A-League Crowds 12/13

[Zidane98]

WSW work so much better then the Heart in Melbourne with the western geographical divide. Who would have thought that we'd see two games played in Sydney on the same night with a combined crowd of 30k when you remember Sydney FC's diabolical crowds in 10/11.

 

[Speck]

Think that was a shocking crowd even with the weather last night. It all comes down to the marketing of that club again.

Its about time Heart look at a market. For to long they have tried to do the "new football", "youth" rubbish. Going head to head with Victory wont work and its showing. They tried Morewell but failed. Maybe its time to crack Geelong. A couple of games at Kardina. With the deal that they have at Swan St they will end in the gutter just like Gold Coast. Personay they should have been Geelong based from the get go but thats another topic.

Exactly. I just don't get where Heart's improvement is going to come from. They seem to have a lot of fans who will say 'I go for Heart' but couldn't give two shits if the team is losing. They seem to be built around the 'Anti-Muscat' brigade and the people who wanted their own team from scratch after the Victory made soccer in Melbourne as big as it is.

The club just doesn't make sense. They claim the youth angle and sign old players, they claimed the Dutch angle with Vant Schipp who was supposed to be going home after he quit (aka Heart can't afford him) and went to Mexico instead, and now they've got a cheap Aloisi. They're linked to every big player in the book like Owen, Kewell, even Carlos despite never ever having a chance at signing them (their PR guy is great in this respect - somehow they're always in the media).

With the deal that even cripples the Victory at AAMI I can't see how this club will be sustainable. A combination of them struggling and Victory playing well would mean sub 5k crowds, which won't see them stick around long term.

 

[Steven Gerrard]

SFC vs MV 21,531

I don't know what the lowest ever crowd is for a Melb/Syd game but that figure would have to rate very low. I was expecting 40k for last night's game. In season 2 at Etihad there was 55k at a Melb v Syd game, 34k more than last night.

 

[Contador]

Think that was a shocking crowd even with the weather last night. It all comes down to the marketing of that club again.

Its about time Heart look at a market. For to long they have tried to do the "new football", "youth" rubbish. Going head to head with Victory wont work and its showing. They tried Morewell but failed. Maybe its time to crack Geelong. A couple of games at Kardina. With the deal that they have at Swan St they will end in the gutter just like Gold Coast. Personay they should have been Geelong based from the get go but thats another topic.

They didn't "try" Morwell, it was a compulsory regional game. A couple of games in Geelong might be an option, but a future team in Geelong might render that a bit pointless. What is their deal at Swan St?

We've seen good crowds of 9-11k before after just 1 or 2 good results, so the potential is there for a good base with improved performances/results. Plus our average crowd with the derby boost is actually pretty decent.

 

[TigersBoy]

I don't know what the lowest ever crowd is for a Melb/Syd game but that figure would have to rate very low. I was expecting 40k for last night's game. In season 2 at Etihad there was 55k at a Melb v Syd game, 34k more than last night.

Sydney FC v Melbourne Victory Crowd History

Sydney FC Home Games:

Round 1 05/06 - 25,208 - SFS
Round 15 05/06 - 17,272 - SFS
Round 9 06/07 - 20,881 - SFS
Round 7 07/08 - 18,436 - SFS
Round 21 07/08 - 33,458 - SFS
Round 1 08/09 - 16,227 - SFS
Round 27 09/10 - 25,407 - SFS
Round 1 10/11 - 12,106 - SFS
Round 23 10/11 - 11,387 - SFS
Round 23 11/12 - 18,180 - SFS
Round 6 12/13 - 21,531 - SFS

Total: 220,093
Average: 20,008

Melbourne Victory Home Games:

Round 8 05/06 - 18,206 - Olympic Park
Round 2 06/07 - 39,730 - Docklands
Round 16 06/07 - 50,333 - Docklands
Round 12 07/08 - 31,884 - Docklands
Round 9 08/09 - 31,564 - Docklands
Round 17 08/09 - 25,398 - Docklands
Round 10 09/10 - 30,668 - Docklands
Round 20 09/10 - 27,334 - Docklands
Round 10 10/11 - 17,229 - Docklands
Round 1 11/12 - 40,351 - Docklands
Round 17 11/12 - 20,053 - Swan Street

Total: 332,750
Average: 30,250

Overall Total: 552,843
Overall Average: 25,129

These are Home and Away matches only excluding the 3 Final matches they have played eachother in.
11 Home games each to date.

