2026 Attendances

[Gizmo]

Austadiums have the GWS / StK crowd as 9,149.

Devils beat the Giants.

 

[Walshawk]

Austadiums have the GWS / StK crowd as 9,149.

That would make the total for the 7 games of Round 2 as 264,615.

Not too shabby without Collingwood or Carlton playing. Standouts were the terrific Adelaide and WC crowds, but most were pretty good.

https://www.austadiums.com/sport/comp/afl/crowds

5k tops. Most sparse GWS crowd since COVID.

 

[Rob]

5k tops. Most sparse GWS crowd since COVID.

It wasn't that bad, they opened all the upper decks around the ground so most of the crowd moved up there. If you only saw highlights of the game you probably wouldn't have known that.

 

[Cmarsh]

Usual suspects feeling the need to state how confident they to estimate a giants home crowd way below the attendance figure. Not even a game delayed lignting threat will hinder them.

 

[Sammoll]

Relax people, the GWS crowd was fine considering the stormy weather. Was spread out more across the top levels thanks to the weather. Usually those top levels are closed, so it looked a little more sparse on the lower deck.

Plus a lot of competition in the area that night with the Matilda's Asian Cup final and the Kings NBL Grand Final.

It's a problem that it's such a long gap now until their next game at Engie (not until May), but hopefully they can be getting 10k+ for each game over the rest of the season depending on how things are going.

 

[Underarm]

I thought our contract with the MCG ends on the 1st Saturday in October and then the Cricket takes over?

money talks. Vic Shield games tend to be played at the Junction Oval early in the season.

 

[GIMINO]

47,083 for WC vs North at Optus

great crowd, honestly thought it would struggle to get 40k

 

[Jack Mundy]

It wasn't that bad, they opened all the upper decks around the ground so most of the crowd moved up there. If you only saw highlights of the game you probably wouldn't have known that.

I was there. 4k

 

[Rouel_14]

Still early days (and we’ve been burnt by fully ticketed games already) but Hawthorn v Geelong is selling a lot faster than past years.

Tickets are already being sold halfway up the back of the Ponsford Stand which two weeks out from match day is a lot quicker than Carl v Rich and Ess v Haw (and Geel v Haw last year).

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Last year drew 88,746, I’m not sure this will draw that but it could draw in the mid 80,000’s.

As it should. Shaping up to be a blockbuster. They rarely ever disappoint too.

Do hawks suffer the same as Collingwood and bigger Melbourne clubs with higher reserved seats holders than Geelong would in this fixture?

 

[PonsfordMagpie]

After Round 2.

HOME CROWDS
Club (# of home games played) = Total (Average)

• St Kilda (1) = 82,528 (82,528)
• Carlton (1) = 74,313 (74,313)
• Essendon (1) = 71,384 (71,384)
• Collingwood (1) = 62,482 (62,482)
• Adelaide (1) = 49,185 (49,185)
• Hawthorn (1) = 47,945 (47,945)
• West Coast (1) = 47,083 (47,083)
• Fremantle (1) = 44,736 (44,736)
• Melbourne (1) = 44,577 (44,577)
• Sydney (2) = 78,500 (39,250)
• Port Adelaide (1) = 36,049 (36,049)
• Brisbane Lions (1) = 31,606 (31,606)
• Richmond (1) = 30,468 (30,468)
• Geelong (1) = 28,715 (28,715)
• Western Bulldogs (1) = 28,318 (28,318)
• North Melbourne (1) = 23,318 (23,318)
• Gold Coast (2) = 33,168 (16,584)
• GWS (2) = 25,306 (12,653)

HOME AND AWAY CROWDS
Club (# of games played) = Total (Average)

• Collingwood (2) = 145,010 (72,505)
• Carlton (2) = 114,685 (57,343)
• Adelaide (2) = 111,667 (55,834)
• Essendon (2) = 107,433 (53,717)
• Richmond (2) = 104,781 (52,391)
• St Kilda (3) = 136,254 (45,418)
• Hawthorn (3) = 135,486 (45,162)
• Melbourne (2) = 89,313 (44,657)
• Sydney (3) = 126,445 (42,148)
• Fremantle (2) = 73,451 (36,726)
• Western Bulldogs (3) = 109,109 (36,370)
• North Melbourne (2) = 70,401 (35,201)
• Brisbane Lions (2) = 69,734 (34,867)
• West Coast (2) = 60,392 (30,196)
• Port Adelaide (2) = 59,367 (29,684)
• Geelong (2) = 48,574 (24,287)
• Gold Coast (3) = 63,636 (21,212)
• GWS (3) = 53,624 (17,875)

 

[Hawkk]

As it should. Shaping up to be a blockbuster. They rarely ever disappoint too.

