AFL returns to winning position, NRL remains strong, as World Cup Cricket looms
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St Kilda Football Club has delivered an operating profit of $150,589 for 2016
St Kilda Football Club has delivered an operating profit of $150,589 for the 2016 financial year before grant funding revenue, depreciation, amortisation and interest, and an overall accounting net profit of $1,107,311. Included within the accounting net profit is Moorabbin Reserve grant funding and additional depreciation of the Seaford premises due to the expected relocation…
18/10/2023 – Wednesday News – A-league announces Unite Round, and more.
The Big news today coming from the A-league with their announcement of the cancellation of the A-league Grand Final deal and the new announcement of the A-League United round. More details in the dedicated news post. Meanwhile the rest of todays news
Cats boss fumes over cost of Etihad home games
The Age reports that Geelong are unhappy being forced to play 2 games at Etihad saying that its not fair they have to pick up the slack for clubs playing games interstate, like Hawthorn, claiming it could cost the club between 1 and 1.5 million in 2016. “We support taking the game around Australia and…
Industry News – Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
AFL THE AFL has shut down plans for immediate expansion of its national women’s league, but has foreshadowed at least two teams will be added in 2019. The five clubs who unsuccessfully sought a licence last year will receive “priority weighting” when the AFL considers additions to the foundation eight-team competition. But the door has…
Dogs’ AFL season and the premiership ranked 7th on Facebook’s most talked-about topics in Australia during 2016
The Dogs’ historic season and the AFL Grand Final ranked seventh on Facebook’s most talked-about topics in Australia during a year that wasn’t short on huge news stories. The social media giant has released its year-in-review data, analysing and aggregating Australians’ posts by tallying how many times a topic was mentioned on the platform. The…
New AFL Ballarat proposal
Source: [The Age] [Heraldsun] The Victorian opposition is reportedly going to unveil a 30 million dollar redevelopment of Eureka Stadium as a possible location for the Kangaroos and Bulldogs to play at, with the prospect of some matches through Cricket Victoria. Any complete redevelopment into a 15,000 seat facility is expected to cost about 80…
Sports attendance Dec 3-5th 2021
AFL Melbourne FC Grand Final Replay/Celebration 30,000 @ the MCG Aleague Men Round 3 of the 2021 A-league Mens competition had an attendance of 39,203 at an average of 6,534 per match. At the end of Round 3, 142,259 have attended this season at an average of 7,903. Wellington v Western Sydney, 1948 @ WIN…
Industry News Update – Friday, July 7th 2017
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…
Friday News Headlines – March 24th, 2017
AFL Thu AFL – Cartlton v Richmond at the MCG – 73,137 for the opening game of the 2017 season Thu TV #AFLBluesTigers Seven/7mate National 792k, Metro 591k (Syd 19k Mel 372k Bri 24k Ade 104k Per 73k) Regional 201k (Vic 100k Tas 51k) Thu AFL STV – AFL CARLTON V RICHMOND FOX FOOTY 269,000…
AFL Clubs breach the billion dollar mark for the first time in 2018
Note: Normally we’d have written this article a lot sooner, but the Swans report was literally not available anywhere until it appear on ASIC on July 1. After narrowly missing the mark by just $1.3 million last year the leagues eighteen clubs have crashed through the billion dollar barrier taking in a combined $1.073 billion…
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Thursday Night AFL/NRL Crowds and TV – May 9th 2024
In the AFL, eighth placed Carltons home match against a fourth placed Melbourne at the MCG, delivered an attendance of 58,472 to the MCG on a wet and rainy night. Carlton now have a home attendance average of 63,494 for the season, while Thursday night AFL attendances average 47,657 for the season and 63,742 at…
Friday Media Summary – March 3rd, 2017
NRL Broncos d Sharks: Crowd: 11,493 @ Southern Cross Group Stadium Thu TV #NRLSharksBroncos #Nine #9Gem #WWOS 894k (Metro 545k Regional 349k) Thu STV #FoxSports #NRLSharksBroncos 231k #MattyJohns 110k The St George Illawarra Dragons have received a major boost with the announcement of Bingo Industries’ increased partnership involvement in 2017. Super Rugby Super Rugby –…
Foxtel reports total closing paid subscribers in December 2023 were over 4.3 million, flat compared to the prior year
Revenues of $470 million in the quarter increased $8 million, or 2%, compared with the prior year, driven by higher revenues from Kayo and BINGE from increases in both volume and pricing, despite a more difficult Summer sports season and inflationary pressures, partially offset by the impact from fewer residential broadcast subscribers and a $6…
NRL in talks over club trial web broadcasts
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,…
IC 2014 Preview: USA Revolution (Men)
As we head towards the 2014 International Cup, I had a brief chat with Matt Bishop, the coach of the United States mens Australian Football side, the Revolution. Matt spent some time playing junior footy in central Queensland and on the Far South Coast of New South Wales. Most of his senior footy was played…
Manly’s troubles at Brookvale Oval – Council cant afford maintenance.
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….
Mclachlan to get nod as head of AFL
Source: Fairfax Media Fairfax is reporting that Gillon Mclachlan will take the CEOs job as was widely expected. Other candidates were apparently Geelongs Brian Cook and Richmonds Brendon Gale, as well as Western Sydneys Dave Matthews. The appointment is expected to be announced Wednesday.