90s AFL club membership figures - anyone have them?

[Costa fc]

Does anyone know where official 90s AFL club membership figures can be found?

I've tried contacting the AFL but have got nowhere.

Figured someone on this board would know. Would appreciate any info at all.

 

[The_Wookie]

You can pull them from club annual reports going back aways, most club wikipedia sites list them going back to the 90s, some to the 80s when membership started

 

[SJ]

Pretty sure they are listed in the AFL Season Guide too.

 

[stmookeyj]

For the benefit of those without the guides and don't trust Wikipedia, here are the figures according to the 2009 season guide. I've tried to give possible reasons for rises and falls in membership figures.

ADEL: (91) 25087 [team created at relatively short notice], (92) 38673, (93) 40100, (94) 40611, (95) 41654, (96) 42283, (97) 41395 [Port's 1st year], (98) 41985 [year after premiership], (99) 42120 [year after premiership]

BRIS: (90) 5630 [club nearly folded], (91) 5696, (92) 5401 (93) 5750 [1st full time year at Gabba], (94) 6158, (95) 6893, (96) 10287 [year after making finals for 1st time], (97) 16769 [merger with Fitzroy, year after prelim appearance], (98) 16108, (99) 16931

CARL: (90) 10978, (91) 12736, (92) 12354, (93) 14445, (94) 18308 [year after making GF], (95) 18032, (96) 23278 [year after premiership], (97) 24984, (98) 25402, (99) 25719

COLL: (90) 14808, (91) 18469 [year after premiership], (92) 18921, (93) 21882 [inflated number of Vic Park home games], (94) 20843 (95) 22543, (96) 20752, (97) 22761, (98) 27099, (99) 32358 [Eddie's first year of presidency, last year at Vic Park]

ESS: (90) 11046, (91) 11593 [last year at Windy Hill], (92) 10034, (93) 11546, (94) 19720 [year after premiership], (95) 23833, (96) 24324, (97) 28063, (98) 27099, (99) 29858

FITZ: (90) 6028, (91) 5876 [9 home Vic games], (92) 5177 [9 home Vic games], (93) 6853, (94) 8164, (95) 8806 [1st year Whitten Oval, favorite son as coach (Quinlan)], (96) 7628

FOOTS/WB: (90) 10983 [Fightback rally], (91) 9598, (92) 9311, (93) 11478 [year after prelim appearance], (94) 9339, (95) 12212, (96) 10650, (97) 15054 [rebranding of club, most home games at Princes Park], (98) 20064 [year after prelim appearance, 1st full year at Princes Park], (99) 20491

FREO: (95) 18456, (96) 19622, (97) 19949, (98) 22186, (99) 24896

GEEL: (90) 15087 [year after GF appearance], (91) 11356, (92) 13535, (93) 15500, (94) 14312, (95) 15922, (96) 17346, (97) 19949, (98) 19971, (99) 21032

HAW: (90) 9882 [year after premiership, (91) 10006, (92) 12338 [year after premiership, first full year at Waverley], (93) 11388, (94) 11345, (95) 12728, (96) 12484 (97) 27005 [post aborted merger talks with Melbourne], (98) 27469, (99) 32140

MELB: (90) 10111, (91) 10153, (92) 8681, (93) 10097, (94) 10648, (95) 9544, (96) 12964, (97) 15350 [post aborted merger talks with Hawthorn], (98) 17870, (99) 19713

NORTH: (90) 5201, (91) 6683, (92) 6083, (93) 6851, (94) 10296, (95) 14027 [year after prelim appearance], (96) 14438, (97) 19368 [year after premiership & aborted merger talks with Fitzroy], (98) 20196, (99) 22080 [rebranding to generic Kangaroos, 3 home games in Sydney]

PORT: (97) 35809, (98) 38305, (99) 37166

RICH: (90) 4974, (91) 8377 [Save Our Skins rally?], (92) 8158, (93) 9918, (94) 8229, (95) 14647, (96) 20308, (97) 24975, (98) 27092, (99) 29047

ST.K: (90) 11363, (91) 9765, (92) 11650 [post 1st finals appearance in close to 20 years], (93) 12956 [1st year at Waverley], (94) 12009, (95) 8870 [1st year post Lockett leaving], (96) 14375 [Pre-Season cup win], (97) 16610, (98) 23204 [year after GF appearance], (99) 20793

SYD: (90) 2624, (91) 2907, (92) 3020, (93) 3097 [26 game losing streak ended], (94) 3327, (95) 6088 [Lockett arrival], (96) 9525, (97) 22109 [year after GF appearance, Super League war in RL], (98) 31089, (99) 31175

WC: (90) 10450, (91) 17636 [year after Prelim appearance], (92) 23902 [year after GF appearance], (93) 25779 [year after premiership], (94) 24265 [Subiaco under renovation], (95) 26821 [year after premiership, first year of Fremantle], (96) 27681, (97) 33286, (98) 37496, (99) 36212

 

[papabear]

the swans took off from nowhere..

 

[Silent Alarm]

Sure, you could make an argument for a higher population and a more engrained 'membership mentality,' but GWS and Gold Coast are doing well. Teams getting flogged, in their first two seasons, in smaller markets, and they've hit 10k already?

 

[Stewies Power]

The Swans sustainable support base came from their GF appearance in 1996. I believe the same will happen to GWS once they make a grand final, but until then it will be tough going.