Crowds - The thread of Australian whining

Side issue. how many Perth fans showed up? I reckon there was about 7. Did they all fly over or were some locals making a showing? Was good to see. Lonegunmen2009-11-09 09:56:54

I know it has been bought up before but what about the kids go free with paying adult. Good way to introduce familys to (or back to) the ROF and boost numbers.

I think it was because everyone was sitting in the 'sun' aisles, because of the good weather. and practically no one over the other sides. Its usually not many, but seemed very scarce there last night. Could be up to a thousand fans or so, that sat in the sun making it seem that much more full.

I hate to be negative, especially with the week coming up, But i thought that was average as crowd. Was realistically hoping for 10.
I don't know what can be done to boost numbers, but the Nix have 3 or for week until the next home game, hopefully some initiatives can be thought out.

Ok I'm done.

I think we're under-extimating the impact of this weekend.

I think quite a few occassional attendees will be tied to the All Whites and their football mindset will be about that

I think that is very true especially with money been an issue many might be putting all their cash in the All Whites game and possibly can't invest in both AW and Phoenix.

That said, with a good result or even a close game we should see a rise in numbers at subsequent home games, fingers crossed

Well a win this weekend and hopefully the nix can market themselves off it. December 4th has got to be a big crowd. Its not for a while and hopefully we can call for all those who missed the game to come to this one

An Whites win and a few good results away for the Phoenix will bring 10k in for the next home game.

Kiwis like winners. Look at the warriors. I wonder what their core support is when they are losing, because mention the playoffs and mount smart sells out. That next game will only be a few games away from the end of the season, so we should be in the hunt and on the way to the world cup. Make it 15k.

I am quite disappointed that the crowd was slightly below my prediction of 72k.

Probably shouldn't say.

That would put a new spin on the game "Keepie Uppies"

And display a massive phoenix shirt at the away section

during the jets game the row in front of us had ten people crammed into three seats - maybe they were expecting 72k too!

hopefuly when the  all whites win people that wouldnt normaly watch football will come and watch the phoenix

Afternoon all, I thought I'd update this.  Feel free to correct anything that looks amiss.

Season 1

• 1st home match: 14,421 v Melbourne Victory on August 26, 2007  D 2-2
• 2nd home match: 11,478 v Newcastle Jets on September 9, 2007  L 0-1
• 3rd home match: 12,127 v Adelaide United on September 22, 2007  D 2-2
• 4th home match: 10,127 v Perth Glory on September 30, 2007   W 4-1
• 5th home match: 10,560 v Central Coast Mariners on October 21, 2007  L 1-2
• 6th home match: 8,062 v Sydney FC on November 17, 2007  D 1-1
• 7th home match: 18,345 v Adelaide United on November 30, 2007  L 1-2
• Exhibition home match: 31,853 v Los Angeles Galaxy on December 1, 2007  L 4-1
• 8th home match: 8,032 v Perth Glory on December 7, 2007  W 3-0
• 9th home match: 9,384 v Queensland Roar on December 14, 2007   D 1-1
• 10th home match: 14,288 v Sydney FC on January 4, 2008  L 0-2

Season 1 Home Average: 11,683 (Excluding Exhibition home match)

Season 1 Home Average: 13,516 (Including Exhibition home match)

 

 

Season 2

• 1st home match: 10,516 v Queensland Roar on August 17, 2008  D 1-1
• 2nd home match: 6,110 v Melbourne Victory on August 24, 2008  L 2-4
• 3rd home match: 6,926 v Central Coast Mariners on September 14, 2008  D 0-0
• 4th home match: 6,729 v Sydney FC on September 28, 2008  W 2-1
• 5th home match: 6,543 v Queensland Roar on October 26, 2008  L 0-1
• 6th home match: 5,500 v Newcastle Jets on November 23, 2008  W 2-0
• 7th home match: 7,953 v Melbourne Victory on November 28, 2008  W 2-1
• 8th home match: 6,362 v Perth Glory on December 14, 2008    D 1-1
• 9th home match: 6,722 v Central Coast Mariners on December 19, 2008  W 1-0
• 10th home match: 7,520 v Newcastle Jets on January 4, 2009   W 3-0
• 11th home match: 8,241 v Adelaide United on January 18, 2009  D 1-1

Season 2 Home Average: 7,193

 

