Opinion Ranking the Top 25 Football cities

[Hoops]

This isn't about which cities do or don't deserve teams, or which city has more support per capita. It's my limited opinion list of cities total support for football, where of course population plays a huge part.

1. Melbourne
2. Perth
3. Adelaide
4. Sydney
5. Brisbane
6. Gold Coast
7. Hobart
8. Canberra
9. Geelong
10. Sunshine Coast
11. Wollongong
    
12. Darwin
13. Ballarat
14. Bendigo
15. Launceston
16. Albury-Wodonga
17. Cairns
18. Bunbury
19. Newcastle
20. Townsville
21. Mildura
22. Shepparton
23. Wagga Wagga
24. Geraldton
25. Traralgon-Morwell

Please challenge the list?

 

[pazza]

Not too sure there's a lot of support for footy in Noosa, Wollongong, Townsville or Newcastle.

I'll substitute in Mount Gambier, Warrnambool, Horsham and Echuca-Moama!

 

[Hoops]

Not too sure there's a lot of support for footy in Noosa, Wollongong, Townsville or Newcastle.

I'll substitute in Mount Gambier, Warrnambool, Horsham and Echuca-Moama!

Theres about 20 times the population in those cities v the towns you mentioned. Are they 20 times more likely to support football in those towns, I say no.

edit* lets even take the smallest Wollongong (292k) v the largest Warrnambool (34k). Is Warrnambool more than 8.5 times more receptive to footy. I think not, though there's certainly an argument there.

 

[pazza]

Theres about 20 times the population in those cities v the towns you mentioned. Are they 20 times more likely to support football in those towns, I say no.

edit* lets even take the smallest Wollongong (292k) v the largest Warrnambool (34k). Is Warrnambool more than 8.5 times more receptive to footy. I think not, though there's certainly an argument there.

I guess I look at things like:

Player production
Quality of local competition
Football infrastructure

In making those suggestions.

There is no doubt the Hampden league, the Western Border league, the Wimmera league and the Central Murray league have strong facilities in each city. Echuca already hosts a number of Murray Bushrangers matches per season. Warrnambool's Reid Park is one of the best local grounds in country footy.

Size of population is only one factor.

 

[Hoops]

Just to let you know how I came up with the list, I took the populations of all cities mentioned here and multiplied it by a support number (which could be way off) of 0-10.
here's a fuller list

1. Melbourne Victoria 4,529,496 9.5 43030212
2. Perth Western Australia 2,039,193 9 18352737
3. Adelaide South Australia 1,316,779 10 13167790
4. Sydney New South Wales 4,920,970 2 9841940
5. Brisbane Queensland 2,308,720 2.5 5771800
6. Gold Coast–Tweed Heads Queensland/New South Wales 624,918 4.5 2812131
7. Hobart Tasmania 220,593 10 2205930
8. Canberra–Queanbeyan Australian Capital Territory/New South Wales 424,666 5 2123330
9. Geelong Victoria 187,417 10 1874170
10. Sunshine Coast Queensland 302,122 4 1208488
11. Wollongong New South Wales 292,388 4 1169552
12. Darwin Northern Territory 142,258 8 1138064
13. Ballarat Victoria 99,841 10 998410
14. Bendigo Victoria 92,888 10 928880
15. Launceston Tasmania 86,633 10 866330
16. Albury–Wodonga New South Wales/Victoria 88,949 9 800541
17. Cairns Queensland 147,993 5 739965
18. Bunbury Western Australia 75,628 9.5 718466
19. Newcastle–Maitland New South Wales 434,454 1.5 651681
20. Townsville Queensland 180,333 3 540999
21. Mildura–Wentworth Victoria/New South Wales 50,011 10 500110
22. Shepparton–Mooroopna Victoria 49,371 10 493710
23. Wagga Wagga New South Wales 55,820 8 446560
24. Traralgon–Morwell Victoria 40,816 10 408160
25. Geraldton Western Australia 39,825 9.5 378337.5

I did rate Townsville too high and have dropped it down a couple of places

 

[reggie]

Just to let you know how I came up with the list, I took the populations of all cities mentioned here and multiplied it by a support number (which could be way off) of 0-10.
here's a fuller list

1. Melbourne Victoria 4,529,496 9.5 43030212
2. Perth Western Australia 2,039,193 9 18352737
3. Adelaide South Australia 1,316,779 10 13167790
4. Sydney New South Wales 4,920,970 2 9841940
5. Brisbane Queensland 2,308,720 2.5 5771800
6. Gold Coast–Tweed Heads Queensland/New South Wales 624,918 4.5 2812131
7. Hobart Tasmania 220,593 10 2205930
8. Canberra–Queanbeyan Australian Capital Territory/New South Wales 424,666 5 2123330
9. Geelong Victoria 187,417 10 1874170
10. Sunshine Coast Queensland 302,122 4 1208488
11. Wollongong New South Wales 292,388 4 1169552
12. Darwin Northern Territory 142,258 8 1138064
13. Ballarat Victoria 99,841 10 998410
14. Bendigo Victoria 92,888 10 928880
15. Launceston Tasmania 86,633 10 866330
16. Albury–Wodonga New South Wales/Victoria 88,949 9 800541
17. Cairns Queensland 147,993 5 739965
18. Bunbury Western Australia 75,628 9.5 718466
19. Newcastle–Maitland New South Wales 434,454 1.5 651681
20. Townsville Queensland 180,333 3 540999
21. Mildura–Wentworth Victoria/New South Wales 50,011 10 500110
22. Shepparton–Mooroopna Victoria 49,371 10 493710
23. Wagga Wagga New South Wales 55,820 8 446560
24. Traralgon–Morwell Victoria 40,816 10 408160
25. Geraldton Western Australia 39,825 9.5 378337.5

