2009 attendances

[shep]

decent crowd alright. Tho more around the 2,000 mark I would have said, maybe more

One of the guys on ur web commentary obviously the worst crowd guesser of all time...was saying there was about 800 at it!!!

[pineapple stu]

First final update so. I'll try go around the forums and fill some of the gaps, but if anyone else has figures, fire ahead.

Official (or mostly official) figures in bold. "2" in the missing games bit refers to the second game against that team.

PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 2,366 (2008 - 1,993; 2007 - 1,924; 2006 - 1,463; 2005 - 1,976; 2004 - 2,340) (missing Drogheda 2)
Bray - 1,169 (1,106; 1,200; 1,027; 1,550; 818 FD)
Cork - 2,681 (3,142; 2,897; 2,941; 3,644; 4,033)
Derry - 2,436 (3,363; 2,614; 3,229; 2,698; 1,672)
Drogheda - 1,106 (1,631; 1,919; 1,751; 1,682; 1,554)
Dundalk - 2,371 (1,459 FD; 1,406 FD; 1,078 FD; 474 FD; 591 FD)
Galway - 1,076 (1,393; 2,199; 1,148 FD; 566 FD; 571 FD)
Pat's - 1,721 (1,795; 1,910; 1,342; 1,599; 1,882)
Rovers - 3,611 (1,468; 1,715; 1,089 FD; 1,539; 1,349) (missing Cork 2 and Galway 2)
Sligo - 1,756 (1,960; 1,448; 1,806; 1,794 FD; 781 FD)

FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 462 (387; 670; 421; 316; 291)
Harps - 480 (1,607 PD; 1,164; 428; 1,347 PD; 1,106)
Kildare - 193 (241; 243; 265; 186; 298) (missing Limerick, Finn Harps 2, Fingal 2 and Wexford 2)
Limerick - 447 (517; 670; 364; 669; 188) (missing Kildare 2 and Monaghan 2)
Longford - 260 (406; 885 PD; 681 PD; 1,004 PD; 1,131 PD)
Mervue - 174 (N/A) (missing Fingal 2 and Waterford 2)
Monaghan - 210 (177; 292; 204; 183; 182) (missing Kildare 2, Waterford, Fingal 2, Mervue 2 and Wexford 2)
Shels - 972 (986; 888; 1,690 PD; 1,949 PD; 2,158 PD)
Sporting Fingal - 635 (688)
UCD - 272 (546 PD; 663 PD; 546 PD; 653 PD; 306)
Waterford - 444 (670; 1,181 PD; 915 PD; 1,513 PD; 1,753 PD) (missing Mervue 2)
Wexford - 494 (767; 810)

Premier Division average - 2,010 (1,746; 1,687; 1,535; 1,759; 1,853)
First Division average - 433 (641; 722; 570; 520; 512)

Overall average - 1,208 (1,221; 1,235; 1,070; 1,195; 1,218)

[Krstic]

Derry will be releasing the attendance figures for our "Second Stadium" you've probably seen it along side the Brandywell.
That should bring the average up:o

[Mr A]

Stu, we only played Wexford at home once- is that the figure you need?

Will see if I can get the Monaghan one from last weekend.

[WindmillWarrior]

Recent games missing -
Drogheda v Pat's


Around 1,000 I suppose

[WindmillWarrior]

One of the guys on ur web commentary obviously the worst crowd guesser of all time...was saying there was about 800 at it!!!

haha, you wouldn't mind those plonkers!
Maybe it was lookin that poor at around kick off time. Drogheda crowds always seem to get in late

[pineapple stu]

Stu, we only played Wexford at home once- is that the figure you need?
I get confustered sometimes; I have it included already, so dinna worry about that one, cheers.

Can add in 259 for Limerick v Harps, 200 for Longford v Limerick and 350 for Wexford v Mervue. Have updated the post for those and Drogheda v Pat's.

[fionnsci]

Missing Pat's guesses
Sligo 1400
Derry 1200
Bohs 2000

[oriel]

Stu - I think 1,700 for Dlk V Pats - but not 100% on this.

