Round 8 of the 2023-24 #ALM season was attended by 40,996 people at an average of 6,833 per game. (24% of capacity). This season 361,788 people have attended the #ALM at an average of 7,537 per game (26% of capacity). This figure is down 9.56% on the first 8 rounds of the 2022-23 season

Code	Week	Day	Date	Time	Home	Away	Venue	Crowd	Capacity	%Capacity
ALM	8	Fri	15/12	1730	Western United	Brisbane	Aami Park	2,842	30,050	9.46%
ALM	8	Fri	15/12	1915	Western Sydney	Adelaide	Commbank Stadium	8,034	30,000	26.78%
ALM	8	Sat	16/12	1730	Newcastle	Perth	McDonald Jones	4,714	30,000	15.71%
ALM	8	Sat	16/12	1915	Melb Victory	Sydney	Aami Park	14,607	30,050	48.61%
ALM	8	Sun	17/12	1630	Melb City	Central Coast	Aami Park	5,906	30,050	19.65%
ALM	8	Mon	18/12	1830	MAcarthur	Wellington	Campbelltown	4,893	17,500	27.96%
							Total	40,996	167,650	24.45%
							Average	6,833
							Season Total	361,788	1,378,295	26.25%
							Season Average	7,537
							2022-23 Season Total	375,051	1,245,795	30.11%
							2022-23 Season ave	8,334
							Difference	-9.56%

Round 8 of the 2023-24 #ALW season was attended by 13,065 people at an average of 2,178 per match (19% of capacity). This season has been attended by 111,327 at an average of 2,474 (up 17%), while standalone matches have been attended by 78,410 at an average of 1,713 per game (up 35%).

Code	Week	Day	Date	Time	Home	Away	Venue	Crowd	Capacity	%Capacity
ALW	8	Fri	15/12	1900	Central Coast	Melb City	INdustree Grpup Stadium	1,273	20,059	6.35%
ALW	8	Sat	16/12	1630	Melb Victory	Canberra	Aami Park	6,033	30,050	20.08%
ALW	8	Sat	16/12	1700	Adelaide	Wellington	Marden Sports Complex	593	6,000	9.88%
ALW	8	Sun	17/12	1630	Newcastle	Western United	Newcastle No.2 Sportsground	2,023	5,000	40.46%
ALW	8	Sun	17/12	1730	Brisbane	Western Sydney	Perry Park	1,575	5,000	31.50%
ALW	8	Sun	17/12	2130	Perth	Sydney	Macedonia Park	1,568	4,000	39.20%
							Total	13,065	70,109	18.64%
							Average	2,178
							Standalone Total	78,410	324,477	24.17%
							Standalone Average	2,306
							2022-23 Standalone Total	54803
							2022-23 Standalone Average	1713
							Difference	34.62%
							Season Total	111,327	886,386	12.56%
							Season Average	2,474
							2022-23 Season Total	69,071
							2022-23 Season Ave	1,973
							Difference	16.88%

away bays are now sold out. that escalated quickly. only back rows of upper levels available now. looks like crowd will be 20k+ if reserved seat members of the home team show up

A league w crowds is good 

10k at Adelaide

11k at Sydney 

25k at the Melbourne derby 

Anyone know the wellington crowd? 

Full list
Brisbane v Mariners....................................6,855
Adelaide v Newcastle...............................10,064
Phoenix v Wanderers..................................7,284
Smurfs v Fraudsters.................................11,315
Heartle$$ v Melb Victory..........................25,884
Perth v Bullsh1tters.....................................5,163
Total attendance 66,575........rd average..11,096
Average attendence overall.........................7,934

Round 9 of the 2022-23 #ALW season was attended by 15,874 at an average of 2,646 per game.

Standalone mtches this season total 44,097 at an average of 1,225 matches (+93%), while the season total is 127,201 at 2,494 (+133%)


Round 9 of the 2023-24 #ALM season was the highest drawing round so far this season with 66,575 attendees at an average of 11,096 per game. The #MelbourneDerby was the second highest drawing game of the season to date behind the Sydney version in round 5.

To date the season has seen 428,363 people attend at an average of 7,933 per game - down just 0.59% on the previous season to the same time.

14k for Sydney Wellington. I don't know but some of the recent numbers for some games seem fairly good given the pessimistic atmosphere around the league. Yet some clubs are really struggling. 