Season 3

• 1st home match: 10,024 v Perth Glory on August 16, 2009    W 2-1
• 2nd home match: 7,578 v Adelaide United on September 4, 2009   D 1-1
• 3rd home match: 9,713 v North Queensland Fury on September 20, 2009  D 1-1
• 4th home match: 6,769 v Central Coast Mariners on September 27, 2009  D 0-0
• 5th home match: 6,571 v Gold Coast United on October 25, 2009  W 6-0
• 6th home match: 4,100 v Newcastle Jets on November 4, 2009   W 3-0
• 7th home match: 6,930 v Perth Glory on November 8, 2009    D 1-1
• 8th home match: 8,200 v Melbourne Victory on December 4, 2009  D 1-1
• 9th home match: 6,936 v Sydney FC  in Palmerston North on December 12, 2009  L 0-1
• 10th home match: 8,125 v Brisbane Roar on January 9, 2010  W 3-1
• 11th home match: 7,727 v North Queensland Fury on January 15 2010  W 3-0
• 12th home match: 19,258 v  Adelaide United in Christchurch on January 30, 2010  W 1-0
• 13th home match: 14,327 v Central Coast Mariners on February 12, 2010  W 3-0
• 14th home match play off: 24,278 v Perth Glory on February 21, 2010    W 1-1 (4-2)pens
• 15th home match play off: 32,792 v Newcastle Jets on March 7, 2010   W 3-1 (extra time)

Season 3 Home Average only for Westpac Stadium, Excluding play offs: 8,187

Season 3 Home Average only for Westpac Stadium, Including play offs: 11,318

Season 3 Home away from Home Average: 13,097

Season 3 Home Average all regular season games: 8,942

Season 3 Home Average all games: 11,555

 

Season 4

• Exhibition home match: 11,751 v Boca Juniors on July 23, 2010  W 2-1
• 1st home match:  8,398 v Gold Coast United on August 13, 2010  D 3-3
• 2nd home match: 9,553 v Central Coast Mariners on August , 2010  W 2-0
• 3rd home match:  8,453 v Sydney FC  on September 11, 2010  W 2-1

Season 4 Home Average (so far, Excluding Boca Juniors): 8,801

Season 4 Home Average (so far, Including Boca Juniors): 9,539

 

Total for all seasons and all games: 439,282

Using the Westpac Stadium published (on website) attendances and excluding exhibition games (LA Galaxy & Boca) but including playoff games 423,235 have watched the Nix at the RoF.

surprised to see attendances are down this year on average for the first three games paulm2010-09-15 18:12:05

Have ticket prices gone up?

Thanks Oceanic6.

As I mentioned in another thread - is anyone disappointed by the low attendance so far?

Maybe I was expecting too much after a good end to last season and a great WC showing.

Modest increase in membership and modest crowds so far.

Underwhelmed.

Must admit i thought we would get 10k each match minimum. There is a lot more nix stuff in the media, especially compared to previous seasons, which i thought were party to blame for the lacking crowds.

Hopefully as the weather improves and other sports begin to finish we will see a big pick up.

The weather has been dodgy for pretty much all our home games. Pretty sure there was some rain on all 3.

I'm happy it hasn't gone down like 90% of the crowds in the a-league.

I think bandwagoners have had too much football for a while.

CCM game on the sunday was a beaut.

Buffy, prices gone up from $25 to $27 for an adult in the zone. only a couple of bucks increase but just that little closer to $30 could be a mental put off.

22 unbeaten games at the stadium, finish 1 game away from the final, I mean what the feck do they have to do to get the season 1 crowds back?

George Costanza2010-09-15 21:24:39

Basically, it seems these casual punters just do not come out until its an 'important' game...normal league games not being deemed as important in their minds...

Yep - can't see any big crowds without some major promotion (and fine weather).

so do the prices increase on 1 october GST?

Sell out expected? Not from the moment two matches were announced. Divides fan base. And nothing in it anyway.

Wellington's love affair with football is over. Time to send the team down to Christchurch permanently...

Why, to help with the clean up operation?

f**k me we make a lot of excuses for the crowds. Time, weather, coverage etc.

I don't think we'll start seeing 10-12k until end of the season if we are really in the hunt for the title/playoffs.

All Whites have just cracked the top 50 on FIFA rankings for this month, despite not playing a game. Just imagine what could happen if they beat Paraguay & Honduras.

On a wednesday night in Welly though? I think they'll be lucky to get 10-12,000.

Its TUESDAY 12th October Zonknz. No crowds for wednesday for sure.

Lets split the difference and call it mid-week. I'd still be surprised to see above 12,000.

Mmmmm but the population of Wellington is about 160,000 - the whole Wellington region, including Kapiti, Hutt and Wairarapa is about 452,000, the population of Adelaide is 1,400,000, Brisbane 1,820,000 Melbourne 3,900,000, Sydney 4,450,000 ...... kind of puts it into perspective