Also there will be many Prem Div`s in Europe where the league champs end up in 5th place on the attendance lge.

Thanks again for doing the stats this year, always look forward to reading them , doesn't really seem like a year ago when I passed on thanks for 2008 !

[Mr A]

Missing Harps game is 417

[fionnsci]

Bray - Pat's maybe 600.

Bray's average seems ridiculously high btw, no way could they have averaged 1200. Figures for de Boez seems a bit high too.

[Leejo]

Bray - Pat's maybe 600.

Bray's average seems ridiculously high btw, no way could they have averaged 1200. Figures for de Boez seems a bit high too.

Presume you were a regular at the Carlise and Dalymount this season then?

[sligored]

sligo - bray2 - circa 1800

[Bray Head]

Bray - Pat's maybe 600.

Bray's average seems ridiculously high btw, no way could they have averaged 1200. Figures for de Boez seems a bit high too.


We had big crowds at the start of the season against Shams & Bohs while the last home game against Bohs was the biggest of the season. We had some terrible crowds later in the season but the average is up cos of the few big gates.

[pineapple stu]

Bray's average seems ridiculously high btw, no way could they have averaged 1200. Figures for de Boez seems a bit high too.
Take out Bohs and Rovers games for Bray, and they drop to 850, which seems reasonable.

Bohs figures aren't official this year, and guesstimates tend to be higher than actuals. Sligo's average here is 1756; I think Fran Gavin gave an official average of 1400 on MNS when explaining their ticket allocation for the Cup Final.

Cheers for the figures so far; I've updated the post again.

[Da Real Rover]

Sligo's average here is 1756; I think Fran Gavin gave an official average of 1400 on MNS when explaining their ticket allocation for the Cup Final.
No way was our average 1400 this season.
1800 sounds about right.

[Terry]

I was told that the attendances for the 2 matches missing from the mervue home games were:

against fingal - between 80-90

against waterford - between 110-120

[pineapple stu]

Cheers. Just Bohs, Rovers and Kildare to come, and that'd be everything!

[pineapple stu]

Official (or mostly official) figures in bold. "2" in the missing games bit refers to the second game against that team.

If Rovers' crowds were the same as last year, we'd be looking at a league average of 1083, a drop of over 10%. As it is, we're still down a bit.



PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 2,366 (2008 - 1,993; 2007 - 1,924; 2006 - 1,463; 2005 - 1,976; 2004 - 2,340) (missing Drogheda 2)
Bray - 1,169 (1,106; 1,200; 1,027; 1,550; 818 FD)
Cork - 2,681 (3,142; 2,897; 2,941; 3,644; 4,033)
Derry - 2,436 (3,363; 2,614; 3,229; 2,698; 1,672)
Drogheda - 1,106 (1,631; 1,919; 1,751; 1,682; 1,554)
Dundalk - 2,371 (1,459 FD; 1,406 FD; 1,078 FD; 474 FD; 591 FD)
Galway - 1,076 (1,393; 2,199; 1,148 FD; 566 FD; 571 FD)
Pat's - 1,721 (1,795; 1,910; 1,342; 1,599; 1,882)
Rovers - 3,611 (1,468; 1,715; 1,089 FD; 1,539; 1,349) (missing Cork 2 and Galway 2)
Sligo - 1,756 (1,960; 1,448; 1,806; 1,794 FD; 781 FD)

FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 462 (387; 670; 421; 316; 291)
Harps - 480 (1,607 PD; 1,164; 428; 1,347 PD; 1,106)
Kildare - 185 (241; 243; 265; 186; 298) (missing Finn Harps 2, Fingal 2 and Wexford 2)
Limerick - 429 (517; 670; 364; 669; 188)
Longford - 260 (406; 885 PD; 681 PD; 1,004 PD; 1,131 PD)
Mervue - 166 (N/A)
Monaghan - 183 (177; 292; 204; 183; 182)
Shels - 972 (986; 888; 1,690 PD; 1,949 PD; 2,158 PD)
Sporting Fingal - 635 (688)
UCD - 272 (546 PD; 663 PD; 546 PD; 653 PD; 306)
Waterford - 434 (670; 1,181 PD; 915 PD; 1,513 PD; 1,753 PD)
Wexford - 494 (767; 810)

