Sports Industry tweet reckons it's the first time that the AFL has got over 300,000 attendances for each of the first five rounds of the season.

They are about to make it six in the row with the ANZAC Day weekend.  So if their crowds are down, it wouldn't be a a lot.

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And trains have been down every wknd in Melbourne, so that’s pretty decent 

Yeah, undoubtedly it is good that AFL has maintained the same level of crowds they were getting for 15 years, now if Football can appreciate the fact that we have maintained the crowds then we can go forward more positively. If you care to be positive, we still have more possibility for growth than any other sport.

They did it while adding 2 low drawing expansion teams.  We have yet to see that the A league can do the same.

pretty sure average AFL crowds were regularly over 40,00 before expansion. they're under 40,000 now, but more people are going to games because there are 9 games per week instead of 8. they also play a lot of the blockbuster games early to gather momentum. 

Data is better than guess work

https://afltables.com/afl/crowds/summary.html

i just wonder if the ratings and interest is so slow if they will ever stop those post match press conferences they do? 

ok, so they never reached a 40k average, but there was a sharp drop in averages when the 2 new teams started. also a sharp increase in recent years, probably due to richmond having success. 

That’s pretty interesting. 

They were about 36k, introduced 2 new teams and went down to about 31.5k, and are now back up to about 35k. 

Wonder what our 2 new teams will do for us. BankWest surely a factor next season as well. 

Part of the recovery in average crowds is due to the Adelaide oval redevelopment, and the building of Optus stadium.  Both Perth and Adelaide had games where demand exceeded the available stadiums capacity.  Bigger capacity stadiums then lead to bigger average crowds in both cities.  I dont think averages are back to what they were, if you allow for the effect the new stadiums have had.  They certainly havent lifted because of what the new teams bring to the table.

Its OK if you guys refer to AFL as "we" instead of "they" I don't think it is a secret or anything.

I heard 10k watched last night 

Confirmed, 10k

33k sat on 10 bold (metro)

that's not bad for a dead rubber 

The delusion is incredible. 

not sure what that word means but what would you expect for that game? 

Apologies. As soon as you make one error my auto correct goes nuts.

Delusion has been added. Your move again. 

only a few short years ago HAL games would get between 80k-180k on SBS.

Now we get 30k and people are like "not too bad...not too bad at all!!!"

well obviously you are angry at the ffa and you let it out at fellow fans on a forum but i am sure we can agree on other things outside the forum.

for instance do you like water parks? 

i am comparing where we are now not where we were.

do you think i am happy where we are now there are heaps of problems that have taken us backwards everyone knows that 

yep agree. but I am also hopeful we can get back to those levels next year if the ch 10 deal goes through and they make an effort to promote. 

I hope you're right, but TV history tells us when something drops that low, that's it.

i feel useless watching the a league on foxtel go since it does not impact the ratings. It's like illegally downloading a movie 

A bit like the NBL

Yes, and they've done a terrific job in trying to get back a little bit of relevance, but it remains a long, long way from where they were 25 years ago.

NBL ratings are still well below HAL, yet according to the media they are undergoing a revival. but one thing their sport has going for them is that the national team is more competitive than ours. 

what media? I know more about the new hockey one comp then i do about the nbl 

you serious? NBL got a huge pump up this last season. Similar to when Kewell came home.