I bought tickets for a few games and the bloody admin fee is ridiculous too. Not a deciding factor but they need to really lower the prices because the vast majority won't buy a season ticket. Can clubs potentially administer tickets themselves or are they at the mercy of the stadium and ticketing companies? Hannover use their own now and only charge postage for away tickets.

So after all the confusion about my post not bumping, this thread is stickied! There you go. 

Round 10 of the 2023-24 #ALM season was attended by 68,789 at an average of 11,465 per game (38% capacity). It was the highest attended round of the season to date.

To date 497,152 people have attended this season at an average of 8,286 per game (38% cap). This is up 3.86% on the same time in the 2022-23 season

lets not get ahead of ourselves a couple of good rounds over the Christmas break is OK to smile about, but not a trend yet.... lets hope the uptake continues...

BTW take out the Cows and WU, crowd figures and games and the average is climbing back to pre covid days...

Have to agree. Next round we home games for the Macarthur Bullsh1tters and Western United Fraudsters 
The total attendance for both games is likely to 7K max.
The only hope for a good round attendence is for a few thousand Mariners fans travel to Parramatta for Tulio's last game for CCM

do we have any indication what ticket sales might be for the unite round? 

They’re already admitting privately they’re not expecting big crowds for next weekend’s Unite Round in Sydney, while the decision to schedule a Melbourne Victory game at Allianz Stadium right before Sydney FC play seems fraught with danger.

Per this article https://www.theroar.com.au/2024/01/08/there-are-still-signs-of-life-in-the-a-league-men-despite-the-bureaucratic-nonsense-of-the-apl/

The 2023-24 #UniteRound was attended by 47,425 at an average of 3,952 per match (12% of capacity).

#ALW matches were attended by 11,222 at an average of 1,870 (7.36% of venue capacity). More than 108,000 people have attended #ALW standalone fixtures in 2023-24 at an average of 2,095 per game.

#ALM matches were attended by 36,203 at an average of 6,034 (16.95% of capacity). This is the second lowest total/average of the season behind round 6. 592,684 have attended the season to date at an average of 8,119.It should be noted that the AFLs Gather Round was its lowest non bye round of the season.

Using the alternative metholdology (top attended match of the day and venue - 28,061 people attended #UniteRound at an average of 2,338 per match.

The earlier method is the one now used by the AFL and NRL for Gather/Magic Round reporting. The latter is used by @au_sport and others.

Code	Week	Day	Date	Time	Home	Away	Venue	Crowd	Capacity	%Capacity
ALW	12	Fri	12/1	1630	Mel Victory	Perth	Leichardt Oval	1,130	20,000	5.65%
ALW	12	Fri	12/1	1915	Wellington	Central Coast	Leichardt Oval	1,938	20,000	9.69%
ALW	12	Sat	13/1	1630	Canberra	Adelaide	Leichardt Oval	1,183	20,000	5.92%
ALW	12	Sat	13/1	1915	Brisbane	Newcastle	Leichardt Oval	1,417	20,000	7.09%
ALW	12	Sun	14/1	1630	Western United	Sydney FC	Allianz Stadium	4,039	42,500	9.50%
ALW	12	Sun	14/1	1630	Western Sydney	Melbourne City	Commbank Stadium	1,515	30,000	5.05%
							Total	11,222	152,500	7.36%
							Average	1,870

Code	Week	Day	Date	Time	Home	Away	Venue	Crowd	Capacity	%Capacity
ALM	12	Fri	12/1	1700	Macarthur	Western United	Commbank Stadium	3,441	30,000	11.47%
ALM	12	Fri	12/1	1945	Melb City	Western Sydney	Commbank Stadium	7,117	30,000	23.72%
ALM	12	Sat	13/1	1645	Central Coast	Melb Victory	Allianz Stadium	8,147	42,500	19.17%
ALM	12	Sat	13/1	1930	Adelaide	Sydney	Allianz Stadium	11,918	42,500	28.04%
ALM	12	Sun	14/1	1915	Brisbane	Newcastle	Allianz Stadium	3,948	42,500	9.29%
ALM	12	Sun	14/1	1915	Perth	Wellington	Commbank Stadium	1,632	30,000	5.44%
							Total	36,203	217,500	16.65%
							Average	6,034

Can anyone tell me the rationale behind the Unite round? The media kept talking it up, though presumably under instruction. The games were good (irrespective of the fact that it was the unite round) lots of goals and excitement, but some of the crowds were appalling. What possible benefit did the teams not from Sydney get by having 'home' games in Sydney.Those teams which may have attracted reasonable crowds were playing in front of meager crowds losing income from ticket sales and losing interest by not generating crowd atmosphere. Happy to change my mind if there is a rational explanation.

