2024 Crowd Watch

[jim_57]

After 20 Rounds
2023 Aggregate 2,700,284 Ave, 18,245
2024 Aggregate 2,839,315 Ave. 19,185

Up 5.2%
An average of 16,394 over the remaining 56 games is required for a H&A record

Some “sure thing” big crowd games remaining in the last 7 rounds:

- 3x Broncos home games. 2 of which should sell out.
- Dolphins Vs Broncos. Will sell out.
- 3x Warriors home games. 1 already sold out, last 2 down to GA only.
- Cowboys V Broncos. Already sold out.
- Titans V Broncos. Should sell out.
- Eels V Panthers. Should be mid-high 20s at worst.
- 3x Knights home games. All Sunday afternoons.
- Rabbitohs V Roosters at Accor. If Souths keep winning this could be huge.


Not quite in that category but still notable you have:
- 4x Panthers home games, last games before stadium rebuild. All should get good crowds.
- A couple Roosters games Vs Eels & Manly which should sell well.
- 3x Sunday arvo games for the Dragons at Wollongong plus Vs Bulldogs at Kogarah.
- A Sunday arvo game for Manly.
- Tigers games V Eels & Rabbitohs at Campbelltown.
- 2x Storm games at family friendly Sat 5:30pm time.
- 2x more Cowboys games on Saturday nights.
- Dolphins V Titans & Warriors which you’d hope would both be 25k+ (see above).

On the other side of it there a few potential sub 10k crowds. 2x Leichhardt games on Thursday night and the Bulldogs’ Bundaberg game are the obvious ones.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

What is the smallest avg crowd in melb?

St Kilda, Bulldogs and North Melbourne all sit around 30k. Their averages get dragged up a fair bit by playing the four big Melbourne clubs.

 

[Perth Red]

Who goes to multiple games over a weekend. Most would just watch their own team at most.

All MCG AFL games have $27 GA tickets, which is the top part of the top level. So, cheaper than NRL. However, it works very differently to NRL in Sydney, as 80% of attendees would be members of one of the clubs, the AFL, or the MCC. An average reserve seat membership would be around $500 per year for 11 games.

Without looking up the numbers, I reckon Storm would have a similar ratio. So, clubs get bulk of revenue at the start of the season regardless of how many attend games.

Part of storms problem is the high price for sideline seats, especially if you’re a family. Lots of people dont like to be in the ends but your forking out $150-$200 plus food and drink to take the family for a game in the better seats. That’s a pretty expensive family event to do eleven times a year.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

So fans can attend any one of multiple games a week. We will see 1m people in Sydney attend games, Brisbane 600k or so

The rest of it probably lies the issue. How does an NRL ticket price compare to AFL or the big soccer matches down there?

What were ticket prices like for Fitzroy v South Melbourne at the Gabba?

How do they compare with Broncos and Dolphins games at Suncorp?