 

[Paul7890]

PG vs AU: 9,212

 

[Zidane98]

Predictions for Round 7:

Roar vs Sydney FC 16,544 (Suncorp)
AUFC vs Heart 10,334 (Hindmarsh)
MVFC vs CCM 22,550 (Etihad)
Jets vs Nix 11,872 (EAS)
Glory vs WSW 9,559 (MES) - Capacity still 10,500?

 

[Luigi742]

Predictions for Round 7:

Roar vs Sydney FC 16,544 (Suncorp)
AUFC vs Heart 10,334 (Hindmarsh)
MVFC vs CCM 22,550 (Etihad)
Jets vs Nix 11,872 (EAS)
Glory vs WSW 9,559 (MES) - Capacity still 10,500?

Capacity is around 11,200 now because the southern stand is now completed

 

[Boro]

Predictions for Round 7:

Roar vs Sydney FC 16,544 (Suncorp)
AUFC vs Heart 10,334 (Hindmarsh)
MVFC vs CCM 22,550 (Etihad)
Jets vs Nix 11,872 (EAS)
Glory vs WSW 9,559 (MES) - Capacity still 10,500?

I think (not 100% sure what pax means tbh ) we've passed 16k already should be very close to 20k there on Friday.

 

[TigersBoy]

Brisbane Roar v Sydney FC: 22,970

 

[Munga]

Great crowd and cracking game

 

[Zidane98]

Well I underestimated that crowd massively. I didn't expect a bump crowd at Suncorp tonight given BRFC's recent results. Happy to be proven wrong, great crowd.

 

[____]

Over 20k for a normal season BRFC home game, pretty happy with that.

The upcoming Heskey game is probably sold out by now

 

[TigersBoy]

Adelaide UTD v Heart: 8,812
Melbourne v Central Coast: 19,462

 

[mojito]

Really, really don't know what the frak was going on with the crowd yesterday at Hindmarsh. Really should have been more.

North end made plenty of noise though. Probably one of our best games in that regard

 

[TigersBoy]

Round 7

Brisbane v Sydney FC: 22,970 - Suncorp Stadium
Adelaide UTD v Heart: 8,812 - Hindmarsh
Melbourne v Central Coast: 19,462 - Docklands
Newcastle v Wellington: 13,116 - Hunter Stadium
Perth v Western Sydney: 9,060 - nib Stadium

Average: 14,698
Season Average: 14,319

 

[FAITH]

Really, really don't know what the frak was going on with the crowd yesterday at Hindmarsh. Really should have been more.

North end made plenty of noise though. Probably one of our best games in that regard

I was there to. The performance didnt deserve a better crowd.
The time again was to early. play the games 7pm

 

[FAITH]

Adelaide UTD v Heart: 8,812
Melbourne v Central Coast: 19,462

Heart are a shocking team. 9k is fair enough

 

[TigersBoy]

Sydney FC v Adelaide: 13,317

 

[storm fan]

WSW V MV - 9,614 - getting very worrying

 

[Paul7890]

Wasnt the easiest to hear the attendance at the ground so I'm not certain, but it sounded like 7,910. PG vs WP

 

[typeclub]

Heart vs Newcastle - 7125. Ridiculous crowd given the weather was perfect in Melbourne.

 

[Punt Road Feral]

Heart vs Newcastle - 7125. Ridiculous crowd given the weather was perfect in Melbourne.

And they were giving away free tickets for the game too

 

[typeclub]

To who?

 

[ioppolo]

Just under 8k for Glory vs Wellington last night.