The 2017 LOI Attendance thread.

**Kingswood Rover** · 04/03/2017, 11:22 AM

I took some photos of the east stand and it was crammed in the middle around the singing section with people standing in the aisles and in front of the seats, a bit more thinly populated at the Mountain end but if all sat it was at capacity or very close, not sure about 5,200, maybe 500 less. I really do think that if we had won in Dundalk and the weather had been decent we would have had the 6K. 10,000 people saw Rovers in the space of 8 days hints that there is a market for a well attended league in this country The club has being going about its business very professionally off the pitch in the 12 months which will have long term and lasting dividends attendance wise.One comparison worth looking at is the A league in Aus, it seems to have taken off and when you think that they have done this competing against Aussie Rules (the equivalent of us competing against the GAA), The Sydney derby is now one of the biggest sporting fixtures in the country and is only going less than 10 years i think. Well worth a look on you tube.

**RathfarnhamHoop** · 04/03/2017, 5:22 PM

Originally Posted by White Horse

Very good attendance. It looked less on TV but that was probably because people packed to the upper sections due to the weather.

Yeah that's what happened alright. Lots of people moved to the East stand or to the area just in front of the windows at the back of the main stand to avoid the rain making it look like less than it really was on tv. The middle of the east stand was packed so I'd say that was at capacity. All tickets were scanned coming in so I'd say figures given were accurate.

**Candystripe** · 04/03/2017, 5:56 PM

1,574×2= 3,148 for the Derry city v Limerick game/games 😁

**ToberonaTornado** · 04/03/2017, 9:07 PM

2138 Sligo v Dundalk about 300 from Dundalk

**ger121** · 04/03/2017, 9:22 PM

Originally Posted by Candystripe

1,574×2= 3,148 for the Derry city v Limerick game/games ��

Careful now. We all remember what happened last time you created something a second time

**NeverFeltBetter** · 04/03/2017, 9:30 PM

What's the story with the rescheduled Derry/Limerick game? All tickets being honoured?

**nigel-harps1954** · 05/03/2017, 9:28 AM

Weekend attendances:

Premier Division:

Derry v Limerick - Match Abandoned
Shamrock Rovers v Bohemians - 5,220
Cork City v Galway - 3,335
Sligo v Dundalk - 2,138
Drogheda v St Pat's - 1,200 (ET estimate)
Bray v Harps - 750 (ET estimate)

First Division:

Waterford v Cabo - 1,317
UCD v Shelbourne - 382
Wexford v Athlone - 323
Longford v Cobh - 320

Total: 14,985

**nigel-harps1954** · 05/03/2017, 10:01 AM

EDIT: Amended with official attendance given by Drogheda & Bray.

Total attendance from the first two weeks of action (pending correction of estimates) is 31,825. This doesn't include the attendance from Derry v Limerick which is a void match.

Total Attendance Premier: 27,783
Total Attendance First: 4,429

Average Premier: 2,315
Average First: 554
Total Average: 1,611

Comparison with 2016:

2016 Every teams first attendance combined: 33,414
2017 (if you include a 1,574 Derry v Limerick crowd): 33,786

**outspoken** · 05/03/2017, 11:51 AM

We got less people in the door than Wexford and athlone. I genuinely fear for our future

**nigel-harps1954** · 05/03/2017, 6:25 PM

Official attendance given by Drogheda for their game was 1,000. 840 + 160 guests and ST holders.

Bray are the only ones left to give any official attendance for the first two weeks.

**SeanDrog** · 05/03/2017, 6:44 PM

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

Official attendance given by Drogheda for their game was 1,000. 840 + 160 guests and ST holders.

Bray are the only ones left to give any official attendance for the first two weeks.

Can't help feel that a round 1000 is a bit ... how to phrase ..... coincidental . But hey an official figure is better than no figure.

Weather was aweful and surely put some off - hopefully a big jump in numbers for the Cork game.