Play Nice 2024 AFL and State League Attendance

[kranger]

45,931 in Perth for Freo vs Bulldogs

 

[parano1a]

Geelong would take a Kardinia Park final against anyone 100 times out of 100, and wouldn’t give a second thought to the attendance.

Fortunately the AFL schedules the finals fixture, not the participating clubs.

 

[MattF185]

What an amazing crowd at the MCG today. What helped but shocked me at the same time was how full the level 1 seating was. Bring on Carlton v Collingwood Friday night!

 

[budge27]

Fantastic crowd at the MCG. Much higher than I expected.

• Geelong's highest 'home' crowd in history surpassing the previous record of 87,653 against Essendon in 1989.
• 2nd biggest Geelong H&A crowd in history.
• 7th biggest Carlton H&A crowd in history.

What a fabulous crowd at the G tonite. I went to the old record crowd of Geel v Ess back in 89. It was on the Queens Birthday weekend, so it makes this crowd even more special.

But this does annoy me about the AFL and all their set in stone blockbusters these days - hardly any flexibility for these random fixtures when both teams are flying to have decent crowds. Every public holiday has a set fixture - Good Friday, Easter Monday, ANZAC, Kings birthday… then the AFL has added ‘eve’ games to take even more advantage of the fixture.

 

[Bjo187]

Well the ACT isn't really a solid footy area, where Tassie is, or supposed to be. Not a well thought out comment by Matthews.

No he was strictly referring to the disparity in sizes of games around the afl.

 

[Arwib]

Absolutely. The Giants are also Canberra’s AFL team, and this is indicated by the sold out games we have had so far at Manuka.

Would get the same for our own team rather than part time visitors of course. No footy to go to now until August now, that hurts.

 

[Dirty Bird]

Yeah North need to get out of Tassie. There will be the usual retorts but Tassie just doesn't seem convincing that it's a footy loving state at times.

I decided when the fixture came out that I wanted to go to this game.

Want to know something?


A month back when I finally found tickets. Every game was available to buy tickets on the afls website.............Except the 2 Hobart games.

Every game had a working link on either ticketek or ticketmaster websites................Except the 2 Hobart games.

Where was the only way to find Hobart tickets only 1 month ago? Through North Melbourne's website.

It's bound to fail when your 2 best sources to sell tickets aren't advertising the games and one had to go through a 3rd party. When the club is more focused on their own fans rather than the general populace. It's bound to fail

 

[MattF185]

So going by my calculations, yesterdays crowd of 87,775 between Geelong and Carlton ranks as the 9th highest Home and Away crowd (29th overall) on a non-public holiday. The top 9 are -

1. 91,571 Carl v Ess R19 2000
2. 88,468 Ess v Rich R21 2007
3. 88,287 Carl v Coll R23 2022
4. 88,181 Coll v Carl R3 2011
5. 88,180 Rich v Coll R19 2018
6. 88,115 Coll v Geel R9 2010
7. 88,066 Coll v Ess R19 1992
8. 87,984 Carl v Ess R22 1995
9. 87,775 Geel v Carl R7 2024

Well done to both teams supporters!

 

[AstuteTiger]

So going by my calculations, yesterdays crowd of 87,775 between Geelong and Carlton ranks as the 9th highest Home and Away crowd (29th overall) on a non-public holiday. The top 9 are -

1. 91,571 Carl v Ess R19 2000
2. 88,468 Ess v Rich R21 2007
3. 88,287 Carl v Coll R23 2022
4. 88,181 Coll v Carl R3 2011
5. 88,180 Rich v Coll R19 2018
6. 88,115 Coll v Geel R9 2010
7. 88,066 Coll v Ess R19 1992
8. 87,984 Carl v Ess R22 1995
9. 87,775 Geel v Carl R7 2024

Well done to both teams supporters!

You left out RD 1 2018, Rich V Carl 90,151
and 2023 RD 1, Rich V Carl 88,084

Just made a small edit to your numbers. Just outside the top 10

1. 91,571 Carl v Ess R19 2000
2. 90,151 Rich V Carl RD 1 2018
3. 88,468 Ess v Rich R21 2007
4. 88,287 Carl v Coll R23 2022
5. 88,181 Coll v Carl R3 2011
6. 88,180 Rich v Coll R19 2018
7. 88,115 Coll v Geel R9 2010
8. 88,084 Rich V Carl RD 1 2023
9. 88,066 Coll v Ess R19 1992
10. 87,984 Carl v Ess R22 1995
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11. 87,775 Geel v Carl R7 2024

 

[Cmarsh]

So going by my calculations, yesterdays crowd of 87,775 between Geelong and Carlton ranks as the 9th highest Home and Away crowd (29th overall) on a non-public holiday. The top 9 are -

1. 91,571 Carl v Ess R19 2000
2. 88,468 Ess v Rich R21 2007
3. 88,287 Carl v Coll R23 2022
4. 88,181 Coll v Carl R3 2011
5. 88,180 Rich v Coll R19 2018
6. 88,115 Coll v Geel R9 2010
7. 88,066 Coll v Ess R19 1992
8. 87,984 Carl v Ess R22 1995
9. 87,775 Geel v Carl R7 2024

Well done to both teams supporters!

That rd 19, 2000 crowd might be broken this Friday night.

