Reduced capacities, more logistically complicated admission practices and social distancing you suspect made going to games for some people more trouble than it was worth. I got Sydney in May 1992 first gave v Hawks was 12.2k but things droped away until Lockett and Roos turned up in 1995 and only one game had less than 10k. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. Ed, not everyone's kids go to a private school with organised weekend sport, nor are they all members of a golf club where you can get on the course of a weekend. Investment in the game. Not to mention having to enter a ballot and redeem a ticket puts many people off. 2022 AFL Crowds and Match Attendances - FootyWire M nchen - Spekulationen gab es viele, doch einen echten Neuzugang pr sentierten die L wen in der Wintertransferperiode 2022 It took a poorly-attended Richmond game at Marvel Stadium last Saturday night for the agenda-setting AFL media to start thinking about how many people were actually going to the football in 2021. The Blues badly needed the next goal, and they got it through a set shot from Jack Silvagni. AFL 2022: Melbourne Demon, Western Bulldog fans rejoice as full Spent time with family. But, arguably, the football has been far superior to that played half a decade ago, when crowd numbers peaked. AFL 2022: Coach pleads with fans over huge crowd concerns - Yahoo! [ Top] Lowest Home & Away Crowds. Have the Tigers over-achieved? There were 47,000 at Optus Stadium too, but AFL crowds, on average, are the lowest they have been. Given the choice between a night on the couch with Brian Taylor and the gang, or having your head split open by a wind instrument, what would you choose? Max Gawn leads the Demons off the MCG field after defeat to Sydney at the weekend. Ed Sheeran: Ticketek apologises for ticket issue It is a record in the southern hemisphere The first post-pandemic crowd record was set when Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium held a crowd of 49,155 for the State of Origin finale in November. Which makes that free-to-air drop more significant. Footy fans Shaun Dux and Janet Traynor with Isla, 6, Patrick, 3, Rose, 3 and Artie, 9. June 20th, 2022 9:12 pm Greater Western Sydney drew just over 6000 people to their big clash with the Western Bulldogs, in a figure that would be "alarming" for the AFL according to Nick Riewoldt. But that was the end of the run for Richmond. On mobile, tap the 3 dots beside your profile picture and select "change user flair", Press J to jump to the feed. AFL 2023: ESPN's way-too-early predictions - Can the Cats go again? Let alone, as those worrying crowd figures indicate, their patronage. The average attendance per game this year is 31,005, down from 37,250 in 2019. The AFL just smashed a number of records over the weekend, with 400,401 people coming through the turnstyles. AFL 2022: Crowds, low numbers, attendance, GWS Giants v Western The table gives official crowd figures only. Both men said they loved being back at the MCG, with Jeroen reflecting it was something they had taken for granted before the pandemic. Football fans line up at a bar at the MCG on Wednesday night. Thursday night football made its long-awaited return this week, but Melbournes AFL fans seemingly werent aware. The first of these was founded in 1986, and played its first official games in the 1987 season, running for 22 consecutive seasons until going bankrupt following the 2008 season. The crowd roared as the Blues defender, who has recovered from two bouts of testicular cancer to make it on to the field for round one, went back and kicked truly from 30 metres out. Weve just flown in now, Nigel Stafford said. I would have gone if the trip home didn't involve a railway bus. Adelaide Oval Crowds | Austadiums That is an average which has been aided by Sydney FC's return to Allianz Stadium. I went to Fitzroy vs. Sydney Swans in Round 19 1995 at the Western Oval, attended by a crowd of just 7426. Includes current and historical data and statistics by team. It's important here to note the impact that COVID-19 continues to have on the competition. Join a tipping comp - lots to choose from. Perhaps. It took a poorly-attended Richmond game at Marvel Stadium last Saturday night for the agenda-setting AFL media to start thinking about how many people were actually going to the football in 2021. The Conroe native made his rodeo debut in 2022. Is there a growing AFL "bubble" in which the privileged operate seemingly more and more oblivious to the wants and needs of the rank-and-file football fan? Football fans have streamed into the MCG for the season opener between the Melbourne Demons and the Western Bulldogs. Home Away Finals; Team: Attendance: GM: Ave. The Giants biggest home crowd came in Round 1 against crosstown rivals Sydney. The Kangaroos drew 5114 fans to a home game in Tasmania against Port Adelaide in Round 9. The Game - 2023 Crowd Watch | Page 7 | The Front Row Forums AFL 2022: Full crowds allowed for footy season, no crowd cap | CODE Sports If attendance for Thursday night's game is close to capacity, it will comfortably be the biggest sports crowd in Australia since 86,174 fans attended the MCG for the Women's T20 World Cup. These are terribly disappointing crowds, the premiership rematch in Round 1, the AFL was talking 70-75,000 it couldnt even get 60,000. