Attendance watch '09

[Johnny_L_O]

Round 1
Friday 13th Feb
Leeds vs Wakefield - 15,643
Hull vs Wigan - 14,573
Saints vs Warrington - 17,009

Saturday 14th Feb
Catalan vs Huddersfield - 7,520
Salford vs Celtic - 4,026

Sunday 15th Feb
Bradford vs Hull KR - 12,141
Castleford vs Harlequins - 7,049

Total: 77,961
Ave: 11,137

Round 2
Friday 20th Feb
Hull KR vs Leeds - 8,623
Wigan vs Castleford - 12,079

Saturday 21st Feb
Celtic vs Hull FC - 5,272
Warrington vs Catalan - 7,947

Sunday 22nd Feb
Huddersfield vs St Helens - 11,338
Wakefield vs Salford - 6,587

Still to play: Harlequins vs Bradford - Postponed to to adverse weather

Round 3
Friday 6th Feb
Leeds vs Celtic - 14,827

Friday 27th Feb
St Helens vs Hull KR - 11,830
Wakefield vs Warrington - 5,169
Bradford vs Huddersfield - 10,186
Hull FC vs Catalan - 12,482

Saturday 28th Feb
Harlequins vs Wigan - 3,883
Castleford vs Salford - 7,052

Total: 65,429
Ave: 9,347

Round 4
Friday 6th March
Huddersfield vs Hull FC - 10,459
Salford vs Harlequins - 3,367

Saturday 7th March
Wigan vs Bradford - 12,588
Catalan vs Castleford - 8,150
Celtic vs St Helens - 6,315

Sunday 8th March
Warrington vs Leeds - 9,863
Hull KR vs Wakefield - 9,038

Total: 59,780
Ave: 8,540

Round 5
Friday 13th March
Leeds vs Wigan - 17,677
St Helens vs Salford - 9,723

Saturday 14th March
Harlequins vs Warrington - 3,206
Castleford vs Huddersfield - 6,572

Sunday 15th March
Wakefield vs Catalan - 4,807
Bradford vs Hull FC - 11,327
Hull KR vs Celtic - 8,046

Total: 61,358
Ave: 8,765

Round 17
Sunday 8th Feb
Wigan vs Wakefield - 14,377

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Ov. Total: 330,751
Ov. Ave: 9,450 (35*)



* games played

 

[Evil Homer]

Very disappointing at Salford. Playing on Valentine's Day won't have helped, same goes for Catalans.

 

[Sam_the_man]

Salford only holds around 6500 doesn't it?

 

[Johnny_L_O]

http://www.worldstadiums.com/europe/countries/united_kingdom/england/north_west.shtml

11,363 according to this. I have been there with 7k in anyway (3 or 4k from Leeds too :lol: ) and there has been plenty of space.

 

[roughyedspud]

how the hell 17,000 crammed into knowsley road is beyond me...

 

[Coastbloke]

Lol...

The ESL site has Hull FC and Wigan at 4573...

http://www.superleague.co.uk/results.php

 

[deluded pom?]

Lol...

The ESL site has Hull FC and Wigan at 4573...

http://www.superleague.co.uk/results.php

I knew electing to play on Friday nights would effect attendances. ;-)

 

[stormtragic]

surely its 14k at Hull

not bad for Salford..remeber they were only getting 3000 last time they were in SL

 

[marv]

Its not bad considereing there were very few Celtic fans

 

[deluded pom?]

Salford's gate was probably better than I expected it to be. if they can be competitive then their gates will climb when they are playing the likes of Warrington and Wigan.

 

[ParraEelsNRL]

Are Salford still in line to get their new stadium soon or has it fallen through again?

 

[Johnny_L_O]

Sunday 15th Feb
Bradford vs Hull KR - 12,141
Castleford vs Harlequins - 7,049

This gives a Round 1 attendance average of 11,137.

The average for the total played (last week had a R3 and a R17 fixture) so far is 11,907

 

[stormtragic]

4000 for Salford is pretty good...as previously said

its 4000 local Manchester people at the game!!

Good crowds all around

 

[stormtragic]

Salford's gate was probably better than I expected it to be. if they can be competitive then their gates will climb when they are playing the likes of Warrington and Wigan.

Leeds and Saints too will help

 

[deluded pom?]

4000 for Salford is pretty good...as previously said

its 4000 local Manchester people at the game!!

Good crowds all around

Salford people surely!

 

[Hindyscrack]

how the hell 17,000 crammed into knowsley road is beyond me...

It looked damn tight there

Knowsley Road is falling down, falling down.

 

[brothers34]

hey guys first time reading this forum. Sounds good. I am a huge rugby league fan from oz questions 1. Are the attendances improving? and . How do you see the game in england and france strong weak or improving. tahnks

 

[VictoryFC]

2007 - 10,264 average (11,180 after 9 games)

2008 - 10,338 average (11,701 after 9 games)

2009 so far - 11,901 (9 games in).


It's fair to say that attendances have stagnated at around the 10-11k mark. There is no reason for the league not to beat last years average, but it will be interesting to see if they can crack that 11,000 mark. Still, media coverage continues to be dismal on all fronts

 

[DINGb@T]

Brothers: for all your Superleague crowd stats go to the very handy slstats site.

As you'll see the league has increased its crowds year on year since 2002 although English league crowds have started from a lower base than NRL crowds (as hard as that is to comprehend).

One interesting thing to note from the stats is the consistency that has built up in the league, especially last season. What Victory says is true, the league is struggling to get above 11k per round, but you can attribute that to the fact that several of the more successful teams are starting to bump up against their ground limits while other non-traditional teams (especially Harlequins) are struggling to get any sort of decent crowd all year. The positive thing though is that the league has reduced the number of low average rounds to the point that there was only one round last year under 8,000. This is the main contributor to the new record attendance last year- the building consistency for the week in, week out attendance.

And it could very well be more difficult this year to break the average. The two new teams brought into the comp, Salford Reds and the Celtic Crusaders, will struggle to bring large crowds to games straight out the gate which will see downward pressure on the average, although with 2 new teams the total attendance of the comp should increase.

It'll be a very interesting year for crowds.

 

[Evil Homer]

hey guys first time reading this forum. Sounds good. I am a huge rugby league fan from oz questions 1. Are the attendances improving? and . How do you see the game in england and france strong weak or improving. tahnks

1.Yes, the have improved year on year for a while now, from about 7,000 in 2001 to around 10k now. With two new clubs, I expect the average to drop slightly this year.
2.RL is the second most watched sport in the UK in terms of TV viewing figures, and domestic attendances are virtually neck and neck with Union as the second most popular sport. The area where British RL is let down is international fixtures - the English people thrive on international competition. Sports like tennis, cricket and rugby union are ignored at domestic level, but during international season everyone becomes an England fan, even if they have no interest at all in the sport in question. In this area, RL is far, far behind most other sports in that there is no credible international competition for the public to get behind. In terms of the domestic league, we are in a strong position. However, to move RL on in England it's imperative to have more international fixtures. I can't comment about France.