Which club has the smallest supporter base?

[Edgbaston]

Be interested in an honest answer from around all 18 teams.
What would would % of members would be from the home city.
I.e. would north be 25k of their 42k of members be Melbourne based? I.e. Tasmania 7/8k for North and 3k for WA

Secondly that leads into what attendence would be home fans in a non finals for a big local game and then an out of state.

I.e.
North home fans 30k Vs Essendon
15k Vs Gold Coast

Hawthorn for example might 25k Vs Port
And 50k Vs Geelong?

 

[MadMundy]

Gold Coast and GWS would clearly be up there for lowest supporter bases but St Kilda and North Melbourne wouldn't be too far behind.

 

[Cotchins Hair Piece]

We had 10k more members than St Kilda and North last season and many more supporters who are MCC members who don’t commit to the club through membership. As I don’t see GC and GWS as legitimate clubs, agree with the above, St Kilda and North.

 

[The Blue Baggers]

Excluding the obvious GC & GWS

Melbourne
Nth Melb
Bulldogs
Saints
Port
Lions

 

[ItsAllAboutMe]

Not sure why Hawks are linked in here, they have over taken Carlton & Essendon and now sit alongside Collingwood & Richmond as The Big 3 Vic based power clubs of the AFL.

fwiw

North are easily he lowest supported of the traditional clubs..

1 North
2 Port
3 Dogs
4 Freo
5 Saints
6 Melbourne

Cant just look at club memberships when determining support, AFL & MCC membership base come into it.

 

[Lavender Bushranger]

AFL support increases for 2018 Premiers West Coast Eagles as well as the high-flying Lions and the Demons - Roy Morgan Research

www.roymorgan.com

 

[Engimal v3]

AFL support increases for 2018 Premiers West Coast Eagles as well as the high-flying Lions and the Demons - Roy Morgan Research

www.roymorgan.com

Damn, North must be smashing supporter to member ratios. ~43k members from only ~240k supporters.

 

[Papa G]

Not sure why Hawks are linked in here, they have over taken Carlton & Essendon and now sit alongside Collingwood & Richmond as The Big 3 Vic based power clubs of the AFL.

fwiw

North are easily he lowest supported of the traditional clubs..

1 North
2 Port
3 Dogs
4 Freo
5 Saints
6 Melbourne

Cant just look at club memberships when determining support, AFL & MCC membership base come into it.

Port and Freo are easily more supported than any of the bottom 4 Vic clubs, with probably only the Saints challenging.

 

[The Cryptkeeper]

Collingwood.

Are ingrates real people?

 

[ItsAllAboutMe]

Port and Freo are easily more supported than any of the bottom 4 Vic clubs, with probably only the Saints challenging.

Freo maybe, Port no

 

[LoungeLizard]

Collingwood.

Are ingrates real people?

Can you have ingrate and people seperate?

i suppose you could have an ungrateful dog.

 

[Papa G]

Freo maybe, Port no

Freo easily, Port reasonably easily.

 

[juss]

Port and Freo are easily more supported than any of the bottom 4 Vic clubs, with probably only the Saints challenging.

The Saints have a bit of a base, they just struggle with success to bring them out.

North Melbourne and arguably the Dogs would be my lowest Vic teams.

The biggest latent supporter bases are still easily Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon and Richmond.
Hawks are up because they have amazing success over the last 40 years and you can add them too.

 

[Virgin Dog]

The Saints have a bit of a base, they just struggle with success to bring them out.

North Melbourne and arguably the Dogs would be my lowest Vic teams.

The biggest latent supporter bases are still easily Carlton, Collingwood, Essendon and Richmond.
Hawks are up because they have amazing success over the last 40 years and you can add them too.

Another supporter posted stats above, but in terms of Vic teams, it's North at the bottom with 226,000, followed by Melbourne on 242,000, daylight to the Dogs at 279,000 and Saints at 297,000.

After these ones, it's daylight again to the Hawks.

