NRL Club Memberships – July 9, 2024
With the Melbourne Storm finally adding a membership tracker to their website (making it 9), we now have data from 12 of the 17 clubs, with Seven clubs reporting record memberships.
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AFL Club Memberships – July 9, 2024
The Bulldogs have become the latest AFL club to break a record, the 9th club this year to break through. Sixteen AFL clubs have supplied data at some point this season.
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NRL Expansion: ARLC approves 20 team plan
News Limited reports that almost a dozen groups have reached out to NRL HQ to express interest in joining the NRL competitions after the ARLC confirmed they were ready to add more teams to the competition, with potentially up to the 20 mark before the Olympics in 2032. The ARLC has instructed NRL boss Andrew…
Origin II, 2024 – Strong ratings despite early blowout
90,084 people attended the match at the MCG – the 8th match this season to attract more than 80,000 and the third to attract more than 90,000 (behind AFL ANZAC Day, and Dustin Martins 300th for Richmond). Origin II is now the second highest average rating program for the year, behind Origin I with an…
NRL Round 15, Crowds and Ratings
With Origin in temporary abeyance, attention turns to a full round of matches beginning with Thursdays Sharks /Dolphins clash at the soon to be renamed Pointsbet Stadium in front of 8,035 people. The Sharks average 11,550 at partially renovated Pointsbet Stadium. The match rated 560,000 on Nine including 66,000 on 9NOW and a reach pf…
Round 14, AFL Crowds and Ratings
With the Bye rounds in progress, the round began in Brisbane on Friday night with the Lions taking on the Saints at the Gabba in front of a reasonable crowd of 27,445 – just ahead of their season average of 27,398. The Friday night match was watched by an average FTA viewership of 541,000 with…
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Report: Perth not going alone, Bears loom, 20 team plan to come together by 2032
News Limited has reported that North Sydney have met with Peter Vlandys and declared themselves ready for expansion. According to News The ‘Expansion Masterplan’ will formally outline the 20-team league, where the new teams will be based, when they will come in and the multifaceted benefits of having an international presence in the Pacific. The…
09.06.2024 – Sunday Crowds and Ratings
Sunday promised to be a big day for the AFL and it delivered some big crowds for the league in Sydney and Melbourne. In Sydney, the Swans faced off against the Cats with a beautiful crowd of 44,714 at the SCG – the Swans 4th highest crowd at the SCG ever. The match was shown…
08.06.2024 – Saturday Crowds and Ratings
Despite Origin leading to a shorter round, and the AFL in the middle of its “bye rounds”, it was a jam packed Saturday. Three AFL matches were played on the Saturday, with the Giants travelling to Launceston to face the Hawks in front of a reasonable crowd of 11,568. Later that afternoon West Coast hosted…
07.06.2024 – Friday Crowds and Ratings
Following Origin and the Matildas, we were back into regular programming with both AFL and NRL in action on Friday. In the AFL, the Western Bulldogs faced the Brisbane Lions in front of 31,280 at Marvel Stadium. The match drew 573,000 viewers to the Seven Network including a reach of 1.751 million. Further North and…
06.06.24 – Thursday Crowds & Ratings – NRLW Origin triumphant, AFL
It was records all round for womens Rugby League last night as a record crowd AND a record television audience turned up for Game 2 of NRLW Origin 2024. The game was played in front of 25,872 fans at Newcastles McDonald Jones Stadium, breaking the previous record held by Game 1 this year. The talk…
2024 Origin Game 1 up 0.44% on 2023, best rating since Origin 1, 2016
Despite some consternation on Twitter over a send off, State of Origin 1 at Accor Stadium in Sydney rated an average of 3.436 million on the Nine Network, including a record 760,000 for a rugby league match on BVOD. The broadcast reached 5.306 million viewers and is the highest rating Origin or Origin 1 since…
Sky Sport NZ reports 2024 regular season audience up 16%
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…
Monday, June 3rd – Matildas record crowd and dominate television
The Matildas last game on Australian soil prior to the Paris Olympics saw them draw their highest ever crowd of 76,798 at Accor Stadium in Sydney, with a national TV audience of 1.095m on Network 10 (and a reach of 2.62 million) The Matildas have an average Australian attendance of 52,474 since july last year,…
Stats On Australia’s A-League 2024
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Crowds and Television – AFL Round 12, 2024
Thursday Night AFL saw an average audience of 608,000 on the Seven Network, with a reach of 1.781 million. So far 8.021 million people have watched the AFL on Thursday night on Seven (cumulative average to date) at an average of 617,000 per match, with an average reach of 1.841 million. Friday Night AFL was…