A-league attendances 24/25

[Monoethnic Social Club]

In the NPL maybe, .

True, Victory does get around 8 "fans" at every NPL match.... lucky they have the academies sprouting up all over the place soon to keep on funding the senior squads.

 

[Frankly Speaking]

Do 8 banned supporters really affect the turn out that much?

Something has gone very, very wrong with Victory. They have had the most extreme fall in attendances in the A League (numbers, not percentages I am talking here), and there is zero evidence that the club either understands the problem or is attempting to address the situation. For many years, SFC's claim to the "biggest club in Australia" was laughable because of Victory and now it is true.

Perhaps too many years of mediocre teams? If it was the pitch invasion incident, why after all this time has support not recovered? Is it partly just boredom with a stale competition where the battle for places increasingly resembles playing deckchairs on the Titanic?

What do Victory supporters think?

 

[melbcityguy]

Something has gone very, very wrong with Victory. They have had the most extreme fall in attendances in the A League (numbers, not percentages I am talking here), and there is zero evidence that the club either understands the problem or is attempting to address the situation. For many years, SFC's claim to the "biggest club in Australia" was laughable because of Victory and now it is true.

Perhaps too many years of mediocre teams? If it was the pitch invasion incident, why after all this time has support not recovered? Is it partly just boredom with a stale competition where the battle for places increasingly resembles playing deckchairs on the Titanic?

What do Victory supporters think?

It's not victory in particular the whole a league has lost interest due to stupid decisions from the suits

 

[Monoethnic Social Club]

Something has gone very, very wrong with Victory. They have had the most extreme fall in attendances in the A League (numbers, not percentages I am talking here), and there is zero evidence that the club either understands the problem or is attempting to address the situation. For many years, SFC's claim to the "biggest club in Australia" was laughable because of Victory and now it is true.

Perhaps too many years of mediocre teams? If it was the pitch invasion incident, why after all this time has support not recovered? Is it partly just boredom with a stale competition where the battle for places increasingly resembles playing deckchairs on the Titanic?

What do Victory supporters think?

From an absolute outsiders perspective it seems like MV and to some degree the Aleague, has lost site of what it really wants to be seen as. The "branding" from the APL has been non-existent at best. 7-10 years ago "edgy" families with some disposable income wanted to come to "the zoo" to watch the performing "hooligans" let of flares and chant naughty words at their geographically designated "rivals" and pretend, for a moment, that they where living out some sort of hybrid. safe, sanitised, European Curva role playing game... The adds on tv had flares and blokes in tight black t-shirts and lots of waving limbs after goals and fireworks....

Once mum and Dad AFL realised these "effniks" dont play nice like they do at the footy and if they wanted to watch meaningless matches, without even the pretence of sporting merit, they could just go to the AFL or NRL every week (at least they can sit with their mates from rival clubs and talk about their gambling addictions without having to be (shock horror) segregated based on support. AFL "works" down here because there are many tribes and NRL sort of works because there is ONLY one... When Victory was the only game in town it was huge... CFG and Western have eroded some of it support but not enough to be the cause of its current decline in crowds... They will always be the biggest club in Melbourne (at least as long as they remain in the Aleague) If the Aleague folds the only club that will survive is CFG, they don't need fans (or to actually play matches against other teams) to exist.