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.

 

[Underarm]

If brisbane can pull off 30k against GWS, bulldogs have no excuse for not equaling those figures.

Sure, if you ignore the huge population disparity - 4 million population vs <1/10th of 6million.

 

[manicmagpie]

23,898 at Docklands.

 

[manicmagpie]

Actually the 2nd highest crowd between the two teams.

 

[Rouel_14]

23,898 at Docklands.

If only they closed half the top deck and put GA on Level 1.

 

[Hawkk]

Brisbane are a bigger club than the western bulldogs

Absolutely. If you surveyed everyone in Brisbane that lived within a 10% radius of the Gabba they’ve been neck and neck with the Broncos for local support. Not so much outside inner city Brisbane though…

23,898 at Docklands.

Take away the 25% Thursday drop and this gets 30,000 any other time.

 

[Walshawk]

Great Thursday crowd for the Dogs.

These games look like being (public) sellouts:
Rnd 21
Crows v Hawks
Pies v Lions
Rnd 22
Hawks v Pies
Lions v Swans
Rnd 23
Crows v Pies
Rnd 24
Lions v Hawks
Pies v Dees (maybe)

 

[ep12]

Great Thursday crowd for the Dogs.

These games look like being (public) sellouts:
Rnd 21
Crows v Hawks
Pies v Lions
Rnd 22
Hawks v Pies
Lions v Swans
Rnd 23
Crows v Pies
Rnd 24
Lions v Hawks
Pies v Dees (maybe)

Collingwood Melbourne won't be close to a sellout. It will be around 68k - reasoning being if they can get 62k against Freo, we won't bring more than an additional 5-6k for that one.

 

[Hawkk]

Collingwood Melbourne won't be close to a sellout. It will be around 68k - reasoning being if they can get 62k against Freo, we won't bring more than an additional 5-6k for that one.

Hawthorn v Collingwood won’t sell out on Thursday either. They still haven’t sold Q1-Q6 and being a Thursday it will be 20% lower than Friday Night earlier this year (83,706). Given this, 70,000 give or take is my estimate.

That said, if Hawthorn win tonight (and they are rank outsiders) it could attract a surge next week. Especially if Collingwood and Hawthorn play off for a top 4 spot.

 

[Rabman]

Hoping for 50k tonight. Weather’s good in Adelaide, plenty of people coming from the city after work to the game. Excellent Hawthorn support in Adelaide. Should be a good attendance.

 

[Walshawk]

Hawthorn v Collingwood won’t sell out on Thursday either. They still haven’t sold Q1-Q6 and being a Thursday it will be 20% lower than Friday Night earlier this year (83,706). Given this, 70,000 give or take is my estimate.

That said, if Hawthorn win tonight (and they are rank outsiders) it could attract a surge next week. Especially if Collingwood and Hawthorn play off for a top 4 spot.

Much of Q1 - Q6 will be GA. Sales are strong. Will be bigger than 70k.

 

[ep12]

Hawthorn v Collingwood won’t sell out on Thursday either. They still haven’t sold Q1-Q6 and being a Thursday it will be 20% lower than Friday Night earlier this year (83,706). Given this, 70,000 give or take is my estimate.

That said, if Hawthorn win tonight (and they are rank outsiders) it could attract a surge next week. Especially if Collingwood and Hawthorn play off for a top 4 spot.

Thursday night though.
Collingwood Melbourne will likely be Sunday 3:15 so it’s on Channel 7 I think with Collingwood needing to win to finish top or second.

 

[dave10]

Good luck to the brave souls going to the SCG tomorrow.

 

[Rabman]

Beautiful.

 

[Sammoll]

Hoping for 50k tonight. Weather’s good in Adelaide, plenty of people coming from the city after work to the game. Excellent Hawthorn support in Adelaide. Should be a good attendance.

The last Crows game to reach 50k that was not a Showdown or in Gather Round was back in Round 1 2019 also vs Hawthorn funnily enough. Would be great to see it again (and I think it'll be 2x 50k games in a row with the game vs Collingwood in Rnd 23 + any finals of course)

 

[Rabman]

Adelaide Oval attendance: 50,654

 

[collingwood23]

Adelaide Oval attendance: 50,654

Massive!!

