially those who had tennis tickets which is why the crowd was bigger against adelaide. It was a cracking game last night and im regretting not taking up the free corporate tickets that were thrown my way.

Big Blue 21,037

Was this the lowest?

20,053 in 2011-12 was lower.  Not sure if that is the lowest though.

Think 19k was the lowest a couple of years ago. Would have been less then that if the rains had started an hour or so earlier.

Pretty decent all things considered

wellington v adelaide 6746 (stuff.co.nz)

Protest in NZ because they want their own league.

CCM v Roar - 5,264

I think Melbourne masks how terribly this league is doing .

This may be the first season since season 6 that MV have averaged less than 20k

Perth v WSW 9317 (hal site)

Pretty decent Perth crowd considering it clashed with the opening of the Citys new stadium v England

Not to mention 5 losses on the trot.

Really wanting to see Perth get back to where they should be. They really ought to be averaging 15k in their ground.

10,220 SFC/Nix.

Lol shit club shit fans. Cue excuses. 

They need a new stadium

A smaller one😁

If all these other awesome clubs could play better football the competition might drive interest. 

But it was your club lol and your fans. What an excuse. 

All I see is my club beating all before them and playing the best football the league has seen, that isn't my definition of a shit club. You should fuck off and watch AFLW, they get good crowds.