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Brisbane v Fitzroy at the Gabba 1993. The Richmond Tigers defeated Port Adelaide 11.11 (77) to 10.5 (65) at the MCG on Thursday evening, with the Round 13 contest played out in front of mostly empty stands. Crowd Attendance last night. The Tigers will next face Carlton at the MCG on Thursday, June 16, with kick-off scheduled for 7.20pm AEST. Quick look, each year there more games with less than 10k crowds than 10k+ crowd games. Round Table: Who is Melbourne's most important player. AFL. Antonio Brown takes part ownership of Arena team While AFL audiences have increased by 15 percent on pay TV and streaming service Kayo compared to 2019, free-to-air TV numbers in metropolitan markets are down around five per cent on figures from two years ago. HairyO said: Swans games in the early 1990s were 10k to 12k sometimes. At last year's do, former Howard government adviser-turned-Willard Public Affairs lobbyist David Miles put up more than $10,000 at the charity auction to win a game of snooker with the PM. I travelled up from Gippsland for it. Showdown Crowd Update - Adelaide Football Club Two words showed something was wrong with the system, When Daniel picked up a dropped box on a busy road, he had no idea it would lead to the 'best present ever', Plans to redevelop 'eyesore' on prime riverside land fall apart as billionaires exit, After centuries of Murdaugh rule in the Deep South, the family's power ends with a life sentence for murder, Labor's pledge for mega koala park in south-west Sydney welcomed by conservation groups, Tom Sizemore, Saving Private Ryan actor, dies aged 61. They talk about general admission being cheap, but if you want to sit in the good seats it can get very expensive, she told 9 News Melbourne. When Rupert Murdoch and Kerry Stokes flanked the AFL CEO at the TV rights announcement in 2015, the priority for the moguls was eyeballs on screens, not bums on seats. Nope they were about 7-9k most games in 1992-1994 years. Carlton beat Richmond by 25 points at the MCG in winning start to Michael Voss' time as coach, Follow the live scorecard of Australia's third Test against Indiain Indore. Even in the digital age, you just swiped your membership card and plonked yourself down. It was a miserable miserable experience.but I kinda cherish it in terms of what we survived and rewards for maintaining the faith. I see the official attendance was 13,686 but they must have counted the pie-sellers, car park attendandants and the kids playing little league. Last month, AFLFA president Cheryl Critchley confessed that dwindling crowd numbers has become an ongoing issue for the league. The uncertainty of covid has definitely played a part. I think the same thing apparently gws crowd numbers are 100% accurate lol as the AFL figures get audited. Picture: Cameron Spencer. https://t.co/jQaejyNPH1. You must log in or register to reply here. While the Demons were tested, the 2021 premiers rose to the challenge to beat the Western Bulldogs by 26 points. The best thing about living in Melbourne No GA, certain allocation for MCC/AFL members only, minimum ticket price $70. Nat Fyfe impressed with three goals as the Dockers defeated the Power by 31 points in their practice match. Carlton attacked to start the last, but the Blues couldn't convert and then at the other end Bolton appeared to have clinched the win when he kicked his third. The crowd on the weekend was really disappointing. For all you kids, this is what half-time at the football used to sound like. It was a night game, it was cold and raining, we lost. Richmond had gone down by two goals early before fighting back, kicking six straight including two for Clarke. Heres author Matthew Crawford on the attention economy: Lately, our self-appointed disrupters have opened up a new frontier of capitalism, complete with its own frontier ethic: to boldly dig up and monetise every bit of private head space by appropriating our collective attention. TMZ added that producers with SNL have asked his brother Jason Kelce to join the family - but not just in the crowd, but in front of the camera. Fyfe fires up forward as Dockers shut down Power. For Christian Petracca to have to blame the weather, it didnt worry the Carlton and Collingwood fans the previous week (where 80,627 fans packed in at the MCG).. The 2022 AFL season will have 100 per cent capacity crowds at Victorian grounds. Every week, tens of thousands of Australians are sick and isolating. totally from memory, but what I remember is 4664 (or 6446?) Saw Adelaide vs St Kilda at Waverley one day - ended in a draw, and