Which indeed is a good reflection, follow up, to the strong growth last season. Just emphasising the spectacular growth down to those two. Also, club-to-club, some like Phoenix, Jets and some others may be a little behind where they were at, same time last year? And to be conservative, I doubt Glory, Phoenix, Jets, Mariners or even AU will grow that much more. So thje heavy lifting remains with Victory and seeing if City, Roar and perhaps SFC can continue to defy expectations.

Hopefully Clinton can post one of his graphs on the rate of growth, come next month. It is most definitely slowing, now with more renewals over and it could slow a bit more. Roar's potential growth is unknown territory too, as too City. They may already be near 'maxxed out' or run out of steam - it would be remarkable if they grew much further. Roar fans here have speculated as to why the delay over Roar announcing 10k - but if Roar really haven't quite reached that mark yet, then that also shows the growth already peaked. People have high expectations for City, but how measurable Villa' short-term arrival will be to memberships, flexi memberships, beyond what we've already seen... he may boost ticket sales, but not so sure about many memberships - especially as he's only here 10 games.

Edited by GloryPerth: 20/8/2014 02:01:49 AM

poor results from brisbane broncos and great results from the roar are happening

if we consistently do well in the acl that will bring more credibility to our league too

Processing some of the renewals that had difficulty has brought Wanderers membership tally up to 14,239 this morning.

Edit: Now 14,275.

Edited by gyfox: 20/8/2014 01:51:33 PM

Adelaide United: 4,800
Brisbane Roar: 9,087
Central Coast Mariners: 3,500
Melbourne City: 7,019
Melbourne Victory: 14,651
Newcastle Jets: 6,592
Perth Glory : 3,800
Sydney FC: 8,157
Wellington Phoenix: 1,000
Western Sydney Wanderers: 14,275

Total = 72,881

http://www.sydneyfc.com/
http://membership.melbournecityfc.com.au/
http://wanderers.memberhq.com.au/
http://www.membership.newcastlejets.com.au/
http://www.melbournevictory.com.au/
http://www.yellowfever.co.nz/categories/wellington-phoenix-discussion/topics/2014-15-season-memberships/page/10
http://www.fromthestandsal.com/membershiptracker/

Any idea when they will be? Where did 'From the Stands' get their 1k figure from then?!

BTW Why do we bother to list the Yellow Fever site in the list of sources, when nothing has been provided by that outlet, as of yet?

8350 at SFC

True, from that page they use this thread at the source so I have no clue why it's there. Not sure what fts uses, unless they have inside sources since they generally been the first to update Perth and Adelaide. I think I'm just gonna bombard the nix's twitter till I get an answer.

sales required until game 1:

9,000 - 35.85 per day
10,000 - 54.04
11,000 - 72.22

To date: 91.27 members per day

Sales required for highest ever memberships: 287

Prediction: will top 10,000 just after game 1

See the following member email:

I am rather bemused at the halt in memberships post malaga/renewal period, hopefully picks up closer to the season with the hype that will be created around our first home game vs victory at the oval.






Edited by schultzy: 20/8/2014 10:08:06 PM

Mariners just over 3, 900 expect to break the 4K soon...

Adelaide United: 4,800
Brisbane Roar: 9,087
Central Coast Mariners: 3,900
Melbourne City: 7,036
Melbourne Victory: 14,651
Newcastle Jets: 6,654
Perth Glory : 3,800
Sydney FC: 8,350
Wellington Phoenix: 1,000
Western Sydney Wanderers: 14,395

Total = 73,673

http://www.sydneyfc.com/
http://membership.melbournecityfc.com.au/
http://wanderers.memberhq.com.au/
http://www.membership.newcastlejets.com.au/
http://www.melbournevictory.com.au/
http://www.yellowfever.co.nz/categories/wellington-phoenix-discussion/topics/2014-15-season-memberships/page/10
http://www.fromthestandsal.com/membershiptracker/

An interesting article regarding crowd figures for both NRL and AFL this season which seem to go against the trend of rising membership figures. Apparently total memberships for NRL clubs is 254,000 (pet memberships counted?) which is a 12% increase from last year, however crowd figures are down a tad.

Let's hope we don't witness the same fate with the A-league.

Here's the link for anyone interested in reading the article:

http://www.afr.com/p/lifestyle/sport/nrl_afl_aim_to_get_fans_back_in_iH8lpI95JpmxImFaoTKk8K

Wanderers has crept up to 14,409.

