Lowest Japan crowd for the tournament, in a quarter final, in the biggest city. Poor.

It was terrible, you know it yourself.
http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/tournament/competition/01/33/74/50/b3ause.pdf

page 10-13.

Sydney's gonna Syd.

Japans worst, but easily UAE's best!
Is the glass half full...?

It must be all Japan fans I assume? UAE don't seem to have any.

As a sydney sides I must now confess we are nothing but a pack of losers in Sydney (regardless of the sport I think we are pretty poor)

We have been spoilt by a govt who pays to give us these great sporting events only to ignore them and stay away.

We are like the child that gets everything we want. once it's given to us, we don't want to play wit it any more.

I actually want to go to adelaide or brisbane this year and watch liverpool play. or the tournament they are having in vic instead of watch anything in sydney any more.

It's ridiculous. can't wait to leave this he'll hole called sydney.

sorry for the rant.

Not that it's an excuse, but everyone in sydney will tell u this stadium suxs.

Would have had at least 30k if they played it at SFC.

It's ok mate, atleast you're honest :lol:

=d>

SFC isn't such great a facility. Old and getting frayed at the edges. All the $ seems to be being spent on the SCG and whatever they call the place where the AFL Traffic Cones Franchise play. Plus all that money Abbott is throwing at Brookvale.

The State of Victoria might grant you asylum for that, you're clearly a marked man at home now. :lol:

I'd only be a marked man if anyone gave a shit.

Clearly they don't because they couldn't be bother watching the favourites against one of the most exciting smaller teams with one the most exciting player of the tournament so far (Omar)

Not talking about the facilities, I'm talking about the atmosphere. even when the socceroos played the stadium felt half empty. it used to fit 100k for the Olympics but has been downsized. but it still feels too big and hollow.

And your too far from the ground

Too many problems. I need to go to bed.

Sydcro agrees with me - if the Qatar/Iran game at Sydney got 22k, then there was 25-30k there for Japan/UAE. Either scanners weren't working tonight or the Iran game was a mistake.

Yeah no fucking way was that only 19k.

Play the games in Canberra. Problem solved.

was there for the match thought 25k tbh. BUT the turnout overall from Sydney is crap. In one breath we complain about not getting the World Cup however seeing the crowd last night on a Friday night which was embarrassing is a prime example why we didn't deserve it.

I am genuinely nervous for the semi on Monday night at ANZ since Australia is playing at the same time. If there isn't over 50k for that then us Sydneysiders should shut the fuk up when slagging off crowd numbers in other states especially Victoria.

The world is watching Sydney.

I would agree on 25k. Stadium was definitely not a quarter full.

Still, while it might be a little disappointing, put 19.5k into AAMI and suddenly this forum jizzes.

Starting to think it's not the crowd number it's the atmosphere

Edited by RedshirtWilly: 24/1/2015 09:41:59 AM

=d>

Thank you I'm sick of morons here blaming the 'scanners' for them struggling to turn up week after week either at international level or domestic.

Interesting view.

In Perth, Adelaide, FNQ, Darwin and Tasmania, we rarely get any international football whatsoever.





Edited by Decentric: 24/1/2015 09:47:28 AM

As much as I hate saying it, at least Melboune people turn up

Sydney & Melboune people who are whinging are ungreatful & acting like a spoilt rich kid

Try living in Adelaid and Perth who get nothing because their state governments are so far up the AFL's backside they can see the other end and the FFA are tightasses

Edited by unitedgal: 24/1/2015 10:00:18 AM

19k might sound bit low but even if the crowd was really 25k (max) then i still think that is disappointing.

Sure everyone might have already left to start their long weekends and ticket prices have now started to rise for the knockout stages (I hate to think how the semi will go in terms of attendance) but surely anyone who would have been paying attention to this tournament would have been eager to attend.

This crowd and crowds to WSW and SFC just confirms to me that Sydney is an events city.

Sydney people don't go to the football (or any other sport for that matter) to watch the game or soak up the atmosphere. They go because it's the cool thing to do.

They don't go to watch quality games, they go to watch hype games.

I don't want to go overboard since while 19k is below average it is certainly not woeful so there is some hope for the football community in Sydney. The people i could overhear talking around me were well informed about the two teams. Contrast that to the Socceroos game where the guys behind me started talking about Hayne, the Eels and when deciding on who Australia's man of the match was they described it as giving "Dally M" points.

We've cracked the 500,000 goal with four games to go

503,295 people have attended the 28 games with an average of 17,974.

Esp how they complained so much about the newcastle semi that it became a news story. Yet the crowd at japan v Palestine in newcastle was nearly as big as a Sydney quarter final. Self centred bigots.

Which is why the semi final with australia in Newcastle should never have been considered to move. should be a sell out and a great chance for northern nsw kids to see the socceroos in action.

4 games left to get 140k for a 20k average.

Really hinges on Australia making the final and a big crowd for the semi in Sydney

predicting around 110k

The goal was to have more than 500k. 140k is probably a stretch but could be done if Australia make the final.

Yep, but the goal was to make the Semi's of the Asian Cup, now with the draw we have... it is to win it.

The tournament has been a success no matter what happens from here on =d>

1 week ago I predicted we'd get 650k in the tournament

Iran getting knocked out will hurt the crowd for the semi. That said, there are a shit load of Iraqi's in Sydney and Melbourne, and I'd imagine that that there would be thousands of Melbourne Iraqi's driving to Sydney in addition to the Sydney Iraqi fans.

From here, I predict.

23,000 Australia vs UAE at Newcastle
30,000-40,000 South Korea vs Iraq at Sydney
If Australia make the final, 80,000 at Sydney
3rd Playoff in Newcastle, 15,000

That's ~150k more to come, we're at 503k, so we can still reach 650k+ total.

Also I just bought tickets for the final, PAX is 44,700

Edited by axelv: 24/1/2015 01:17:30 PM

AFC website lists Newy with 33k capacity... Odd