All the Industry News for May10th, 2023. AFL The AFL looks set to be free to use the Devils nickname for the new Tasmanian club after Warner Bros reached out to the league. Some divisions of the Central Australian Football League could return to Traeger Park later this week following top level discussions in…
Well the Budget was delivered last night and its great news for Tasmania And Queensland with 305m in funding allocated for the development of Macquarie Point and UTAS Stadiums in preparation for their AFL licenses, and 3.4 billion allocated for Queensland Olympic venues. You can find the full budget here. The Government will provide $687.4…
Welcome to another big weekend in sports news as we head into the A-league finals, and NRL Magic Round. A-league Australian Professional Leagues (APL) today announced an official partnership with SEIKO, the global precision timepiece manufacturer. Discontent provides standard backdrop to Sydney derby laden with symbolism Eurosnobs will never believe it but the current A-League…
Heres what we do know based on AFL and Government reporting Governance With the establishment of the 19th licence the AFL and Tasmanian Government will now work to establish a Club Nominations committee and will select a Club Chair and Board of Directors. McLachlan said there would be five board members appointed in the years…
The 2022-23 ALM season was attended by 1,161,643 at an average of 7,494 per match, using 31% of available capacity. The season total was up 42% on 2022, and up 43% on average and best since 2019-20.
It was another massive weekend in Australian sport with a record attendance for an A-league Womens Grand Final, and ongoing record seasons falling in the AFL and NRL A-league (Men) Round 26 #ALMcrowds reeled in 45,051 people at an average of 7,509 per match. The 2022-23 ALM season was attended by 1,161,643 at an average…
From Available Annual Reports. Netball Australia doesnt give a total revenue figure for several years after 2007. Football Australia was a reformed body after 2005 and lost its professional league operations with devolution of the A-league to the APL in 2018. This body doesnt provide a report. Basketball Australia retains operation of the WNBL, but…
Ahead of a big weekend in sport, heres the latest nws as of 12pm 28.04 A-Leagues Liberty will remain a naming rights partner for the A-League Women’s and a major sponsor of the Isuzu UTE A-League into the 2023/24 season. AFL After residents voiced concerns about the amount of tree canopy that was to be…
Warning. This article may or may not be satirical in nature. Any 20th AFL team has limited options – here we explore some of them in a very shallow dive 1. Canberra – get GWS to finally focus in their own Sydney market. Even then an ACT team is going to rely heavily on the…
Tennis Australia reported a comprehensive profit of 4.656m from revenue of 505.786m as it recovered from the previous years 75m loss. Attendance A total of 346,468 fans attended Australian Open 2022. Prior to the tournament crowds for AO 2022 were capped at 50 percent, increased to 65 percent for the semifinals and again to 80 percent for the…
Rugby Australia has released its annual report for 2022. For comparison the 2021 data is here – Participation Any doubts about the benefit of Sevens within the Rugby environment should be long gone by now, with major rises in Sevens participation in schools (36%) and in clubs (32%) this past year. The Get into Rugby…
A bumper extended weekend was had by the two major codes who continue to experience record attendances, while the A-league reaches its penultimate round of the season. A-league (Mens Competition) Round 25 #ALMCrowds totalled 49,948 at an average of 8,325 per game. The season has so far seen 1.116m people attend at an average of…
Heres a summary of the recent data being posted to the NRL, QRL, NSWRL and Melbourne Sites, plus supplemental information taken from the 2022 NRL Annual Report, the 2022 Touch Football Australia Annual Report, and the 2021 European Rugby League Annual Report. Nationally in 2022 there was a year-on-year growth of 0.91 per cent in…
A Weekly round up of club and league sponsorship announcements, as sourced from club and league websites, and some media. AFL As Australia’s premier sports bar and grill, The Sporting Globe delivers the best sport-watching experience for its patrons across 19 venues nationally. Geelong Football Club is excited to announce a new partnership with Asahi…
Todays Media Wrap for Wednesday, August 19th, 2023 – Sports Industry News from the AFL, NBL and Netball AFL The Western Bulldogs have exceeded 50,000 members for a second consecutive year. It marks the second time in Club history that the Bulldogs’ membership tally has reached the 50,000 milestone, and in record pace too. There’s…
Todays Media Wrap for Wednesday, August 19th, 2023 – Sports Industry News from the ALM, AFL, AFLW, NRL, Superleague (UK) and more. Using material from League websites and Australian/overseas media. A-league Brisbane Roar chairman Chris Fong says the revamped Ballymore Stadium is the boutique venue the three-time A-League champions have been searching for since the…
AFL and NRL Memberships as of 6pm on April 19 as sourced from club websites and media reports. AFL Clubs A total of 1,002,635 members have so far signed up to support their favourite club, surpassing the one-million membership milestone three weeks ahead of the same time last year, in a season which saw the…
A round up of the crowds and television ratings from the AFL, NRL, A-league, and Superleague (UK). Most of this has been previously published by us on twitter (@footyindustryAU). AFL Gather Round #AFLcrowds were 204,335 over 9 matches at an average of 22,704 (or over 7 fixtures @ 29,191) This would be the lowest round…
There was some skepticism on my part when the AFL announced it was going to borrow the highly successful NRL/Superleague Magic Round concept and bring all its teams to one city for one big 4 day extravaganza, but by the end of the weekend I was well and truly convinced it was a great event….
Not every club has published an Annual Report. This data includes all revenues including gambling and government grants.