Sports Industry News – Thursday, Jan 31, 2019
Attendances for Wednesday, Jan 30 BBL: Melbourne Renegades d Sydney Thunder. Crowd: 10,287 @ Marvel Stadium TV Ratings for Wednesday, Jan 30 BBL: Melbourne Renegades d Sydney Thunder – Fox (Exclusive) 207,000 & 223,000 A-league and Soccer News Two heavyweight international financiers behind Canberra’s A-League aspirations look set to withdraw their funding promise by June…
WBBL|04 sets new crowd and viewing records
Cricket Australia reports that 135,861 fans attended the WBBL across the 59-game season – at an average of 2,384 per match, including a record 5,650 at Mackay’s Harrup Park which set a new record for the highest attendance at a standalone WBBL match. While the WBBL attendance record at Optus Stadium was also broken this season, as…
Sports Industry News – Wed, Jan 30th
Crowds – January 29th BBL: Sydney Sixers d Adelaide Strikers. Crowd: 8,083 @ Sydney Cricket Ground BBL: Hobart Hurricanes d Brisbane Heat. Crowd: TBA @ Blundstone Arena Crowd figures from Austadiums twitter (@au_sport) TV Ratings – January 29th BBL: Sydney Sixers d Adelaide Strikers – Fox (Exclusive) 188,000 & 207,000 BBL: Hobart Hurricanes d Brisbane…
Weekend A-league and Cricket Attendance and TV Viewing – Nov 9th-11th, 2018
Attendance At the close of Round 4 of the 2018-19 A-league Season, attendances remain down, now -9.87% compared to same time last year, at an average of 12,829. Round 4 was attended by 49,105 – up from 45,757 during last seasons R4, despite playing in Mudgee – at 4 stadiums in 3 states. The Womens…
Footy Industry Twitter TV Viewing Survey Results
In late October we ran a number of surveys via twitter to figure out the viewing habits of our followers. Between 150-160 people voted in each poll – for which we are immensely grateful – from which we have drawn some fairly rough estimates on viewing behaviours.
The FFA, A-league and Chinese promotion
With Port Adelaide and the AFL once again trumpeting their involvement in China at a recent Chinese Expo, we asked whether the A-league was involved and if not, why not. Fortuntely, the International Relations Manager for the FFA, Keiran Lilley was on hand to answer via twitter.
A-league Crowds and Ratings – Round 3, 2018-19
Attendance At the end of Round 3 of the 2018-19 A-league season, attendances are down 13.16% to 207,475 at an average of 13,832. R3 was attended by 44,728 people at 5 stadiums in 3 states and New Zealand for an average crowd of 8,946. Both major derbies have been completed at this stage in both…
Weekend Crowds and Television – A-league R1, Australia v Tonga (RL) and EPL
The A-league Attendance The Opening round of the 2018-19 Aleague season was attended by 84,761 at an average attendance of 16,952 persons – up 26.86% on the opening round in 2017-18, helped chiefly by the Melbourne derby (held in R2 last season). Nothing can really be read into the seasons performance until rounds 4-5 after…
Last Week Today – News You May Have Missed – Sunday, October 21st
In case you werent paying attention, heres whats come across our desk in the last week here at Footy Industry. A-league and local Association Football Know your A-League owners A-LEAGUE boss Greg O’Rourke will recommend to the outgoing Football Federation Australia board which two teams should join an expanded national competition but wants the…
Friday Sport Crowds & Ratings
A-league Adelaide United v Sydney FC was attended by 10,018 people at Coopers Stadium in Adelaide, despite the threat of inclement weather. The match rated 67,000 nationally on Foxtel. Although this rating was higher than the last meeting between the clubs, it was still the lowest rating season opener since the 2011-12 season. NBL Across town,…
Last Week Today – News You May Have Missed – Sun, Oct 14th, 2018
Heres all the Footy industry news in brief from the last 7 days…in case you missed any of it A-league Adelaide Uniteds Womens side has received $75,000 funding from the South Australian Government to assist with this season’s medical, accommodation and travel costs. Former head of the A-League Archie Fraser has joined the Association of…
AFL, NRL & A-league Historical Average Crowds & Members
As requested on Twitter. Data sourced from AFLtables.com for AFL and NRL, and UltimateAleague.com for A-league.
Final AFL and NRL 2018 TV Ratings Summary *updated* 14/10
Due to the massive first week of Finals the AFL had (7.7m total), we estimate that the AFL and NRL both finished around the 107 million mark for their premiership seasons.. AFL Ratings finish the season down 6% on 2017 – a drop of about 6.2 million. NRL Ratings finish the premiership season up 4% –…
News you might have missed: This week in Footy Industry
General To coincide with the end of the AFL and NRL seasons, Nielsen has compiled data forMediaweek that ranks all the AFL and NRL clubs. Association Football AUSTRALIAN football will embark on a bright new dawn after the successful adoption of wide-ranging governance reforms finally ended the civil war crippling the game. Steven Lowy said while the FFA board is…
AFL/NRL Grand Final Weekend Crowds and TV Summary
AFL Attendance The 2018 Grand Final crowd broke the MCG record (under its current configuration) by one person — 100,022, beating the 2017 mark of 100,021. The AFL finishes the season with a total attendance of 7,509,302 and an average of 36,687. Total AFL attendances across AFL, JLT (89,014), AFLX (42,730) and AFLW (174,012) were 7,900,058…
AFL, NRL Preliminary Final Weekend 2018
AFL AFL attendances during 2018 Preliminary Final Weekend totalled 154,567 at the MCG and Optus Stadium. This figure was up 4.38% on the 2017 weekend at the MCG and Adelaide Oval. All up Finals crowds for the AFL now total 600,371 at an average of 75,046, up 32.3% on 2017. To be fair, much of…
State of Play September 2018: Broadcast Rights – Part 1 – Mens Team Sports
In the ever changing landscape of tv rights negotiations, theres been plenty of changes this year to various sports and I thought Id make a single post outlining the current arrangements. For the purposes of this post – and length – I’ve separated the womens sport from the mens. Broadcasters: …