Maybe, just maybe, people have watched enough games to realise that most of the goals are scored because of amateurish defending, and that, yours and others believe, makes the game exciting. The passing and receiving is poor and I can say without fear that only about 1/2 of those playing are worthy of an elite competition.

But aren't all goals anywhere scored from bad defending? 

A replacement for the Destination New South Wales Grand Final, which is all about trying to get funds from the government. It's the same as other sports trying to get funds from governments.
Unfortunately, our sport is in the unenviable position of both needing funds AND being highly susceptible to embarrassment from failures, but we don't have the strength nor the media to back us up.
Take AFL X for example, a complete laughing stock failure. But the game goes on and the media reports positive things each day. Whereas we never hear the positives in our sport (except at international level), and only make the news when it's negative.
The total unfair mess that is AFL free agency, draft concessions, holding back the women's league etc... so much rubbish going on in AFL, but they move on like it's nothing, they aren't allowed to look bad from failures. But when they do, they have the backing to get through it. They have more stakeholders than Boston Chops.

look at who is funding the project, the NSW Government. I suspect the promo was also funded by them. They have the funds to make it happen. The A-League does not have the funds to do that for the regular comp. Also, the TV stations are on notice, if they bag the whole project, they might lose advertising dollars. I am not overly fond of the concept. It looks very much like "me too"-ism - following ideas from other codes. If you really want some stand out comp which other football codes can't do, have a State vs State comp - either knock-out or  with two groups of 4 teams with each leaders of each group playing off in the final. No other football code can do this.

Not sure where else to mention this but in the women's league you have city vs Sydney in which should be a highly anticipated game first vs second vine is playing but you have it in Heidelberg. 

The team goes from cranbourne to aami to epping to Heidelberg it's no wonder it's not a sell out when it really should be  

Ignore me above it's in cranbourne I should of fact checked myself 

Adelaide vs Perth 8k 

Adelaide is dropping in form the owners haven't done much to get confidence so crowd will drop.

Wellington vs western this is the opposite. 10K

Victory vs MacArthur 12k 

Brisbane vs city 5k 
Mariners vs Sydney 6k

Western Sydney vs Newcastle 8k 

Just over 3,800 at Carrington Park to watch Wanderers Women vs Newcastle Jets Women.
There is a girls yourh tournament on in Bathurst this weekend 

Personally I  think we need to lift crowds to a 15K average across the league, but IMO the crowds or the trend lines at least are heading north.

From Ultimate A-L , attendance without finals, its clear WU and the Cows have dragged down overall averages, if you exclude WU & Cows figures from 23/24 the average is a tad over 8, 800, or roughly 80% of pre covid during the civil war between FFA & the clubs. Its also clear the effects of the civil war.

Teams===Year ==== Average

12====== 23/24 === 8, 065

12 ====== 22/23 === 7, 553

12 ====== 21/22 === 5, 353

12 ====== 20/21 === 5, 595

11 ====== 19/20 === 8, 726

10 ====== 18/19 === 10, 427

10 ====== 17/18 === 10, 654 ==== Civil war begun between FFA & the clubs.

10 ====== 16/17 === 12, 295

10 ====== 15/16 === 12, 309

10 ====== 14/15 === 12, 511

People choose to attend football based on some background political hoohah between some dudes in suits ?

No wonder it's stuffed

not quite that simple, those wanting changed trashed the A-l for years, it drove people away and they have not come back, as did other things, we tend in football to destroy what we don't like.

14084 @ Allianz tonight.

20k at the derby 

6k at Perth vs Brisbane

Newcastle women's pulled under 2k as well 

9k in Adelaide who's down the table playing against western united same night the afl team is playing is pretty good attendance imagine if they were winning more 

crowd averages for the season pretty much identical to last season at just a smidge under 8,000. Not great, but it didn't drop, which is something to build on. You would expect Victory, Newcastle, Perth and WU to do better with the expectation their off field issues should (in theory) improve.