there was as many Adelaide people there on a bus trip as Saints fans. Showing results {{search.getShowingResultsStart()}}{{search.getShowingResultsEnd()}} of {{search.results.TotalResult}} for, Visiting the MCG for the 2023 AFL Premiership Season, Record Test match attendance (1936-37 over six days), 1970 VFL Grand Final, Carlton v Collingwood, Final ceremony Eucharistic Congress, 1973 (Est. And pay TV? Last month, AFLFA president Cheryl Critchley confessed that dwindling crowd numbers has become an ongoing issue for the league. Umm because you're actively enticing people to stay home and watch on TV, perhaps? Total crowds from rounds one to eight this season compared to the same period in 2019 (the last "normal" football year) were down by more than 737,000 people, an average of about 8000 per game. Its Saturday arvo, Saturday night. Carlton has beaten Richmond in round one for the first time in a decade, producing a big final-quarter comeback to givenew coach Michael Voss a winning start with a 25-point victory at a packed MCG. Super Bowl 57 was the first in 25 years to have both teams open the game with touchdown drives. Ah, the good old days. 72,179 Round 1: Carlton v Richmond (MCG)34,961 Round 2: Western Bulldogs v Carlton (Marvel Stadium)32,312 Round 5: Brisbane v Collingwood (Gabba)24,327 Round 3: Western Bulldogs v Sydney (Marvel Stadium)23,058 Round 4: Port Adelaide v Melbourne (Adelaide Oval)21,757 Round 13: Richmond v Port Adelaide (MCG). AFL Results & Crowds | Austadiums AFL Home Fixture Results Teams Tickets Pre-Season Aus Football Official Site AFL Results & Crowds View the AFL Fixture for more crowd figures. 2022. Its very difficult to take your family in those temperatures., MCG crowd: 21,757Lowest Richmond crowd at the venue (outside of COVID) since August 2010 v Adelaide. Ranking every AFL after-the-siren winning goal since 2000, AFLW as a side hustle: How work, life and everything is impacted. NRL Finals 2018: Will clashes with AFL finals schedule affect crowd You do wonder. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. As winter nears, its often cheaper and easier to stay home, turn up the heater and turn down the sound. Managing director Gary Brown said it would usually have about 3000 workers on hand for a full-capacity event at the MCG, but the business expected to be a few hundred people short on Wednesday. Collingwood Magpies and Carlton Blues fans in wild brawl - 7NEWS What I understood more when the game returned was that while I had actually missed the football itself, I hadn't missed a lot of the increasingly large circuses which surround it, the saturation media coverage, the clickbait and the endless puffing of chests and stroking of egos in the former player cartel which now is the face of much of that coverage. But for better and frequently worse, we were conditioned throughout Covid to watch the sport on TV. And yet it's one we appear to have been slow to diagnose and seemingly uncertain how to rectify. The pre-game entertainment at that game was led by the late Olivia . Theyre moving the footy, it was a shootout. Sign up for the Real Footy newsletter. Umm because you're actively enticing people to stay home and watch on TV, perhaps? Not just COVID: Crowd drop-off on the AFL, broadcasters too Speaking to KIIS 101.1 radio on Monday, Demons premiership player Christian Petracca blamed Melbournes cold weather for the sports lacklustre crowds. Historically low crowd feared for Sunday AFL match at Marvel Stadium - SEN Inflation, interest rates, and petrol prices are rising, and Australians are tightening their belts. Hundreds of fans stopped to take photos at the makeshift memorial that has taken shape at the Shane Warne statue close to the stadium. They're not necessarily going to abandon the game as a result. Why has there been a downturn in AFL crowds this season? It's not just But their loyalties and devotion can no longer be taken for granted. Reigning premier Melbourne has been slammed in recent weeks for subpar crowd numbers and now the Tigers, who have sat top two for average home and away crowds in six of the last seven years (barring 2020), are the subject of derision. No ones mentioned this yet but only 14,500 rocked up the G last night with a capacity of 25k! Massive AFL Crowd Numbers Embarrass The Struggling NRL Crowd figures overall are down this year, though that is heavily impacted by the limits on attendance early in the season in Western Australia, with digital ticketing raised as a concern by fans as well. Passwords are encrypted before being stored in our system (we cannot see what your password is). Nonetheless, that is still a considerable drop-off. Post-COVID record crowd of 78,113 for Aussie rules game No ones mentioned this yet but only 14,500 rocked up the G last night with a capacity of 25k! The Demons kicked six of the last eight goals of the match to run out 9.22 (76) to 8.6 (54) winners at the MCG on Sunday night. AFL aims for record crowds and