If the biggest crowd of the round is poor, the other games must have absolutely atrocious crowds. Most clubs have been around for 20 years now. More than enough time to be getting above 10k to a game every week. Yeah Melbourne and Sydney are huge population centres but all other clubs are in cities with big enough populations to get 10k through the gates yet most don't.
probably slow healing of the damage of both covid, the GF decision and the war on active support. The suits aren't pro active support these days but at least aren't at war with them
Has their been a precedent to this ?
It’s Not just about attendances , tv viewers/sponsorships/ ground availability comes into play to.
Disappointing.
The first is disappointing, but the second crowd is a better turn out.
I don't see the point of having a team owned by City Group as long as we have a salary cap.
It's a bit of an interesting situation. Heart branding was bad (colours were ok though). City branding is worse due to CFG baggage and the light blue is the worst possible colour choice for a club based in Victoria. Heart on field results were rubbish whereas City results have been very good. They did experience some crowd growth during that great run of consecutive premierships but they were also handing out copious amounts of free tickets. Free tickets have dried up in recent years and the numbers reflect that. They probably needed to keep the freebies flowing for the foreseeable future. Originally CFG wanted SFC but the Russian's weren't too keen on selling. In an alternative reality if CFG had bought SFC, I reckon Heart would have probably had better growth if they had kept the Heart branding and found an owner that was happy to open the old wallet but didn't have the CFG baggage. Either way it was always going to be a slow growth situation for a second team based in Melbourne. We were never going to see a WSW thing happen in Melbourne as MV were already massive.
It would be interesting to see attendance figure year on year for MCY vs Nix. My gut feel is that the attendance figure is about average for these games as there aren't that many Nix followers although the away bay was quite noisy and almost full.
I would add that CFG are not big on fan base engagement either. Also, the fact that Heart were based at Epping, then moved to Bundoora and are now at Casey. Like wondering minstrels. Also the reason why K Bos moved across to MVC.
I don't think the training ground matters all that much. They play at AAMI, so as far as the fans (and potential fans) are concerned, they are based at AAMI and always have been.
The game was at 5:00 on a Friday atrocious scheduling. But it's the same story for years I don't think Melbourne city fans can argue we're alright not bunch the ones that do go. Aami is definitely to big for us
Yep, when you look at Adelaide, they play at a 15k venue and usually have it about 65-70% full. If they were playing at a 30k stadium, there is no way they would be getting those kind of consistent numbers as the atmosphere just wouldn't be the same.
When I say tv numbers, I really mean the amount of people buying a paramount subscription for the a-league. And we don't know those numbers
Definitely AAMI is too big - and I suspect that it is too big for MVC for most games outside of the City, SFC and AU games. The advanatge that AAMI does have is that it is central and close to tram, bus and train station. Also, there is a nearby pub and food. I haven't been to Tarneit but I think that definitely means driving for me.
| Club | Games | Total | Average | +/- |
AFC | 6 | 106,814 | 17,802 | - |
SFC | 4 | 74,743 | 18,686 | 31% |
WEL | 4 | 46,631 | 11,658 | 30% |
NUJ | 3 | 22,293 | 7,431 | 30% |
WUN | 5 | 20,849 | 4,170 | 27% |
MVC | 5 | 66,158 | 13,232 | 8% |
ADL | 5 | 53,569 | 10,714 | 7% |
MCI | 4 | 35,774 | 8,944 | 5% |
GLY | 5 | 30,693 | 6,139 | 3% |
WSW | 6 | 62,930 | 10,488 | 2% |
BNE | 4 | 26,668 | 6,667 | -1% |
CCM | 7 | 49,336 | 7,048 | -3% |
MAC | 4 | 15,571 | 3,893 | -8% |
| Total | 62 | 612,029 | 9,871 | 21% |
| This season | 2013-2014 | ||||||
| Club | Games | Total | Average | Games | Total | Average | +/- |
AFC | 6 | 106,814 | 17,802 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% |
WUN | 5 | 20,849 | 4,170 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% |
MAC | 4 | 15,571 | 3,893 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100.00% |
WEL | 4 | 46,631 | 11,658 | 13 | 106,421 | 8,186 | 29.78% |
SFC | 4 | 74,743 | 18,686 | 14 | 261,543 | 18,682 | 0.02% |
ADL | 5 | 53,569 | 10,714 | 13 | 145,928 | 11,225 | -4.77% |
MCI | 4 | 35,774 | 8,944 | 14 | 137,187 | 9,799 | -9.56% |
CCM | 7 | 49,336 | 7,048 | 14 | 131,567 | 9,398 | -33.34% |
WSW | 6 | 62,930 | 10,488 | 13 | 193,177 | 14,860 | -41.69% |
GLY | 5 | 30,693 | 6,139 | 13 | 122,431 | 9,418 | -53.41% |
NUJ | 3 | 22,293 | 7,431 | 14 | 167,285 | 11,949 | -60.80% |
MVC | 5 | 66,158 | 13,232 | 13 | 283,507 | 21,808 | -64.81% |
BNE | 4 | 26,668 | 6,667 | 14 | 209,394 | 14,957 | -124.34% |
| Total: | 62 | 612,029 | 9,871 | 135 | 1,758,440 | 13025 | -31.96% |