The Pies and Essendon are easily up top for Vic clubs

 

[Papa G]

This is my list of support of people who actually watch, consume, take an interest in football tally of support and does not include Gun to my head name a team but couldn't name more than 3 players types.

West Coast
Collingwood
Essendon
Carlton
Adelaide
Richmond
Hawthorn
Sydney
Geelong
Fremantle
Port
St Kilda
Brisbane
Western Bulldogs
Melbourne
North
GWS
Gold Coast

 

[Cotchins Hair Piece]

 

[juss]

Another supporter posted stats above, but in terms of Vic teams, it's North at the bottom with 226,000, followed by Melbourne on 242,000, daylight to the Dogs at 279,000 and Saints at 297,000.

After these ones, it's daylight again to the Hawks.

The Pies and Essendon are easily up top for Vic clubs

The Roy Morgan data? Im both surprised and not surprised Melbourne is so low.

 

[cookie33]

The best way to measure true support nationally for clubs is to count the social media numbers, followers for all of their SM channels. This gives a real genuine idea of support, who can be bothered to do this?

For example I know the Blues have huge support inner Melbourne, we have some solid support throughout Tassie as well. Essendon big support inner Melbourne as well as Bendigo and QLD. Pies have really wide spread support as do Richmond. Hawthorn has widespread support, a lot in the east of Melbourne but also huge support in Tassie and WA.

Can someone give totals for all clubs IG/Twitter and FB?

 

[werdna78]

The best way to measure true support nationally for clubs is to count the social media numbers, followers for all of their SM channels. This gives a real genuine idea of support, who can be bothered to do this?

For example I know the Blues have huge support inner Melbourne, we have some solid support throughout Tassie as well. Essendon big support inner Melbourne as well as Bendigo and QLD. Pies have really wide spread support as do Richmond. Hawthorn has widespread support, a lot in the east of Melbourne but also huge support in Tassie and WA.

Can someone give totals for all clubs IG/Twitter and FB?

From Twitter the followers are:

Adelaide	150000​
Collingwood	132000​
Essendon	131000​
Carlton	111000​
Port	104000​
Sydney	98400​
Hawthorn	96300​
Richmond	95700​
Brisbane	85700​
West Coast	84700​
Geelong	82300​
St Kilda	80400​
Fremantle	75900​
Nth Melbourne	69300​
Western B	64000​
Melbourne	63600​
Gold Coast	56700​
GWS	55600​

 

[chiwigi]

Excluding the obvious GC & GWS

Melbourne
Nth Melb
Bulldogs
Saints
Port
Lions

On what ******* planet Port with fewer than the Lions and ACTUAL Sydney fans??

 

[Virgin Dog]

The Roy Morgan data? Im both surprised and not surprised Melbourne is so low.

Yeah feel the exact same about Melbourne. I expected them to be above Dogs and Saints, but also wasn't surprised to see them that low. That period of complete mediocrity really damaged the club's long term outlook.

 

[Pessimistic]

An example of how quickly threads concluded at the turn of the century

 

[ItsAllAboutMe]

Freo easily, Port reasonably easily.

Population of South Australia is just above 1.5mil, of the people that follow footy in SA which is generally about 50% of the population I would say 1/2 folow the crows, 1/4 follow Port and 1/4 follow other Vic or WA based teams.

 

[smasha]

hahaha, IMO Essendon has the biggest.. Every 2nd chick you walk up to in the street barracks for Essendon.

Red goes well on the dance floor,more a fashion thing really.

Bandwagon red.

 

[smasha]

You guys have short memories only 2 seasons ago Hawthorn had the 3rd largest attendances in the league, and the 5th overall-40 500

Hawthorn has a very big supporterbase these days, it has grown substantially over the past 15 years

In the milliniel era,power and status is everything,why younguns will swap to a club in power.

Also I don’t listen to Roy Morgan.

#weareroymorgansgrandfinal