AFL still fourth best attended sporting competition in the world

[quotemokc]

Whilst we all agree that crowds seem to be down, we are still doing pretty well.

http://www.watoday.com.au/afl/afl-n...competition-in-the-world-20150520-gh5oya.html

WHO ATTENDS WHAT SPORTING COMPETITION

1. NFL
Average crowd of 68,776 in 2014-15
68,401 in 2013-14

2. Bundesliga
43,500 in 2103-14
41,914 in 2012-13

3. English Premier League
36,695 in 2013-14
35,931 in 2012-13

4. AFL
32,436 in 2014
32,163 in 2013

5. Major League Baseball
30,436 in 2014
30,514 in 2013

 

[Quivorir]

2. Bundesliga

What is this?

 

[mellowyellow]

Impressive figures from the NFL

 

[mellowyellow]

What is this?

German soccer

 

[vonn]

We're also probably first for highest Food & Beverages pricing, so that's something else.

 

[HowYouDoin]

Damn.

A League must have just missed out on the top 5

 

[Borderline]

With Bournemouth being promoted with a ground capacity of just 11,000 and possibly Newcastle being relegated who average 50,000 there's a good chance the AFL could overtake the PL next season.

 

[YES! YES! YES!]

The solution is to give all the Victorian clubs every unfair advantage over interstate clubs you can think of.

This includes giving them: unlimited salary caps; the first 60 picks in the draft; 100% of gate entry profits when playing an interstate team (regardless of if they are the home team or not) and guaranteed finals games at the MCG.

In that way they will stay un-necessarily dominant for that period of time and cause the MCG to be filled up close to its 100,000 capacity nearly every game like we saw from 2008-2011.

 

[HBFlanker]

I wonder what our average would be if we reduced the season to 17 games

 

[Beutbrute]

What would the IPL attendance be like?


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[Mr Eagle]

I'd be curious to see what they calculated for the US college football audiences. There's something like a dozen college stadiums that are bigger than anything the NFL teams have.

 

[FRUMPY]

baseball crowds are pretty impressive for the number of games played a year. 32 teams and 162 games each for a grand total of 2430 games

 

[Lerch]

Impressive figures from the NFL

Pros of having a shorter fixture I think. Minimise the games maximise their importance.

 

[Rusty Brookes]

baseball crowds are pretty impressive for the number of games played a year. 32 teams and 162 games each for a grand total of 2430 games

Which by my reckoning would make it the most attended. I think the AFL is way down the list in terms of overall attendance. That being said given the catchment, the AFL does incredibly well on a world scale.

 

[Old_Man_James]

Another point to make is that a lot of leagues have a very high % of capacity filled for each game. Id imagine in the EPL its 90%+ for every game. They could get more if they had larger stadium capacity.

For the AFL I doubt we even hit 60% for the number of seats available to each game available.

 

[Harry Flintlock]

The average AFL crowd for 2014 would have been 447204 if we had the same population as the U.S.

 

[chiwigi]

We're also probably first for highest Food & Beverages pricing, so that's something else.

You clearly haven't been to an Arsenal game!

 

[vonn]

You clearly haven't been to an Arsenal game!

No, but if I wanted to watch a sport that has about one or two goals in it per game, I'd just tune into Carlton V ___ on Friday Night.

 

[Rotayjay]

Americans have to be commended for their willingness to turn up to football games. There's a university side which gets 100,000 spectators for home games ... every game without fail. And this is not even NFL - it's the Michigan University team playing at Michigan Stadium. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan_Stadium

 

[Bomberboyokay]

Add average to the thread title otherwise it's false. Our total is well below the American sports leagues and various soccer leagues.

 

[Borderline]

You clearly haven't been to an Arsenal game!

Paid 9 quid for a lukewarm hot dog and a Carlsberg is a plastic bottle I couldn't take back to my seat! Absolute rort

 

[Rob]

Pros of having a shorter fixture I think. Minimise the games maximise their importance.

Doesn't explain the baseball average crowds though. 30k a game for each team for 81 home games a year!

 

[Milanista28]

Damn.

A League must have just missed out on the top 5

It is only 10 years old after all.

 

[Lerch]

Doesn't explain the baseball average crowds though. 30k a game for each team for 81 home games a year!

yeah that's incredible. No wonder they can afford to hand out 300ML contracts.

 

[Lost_Deputy]

Always been proud of these stats. AFL remains a fantastic game to watch live