Swans Membership Tally 2017

[RW]

26,976 fans have already signed up for next year according to Sydney Swans Twitter, up from 19,159 at around the same time last year.

 

[Indie_]

Good to know not everyone is like me and cries every time they think about the Swans. I got sad when my renewed membership email came through. I think I need therapy.

 

[doona]

I definitely added 1 to last years tally!

 

[PVF]

Still deciding which membership to upgrade to.

 

[Cadsky]

Haven't renewed mine yet either. I'll pay for mine in January.

 

[Boyohboywowwee]

Will be a first time member this year

 

[Kirkswan]

Automatic renewal... would hate to forget and miss out on my current seats! Went through last week, so worth it!

 

[Jussie]

Auto renewal as well! Second year a member, pumped for next season too!

 

[The King!]

Good to see we have ironed on members who stay on board

 

[Indie_]

Good to see we have ironed on members who stay on board

I don't think we should be measuring the tenacity of our membership base by people who post on online footy forums. Those types are already in the bag and likely to continue to be a member year after year. It's more the average joe I'd be looking at. Not sure how you can get a feel for that, but I think it would be more accurate.

 

[The King!]

I don't think we should be measuring the tenacity of our membership base by people who post on online footy forums. Those types are already in the bag and likely to continue to be a member year after year. It's more the average joe I'd be looking at. Not sure how you can get a feel for that, but I think it would be more accurate.

Could look at the members tally i was looking at

 

[sataris]

I don't think we should be measuring the tenacity of our membership base by people who post on online footy forums. Those types are already in the bag and likely to continue to be a member year after year. It's more the average joe I'd be looking at. Not sure how you can get a feel for that, but I think it would be more accurate.

I'm not a member so posting on online forums just means

you post on online forums ....

 

[GoTheSwannies]

Looks like we might be set for another record year. Will be interesting to see our crowd figures next year.

 

[Ticky009]

Looks like we might be set for another record year. Will be interesting to see our crowd figures next year.

If we hadn't had all those wet weather games I think we could have given our average game record figure a fair shake this year.

 

[doona]

Looks like we might be set for another record year. Will be interesting to see our crowd figures next year.

It is a bit of a misconception that greater membership means more numbers to matches.

For example, I went to every home game (bar the port match), and every Swans game in Sydney (including away games), like normal but I wasn't a member.

It cost me more than if I was a member, but circumstances meant I didn't buy a membership.

On Nexus 6P using BigFooty.com mobile app

 

[The Swans Blog]

26,976 fans have already signed up for next year according to Sydney Swans Twitter, up from 19,159 at around the same time last year.

Ridiculous. Already up to 28,694, not even a fortnight later. Going to smoke that record again.

 

[The Swans Blog]

Gotta blog about this! :O

 

[The Swans Blog]

So I did blog about this It's incredible that it's only December and we're almost equal with the 2012 membership numbers, just 5 years ago! I'm hopeful that the club can reach 70k, if not '17 than the following season.

 

[RW]

Up to 29,872 which is a pretty good effort considering Christmastime

 

[anotherletdown]

I see the financial results came in. Somewhat predictable numbers I'd say.

Anyway, back on topic. Within the article it mentioned 13,000 new members, which is a massive effort. What interested me was when you drill into the numbers it's only 1,000 new Sydney based members. Personally I think that goes to show how tough a local market we're in. We've topped the table, reached a grand final, had finals appearances in 18 of the last 21 years and we still struggle to attract local fans.

The numbers aren't bad by any stretch of the imagination and the flip side of those Sydney numbers ie. 12,000 interstate or foreign members is a ridiculously good result.

 

[sataris]

I see the financial results came in. Somewhat predictable numbers I'd say.

Anyway, back on topic. Within the article it mentioned 13,000 new members, which is a massive effort. What interested me was when you drill into the numbers it's only 1,000 new Sydney based members. Personally I think that goes to show how tough a local market we're in. We've topped the table, reached a grand final, had finals appearances in 18 of the last 21 years and we still struggle to attract local fans.

The numbers aren't bad by any stretch of the imagination and the flip side of those Sydney numbers ie. 12,000 interstate or foreign members is a ridiculously good result.

Tbh

Membership != Fanbase

Memberships == Memberships

 

[The King!]

Gotta blog about this! :O

phew

 

[ScrewInStuds]

My guess is that we will see a consolidation of membership numbers in Sydney, rather than huge expansion, over the next couple of years.

Eg, people increasing their memberships from 3 games to 11 games.

 

[The Swans Blog]

My guess is that we will see a consolidation of membership numbers in Sydney, rather than huge expansion, over the next couple of years.

Eg, people increasing their memberships from 3 games to 11 games.

13k new members in 2016 is pretty huge. A lot of existing members would have upgraded as well.

 

[GotTheGoodes]

My guess is that we will see a consolidation of membership numbers in Sydney, rather than huge expansion, over the next couple of years.

Eg, people increasing their memberships from 3 games to 11 games.

I think the most important part is retaining those fans that have traditionally been seen to be a bit fickle in Sydney. IMO the important bit isn't always in increasing numbers, but rather ironing on the so-called "bandwagoners" so they become fully fledged passionate lifelong members. That often takes a period of solid success to rust them in to the bodywork so they don't leave as soon as it gets a little dark again.

That's what's kept clubs like Carlton, Essendon, Richmond, Collingwood and Hawthorn afloat during their trough years. They have a loyal core supporter base that will be there pretty much no matter what. That's the dream for me and I'm sure the club. A solid core group of generational members.

EDIT: FWIW every club has that core group to some extent - I just want us to increase that group to include those newer supporters' that we all class "bandwagoners". I know there's families who have been there from Sth Melb onwards and I'm hoping we're able to now build on their long loyal base with that next generation of Sydney supporters who's parents/grandparents (in some cases) started following Sydney (not Sth Melb) in the 80s/90s.