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…
News Limited reports that Warringah Council cant afford to maintain Brookvale Oval properly and its up to the state government to ensure matches can still be played there. Cr Menano-Pires said the maintenance had moved beyond the council’s capacity. “It’s extremely expensive for us to maintain. We are actually subsidising a private enterprise,” he said….
The A-league launched to little fanfare and only the slightest of promotion on Friday night, sandwiched between two Socceroos World Cup qualifying fixtures, at the tail end of another excellent FFA Cup season, and after the exhilarating highs of the womens games against Brazil, and with no Sydney or Melbourne Derbies scheduled. (and all that…
The Heraldsun reports that Essendon is going to report a 9.8 million dollar loss in 2016. The loss includes $4.4 million in legal expenses and agreed compensation, $3.1 million from fallen revenues and $1.5 million for top-up players used in the 2016 season as cover for suspended players. There was some reduction in commercial revenues…
Roy Morgan released the results of a survey that concluded that the A-League is now watched on TV by more Australians 14+ than the English Premier League, with its audience growing by more than 50% since 2011. Follow up articles can be found at fourfourtwo.
Source: https://twitter.com/MediaweekAUS AFL Fri STV #AFL #FoxFooty #AFLEaglesDogs National 254k: Metro 209k (Syd 16k Mel 92k Bri 17k Ade 32k Per 52k) Fri TV #AFL #AFLEaglesDogs 627k: Seven 402k (Mel 298k Ade 103k) 7mate 225k (Syd 27k Bri 20k Per 177k) Sat STV #AFL #FoxFooty #AFLDonsCats National 220k: Metro 176k (Syd 16k Mel 102k Bri…
Source: Sportsbusiness Insider, The Age Channel Ten chief Hamish Mclennan has apparenrtly confirmed that Ten are interested in the next batch of AFl rights, depending on cost and availability. “Yes, we’re keen. All depends on what is on offer,” McLennan said. Asked what slots Ten would be interested in, McLennan said: “Depends on price etc,…
Much has been made of the recent Australian Rules game between the Gold Coast Suns and Port Adelaide in Shanghai – no small amount has been hype from the AFL, and some mockery from other codes, as well as some local confusion as to what the game actually is – so I thought we’d take…
AFL Geelong Football Club is debt-free for the first time in five decades. It has been such a financial success, the Cats have permanently axed the gaming facility and 100 poker machines that were part of its home ground NRL Thu NRL: Sharks d Cowboys: Crowd: 8,557 @ Southern Cross Group Stadium There’s a perception in…
The AFL has released its 2016 participation figures. THE ESTABLISHMENT of the new AFL Women’s competition is the major reason behind an enormous spike in participation numbers, according to latest figures released by the AFL. A 56 per cent increase in female community club teams boosted the total female participation by 19 per cent to…
The Australian reported on the weekend that the NRL is wanting to move at least one game on a Saturday to Free to air television, and Fox apparently wants to take another AFL game from Free to air tv. Fox’s media rights with the AFL are being negotiated by former AFL and FFA executive Ben…
The full year results report revenue from continuing operations of $89.868m, a decrease of $3.607m or 3.86% from the prior year of $93.475m. Item 2021 2020 inc/Dec Revenue 112.563 132.865 -15.28% Profit 0.949 14.881 -93.62% NRl Distro 15.404 15.292 0.73% Poker Machines 47.142 52.962 -10.99% Sponsorship 9.111 6.443 41.41% Gate 1.982 0.845 134.56% Despite the…
Another big day in Sports Industry news, with a new interim CEO at Rugby Australia, Vlandys says Nines talk is just noise and a deal is expected within the fortnight, and Optus nabs the rights to the K-league. A-league and Football Clubs are planning to train in July before a competition return in August, though…
The Australian Financial Review has a report by Mark Di Stefano on Sportsbet and how the bookmaker used a shell company to shield involvement in an NRL Pick’em tipping competition, which skirted advertising regulations and promoted gambling offers. Essentially, Sportsbet created a seperate shelf company to operate the competition which enabled them to get around…
Hawthorn Football Club has recorded a net operating profit of $2.57 million ($2,573,491) for the financial year ended 31 October 2016. Key points of the report: Club net operating profit of $2,573,491 for year ended 31 October 2016. Achieved a record membership tally for the tenth consecutive season. 2016: 75,351 (2015: 72,924), including 9,249 Tasmanian…
As of November 5th, Kayo had 402,000 paying subcribers. On September 30th, Foxtel had total subcribers of 3.065m – up 6% on the previous year including 430,000 on Kayop (365,000 paying) and 385,000 on Foxtel Now.https://t.co/pcyqotBgXU — sportsindustry (@footyindustryAU) November 8, 2019