I did rate Townsville too high and have dropped it down a couple of places

How did you work out your support number?

 

[Golumless]

Just to let you know how I came up with the list, I took the populations of all cities mentioned here and multiplied it by a support number (which could be way off) of 0-10.
here's a fuller list

1. Melbourne Victoria 4,529,496 9.5 43030212
2. Perth Western Australia 2,039,193 9 18352737
3. Adelaide South Australia 1,316,779 10 13167790
4. Sydney New South Wales 4,920,970 2 9841940
5. Brisbane Queensland 2,308,720 2.5 5771800
6. Gold Coast–Tweed Heads Queensland/New South Wales 624,918 4.5 2812131
7. Hobart Tasmania 220,593 10 2205930
8. Canberra–Queanbeyan Australian Capital Territory/New South Wales 424,666 5 2123330
9. Geelong Victoria 187,417 10 1874170
10. Sunshine Coast Queensland 302,122 4 1208488
11. Wollongong New South Wales 292,388 4 1169552
12. Darwin Northern Territory 142,258 8 1138064
13. Ballarat Victoria 99,841 10 998410
14. Bendigo Victoria 92,888 10 928880
15. Launceston Tasmania 86,633 10 866330
16. Albury–Wodonga New South Wales/Victoria 88,949 9 800541
17. Cairns Queensland 147,993 5 739965
18. Bunbury Western Australia 75,628 9.5 718466
19. Newcastle–Maitland New South Wales 434,454 1.5 651681
20. Townsville Queensland 180,333 3 540999
21. Mildura–Wentworth Victoria/New South Wales 50,011 10 500110
22. Shepparton–Mooroopna Victoria 49,371 10 493710
23. Wagga Wagga New South Wales 55,820 8 446560
24. Traralgon–Morwell Victoria 40,816 10 408160
25. Geraldton Western Australia 39,825 9.5 378337.5

I did rate Townsville too high and have dropped it down a couple of places

Name me the last draftee to come from Cairns or Townsville? I'm at a loss.

Also Hobart rated below Gold Coast is absolutely criminal.

 

[Gigantor]

Yeh, I'm not sure why Townsville would make the top 20 (why does it receive a multiplier of 3?)

And in all honesty, impossible to make a case that Canberra should be above Geelong.

And Sunshine Coast top 10? Seriously?

Even Wollongong at 11 is silly - all of these sorts of cities should be getting a multiplier of 1, at the very most.

 

[Falchoon]

Just to let you know how I came up with the list, I took the populations of all cities mentioned here and multiplied it by a support number (which could be way off) of 0-10.
here's a fuller list

1. Melbourne Victoria 4,529,496 9.5 43030212

your support number would translate better as 95% rather than by multiplying 9.5.

ie 4,529,496 *95% = 4,303,021

 

[Chicken Parma]

Name me the last draftee to come from Cairns or Townsville? I'm at a loss.

Charlie Dixon would have been drafted had he not been pre-listed by the Suns.

Oh, and Jack Bowes is from Cairns.

 

[Giant Heart]

There's no way that two out of ten people follow AFL in Sydney.

 

[Gibbke]

No Qld or NSW city or town should be on this list, maybe outside a couple of those western NSW country towns near the Vic border. You have to do this as a ratio between Australian footy interest v other interests, and in these two states rugby league is a clear winner everywhere. Townsville has no interest, Cairns severely overrated up here in FNQ - believe me guys, Mars has a quicker footy pulse than this place and I feel like a lone pariah. Hobart and Launceston are being ripped off here...as per f###ing usual...

I'd even challenge the ranking of the top three. Melbourne's sheer size means it can accomodate other interests to levels that make almost anything nationally viable, as does Sydney, and they pride themselves on being the sporting capital of this and every other parallel universe. Sure, they might be the hub of the AFL, footy's Amazon Forest, but they are also the hub of a lot of other things too, with a rapidly expanding population that isn't rooted in footy traditions. One of the stated reasons for the end of origin footy was the relative lack of interest in WA home crowds...while Adelaide fans always showed up baying for blood, WA fans started to decline, and Victorians were always ambivalent anyway...

I'd put Adelaide on top of this list, if I wasn't going to do an in depth analysis of all of these country towns and work out their relative contributions, pitfalls and interest in Australian footy...which I won't...!

 

[raskolnikov]

I'd have Toowoomba before Townsville. Bigger area and has a strong competition.