1.5k in Wollongong for Wellington-central coast 

6,632 at the Smurfs game.
Perhaps the Matildas game cannibalised the Attendance tonight.

Hopefully Melbourne Victory and WS Wanderers can bring up the Attendance by at least 20,000

7017 at Coopers.

If  these  are  the  figures  for  round  1  and  2,  just imagine  what  they   are   going  to   be   come  the  2nd  half  of  the  season...

Round 1 average was 10,543

And that  included  the  Sydney  derby.

How's   the  round  2  average  so  far ?

The independent A-League is off to a thoroughly Underwhelming start.
For my money it comes down to the teams and players. Apart from Melbourne City and possibly Adelaide, the League sports a seriously dull and mediocre set of players.
Both City and the Reds have players who have offer an excitement factor. None of the other teams do. 
Watching the Bulls, CCM, Sydney and Melbourne Perth this weekend was about as entertaining as a trip to the dentist. 
8.99 is very cheap football but on the evidence of the first two rounds I'm seriously wondering if its worth bothering.

That should have been been Wellington not Melbourne in my list of dullness 

You  would  think   they  would  have  gone  heavy  on  marketing  & promoting  the  league , to  build  up  hype  and  excitement ,  but  it  seems  its  as  if  the  league  is  practically  invisible...

Not good but i think the Sydney FC game was reduced due to the Matilda's game

sure , if  that   makes  you  feel   better

Expected total additional attendance for today's games to be at least 25,000

Is  that  supposed  to  be  impressive  ?

Match Week 2 Attendance
Fraudsters v Perth...........3,013
Phoenix v Mariners..........1,512
Smurfs v Bullsh1tters......6,632
Adelaide v Heartle$$.......7,017
Melb Vic v Brisbane.......13,026
Wanderers v Newcastle...8,003
Round 2 Average..............4,283
Season Average...............7,414

so  apparently  13k  for  mv  &  8k  for  wsw

geez, and  I  thought  that  "expected"  total  25k  figure  was  low...

deary me 

 (even  if  your  math   seems  a  little  off)

The slide continues. My earlier post stands. Zero excitement about the competition. The last two disastrous expansion choices have done irreparable damage. I fear. 

NSL levels 

Certainly didn't help that Sydney won the comp for several seasons with lifeless oldest fart football. 

Remember  how  people  were  complaining  about  attendances   when  the  old   FFA  was  running  the   A-league  and  were  getting  40,000+   just  a  couple   of  seasons  ago ?

Match Week 2 Attendances corrected
Fraudsters v Perth...........3,013
Phoenix v Mariners..........1,512
Smurfs v Bullsh1tters......6,632
Adelaide v Heartle$$.......7,017
Melb Vic v Brisbane.......13,026
Wanderers v Newcastle...8,003
Round 2 Average..............6,534
Season Average...............8,539

Are you saying Adelaide and city have players with a bit of flair and the other teams don’t? I think there is something to that 

@ Paul01

I  still  don't  see  anything  in  there  close  to  40,000+ 

Correct.
Plus Wellington having to play in Wollongong doesn't help.
Gallop and Lowy killed the league when they neutered active support.
It will be a slow burn to get it back.
At least there was active support at AAMI Park.
Plus the RBB has been back at CommBank for 2 weeks in a row plus there was Active Support for both Sydney and Newcastle in the away bays.

I noted that there were over 4000 at 2 FFA Cup games recently South Melbourne FC v Melbourne City and Sydney Olympic v Smurfs

@ Paul01

The  old  ffa   was  getting  crowds  of  40,000+  up  to  their last  season. 

Based  on  the recent  reported  sale  of 30%  of  the  league  for  $130m, would  put  the  total  value  of  the  league  that they   built  in  just  15  years   in  the  vicinity  of  half  a  Billion  dollars  (even  after  covid).

 And  you   say   the league  was "killed"  ? 

Yes. way it stands through only one teams worthwhile watching are city and the reds. 

Have to say I was disappointed by Victory’s crowd. I was expecting high teens. It just goes to show that we have a long way to go as a club to get people back on board after 2 disastrous seasons. As does the league in general.

I might add that the fixturing doesn’t help. Melbourne Sports fans hate Sundays. We love Friday and Saturday. I’m expecting sub-10,000 on Sunday for a 6:45pm kickoff.

Two years of pandemic would have broken a lot of habits.
Live sports watching is a bit of a habit.
It's a habit easily broken, because it often requires a bit of effort, and/or is one formed with other people who often have changing priorities.
Coaxing people to re-establish the habit takes a lot longer than breaking the habit in the first instance.

Victory continuing to win will help with this. 

1000% agree with this. I went to a neutral game yesterday and have that itch back. I am much more inclined to go again after going to that. I am confident things will come along, maybe not this season just yet, but they will.