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BTW For those among us who like switch things around a tad I have been using the following site for a few years now for MLS data...

see link for MLS data ... http://www.worldfootball.net/attendance/usa-major-league-soccer-2017/1 you have options to change the year and play offs etc...

The site covers all major leagues including ours.... but it has a very interestings option you can look at a sides home crowds and away crowds...

This is the A-League link... and its interesting to see who are the sides who draw the best away crowds... it defaults to home crowds but you can also click away crowds ... BTW this is one of my favourite Football sites... 

http://www.worldfootball.net/attendance/aus-a-league-2017-2018/1/

If interested I hope you enjoy... 

BTW it also has a all time table of NSL & A-League table that's interesting to have a boo peep at ... its over on the right hand side... 

Thanks for posting. 

FFA Cup Final

13,452

Source: FFA Twitter

Lowest attended FFA cup to date

Bankstown Berries	Metrostars	Jensen Park	556	32
Hills United	Hakoah Sydney City East	Gabbie Stadium	879	32
South Melbourne	Edgeworth	Lakeside Stadium	2622	32
Sorrento	Canberra Olympic	Percy Doyle Reserve	928	32
Heidelberg	Perth Glory	Olympic Park Village	2811	32
Olympia	APIA Leichart	KGV Park	1252	32
Peninsula Power	Melbourne City	Redcliffe	4017	32
Western Sydney	Wellington	Campbelltown Stadium	3189	32
Blacktown City	Central Coast	Gabbie Stadium	1667	32
Darwin Rovers	Sydney FC	Darwin Football Stadium	2680	32
Gold Coast City	Western Knights	Mallawa	1033	32
Moreton Bay United	Broadmeadow Magic	Wolter Park	1197	32
Adelaide United	Newcastle United	Marden	2551	32
Brisbane Roar	Melbourne Victory	Perry Park	3184	32
Hume City	Bentleigh Greens	ABD Stadium	659	32
Sydney United 58	FNQ Heat	Edensor Park	1252	32
Sydney United 58	Heidelberg	Edensor Park	2513	16
South Melbourne	Sorrento	Lakeside Stadium	939	16
Moreton Bay United	Gold Coast City	Wolter Park	1032	16
Adelaide United	Melbourne Victory	Marden	3342	16
Hakoah Sydney City East	Melbourne City	Leichhardt Oval	2915	16
Blacktown City	APIA Leichart	Gabbie Stadium	924	16
Bentleigh Greens	Western Sydney	Kingston Heath	1634	16
Bankstown Berries	Sydney FC	Edensor Park	2180	16
Sydney FC	Melbourne City	Leichhardt Oval	4102	QF
Heidelberg	Adelaide United	Olympic Park Village	3967	QF
Blacktown City	Western Sydney	Gabbie Stadium	4217	QF
Gold Coast City	South Melbourne	Robina	2907	QF
South Melbourne	Sydney FC	Lakeside Stadium	5747	SF
Western Sydney	Adelaide United	Campbelltown Stadium	5126	SF
Sydney FC	Adelaide United	SFS	13452	F
		Total	85474
		Average	2757

Look like more hey. When is it going to be moved to a weekend?

It was a weekend originally then got bumped for a Matildas cash grab friendly.

No it was originally scheduled for today (22 Nov) but was bumped because of the Mstildas match.

The only time the FFA Cup final was played on a weekend was when Melb Vic played Perth Glory 

13,500 in Sydney. Where they just putting them on one stand? It looked a lot more. If they had done that then they need to do every week it looked good on TV.

There's no meaning to winning the FFA cup. The only thing the winner gets is a bit of money which they can't spend on players anyway

The AFC have tried to add meaning to national cups by giving the winner a spot in the ACL which not all confederations do

But #WeAreDifferent

The FFA would much rather double dip with the A League

In a city of ~4 million plus, hang your heads in shame 

They did actually. There was a photo doing the rounds of the other stand practically empty.

The FFA Cup should 100% be on a Saturday night as a prime time fixture.

Gives both sets of fans & families the ability to get to the fixture without work/school the next day.
I get you would have to reschedule some domestic clashes to a weekday but we need this cup to become as big as it can.
Weather they set the round as a rolling fixture (the afl does this for the last round) and when sides get knocked out of the cup in the round of 32 or 16 they can lock in dates for this round.
Being played on a Tuesday night makes it impossible to get a large crowd.

Thanks for sharing. Super useful.

10,904 for Matilda’s v China.

More than Vi$ion City on a weekend.

The FFA Cup Final should be played on a Saturday night, in prime time. Make that date or weekend a Carnival of Football, no matter where it’s played. Maybe play the final of the National NPL as a curtain raiser to the Cup Final, or have the Matildas play beforehand, or the young Socceroos.
Give the A-league the week off.

Newcastle v Melbourne - 8427 (source HAL website)

Fairly strong for a Thursday

Hoping the Newcastle crowds can get a run on like they've done a couple of times in their history. They're a sleeping giant (but always have been).

Impressive.

Quite good for a regional centre on a Thursday.

Jets vs Victory

Crowd - 8,427

Being a regional town is probably more a benefit to be honest. Less big city traffic and more country bumpkin time in the day to attend football on a week night.

Newy also has a massive weekend this week with the V8 Supercars race in the City (which I believe is why they moved this game to the Thursday). Id imagine theres a fair few people who may have came along with the Jets current form that would have given this week a miss because they have a big weekend planned

What is with these Thursday games the last two weeks? Bizarre scheduling. I mean I'd understand its part of getting regional games a ratings boost if they'd had them since the start of the season but they haven't.

A lot of them will be going back too.

Indeed, if they keep playing this way the crowds will increase in big numbers, happy for their fans.

Didn't these same two teams get ~3k to an FFA Cup Final just a couple of years ago?

I was expecting something similar and was pleasantly surprised by the crowd, the game and the atmosphere.

The Thursday night games are due to the W League being part of the A League fixturing

The reason we have Thursday night and Sunday evening games is so women can play in 40 degree temperatures as part of double headers

If there was any sense the W League would have its own scheduling and have every game broadcasted on a separate Fox channel. That way it can have better scheduling and games during oppressive heat can be held back. Or the W League itself can kick off in winter because there really isn't a point having it kicking off in October

Just part of spreading the metrics obsession to other areas of the game

MC v Perth - 6963 (source HAL site)

SFC v Roar - 10,044