 

[kranger]

Fremantle still have three existing clubs against whom their record home crowd is back at Subiaco Oval.

They play two of those clubs at Perth Stadium this year and should be able to surpass the respective records, being Collingwood and Gold Coast.

 

[MattF185]

You left out RD 1 2018, Rich V Carl 90,151
and 2023 RD 1, Rich V Carl 88,084

Just made a small edit to your numbers. Just outside the top 10

1. 91,571 Carl v Ess R19 2000
2. 90,151 Rich V Carl RD 1 2018
3. 88,468 Ess v Rich R21 2007
4. 88,287 Carl v Coll R23 2022
5. 88,181 Coll v Carl R3 2011
6. 88,180 Rich v Coll R19 2018
7. 88,115 Coll v Geel R9 2010
8. 88,084 Rich V Carl RD 1 2023
9. 88,066 Coll v Ess R19 1992
10. 87,984 Carl v Ess R22 1995
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11. 87,775 Geel v Carl R7 2024

My apologies. Had season openers marked as a public holiday on my end.

 

[AstuteTiger]

My apologies. Had season openers marked as a public holiday on my end.

Ok cool I just read non public holiday and as we know thurs night opening round isn't a public holiday, work night.
Nonetheless, super crowd cats v blues

 

[Tassieboy]

Crowds have been exceptional this year

 

[manicmagpie]

Every crowd over 85k involving at least one club not in the 'Big 4':

 

[kranger]

Every crowd over 85k involving at least one club not in the 'Big 4':

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Looking at that, I can’t help but think Vic is split between the Big 4, the Middle 3 (who are each in the table) and the bottom 3 (who are not in the table).

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Looking at that, I can’t help but think Vic is split between the Big 4, the Middle 3 (who are each in the table) and the bottom 3 (who are not in the table).

But is Melbourne only in the middle 3 because they have a good team right now? Hawthorn are at least there even with a poor team. I look at it as a middle two and a bottom four, albeit Melbourne probably have the biggest financial muscle of that bottom four.

 

[Cmarsh]

But is Melbourne only in the middle 3 because they have a good team right now? Hawthorn are at least there even with a poor team. I look at it as a middle two and a bottom four, albeit Melbourne probably have the biggest financial muscle of that bottom four.

St kilda have a bigger base than what they are given credit for. Just dont see it very much.

 

[weewilly]

Looking at that, I can’t help but think Vic is split between the Big 4, the Middle 3 (who are each in the table) and the bottom 3 (who are not in the table).

Pretty ordinary crowd at the GC match so no spike because Hardwick is the coach they need to start winning matches to get their crowds up.
I'm still not a fan of major sports being played at the GC as almost ALL have failed down the years!

A second QLD would have been better in one of the large cities the north like Townsville where I reckon the tens of millions spent on the Suns would be more appropriate in growing the game in a greenfield site.

 

[Johnny Bananas]

St kilda have a bigger base than what they are given credit for. Just dont see it very much.

Maybe so, but they simply don't have the financial power that other clubs have. From memory they're only stronger than North, Gold Coast and GWS (now that Brisbane are back in the black).

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Pretty ordinary crowd at the GC match so no spike because Hardwick is the coach they need to start winning matches to get their crowds up.

Give it time and it will improve. Winning people in a new area takes time and 13 initial years of being awful is tough to overcome. Part of the problem is how hard their stadium is to access. The AFL made a mistake picking Carrara. They made a mistake with the Sydney Showground too, but at least that's getting a shiny new rail line connecting jt to both Sydney CBD and Parramatta CBD. Carrara has no transport solution on the horizon.

I'm still not a fan of major sports being played at the GC as almost ALL have failed down the years!

Because they've all sucked on the field and their stadia have usually been in awful locations. It doesn't help that the Gold Coast has been a very decentralised place, that is only starting to change now because they have light rail to concentrate development. But both the Suns and Titans play a long way from anywhere serviced by the light rail.

A second QLD would have been better in one of the large cities the north like Townsville where I reckon the tens of millions spent on the Suns would be more appropriate in growing the game in a greenfield site.

I strongly disagree, this is just a case of the grass looking greener on the other side of the fence. The Gold Coast has almost four times as many people, many more footy fans and many more businesses to draw on for sponsorship. And it's growing much faster than Townsville.

Townsville has no real footy culture anyway, Cairns is the real centre of the game in North Queensland. I guarantee you, Townsville would be a financial basket case for a full time team.

 

[Billy ray]

Most of the GA sections are full. All the empty seats on tv you see are $45-75. Its only travelling fans who are paying $$ for flights and accom anyway so they also then pay these prices for seats.
You wont get local rolling up and dropping $50 to sit in sun

 

[Billy ray]

Further to above for games against gws eagles dockers crows power and maybe a few smaller melb teams the majority of Carrara should be GA $25 tickets ($60 family of 4).

 

[BallaratBulldog]

Thought Gold Coast may have preferred the twilight slot more (and Hawks preferring the early)

 

[Bjo187]

Looking at that, I can’t help but think Vic is split between the Big 4, the Middle 3 (who are each in the table) and the bottom 3 (who are not in the table).

I would say that's pretty accurate.

Big 4, middle 4, bottom 2 I'm more thinking. Melbourne and saints can slip into the middle or bottom group depending on form.