By almost every measure the AFL has had a sterling year, with attendance, membership, participation and television viewing reaching unprecedented numbers. Attendance Attendance is the AFLs bread and butter, and I doubt theres anyone who seriously believes that they have a serious rival in crowd terms. A record 8.29 million people attended the entire season…
AFL and Australian Football A RESURGENT Richmond is leading a booming season of AFL attendances — without a single Friday night fixture. The Tigers have pulled crowds of 705,459 to 14 matches, ahead of Collingwood on 696,944. Richmond’s home game average of 60,920 is the highest in the club’s history — up 48 per cent…
AFL THURSDAY night football has proven a ratings winner for Channel Seven, with an average of 731,000 free-to-air viewers switching on to its seven games in the timeslot this season. The delicate art sports sponsorships: AFL star Matthew Pavlich on the balancing act RICHMOND and Greater Western Sydney are pushing to play a game for premiership…
A-league ACL 2017 – Usuan Hyundai v Brisbane, Ulsan Munsu Football Stadium, Crowd: 1,303 ACL 2017 – Shanghai SIPG v Western Sydney, Shanghai Stadium, Crowd: 28,090 Tues ACL STV – neither ACL match made the top 20 (Fox ratings cut off at 34,000) After reportedly rejecting an FTA offer, the Algarve Cup will be shown…
China. Its a country just a little bit to the North of us that has more than one billion people living in it. As such, its a huge market for Australian leagues and sporting clubs to tap into. Recently, to some fanfare the AFL and Port Adelaide Power announced the first game for premiership points…
The NRL today announced a new funding program to support rugby league facilities beyond its traditional strongholds of Queensland and New South Wales. The National Footy Facilities Fund is an initiative of the National Rugby League and assists existing and new clubs to improve the quality, availability and standard of their facilities. A total of…
On Feburary 24, 2015 the AFL revealed ambitious plans for national women’s competition as early as 2017, along with a review of its second tier operations. News Limited reported that women’s football is taking off in Victoria, with 52 senior women’s teams in seven divisions and plans for massive expansion in coming years. Participation in…
Micheal Lynch writes in Fairfax newspapers why the 11,000 strong crowd at the Olympic Village for the FFA Cup isnt necessarily a good indicator that the Aleague is ready for a secnd division, but it does show that the FFA need to do something decent outside of the Aleague in the near future.
The football season in Australia may be over, but the International footy continues with various nationals and international tournaments being played overseas over the next few weeks. The USAFL Nationals are coming, as are the Asian championships – but this weekend we have the AFL Europe Axios Euro Cup. The Axios Euro Cup is a…
Jake Niall describes the differences between Australian football and Soccer at a cost level, and says that the AFL has a distinct advantage in The Age. But there was a minor minus – a small cough – when we received an invoice for the season’s fees. It was just under $600 for a season with…
The Australian is reporting that the Australian Rugby Union has returned a 6.3 million deficit for 2014 including 3.3 million spent keeping the Melbourne Rebels afloat. The Australian also says that participation in WA and Victoria hasnt justified the inclusion of those teams in the Super Rugby sphere. Overall participation numbers have risen to 687,488,…
Fairfax media reports that Raiders coach Ricky Stuart wants better NRL support in what he refers to as a football battleground of Canberra. “What interested me on the weekend was witnessing the relationship the ACT Government has with the AFL hierarchy in pulling together and promoting the recent GWS fixture here in Canberra,” Stuart wrote….
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the NSWRL is going to try and get into the elite GPS schools formerly considered Union exclusive zones. Union has been the exclusive code offered in GPS schools since 1892.