2025 Crowd Watch

[yakstorm]

All restricted view seats have been released at Wollongong for Dragons v Panthers. Southern Grandstand only has 25 seats left now, Western Grandstand would have around 200, and about a 1,000 in the Northern (with the majority in bay NG-K which is all restricted view)

At CommBank Stadium, pretty much most eastern concourse (22 seats) and northern concourse (4 seats) have been sold, with maybe 200 in southern concourse. Eastern grandstand selling similar to the Roosters game, with only the away bay trending behind. Eels members might disappoint me, but I'd be predicting around 17-18K at the moment.

 

[jim_57]

There are plenty of other events that get played there. An origin, semi finals, big soccer games, large concerts, big union games depending on who they play.

And with the Rabbits probably moving on, it makes sense to put it back on the table at around that time to get that stadium improved, it will be over 30yrs old in 2030. Couple of years to build/rework while Souths and Dogs play elsewhere before a new improved stadium is provided.

Last 3 seasons Accor has hosted an average of 18 regular season games per year, not exactly huge numbers. Souths have one foot out the door until 2030 so will have minimum games there to fulfil their contract you’d imagine, so I wouldn’t expect that to increase.

With a bit of incentive for the clubs I’m sure the NRL could guarantee a minimum number of games there a year as part of a deal, maybe 16 or 18. 10-12 Bulldogs games then some hand selected marquee fixtures to make the agreed upon number, Easter Monday the obvious one plus a few others.

Throw in Origin and a few finals games including of course the Grand Final locked in for a long term contract.

Outside of RL at least one game each for Socceroos, Matildas & Wallabies, a heap of concerts over summer and ad-hoc stuff like NFL, touring European Football teams, motorsports etc.

 

[H.H]

Re. the members, I'd expect that to be very close to full.

As a member, you can apparently reserve a seat by paying $25 (I didn't know this) and those tickets were sold out by 10:05am on Monday. Members can also buy additional tickets for friends (I also didn't know this) and I know they have been selling extremely well.

I'd be very surprised if there's less than 35,000 turn up.

 

[t-ba]

Last 3 seasons Accor has hosted an average of 18 regular season games per year, not exactly huge numbers. Souths have one foot out the door until 2030 so will have minimum games there to fulfil their contract you’d imagine, so I wouldn’t expect that to increase.

With a bit of incentive for the clubs I’m sure the NRL could guarantee a minimum number of games there a year as part of a deal, maybe 16 or 18. 10-12 Bulldogs games then some hand selected marquee fixtures to make the agreed upon number, Easter Monday the obvious one plus a few others.

Throw in Origin and a few finals games including of course the Grand Final locked in for a long term contract.

Outside of RL at least one game each for Socceroos, Matildas & Wallabies, a heap of concerts over summer and ad-hoc stuff like NFL, touring European Football teams, motorsports etc.

Fill it up with Swans games. The reason it has such a shitty configuration is because of them so let them pick up the slack

 

[Dogs Of War]

Fill it up with Swans games. The reason it has such a shitty configuration is because of them so let them pick up the slack

Most expensive $10mil ever. That's all it took to screw it up after the Olympics.

 

[i0Nic]

Fill it up with Swans games. The reason it has such a shitty configuration is because of them so let them pick up the slack

Yes rather than forcing souths there force the swans there.

 

[horrie hastings]

Most expensive $10mil ever. That's all it took to screw it up after the Olympics.

The Swans wont go there considering they got gifted the RHI as their headquarters, head office and training facilty.

 

[Dogs Of War]

The Swans wont go there considering they got gifted the RHI as their headquarters, head office and training facilty.

Oh it's was the AFL who like to throw money in, I think at that point they were hoping Nth Melbourne would move to Sydney and they wanted them to go play there. Showgrounds is about right for them. But I'd like the NRL and other rectangular sports to push for that stadium to be fixed up before AFL tries in a few years time to put there fingers into that pie again.

 

[Valheru]

Re. the members, I'd expect that to be very close to full.

As a member, you can apparently reserve a seat by paying $25 (I didn't know this) and those tickets were sold out by 10:05am on Monday. Members can also buy additional tickets for friends (I also didn't know this) and I know they have been selling extremely well.

I'd be very surprised if there's less than 35,000 turn up.

Yep for those keeping an eye on seating maps, keep in mind roosters GA members won't be able to scan their membership and need to opt in for tickets to this one.

 

[yakstorm]

With a bit of incentive for the clubs I’m sure the NRL could guarantee a minimum number of games there a year as part of a deal, maybe 16 or 18. 10-12 Bulldogs games then some hand selected marquee fixtures to make the agreed upon number, Easter Monday the obvious one plus a few others.

Throw in Origin and a few finals games including of course the Grand Final locked in for a long term contract.

Yeap, if the NRL and clubs worked together, they could very quickly and easily put forward a proposal that VenuesNSW would go for which would allow for Souths to move more games to Allianz.

