It's not good for business to point out how you have failed your supporters. Our continued bad form, GVE and an overwhelming dissatisfaction from the community between Tinks, the Knights and poor recruiting has seen many people refuse to renew their memberships.

I think we'll be luck to crack 10000 this year but we won't reach last years target.

Great thread. Thanks.

Some people have posted them the same question via the Official FB page - one of those questions getting likes and follow up discussion - but no response from Glory's Official FB account manager, not yet! :/ If ever, at this stage. :roll: ](*,)

But anyway, to be reasonable, given how long they have taken to unveil the member packs and give notices for renewing members and probably length of time taken to sort renewals... I guess we may have to wait a couple weeks before they'd be even half ready to announce ANY numbers. So time frame - entering into September? (No sarcasm, I'm serious)?


Glory are 'exceptional' so hence the anticipation building - we're the lucky last. Fashionably late to the party. The crowd starts to gather infront of the big, purple, curtain. The vacant space in Joffa's updates just builds a momentum that will only burst to life as the final, mysterious piece in Joffa's updates, unveils itself with an almighty, anti-climatic thud at this rate!



Well that's kind of cool! :cool: I gotta admire the kind of building community, movement, you guys have got going up there, at your 'little battler' of a club. Every season building more groundwork locally. Mark Waugh getting on-board a good little get and further gets the name of the club out there, locally. EVERYONE's getting on-board! :cool:

Edited by GloryPerth: 16/8/2013 10:21:30 PM

WSW announced 14,800 at the Canberra match.

Waugh is from Bankstown, he's betraying the Wanderers :o

Edited by macktheknife: 17/8/2013 03:17:56 AM

2013/14 Membership Sales

Adelaide - 3,553
Brisbane - 4,000
Central Coast - 3,360
Heart - 3,788
Newcastle - 7,500
Perth -
Sydney - 7,480
Victory - 15,171
Wellington - 2,480
West Sydney - 14,800

Total memberships sold - 62,132

Though he probably lives on the Central Coast now, not unlike a number of former residents of the Western Sydney region I hear. ;)

Melbourne Heart now up to 3824.

2013/14 Membership Sales

Adelaide - 3,553
Brisbane - 4,000
Central Coast - 3,360
Heart - 3,824
Newcastle - 7,500
Perth -
Sydney - 7,480
Victory - 15,171
Wellington - 2,480
West Sydney - 14,800

Total memberships sold - 62,168

Its extremely subtle, but I have just discovered a membership counter for AUFC. Top left corner of the Adelaide Reds site.
http://adelaidereds.com.au/default.aspx

I am pleasantly impressed.

latest count 3564

Edited by schultzy: 17/8/2013 04:57:15 PM

2013/14 Membership Sales

Adelaide - 3,564
Brisbane - 4,000
Central Coast - 3,360
Heart - 3,824
Newcastle - 7,500
Perth -
Sydney - 7,480
Victory - 15,171
Wellington - 2,480
West Sydney - 14,800

Total memberships sold - 62,179

http://membership.mhfc.com.au/
http://www.yellowfever.co.nz/4k
http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/sydneyfc
http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/melbournevictory
http://adelaidereds.com.au/default.aspx

Looks like SFC are averaging about 44 per day in the last weeks, that's on track for about 9,800, pretty close to the target of 10,000

That would be a huge growth on last years, hopefully it keeps up or even accelerate closer to the season proper.

What's everyones thoughts on the totals by round 1? I will make my 'membership ladder'. There are a few sides within touching distance of each other so will be interesting to hear what everyone thinks!

1. Melbourne Victory (21,400 - big club, will surpass their goal 23k during the season I think)
2. West Sydney Wanderers (16,500 - Not sure what the go is with the cap, but will reach it, have to hand it to the FFA they have done this well)
3. Sydney FC (11,100 - good marketing through off season by placing a large emphasis on memberships, ADP factor and the WSW factor)
4. Newcastle Jets (10,200 - will do well despite last season results, so cheap, everyone loves Heskey)
5. Brisbane Roar (6,700 - love the ambition but won't get to 10k, but with Matty signing and a solid squad they should still beat their previous record)
6. Melbourne Heart (6,500 - Have a solid base but don't get enough supporters past their membership base. Have arguably one of the best HAL squads and hopefully this figure will rise after the season begins with good results, Kewell factor too)
7. Adelaide United (6,200 - A single team city and general increase in HAL interest will see their memberships hopefully reach a new record)
8. Perth Glory (5,900 - Haven't got anything previous to go off but with NIB being completed and much like Adelaide seeing a general increase in HAL interest will see them settle around this figure)
9. Central Coast Mariners (5,200 - Would love to see them reach their goal and think they will, have marketed it really well and is all over their social media. Cheap prices too and successful side)
10. Wellington Phoenix (4,100 - Also think they will reach their goal, for some reason they never seem to be associated with big names, I think a big name (not that it will happen) would give the Phoenix a huge increase in interest but still think they will reach their target a set a new record)

I think most teams will hit or go very close to their goals apart from Adelaide and Brisbane who were a tad ambitious (nothing wrong with that but).