Premier Division average - 2,010 (1,746; 1,687; 1,535; 1,759; 1,853)
First Division average - 417 (641; 722; 570; 520; 512)

Overall average - 1,175 (1,221; 1,235; 1,070; 1,195; 1,218)

[SkStu]

the first division CPO's need to get their acts together dragging the averages down like that :mad:

:p

[John83]

the first division CPO's need to get their acts together dragging the averages down like that :mad:

:p
I realise you're kidding, but just out of curiosity, how many FD clubs have CPOs?

[Sam_Heggy]

I realise you're kidding, but just out of curiosity, how many FD clubs have CPOs?

We have a CPO, we just have to work out what he does.

[superfrank]

Crowd announced at Sporting Bray as 740.

[Riddickcule]

Crowd announced at Sporting Bray as 740.
Many Bray lads? Didnt go myself

[bennocelt]

Many Bray lads? Didnt go myself

about 50 maybe, but they were loud and sang throughout - good suppporters

[apollo]

Wait until the candy stripes get going in the first division next year we will bring the averages for that division through the roof compared to the season just past.

[fionnsci]

Pat's - 1,721




Apparently average Pat's league attendance this year was 1600 approx (not including the Rovers game). Adding in that bumper gate and it goes to 1,717. Four off ain't bad at all!

Obviously neither figure is 100% official though.

[blue til i die]

Wait until the candy stripes get going in the first division next year we will bring the averages for that division through the roof compared to the season just past.

You actually think Derry will bring many down to the likes of us, Wexford, Limerick, Bray??

They should get a good crowd in harps, and the teams around them, doubt they'll "bring the averages for that division through the roof", but i guess only time will tell.

[LeixlipRed]

Derry fans just can't stop being arrogant even when they're relegated and 5 minutes from going out of existance.

[MMVIII]

Derry fans just can't stop being arrogant even when they're relegated and 5 minutes from going out of existance.

In fairness, he's new to this forum, I strongly doubt his comments are the views of all Derry supporters

[dcfcsteve]

the first division CPO's need to get their acts together dragging the averages down like that :mad:

:p

Rovers had a noticeable impact on the FD averages last season.

I expect City to do the same next year.


Derry fans just can't stop being arrogant even when they're relegated and 5 minutes from going out of existance.

Hook.

Line.

Agus an sinker.

:D


You actually think Derry will bring many down to the likes of us, Wexford, Limerick, Bray??

They should get a good crowd in harps, and the teams around them, doubt they'll "bring the averages for that division through the roof", but i guess only time will tell.


Don't expect us to bring more than a couple of dozen to games against the likes of Waterford, Wexford and Limerick.

Should bring more to Bray and UCD (if both teams are in the FD !), as we've got a good smattering of Dublin-based exiles. A few more again to Shels, as there's always been a healthy rivalry between both clubs.

Will be good to have the Harps games back, and we'll get a good crowd out for them.

I'd also expect Monaghan to benefit from a decent travelling City support. I hope so anyway, as they're a nice club that I'd like to see a few extra quid on the gates going to.

I'd expect Longford and Athlone aways to attract near enough the crowd for the Munster games, as both towns are a bit of a pain to get to.

Discover Ireland people !! :D

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[apollo]

I meant our home gates will push up the overall 1st division average from what it was this past season, i dont expect many derry fans to travel any further south than dublin, sorry if i gave the wrong impression again i meant our home gates.

[LeixlipRed]

Hook.

Line.

Agus an sinker.

:D

Haha, exactly Steve, exactly. Surprised it took you this long. Must have stuff on your mind

[pineapple stu]

Should bring more to Bray and UCD (if both teams are in the FD !)
Why would we be in the First Division?

