2026 Attendances

[Rouel_14]

I still think starting earlier to incorporate a long weekend and not trying to build an annual labor day game in Victoria is crazy. Especially in clean air after the F1 finishes on Sunday.

Maybe the someone like the dogs or North should pitch to always start Labor day Monday and aim for 50K at marvel to close out the weekend.

 

[Underarm]

I didn’t mean play the derbies I meant:

SA team V WA team
SA team V WA team
NSW Team V QLD Team
NSW team V QLD team

How would that be starting with a bang for the people in those states?

Ita a very Vic centric look at the game, when all the room for growth is in those northern cities.

 

[Walshawk]

Poor turnout at Homebush despite plenty of Hawks fans. One upper stands not open. Other upper stands half full. Lower levels ok - 2/3s full. 12k there if we are being honest. I predict they will post 15,071.

 

[pOleK]

Poor turnout at Homebush despite plenty of Hawks fans. Two upper stands not open. Other upper stands less than half full. Lower levels ok - 2/3s full. 11k - 12k there if we are being honest. I predict they will post 15,071.

Nah i’ve been to a couple games at Engie. Definitely looks and sounds like it’s sitting around the 16-18k range

 

[The Tilt]

Not the thread for it, but do Giants fans on here have a view on the crappy music they have blaring after every goal?

FMD it's annoying. Turn that sh!t off.

 

[Walshawk]

Nah i’ve been to a couple games at Engie. Definitely looks and sounds like it’s sitting around the 16-18k range

No way it is 70% - 75% full.

 

[Cmarsh]

Not the thread for it, but do Giants fans on here have a view on the crappy music they have blaring after every goal?

FMD it's annoying. Turn that sh!t off.

Par for the coarse for AFL venues. Every venue is full of annoying dance music of some kind.

 

[kalex6251]

think afl head office would be quietly happy with giants crowd ..... theyre obviously invested in an organic community-led slow build strategy now - and this fits with that trajectory

entertaining game too

 

[Sammoll]

Largest H&A non-Swans or Pies game at Homebush Showgrounds

 

[pOleK]

I think people are majorly getting stuck comparing Suns and Giants crowds to the rest of the comp. Obviously these are the two smallest fanbases, but we’ve just had 20k on the goldy and 16k in Western Sydney (their biggest non Collingwood/Sydney crowd. Compare these crowds to ones these same clubs were getting 5-10 years ago, or other to comps in Aus, they’re very healthy, naturally growing numbers that suggest slow burning generational change

 

[parano1a]

Giants crowd is not too bad when you consider across town the Cronulla Sharks got only 11,000 to their first home game.

 

[magic_johnson!]

31,606 in Brisbane

 

[WesternSydneyHawk]

Largest H&A non-Swans or Pies game at Homebush Showgrounds

I was there in person, and it was a really impressive crowd. Aside from one grandstand, all of the top tier was open, and there were people seated up to the back row of the top tier.

While there was a decent number of Hawthorn supporters, many of the Hawks supporters (I'd estimate as many as half, anecdotally) were from NSW.

Noticeably larger crowd than Hawthorn's home games at Olympic Park in previous years. GWS deserves credit.

 

[Cmarsh]

I was there in person, and it was a really impressive crowd. Aside from one grandstand, all of the top tier was open, and there were people seated up to the back row of the top tier.

While there was a decent number of Hawthorn supporters, many of the Hawks supporters (I'd estimate as many as half, anecdotally) were from NSW.

Noticeably larger crowd than Hawthorn's home games at Olympic Park in previous years. GWS deserves credit.

How would you know that half the hawks fans there were NSW based?

 

[WesternSydneyHawk]

How would you know that half the hawks fans there were NSW based?

Partly by the people I spoke to at the ground. Partly by observing the number of family groups that had a mix of Hawks and Giants supporters (there were a few).

Partly observing which platform they went to when they caught a connecting train a Lidcombe, and then of those going to Central, how many got off at Strathfield.

Most Vic Hawthorn supporters would presumably stay in the Sydney CBD, or catch a connecting plane to Melbourne after the game. Which means Central.

A Hawks supporter who caught the train out west, or who got off at Strathfield for s connecting train towards Hornsby, Newcastle, or the Central Coast, is presumably a local.

At Lidcombe, it was a roughly even split as to which platform Hawks supporters were coming from or going to.

It's purely anecdotal, of course.