 

[MelbourneGWS]

Adelaide Oval attendance: 50,654

Biggest ever Adelaide home crowd vs Hawthorn - beat the previous record attendance of 50,321

 

[Cmarsh]

Beautiful.

I'm actually surprised how long it has taken for a big club like Adelaide to sell out their home ground given how well they have been travelling this year.

 

[Rouel_14]

Hawthorn v Collingwood won’t sell out on Thursday either. They still haven’t sold Q1-Q6 and being a Thursday it will be 20% lower than Friday Night earlier this year (83,706). Given this, 70,000 give or take is my estimate.

That said, if Hawthorn win tonight (and they are rank outsiders) it could attract a surge next week. Especially if Collingwood and Hawthorn play off for a top 4 spot.

Been thinking about this. Anything under a sell out is really disappointing.

Hawthorn hasn’t had a home Thursday night all season so it can’t be claimed of Thursday night fatigue. You’re in the season up to your eyeballs against the biggest club in the land.

These are the games you follow footy for. The heaving tribes and the roar of the G.

Anything under 80K and a sell out would be extremely disappointing.

 

[Hawkk]

Been thinking about this. Anything under a sell out is really disappointing.

Hawthorn hasn’t had a home Thursday night all season so it can’t be claimed of Thursday night fatigue. You’re in the season up to your eyeballs against the biggest club in the land.

These are the games you follow footy for. The heaving tribes and the roar of the G.

Anything under 80K and a sell out would be extremely disappointing.

Hawthorn v Carlton was a Hawks home game last week. They’ve also played two other Thursday Night away games in Melbourne (v Blues and Dogs). Last night and the Dockers game has really taken a lot of air out of our sails though…

Re last night…

Footy Flashbacks: Hawks return to Adelaide Oval

Hawthorn has won five of six games against the Crows at Adelaide Oval.

www.hawthornfc.com.au

Last Thursday night’s crowd of 51,271 was Hawthorn’s eighth 50,000-plus crowd for 2025, a new club record for a home and away season. The previous record of seven had been recorded on four occasions – 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2017.

All eight 50,000-plus crowds thus far in 2025 have been at the MCG, but this Friday night could see the Adelaide Oval added to the list, with two previous Hawthorn games there against the Crows (in 2014 and 2019) having reached the 50,000-mark.

Next week will surely be the 10th game for the season and maybe the Dees is an outside shot for 11 games (all 10 at the MCG). Perhaps an omen but the previous record (7) occurred in a season the Hawks missed the finals (2017). 8-10 games should be the status quo for the Hawks moving forward assuming Carlton and Essendon games are scheduled at the MCG.

I'm actually surprised how long it has taken for a big club like Adelaide to sell out their home ground given how well they have been travelling this year.

Agreed.

It’s been an issue for the Crows for a long time now though. In the ‘90s the Crows were probably the biggest club in the AFL — that’s clearly the Eagles these days.

 

[ep12]

Genuinely could be less than 8k here today.

 

[Sammoll]

16,394 for Melbourne vs West Coast at Marvel. Obviously not good - but pretty reasonable in the end all things considered. Could’ve been much worse.

 

[hawkman]

Didn't look anywhere near that

 

[mblack42]

16,394 for Melbourne vs West Coast at Marvel. Obviously not good - but pretty reasonable in the end all things considered. Could’ve been much worse.

I'd argue it's nearly decent at Marvel as an MCG tenant. You have a home team having a wretched year with a disengaged fan base just wanting the season to end, hosting an interstate team that could arguably be the worst team of the century.

 

[Raz Man]

16,394 for Melbourne vs West Coast at Marvel. Obviously not good - but pretty reasonable in the end all things considered. Could’ve been much worse.

Melbourne footy fans have been superb in my eyes. After last Sunday’s abomination.. they could have just said “Nope”. Instead, they’ve rocked up.
Sets up next weekend at the G’ vs Bulldogs.