[Martinho II]

Rovers had a noticeable impact on the FD averages last season.

I.

I'd expect Longford and Athlone aways to attract near enough the crowd for the Munster games, as both towns are a bit of a pain to get to.

Discover Ireland people !! :D

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not very often dcfcsteve that I disagree with you but any time we have played ye in flansiro ye have always brought down a good away attendance.. It wont be as big as the mid 80s but still its decent.. its more than what we would bring up to you..

[Schumi]

Rovers had a noticeable impact on the FD averages last season.

How did they do that?

[Riddickcule]

Jeez dcfcsteve get your facts right man...:)

[dcfcsteve]

How did they do that?

By stealing my time machine !

Those pesky kids..... :D

;)

[Candystripe]

not very often dcfcsteve that I disagree with you but any time we have played ye in flansiro ye have always brought down a good away attendance.. It wont be as big as the mid 80s but still its decent.. its more than what we would bring up to you..

TBF we have always brought a good crowd to Longford, even in the bad old days that we are now returning to.

Only a few years ago we (at the time) "Brandywell Pride SC" had two buses down, I was driving the mini-bus and the game had a 8pm KO, I was in Derry sitting in a bar at midnight.

On a Sat it is a quick run back especially if you drive via Eniskillen and over the mountain road.

[Buller]

By stealing my time machine !

Those pesky kids..... :D

;)

Hoops will be hoops....

Re Stu: Put Cork2 in for Rovers between 4,000 and 4,500 (it was midweek with champions lg on)

Cant really remember Bray2 though its safe to assume it was no less than 4,000.

[Straightstory]

Good work as ever, Stu.
The obvious success story is Rovers at Tallaght. Hope they can keep it up.
Some mind boggling figures there: UCD, first division champions, had an average of 272!

[pineapple stu]

UCD, first division champions
Stop right there. :)

[Riddickcule]

Buller, how many Season Tickets do you think you'll sell next season?

[John83]

Some mind boggling figures there: UCD, first division champions, had an average of 272!
Bohs made more money from renting out a car park they own than from gate receipts last year. Gates are low enough in this league that they're entirely secondary to fundraising for most clubs.

[Buller]

Buller, how many Season Tickets do you think you'll sell next season?

Hold on I'll just get in DCFCsteve's time machine again...

Hoping for as much as this season! We sold over 2,000 before the season started and another thousand after that, some of which were half season tickets.
I'm very confident we'll be able to sustain the same big crowds throughout next season.

[galwayjames]

Hold on I'll just get in DCFCsteve's time machine again...

Hoping for as much as this season! We sold over 2,000 before the season started and another thousand after that, some of which were half season tickets.
I'm very confident we'll be able to sustain the same big crowds throughout next season.

Best of luck, we can't get 2,000 for one game never mind a season ticket!

[Riddickcule]

Rovers average in here is 3,600

?? Surely it's at least 4,000..the last few or their games they had just under 6,000

[galwayjames]

Rovers average in here is 3,600

?? Surely it's at least 4,000..the last few or their games they had just under 6,000

According to the Sunday Times article on eh..Sunday their average was 4,500

[Mr A]

Well they did only have one stand for a large part of the season...

[thischarmingman]

TBF we have always brought a good crowd to Longford, even in the bad old days that we are now returning to.



If we manage to survive the debts and the legal issues surrounding the club, and get into FD next year...

...I'm actually rather looking forward to it...:o

Then again, I fully acknowledge that in my head, I see a season where I get to tick all the remaining grounds I haven't visited off my list, play teams I don't normally get to see, and have a chance of winning a league at the end of it. Oh, and meet Bluebeard.

The reality hasn't sunk in yet that it will be a long, hard slog with a part-time team. It's a nightmare trying to get promoted from what is a very competitive First Division and genuinely difficult to go places like Monaghan and Waterford and pick up points. We could be stuck for years down there depending on our luck. Just ask Dundalk fans.