2025 Attendances

[The_Wookie]

11.12.2024

Gather Round tickets snapped up in record time


The AFL is pleased to announce that more than 195,000 Gather Round…Festival of Footy tickets have sold… with five of the nine games sold out, 20,000 more than this time last year.

Member on sale on Tuesday saw a significant uplift in demand for tickets this year, selling more than 100,000 tickets in the first four hours, in comparison to the same amount in 24 hours last year.

This year there are an extra 47,000 tickets on offer for fans with the two Saturday matches being ticketed separately.

Tickets still remain for Collingwood vs Sydney Swans on Friday night, Carlton vs West Coast on Saturday afternoon, Melbourne vs Essendon on Saturday night and a very limited number of restricted view tickets and tickets for the Pepsi Collective for Port Adelaide vs Hawthorn on Sunday evening.

AFL CEO Andrew Dillon said it was clear Gather Round momentum was not slowly down.

“The demand for tickets this year was significantly higher than the first two Gather Rounds, with more than 195,000 tickets being purchased in the first two days,” said Mr Dillon.

“A ticket to the matches at the Barossa Park was always going to be one of the hottest tickets in town and the fans have certainly illustrated that by selling out both matches so quickly.”

South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas said: “Gather Round continues to exceed all expectations.

“We are honoured that so many footy fans from around the country are making the commitment to travel to our beautiful state to experience this event like no other.

“They’ll be truly welcome.

“If you haven’t got a ticket already – get in quick!”

Tickets for the remaining matches can be found here.

 

[henrytheoctopus]

Posted this on the Hawks board but this is the HFC allocation for Friday (as of 11am)

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I gather the other bays are the Geelong ones and most of the premium seating (for both) has already sold out. Still plenty available (despite 50,000 being in the line up at 9.45 this morning).

thanks ticketek for my Geelong barcodes putting me in Q36 amongst the poos and wees mob

 

[Hawkk]

thanks ticketek for my Geelong barcodes putting me in Q36 amongst the poos and wees mob

You’ll have fun if you win!

 

[ep12]

thanks ticketek for my Geelong barcodes putting me in Q36 amongst the poos and wees mob

You will likely find that Q36 is a split bay between both clubs. Happens all over the ground.

 

[manicmagpie]

AFL Members down to pretty much standing room already for Gee/Haw after only 30 odd minutes.

 

[manicmagpie]

More left over in the club members allocation than I would have thought.

As of now:



Can’t tell how many are actually left in each bay, so may not be many.

 

[Walshawk]

So, for Friday, AFL and MCC tickets are sold out. A few thousand left over from the club members allocation will go on sale at 3pm today.

 

[Hawkk]

More left over in the club members allocation than I would have thought.

As of now:

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Can’t tell how many are actually left in each bay, so may not be many.

That’s the HFC bays. Looks about 3,000 or 4,000 members seats left. Lifted this from the Geelong board but this was what was showing after the allocations - unused HFC and GFC tickets.

 

[clarkoscluster]

Looks about 3,000 or 4,000 members seats left. Not surprising as you could only get one per barcode. That said it’s strange when there was 50,000 in the line (for 55,000 GA seats?) at 11am. I gather they’ll put standing room on sale too.

Would have been lots joining the queue with multiple devices which inflates it a bit. Probably balances up when there’s people buying more than 1 ticket per transaction.

 

[Underarm]

Looks about 3,000 or 4,000 members seats left. Not surprising as you could only get one per barcode. That said it’s strange when there was 50,000 in the line (for 55,000 GA seats?) at 11am. I gather they’ll put standing room on sale too.

Multiple devices, and people queueing for MCC and AFL members tickets at that time as well.

Glad all members who wanted to go got access.

 

[GenericUsername202]

Weather not looking that great this Saturday. Wonder if it'll effect the attendance?

 

[Hawkk]

Multiple devices, and people queueing for MCC and AFL members tickets at that time as well.

Glad all members who wanted to go got access.

Safe to assume it’ll probably sell out soon…

 

[Hawkk]

Weather not looking that great this Saturday. Wonder if it'll effect the attendance?

Doubt it. Should easily hit 95,000 plus. The Pies drew 98,000 to their Prelim against the Giants. Throw in the Lions big Victorian base and it will sell just as fast as Cats v Hawks.