From a VenueNSW perspective, they don't really care if Souths aren't at Accor, so long as someone else is filling that void and to be honest, they'd possibly prefer not to be hosting some of the lower drawing match ups there if they could avoid it.

Ideal scenario would be encouraging the Bulldogs to play all 12 home games there as the central tenant, lock in Good Friday & Easter Monday as you've suggested, throw in some other Easter weekend game and then try to get as many match ups involving any combination Rabbitohs, Bulldogs, Dragons and Wests Tigers there and then throw in reciprocal rights to make them as big as possible.

 

[RedVee]

The Swans wont go there considering they got gifted the RHI as their headquarters, head office and training facilty.

RHI ???

 

[horrie hastings]

RHI ???

Royal Hall of Industries aka the old Show Bag hall at Moore Park when the Royal Easter show was there.

 

[Suitman]

Ideal scenario would be encouraging the Bulldogs to play all 12 home games there as the central tenant, lock in Good Friday & Easter Monday as you've suggested, throw in some other Easter weekend game and then try to get as many match ups involving any combination Rabbitohs, Bulldogs, Dragons and Wests Tigers there and then throw in reciprocal rights to make them as big as possible.

You forgot to mention the Kings Birthday weekend vs the Eels.
Always a drawcard.

 

[horrie hastings]

Re. the members, I'd expect that to be very close to full.

As a member, you can apparently reserve a seat by paying $25 (I didn't know this) and those tickets were sold out by 10:05am on Monday. Members can also buy additional tickets for friends (I also didn't know this) and I know they have been selling extremely well.

I'd be very surprised if there's less than 35,000 turn up.

I take it that is the SFS Gold Members that you are talking about, if so i wonder if they only put on the 3 bays which they normally do for the Roosters games ( apart from Anzac Day when you can get reserved seats on level 4 also ). Yes you have been able to always reserve a seat, they are three bays on level two and they are $20, i have never bothered doing this apart from Anzac Day the last few years. I reckon level 4 will be pretty packed for this game.

 

[eels4lifee]

So if they sold 45,000 tickets to a stadium that holds 40,000 but only 39,000 turn up, is that a sell out?

45k to a 40k stadium? Actually I don't even think this is funny at all, its quiet dumb

 

[Cumberland Throw]

Why wouldn't tigers fill the void at accor

It's 5 minutes from their Concord HQ

 

[drcmuch]

https://leagueunlimited.com/news/42997-results-2025-nrl-telstra-premiership-round-26/

Average home crowds​

Team	Average	Played	To Play
Brisbane	40,871	11	1
Canterbury	31,209	10	1
Dolphins	24,174	10	1
Warriors	23,797	10	-
Sydney	22,976	9	1
Melbourne	21,677	11	-
Newcastle	20,891	12	-
North Qld	18,649	12	-
Canberra	16,766	11	-
Gold Coast	16,491	10	1
Manly	16,322	11	1
Parramatta	15,793	10	1
Wests Tigers	15,383	10	-
Souths	14,758	7	-
Penrith	14,564	8	-
St Geo Illa	12,056	11	1
Cronulla	11,006	10	-

Excludes Vegas, Magic Round and neutral venue games.

Bold text indicates club has completed its home games for the year.

I ran through all the crowds at NRL.com to tidy up my spreadsheet where it had totaled up slight differences to this, and along with the expected bunch of little corrections I got one very unexpected difference.

NRL says


Instead of

If that's right, Titans season becomes 167,543 after 10 games, average 16,754.
Even moves the needle a tad for the season overall.

 

[Sky_Is_The_Limit]

All tickets have been released at Allianz Stadium including restricted view in levels 1, 2 and 4 (East) for Friday night.

I'd hazard a guess that there's less than 1,000 tickets remaining on levels 1 and 2, and level 4 East is roughly half sold. Weather forecast looks good for Friday night. 35,000 appears to be on lock. Another discounted ticket push (ala Mad Monday) and some nifty cross promotion (Rabbitohs pushing the block the Roosters from the finals angle) is what's required to get this up to 40,000.

 

[Sky_Is_The_Limit]

Less than 150 allocated seating tickets remaining in the lower bowl at Accor for Canterbury vs Cronulla on Saturday night. Always hard to get a read on ticket sales in GA.

Three bays are open on Level 4 East (with one almost sold out), but I don't think tickets are moving fast enough to crack the 40k mark. We might settle somewhere in the low 30s. Bulldogs fans presumably biding their time for the finals campaign (whereas this time last year they'd struck good form and the fans were responding en masse).

 

[League Unlimited News]

Based on @drcmuch's data crunching, we've gone through and done a similar audit in partnership with RLP, updating 8 crowd figures across the year - as suggested most are just typos within 100 up or down, except the Titans-Dolphins figure which is totally different.