And more NSW Hawks is /good/ for GWS. That's someone who already follows footy who you might persuade to start going to Giants games as a second club

 

[BallaratBulldog]

Dogs vs GWS next week will be the highest Dogs home crowd between the two. Just a question of by how much.

Freo and Adelaide get over 40,000 last year then its a chance. But probably more 35,000.

 

[manicmagpie]

Public effectively sold out for tonight's game, including Q28 from the AFL Members which was put on public sale. There are about 250 seats left unsold elsewhere in the AFL Members and that's it.

There's been so many different releases for this game and every time more tickets became available they've all been snapped up. If the MCC come to the party I'm hoping this translates into a genuinely huge crowd tonight that gets into the mid to high 80s.

 

[threenewpadlocks]

The cricket test that really doesn't need to be played in March, causing disruption to the AFL season.

If the MCG can host an event that will get certainly get a 200k, 250k+ crowd, why shouldn't they be able to hire a ground to play an event? The AFL isn't entitled to dominate everything and everything.

 

[Cmarsh]

If the MCG can host an event that will get certainly get a 200k, 250k+ crowd, why shouldn't they be able to hire a ground to play an event? The AFL isn't entitled to dominate everything and everything.

They are only playing it in the middle of March to be close to the dates of when the 1877 test was which was 15-19 March. Except they are playing 11-15 March to ensure two of the days comprise a weekend so they can maximise a crowd.

So because they have already compromised on the anniversary dates, they could have played this in February and still called it a 150 anniversary test, and therefore not impacted the AFL.

 

[threenewpadlocks]

They are only playing it in the middle of March to be close to the dates of when the 1877 test was which was 15-19 March. Except they are playing 11-15 March to ensure two of the days comprise a weekend so they can maximise a crowd.

So because they have already compromised on the anniversary dates, they could have played this in February and still called it a 150 anniversary test, and therefore not impacted the AFL.

Whether or not it properly adheres to the anniversary dates is irrelevant. If they can sell a product that gets more attendances - double - than the AFL does across a whole week, why aren't they entitled to hire the ground and fill the stadium?

 

[Cmarsh]

Whether or not it properly adheres to the anniversary dates is irrelevant. If they can sell a product that gets more attendances - double - than the AFL does across a whole week, why aren't they entitled to hire the ground and fill the stadium?

Its relevant because it unnecessary impacts the afl. They would still get similar crowds if they played it in February and because you think it doesn't really matter if anniversary dates are adhered to a February start I assume wouldn't matter to you either.

 

[Teen Wolf]

They are only playing it in the middle of March to be close to the dates of when the 1877 test was which was 15-19 March. Except they are playing 11-15 March to ensure two of the days comprise a weekend so they can maximise a crowd.

So because they have already compromised on the anniversary dates, they could have played this in February and still called it a 150 anniversary test, and therefore not impacted the AFL.

Way off the mark.

Australia are touring India in January and February, at the insistence of the BCCI. CA would have preferred this not to be the case, thereby maximising player availability for the BBL and allowing for the sesquicentenary Test to be played towards the end of the school holidays.

 

[Rouel_14]

Public effectively sold out for tonight's game, including Q28 from the AFL Members which was put on public sale. There are about 250 seats left unsold elsewhere in the AFL Members and that's it.

There's been so many different releases for this game and every time more tickets became available they've all been snapped up. If the MCC come to the party I'm hoping this translates into a genuinely huge crowd tonight that gets into the mid to high 80s.

Just had a look and it can purchase standing room tickets.

Hope this is a sign for things to come all season. So many games could be closer to 100K if they sold standing.

 

[The Tilt]

Just had a look and it can purchase standing room tickets.

Hope this is a sign for things to come all season. So many games could be closer to 100K if they sold standing.

Putting aside the implications for maximising crowds, it’s completely sh!t that standing room tickets aren’t available for any fully ticketed match. If someone wants a low-price ticket and has no intention of occupying a seat, they should be able to just purchase a standing room ticket. Instead they’re forced to pay for a seat they don’t want. It’s bullsh!t.

 

[ep12]

Putting aside the implications for maximising crowds, it’s completely sh!t that standing room tickets aren’t available for any fully ticketed match. If someone wants a low-price ticket and has no intention of occupying a seat, they should be able to just purchase a standing room ticket. Instead they’re forced to pay for a seat they don’t want. It’s bullsh!t.

No they would just get a GA ticket if the game isn’t fully Ticketed.