Paul Cully in The Post has reported that Super Rugby audiences on Sky Sport have risen 16% compared to the 2023 season. Sky Sport notes that more than 1.94 million people watched Super Rugby on Sky Sport and its free to air brother in Sky Open and another 215,000 unique viewers on Sky Now/Go. (for…
Giants/Suns funding has exceeded the nominal amount of tv rights funding per team (as an average total league media rights/18 teams) by 12.4 million over the last 12 years – just over 1m a year. This doesnt include additional commercial revenue recieved by the league as a result of these additional matches or other ancillary…
AFL.com.au reports that the WA Government is set to address the surface issues faced by other AFL stadiums by spending up to 8 million on top of the line surface.
AFL Round 14 of the 2022 AFL season was attended by 163,711 at an average of 27,285 per game. The 2022 AFL season has been attended by 3.611m people at an average of 30,854 per match – up 17% on 2021, down 14% on 2019 (and down 19% on the heady days of 2008) The…
Papua New Guinea will cohost the World Cup, holding three group matches in New Guinea after spending 1.4 billion on stadium and facility upgrades. “The investment that the government and capital city has put in will get 10 times more back when it comes to the promotion of our city, our country and our national…
Super Rugby Just the one reported crowd so far for Round 14 – 12,040 for the match at Suncorp – with no result published for the game at Aami Park that we’ve been able to find so far. Australian season average down to 12,142 from 26 reported matches (4 with no crowd report), down 20%…
The FFA has found itself in a spot of bother with neither of its first choice stadiums available for semi finals. The Aleague had originally panned its semi-finals for Friday, May 8 and Sunday, May 10, but both AAMI Park in Melbourne and Allianz Stadium in Sydney are unavailable on the Friday. Docklands has been…
ARU The NSW Waratahs have extended their partnership with Volvo for another three years. AFL Richmond have signed a three year deal with National Storage who will become their official media polo sleeve partner from 2016, replacing Elegance Tiles Carlton have signed a two year deal with CareerOne. The CareerOne logo will now appear on…
AFL SCORES of eager Crows and Power fans have been queuing for AFL finals tickets, forcing Ticketek to put on extra staff to cope with the huge demand. THE AFL finals will be declared as a major event under tough anti-scalping rules to protect fans — despite the Tourism Minister saying the “hype” of scalping…
Please note that where it says club website has been used, this means the tally published by the club on either its front page or membership page.
SportsbusinessInsider reports that Hawthorn have reached an agreement with Audi to provide shorts and coaches clothing sponsorship for the next three years. Its the first time Audi has sponsored a national sporting club in Australia.
North Melbourne have added four new corporate partners to its stable with Allied Express, Elite Solar, Workwear Group and Munich Brauhous all signing on in some capacity. Source: Sportsbusinessinsider.
A-league ACL: Urawa Reds v Western Sydney: Crowd: 5,590 @ Campbelltown Stadium ACL: Brisbane Roar v Muangthong United: Crowd: 4,536 @ Suncorp Stadium 5 LIVE: FOOTBALL: AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FOX SPORTS 4 47,000 6 LIVE: FOOTBALL: AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FOX SPORTS 4 46,000 Fairfax reports that the Professional Footballers Australia on Tuesday unveiled a pathway for…
The FFA has today signed a Six year, 346 million deal with Foxtel for broadcasting – working out to 57.6 million annually. In a separate deal to be negotiated in the new year, for the first time ever a Hyundai A-League match will be also shown live on free to air television in prime time…
Francis Leach writes on the ABC website that the Aleague has the opportunity to stage a unique midweek Grand Final to get around the AFL, citing the success of Origin as a template for the event.
By anyones standard this has been an outstanding weekend of league. There was a general air of expectation and excitement over the beginning of the season, and by its end we were introduced to that rarest of rugby league scenarios….a fairly contented audience. The weather held out, and most of the matches were close fought,…
News Limited reports that the Perth Glory have accepted the decision to fine and eliminate them from the finals series in 2015. The club will not take further action as it had previously threatened to. “Following the process the club has reached the view that it was within FFA’s power to make the decision and…
Sponsorship News reports that the total sponsorship figure for the FFA will likely pass the NRL and ARU this year with a 30% increase in revenue from that sector forecast taking the figure past $30 million. The NRL posted $27 million in sponsorship and the ARU 28.7 million in sponsorship for 2014, while Tennis (45…
The Telegraph is reporting that the NRL is in talks to allow clubs to broadcast their own trial matches. NRL head of football Todd Greenberg initially told clubs they would not be allowed to broadcast any trials because of “broadcasting obligations’’. Greenberg wrote in the December 15 letter, which was obtained by The Daily Telegraph,…
Panthers Group have reported a profit of 14m for 2022, on revenue of 152.2m Gaming 65m Catering 32.335m NRL Grant 15.679m Sponsors 12.936m Panthers Group have reported a profit of 14m for 2022, on revenue of 152.2m Gaming 65mCatering 32.335mNRL Grant 15.679mSponsors 12.936m https://t.co/L0KoyhDBgZ pic.twitter.com/PMbT1eg1KK — sportsindustry (@footyindustryAU) February 28, 2023 Penrith themselves reported…
