2026 Crowd Watch

[Mother Nature's Son]

Easily 75% Dogs fans here right now. Souths front office completely asleep at the wheel when it comes to enticing people to games.

Feels like the Bunnies management are sleep walking atm. The Dogs literally showed them what to do last year and they can't be bothered.

Probably about 45k there. Could have been 55k easily with some ticket promos

Credit where credit due, I`m pretty sure I heard Voss say impossible to avoid promos for the game around the Easter Show, prob pretty good way to drum up a crowd, getting people to take a couple of hours out from the show or plan their day around the game.

 

[Suitman]

50k should be the bare minimum for a Public Holiday "blockbuster" between two traditional Sydney rivals.

Yes, when they are both travelling well and in form.
However Sydney isn't Melbourne with the same attendance culture, so credit where credit is due.

 

[Sky_Is_The_Limit]

49,813 announced at the ground.

 

[League Unlimited News]

 

[t-ba]

People gonna bitch about what is in like the dozen highest standalone regular season fixtures ever in Sydney lol.

Very good crowd.

Could be better? Absolutely, but it's still great.

 

[newc18]

49,813 announced at the ground.

A 13k difference from last year.

It's disappointing but its a Souths issue more than anything. The Dogs fans turned up considering it's an away game. Hopefully the Dogs bring back the $10 tickets next year.

 

[Burns]

Games got to move on eventually from $10 tickets. It worked last yet as a sugar hit when it was becoming clear the NRL could break the record of largest regular season crowd.

If Souths can get just shy of 50,000 - you've nearly got yourself a baseline. Build from it, without doing a firesale.

 

[Cumberland Throw]

We can't whinge about 50k crowds ffs

Last year was the best h and a crowd in like 45 years

 

[newc18]

Games got to move on eventually from $10 tickets. It worked last yet as a sugar hit when it was becoming clear the NRL could break the record of largest regular season crowd.

If Souths can get just shy of 50,000 - you've nearly got yourself a baseline. Build from it, without doing a firesale.

You remove it when you sell the stadium out regularly. Why not keep it if you have the seats available and you're getting fans to attend who otherwise wouldn't go?

 

[i0Nic]

Good crowd in the end considering no discounted tickets.

 

[newc18]

We can't whinge about 50k crowds ffs

Last year was the best h and a crowd in like 45 years

The crowd can be good and you can also be disappointed in it. It's not one or the other.

 

[Ian Douglas]

Let’s be real, a stadium that big is never going to sellout for a regular season game so why not have cheap tickets to go close in selling it out??

 

[storm1999]

a stadium that big is never going to sellout for a regular season game

Why not? Hitting ~90% capacity at least a couple of times a year should be the aim shouldn't it? The NRL just need to market the games better.

 

[Saint Doc]

Because if you sell $10 tickets all the time you can’t maximise your revenue from the lower bowl because people hold out

50k is a great crowd

 

[cleary89]

Let’s be real, a stadium that big is never going to sellout for a regular season game so why not have cheap tickets to go close in selling it out??

50k tickets @ $30 each is better than 60k tickets at $10 each.

 

[Saint Doc]

Wonder if next year you could add an Easter Saturday game to Accor to get some overflow from Easter show?
Panthers vs Wahs?

 

[ouwet]

50k tickets @ $30 each is better than 60k tickets at $10 each.

Last year they sold 8K at $10 and 57K at regular.

Why wouldn't you open up level 6 at $10? Or even $15?

 

[ouwet]

4 time Premiers expected crowd.

 

[newc18]

4 time Premiers expected crowd.

It is a shame but I have to keep reminding myself once they move into thier new stadium next year they will get over 20k regularly.

When you think about it, next year should see another big bump since the capacity of Shark Park is meant to go back up to 18k and the Panthers will move into thier new stadium.

 

[T-Boon]

Because if you sell $10 tickets all the time you can’t maximise your revenue from the lower bowl because people hold out

50k is a great crowd

A continued commitment to building the culture of attendance at games is more valuable to the game overall than each club maximising every dollar they can squeeze out of their fan base.
The clubs have a duty to the future of the game.