At least there were goals, fun moments from the Qatari striker and active support bigger than the Yellow Army at the game. I enjoyed it

Venue packs were a bargain especially for brisbane before the whole aus in the qtr finals. We had all the top teams playing with big games, aus v korea is worth $100 on its own. Iran v UAE, jordan v iraq (big implications on going through). China games. Japan playing with their big stars. and a qtr feature s. korea or australia. it was worth it even with a hand full of games. I'm surprised more people didn't get them. i would have thought the 10k roar members would have gotten them. how many was sold?

Yep. Vast majority were Iran supporters. There was a pocket/bay of Qatar supporters at the top tier facing the camera.

No more General public tickets left for Japan v Jordan great news !

Heard not as many sold as expected. Brisbane isn't a sports supporting city on the whole.
They will clamor onto band wagons like Brisbane Lions 4 peat and Roars winning run.

They love finals and grand finals but that never seems to turn into regular season supporters (eg Reds or Roar.)

BUT... The sports loving fans they do have are worth double the flogs, Ive had a great time going to these games, meeting new people in the pubs and looking forward to a full strength socceroos show down with China (whose fans have been the best and loudest at suncorp so far).

the roar attendances are always strange to me.

Brisbane is having a horrible season, 0 wins at home and they are averaging 15,255   . Last season they averaged 18k, in the season where rado was the brains they averaged 13k. It appears as though they have developed some sort of core fan base over the years. Of course they can not touch Melbourne or Sydney (now with 2 teams) but i always expect them to have shit crowds like that season where ange took over :lol:

would be great if we get more than 600,000.

Question does the AFC receive any money from this? I would assume this is the most expensive Asian Cup given the cost of living in Australia, although stil very affordable for the locals.

Japan game was over 25k!

I think this proves once and for all that there is no conspiracy with the AAMI Park crowd figures

There is no way in hell security would have been waving people through the gates without scanning tickets, as is a common claim whenever crowd figures don't meet expectations

And there is no way an accurate crowd figure wouldn't have been reported, or purposely underestimated by part of some elaborate AFL conspiracy


You have to take the official capacity listed with a grain of salt. It's "possible" for 31000 to attend but a run of the mill sell out or near sell out isn't going to be much different to what the derbies have been getting where fans have been saying "There is no way there were 6,000 empty seats!!!1!!"

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Got to remember the Media section (I will not use the term "tribune" for this), in newcastle it takes up almost 3000 seats with another few hundred roped off around it.

I can tell you that the:

Final:

Based on my tickets purchased last night was at PAX 39,919, so it’s tracking ok until people find out the teams.

Quarter Final:

Based on tickets purchased today for Sydney (Japan v UAE), PAX number is at a paltry 16,040. They really should get 30,000 at least to watch Japan based on their performance last night.


Edited by luke_3891: 21/1/2015 03:13:15 PM

That's terrible. And I bet most of that 16k is actually those like me that have the 7 game package.

Why are they counting chickens?

Opps, looks like I was counting chickens...I've now changed that mistake!

I've bought the tickets without the game packages but it seems like very low numbers to me. Mind you my ticket for the Iran vs Qatar game where my ticket stated 27,081 - the final crowd ended up being 23,000 odd.

Hopefully more chickens can lay a few more eggs before Friday night, otherwise it will be quite an "atmosphere" at Homebush...

Sydney should get 30k for the Japan game, a large number of Japanese fans have been arriving in Australia for the Quarters. I would assume they have yet to buy tickets.

do they count the level 2 boxes as well though? apart from them the stadium looked packed !

Yes they do and there are heaps of them (Far too many imo), which are never filled for football.

so frustrating to see i mean if you sold those boxes or seats for example to general public im sure plenty of people would try and snap them up

So Canberra finished the Group Game stage with an average of 10,580 including 3 games over 10k and one over 15k (lots of Chinese fans though) which is pretty respectable in my opinion, and a QF to come that should draw well. When you consider several of their games were pretty dull, and 2 were played in the rain as well as several at early k/o on a weekday. I think with a better stadium they've shown there is decent enough support for an A-league side to do well there.

Edited by 4wanderer4: 22/1/2015 09:56:41 AM

Sellouts in both Melbourne and Brisbane tonight. Should see another 75k or so through the gates.

got my tickets for the game tonight actually suprised uzebks v south korea is sold out to be honest its just crap it starts at 6.30 its going to be a tight squeeze me get there on time from work

Melbourne will have heaps of empty seats bought by Socceroos fans who will now be staying home or going to the pub to watch on tv.

it will probably be closer to 60k than 75k.

Not so sure about that.

Given that Uzbek and South Korean fans would likely be searching for tickets, any that people have tried to offload will likely be taken up.

Some will likely not bother turning up, but the game should still be interesting. It will be a warm, humid night though.

uzb vs s kor - 23381

Can vs aus - 46067

Total 69448

Bloody good in Melbourne, was there and besides 1,500 no shows, it was full. Great atmosphere.

corporate packages for the tournament are sold by the afc rather than by the stadium itself, therefore the stadium's long list of contacts arent provided to the afc and they are sold to the afc's contacts which are mainly non-australians and hence the poor corporate turnouts we've seen so far, even at australian games.

Hard to see the average slipping below 17,000 from here on in.