RoyalHeart

Are your figures what you think ...
MV 21.4
SFC 11.1
Jest 10.2
Roar 6.7
Heart 6.5
AU 6.2
PG 5.9
CCM 5.2
Nix 4.1...

They seem achievable ... would be feather in the cap if the A-League could get these numbers...

Victory have passed 16k today:

2013/14 Membership Sales

Adelaide - 3,564
Brisbane - 4,000
Central Coast - 3,360
Heart - 3,824
Newcastle - 7,500
Perth -
Sydney - 7,480
Victory - 16,103
Wellington - 2,480
West Sydney - 14,800

Total memberships sold - 63,111

wanderers 14,919

http://www.foxsports.com.au/football/a-league/western-sydney-wanderers-close-to-15000-members-as-chairman-lyall-gorman-continues-to-aim-big/story-e6frf4gl-1226699686139#.UhGH5zlRpaU

2013/14 Membership Sales

Adelaide - 3,564
Brisbane - 4,000
Central Coast - 3,360
Heart - 3,824
Newcastle - 7,500
Perth -
Sydney - 7,480
Victory - 16,103
Wellington - 2,480
West Sydney - 14,919

Total memberships sold - 63,230

Yeah just my opinion! Obviously would go up through the season as well with introduction of 5 game memberships/form/more signings

Jerks won't get more than 9k IMO

Sydney are at 7551

2013/14 Membership Sales

Adelaide - 3,564
Brisbane - 4,000
Central Coast - 3,360
Heart - 3,824
Newcastle - 7,500
Perth -
Sydney - 7,551
Victory - 16,103
Wellington - 2,480
West Sydney - 14,919

Total memberships sold - 63,301

http://membership.mhfc.com.au/
http://www.yellowfever.co.nz/4k
http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/sydneyfc
http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/melbournevictory
http://adelaidereds.com.au/default.aspx

2013/14 Membership Sales

Adelaide - 3,564
Brisbane - 4,000
Central Coast - 3,360
Heart - 3,866
Newcastle - 7,500
Perth -
Sydney - 7,551
Victory - 16,103
Wellington - 2,480
West Sydney - 14,919

Total memberships sold - 63,343

According to Clinton's post some weeks ago last season there were 68,850 members without including Perth so we have 5,507 to go with still 53 days left to kick off.

IMO given the nature of it all we should also exclude wsw from that to get an indication on the rest of the league

2013/14 Membership Sales

Adelaide - 3,564 This time last year they were on 2000 78% increase
Brisbane - 4,000 This time last year they were on 2500 60% increase
Central Coast - 3,360 This time last year they were on 2300 46% increase
Heart - 3,866 This time last year they were on 3300 17% increase
Newcastle - 7,500 This time last year they were on 7885 5% decrease
Perth - This time last year they were on 5000
Sydney - 7,551 Took them till september 9th to pass 7000
Victory - 16,103 This time last year they were on 12174 32% increase
Wellington - 2,480 Last years total was roughly 3000 83% of the way to last years total
West Sydney - 14,919 This time last year they were on 1400 1065% increase

Total memberships sold - 63,343 This time last year the total memberships sold was 46,559(this includes Perth @5k, Syd @7k and Nux @3K) 36% increase

Looking good so far this year, tbf the wanderers did contribute about half of the gains but still most teams are up on last year.

Wanderers at 15000

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=565961113467894&set=a.380942571969750.87799.352172228180118&type=1&relevant_count=1&ref=nf

2013/14 Membership Sales

Adelaide - 3,564
Brisbane - 4,000
Central Coast - 3,360
Heart - 3,866
Newcastle - 7,500
Perth -
Sydney - 7,551
Victory - 16,103
Wellington - 2,480
West Sydney - 15,000

Total memberships sold - 63,424

2013/14 Membership Sales

Adelaide - 3,564
Brisbane - 4,000
Central Coast - 3,360
Heart - 3,872
Newcastle - 7,500
Perth -
Sydney - 7,551
Victory - 16,103
Wellington - 2,480
West Sydney - 15,000

Total memberships sold - 63,430