Do hawks suffer the same as Collingwood and bigger Melbourne clubs with higher reserved seats holders than Geelong would in this fixture?

In the past, absolutely. Hawthorn has taken six bays back from reserve seating so the bottom deck is much busier than pre 2025. There were games back in the day where the crowd was 75,000 to 80,000 and the bottom deck was 2/3 full. The new configuration looks much better on TV as Thursday showed.

Which is pretty much identical to Richmond and Carlton.



I don’t think Geelong has any reserve seating on the bottom deck.

 

[Walshawk]

It wasn't that bad, they opened all the upper decks around the ground so most of the crowd moved up there. If you only saw highlights of the game you probably wouldn't have known that.

 

[Tassieboy]

The Tasmania versus Coburg VFL crowd of 10,634 at North Hobart Oval outdrew the GWS game. When was the last time a VFL game outdrew an AFL one in a round of football?

 

[Teen Wolf]

The last time probably also involved Hobart. 25th May 2024: NM v PA at Bellerive drew 4706, same day Rich/Ess VFL played at the MCG before Dreamtime.

 

[Underarm]

I was there. 4k

Who needs a electronic system counting tickets. Just employ Jack Mundy in the crowd to physically count everyone and them round it to the nearest 1000.

 

[Giant YoYo]

Relax people, the GWS crowd was fine considering the stormy weather. Was spread out more across the top levels thanks to the weather. Usually those top levels are closed, so it looked a little more sparse on the lower deck.

Plus a lot of competition in the area that night with the Matilda's Asian Cup final and the Kings NBL Grand Final.

It's a problem that it's such a long gap now until their next game at Engie (not until May), but hopefully they can be getting 10k+ for each game over the rest of the season depending on how things are going.

I suspect the weather would've easily knocked 15% off the potential crowd.

Severe thunderstorms with flash flooding and hail across the metro would've changed people's minds easily.

While I'm not thrilled that the crowd attendance wasn't greater some people expect Giants crowds to go from a previous average and lift markedly by large amounts, not considering that it'll be incremental and compounding increases to attendance over time.

In previous years Saturday's attendance would've likely been a 7k wet weather crowd so while I would've liked more to attend I can also see the attendance isn't as low as previous years when there was wet/inclement weather.

 

[Angus Young]

Must count tickets given away?! Ground would be near half full at that number.

Yep all free tickets from servos.

 

[Jack Mundy]

Who needs a electronic system counting tickets. Just employ Jack Mundy in the crowd to physically count everyone and them round it to the nearest 1000.

Were you there?!

 

[Teen Wolf]

Seems like after every Giants home game, 10k people on social media claim "I was there and no way the crowd was bigger than four thousand!!"

 

[Sammoll]

Tassie have sold about 5k tickets already for their first game in Launceston out of a capacity of 8.5k.

Capacity reduction due to construction work at the ground. Notable because Hawks will still play 4 AFL games there this season. Hopefully as work is completely more capacity will open up for some of their games later in the year.

 

[Underarm]

Were you there?!

I wasn't. Which is why im choosing to believe the official count rather than someone eyeballing it.

 

[Tasmanian saint]

 

[Jack Mundy]

I wasn't. Which is why im choosing to believe the official count rather than someone eyeballing it.

Official count is bs

 

[Jack Mundy]

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Stadium sits 22k. 9k and it would look half full. 4k was my guess.

 

[Tasmanian saint]

Stadium sits 22k. 9k and it would look half full. 4k was my guess.

Yeah agree it didn’t even look close to being half full