 

[____]

I managed to get a ticket to Geelong v Hawthorn through a Hawks mate lending me a barcode. I'm genuinely surprised this game made general public considering there was 47000 in the queue when I hopped on.

 

[Hawkk]

Took about 30 minutes of General Public tickets but it got there…

 

[The Tilt]

Potential for a combined total of 190,000 across the two prelims.

 

[Walshawk]

Potential for a combined total of 190,000 across the two prelims.

Will be more like 195k. Hawks v Dogs last year got 98k and these games are bigger.

 

[Arwib]

Turn up – change her game

We’re calling on all footy fans to help drive AFLW attendance to an average of 6,000, which is the benchmark the AFL has set to expand the season. It comes as we prepare for the Sydney Derby this Sunday.

www.sydneyswans.com.au

Swans pushing hard to get this week's game over 6k attendance. Current Henson Park record is 5.7k against the Giants last year and Collingwood in 2023.

 

[The Tilt]

Will be more like 195k. Hawks v Dogs last year got 98k and these games are bigger.

I'd forgotten Haw-Bulldogs got almost 98,000. That's massive: it's insane how much finals attendances have grown in recent years.

 

[magic_johnson!]

I wonder whether they released the full allotment of standing room. The grand final seems to really fill the standing bays compared to other ‘sell outs’ in recent years.

I don’t see much reason why both games this weekend can’t achieve 97,000.

 

[Hawkk]

I wonder whether they released the full allotment of standing room. The grand final seems to really fill the standing bays compared to other ‘sell outs’ in recent years.

I don’t see much reason why both games this weekend can’t achieve 97,000.

Having been to about a dozen GF’s that post 100,012, 100,018 and 100,024 attendances it would not surprise me if the AFL started fixing the attendances with these PF’s too.

 

[Hawkk]

More left over in the club members allocation than I would have thought.

As of now:

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Can’t tell how many are actually left in each bay, so may not be many.

For those interested I lifted this from a Cats thread, but this was the allocation of tickets sold after the member window. It stacks up because all the bays that were HFC bays (55% of tickets) are there plus GFC (45%)



Given the game sold out 20 minutes after it went to the public this is obviously a very, very hot game. But it shows that 99% of MCG finals have enough seats for every club member that wants them (Collingwood v Brisbane might be the same, although series tickets might make them a bit tighter?)

Besides, how many finals actually sell out without going to the General Public? Geelong drew 87,000 against the Lions in the first week but how many of those were Cats or Brisbane members? Collingwood v GWS (2023) and the Dogs v Hawks (2024) sold out about 20-30 minutes after the members period too.

We have a tendency to overstate how many members should get Grand Final tickets but if ‘only’ 55k Hawks and Cats club members took tickets in the window (two of the six biggest memberships) maybe the current allocation isn’t too bad after all?

Most years only 20,000 or 30,000 club members (per club) register for the Grand Final ballots. When you factor in AFL members, MCC and club allocation way more club supporters would be at an AFL Grand Final vs the Super Bowl, Champions League or FA Cup. It’s still a supporters day even the if the media drums up all the bad luck stories. As long as Collingwood and Melbourne don’t make the GF, the AFL and MCC members are pretty much neutral.

 

[____]

To my knowledge
Richmond v Collingwood 2018 PF
Adelaide v Collingwood 2025 QF

Both sold out before reaching general public. Not sure of data pre-2018 but I would hazard a guess all the Eagles finals at Subiaco in the past 20 years or so would have as well.

 

[budge27]

Who are the most popular WAFL clubs? South and East Fremantle, West and East Perth?

Going off this seasons stats you’d be bang on the money - those 4 teams had the highest attendances. If Swans are up and about they would join this list like they did last season when they made the Prelim final.

WAFL FootyFacts - 2025

WAFL attendance crowd records for individual season

www.waflfootyfacts.net

 

[Rob]

Who are the most popular WAFL clubs? South and East Fremantle, West and East Perth?

Traditionally East Freo don't have a big supporter base. But the other 3 are probably the biggest. Nice weather forecast for a change too, so should get over 30k.

 

[Underarm]

Not sure if its just a Collingwood tax, but $150 for Level 4 front/$100 for level 4 middle is a bit steep.