Adelaide United: 4,800
Brisbane Roar: 9,087
Central Coast Mariners: 3,900
Melbourne City: 7,046
Melbourne Victory: 14,651
Newcastle Jets: 6,654
Perth Glory : 3,800
Sydney FC: 8,350
Wellington Phoenix: 1,000
Western Sydney Wanderers: 14,409

Total = 73,697

http://www.sydneyfc.com/
http://membership.melbournecityfc.com.au/
http://wanderers.memberhq.com.au/
http://www.membership.newcastlejets.com.au/
http://www.melbournevictory.com.au/
http://www.yellowfever.co.nz/categories/wellington-phoenix-discussion/topics/2014-15-season-memberships/page/10
http://www.fromthestandsal.com/membershiptracker/

I've been told that we apparently had in excess of 17 000 paying members last season. This is inclusive of supporter and out of towner memberships.

Don't know what to make of it.

The last figure mentioned by the club was 16,904 so 17k+ is almost certainly correct.

That is quite an interesting article, i wish there were more stats though. Interestingly the HAL needs 158,750 to have equal membership numbers with the NRL based on the number of teams. Were not doing too badly really, the next few years before the next tv deal are very important though, it will be interesting to see how we build from here.

In terms of the AFL the adelaide teams seem to be the only ones bucking the downwards trend, entirely down to Adelaide Oval. With the Crows currently sitting above Collingwood with the highest average attendance with 1 game left.

Adelaide United: 4,800
Brisbane Roar: 9,087
Central Coast Mariners: 3,900
Melbourne City: 7,060
Melbourne Victory: 14,651
Newcastle Jets: 6,654
Perth Glory : 3,800
Sydney FC: 8,691
Wellington Phoenix: 1,000
Western Sydney Wanderers: 14,461

Total = 74,104

http://www.sydneyfc.com/
http://membership.melbournecityfc.com.au/
http://wanderers.memberhq.com.au/
http://www.membership.newcastlejets.com.au/
http://www.melbournevictory.com.au/
http://www.yellowfever.co.nz/categories/wellington-phoenix-discussion/topics/2014-15-season-memberships/page/10
http://www.fromthestandsal.com/membershiptracker/

Big jump by Sydney this week... up 600 and growing fairly consistently.... can't see their memberships dropping from last season now. If anything, i'm expecting an increase (from memmory they had 10,300 or so last season)?

Victory counter down again, may mean an update is coming.

Melbourne City have slowed down again but are still tracking quite well.

Wanderers not an issue about their rate of growth because they will always max out.

i just had a look and Sydney FC were at 9,838 by October 10th. So our goal should be to beat that by that date. With more than a month and a half to go, we should be able to attain another 1200 members by then without too much trouble let's hope.

Adelaide - 3,564
Brisbane - 4,000
Central Coast - 3,450
Heart - 3,912
Newcastle - 7,500
Perth -
Sydney - 7,602
Victory - 16,103
Wellington - 2,480
West Sydney - 15,000


last year on august 22nd...

I expect wsw and vix to catch up to last year
if mv can one day get a mega marquee they could get 30k members

jets and niz tailing a little but I suspect that nix just havent released their numbers

so I think most teams will be up on last year

With their close links to Liverpool, who knows they may just sign Stevie G when he decides to move on from liverpool in the next year or 2.

Don't, just don't....don't let me get my hopes up.....

Haha but in all seriousness, i think the loyal man himself would finish up at Liverpool and retire but you never know, would have thought the same about ADP....

TOTAL Aug 22/13 = 63,611

TOTAL Aug 22/14 = 74,104

Variance: 10,493 or 16.5% increase


Yes, i realise that Perth hadn't updated last year.

But on the contrary: Victory, Wanderers, Jets to name a few of the bigger membership bases, all started selling memberships at a later date.

Whilst the 16.5% increase can only be used loosely, i believe there are plenty of indicators to suggest that we may maintain that increase by round 1.

When Gerrard decides to move on from Liverpool, the only club he'll be going to is retirement.

Either Brisbane Roar have hit the peak, holding back for whatever reason, or are just slack. Honestly thought we would have hit 10k by now, heard others say were are just below. Who knows, would just like an update ffs :D. Don't use twitter, have asked on facebook but never get a response from admin.

MrBrisbane i asked on twitter after their crest launch... no response. Also asked about 2 weeks ago, no response.