vows to 'play on, no matter what' 17,644 - Collingwood vs Gold Coast (Round 22 2016). And yet it's one we appear to have been slow to diagnose and seemingly uncertain how to rectify. AFL anticipates record-low Marvel Stadium crowd on Sunday afl.com.au. The club boasts close to 100,000 members, but most of their supporters preferred watching the match from the comfort of home. All data entered is sent securely via SSL to our system. The simplest and most plausible explanation is the ongoing impact of Covid. Across the board, crowd attendance at NRL games struggle to reach even half the number of those at the AFL. Melbourne supporters Nathan Wigmore with his two sons Max and Billy. It was raining pretty heavily all day so some people that redeemed tickets may have decided against going - which is pretty poor form considering theyve taken a ticket away from someone else who may have gone. The Herald Sun can reveal the league will allow children up to 14 to enter all AFL grounds for free between rounds 14-17 as it continues to reward fans who attend games during the Covid era. A record crowd at the Australian Formula One Grand Prix in April showed Melbourne is finally back to embracing major sporting events and there have now been five AFL crowds at the MCG this season with more than 70,000 fans in attendance. The 1970 Grand Final - the only Grand Final Jolley umpired - brought together the game's two greatest rivals before a record attendance of 121,696. . After his milestone was announced to the TD Garden crowd, he capped the ensuing possession with a 3-pointer to put Boston in front 16-5. Four AFL matches have attracted crowds in excess of 50,000 over the last month, three at the MCG and one at Perth Stadium in Western Australia. Carlton cut off another Richmond foray and chipped the ball to Sam Docherty in the middle. Eddie Brown was voted the best player in Arena Football League history in 2006 as the league celebrated its 20th anniversary. AFL 2023 fixture: Five must-watch games in the early rounds, How 'Demon spirit' brings out the best of Tayla Harris, AFL Draft - The top 10 prospects for 2023, AFL Draft 2022 - Every club's draft haul rated. Arena Football League - Wikipedia All times AEDT (GMT +11). It was freezing, pouring rain, the end of a covid outbreak and the beginning of school holidays Two weeks post-lockdown with covid still potentially out and about. But here's a news flash, guys. This is pretty poor especially when a club like Richmond are playing who have 100k members. During his first season in 2021, Armstrong was the youngest defensive coordinator in the FBS. AFL Tables - Crowds 2022 They are asking questions. Wouldnt surprise me if a lot of people stayed away due to the weather. Monday Night Futbol The Timbers kicked off their 13th MLS season tonight at Providence Park. The last time the MCG hosted a crowd of more than 101,000 people was when Hawthorn defeated Carlton in the 1986 VFL grand final. Dees, Dogs fans throng MCG for season opener. Just doesnt feel worth the effort. Does AFL football have another problem? The earlier you arrived, the better your seat. How do you make maths exciting? Even, heaven forbid, took in the odd bit of art and culture. Parker McCollum opens RodeoHouston with a crowd of 68,000 Tip round 1 in Tipping - Weekly Platinum Membership prize. And while some of them are fixable, others are a bigger issue that won't be solved merely by some "value added" for fans to actually go to games, or even to turn on their TV sets. AFL House is reportedly fearing the worst ever crowd for an AFL match at Marvel Stadium this Sunday afternoon when North Melbourne and the GWS Giants in a genuine stoush of the cellar dwellers.. Or when Eddie McGuire pronounces matter-of-factly that "Saturday afternoon football is dead". So youre losing families. And once Cripps kicked his third, and when Jack Martin and Zac Fisher booted two in a minute, the Blues were in front. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. The early rounds in Melbourne were played before only 50 percent capacity crowds, while two games in Perth (including a Derby) have been "lockouts". The St Kilda great says he is concerned just 6208 people turned out to watch the highest-scoring contest of the season. It comes under a new COVID-safe plan approved by the state government, with masks required to be worn when fans are moving around venues, but not while they are seated outdoors. Funnily enough, McGuire's hypothesis, which could well be a self-fulfilling prophecy if the AFL continues to schedule the showpiece games away from afternoon timeslots, wasn't exactly supported by the evidence last Saturday, when more than 31,000 people turned up to the SCG for Sydney's clash with Collingwood, but just 18,798 to watch reigning premier Richmond play under the roof at Marvel Stadium later that night. AFL Crowds and Match Attendances - FootyWire expected to be a few hundred people short, match was initially floated by the Demons.