2011 attendances

[pineapple stu]

Back by popular/unpopular (delete as appropriate) demand, and another sign that football is only a short trip up the country away. I expect Fingal's departure should remove at least half the rows in this thread.

Here's how we finished up last season -


PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 1,835 (2009 - 2,366; 2008 - 1,993; 2007 - 1,924; 2006 - 1,463; 2005 - 1,976) (missing Sligo 2)
Bray - 952 (1,169; 1,106; 1,200; 1,027; 1,550)
Drogheda - 859 (1,106; 1,631; 1,919; 1,751; 1,682)
Dundalk - 1,877 (2,371; 1,459 FD; 1,406 FD; 1,078 FD; 474 FD)
Galway - 869 (1,076; 1,393; 2,199; 1,148 FD; 566 FD)
Pat's - 1,756 (1,631; 1,795; 1,910; 1,342; 1,599)
Rovers - 3,794 (3,611; 1,468; 1,715; 1,089 FD; 1,539) (missing Fingal 2)
Sligo - 1,807 (1,756; 1,960; 1,448; 1,806; 1,794 FD)
Sporting Fingal - 908 (635 FD; 688 FD)
UCD - 610 (272 FD; 546; 663; 546; 653; 306 FD)

FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 354 (462; 387; 670; 421; 316)
Cork - 1,693 (2,681 PD; 3,142 PD; 2,897 PD; 2,941 PD; 3,644 PD)
Derry - 1,965 (2,436 PD; 3,363 PD; 2,614 PD; 3,229 PD; 2,698 PD)
Harps - 644 (480; 1,607 PD; 1,164; 428; 1,347 PD; 1,106) (missing Limerick 2)
Limerick - 598 (429; 517; 670; 364; 669)
Longford - 230 (260; 406; 885 PD; 681 PD; 1,004 PD) (missing Derry 2 and Shels 2)
Mervue - 123 (166) (missing Monaghan 2, Shels and Salthill 2)
Monaghan - 410 (183; 177; 292; 204; 183) (missing Athlone 2, Limerick 2, Longford 2, Mervue, Salthill and Shels)
Salthill Devon - 122 (N/A) (missing Derry 2, Mervue and Monaghan 2)
Shels - 737 (972; 986; 888; 1,690 PD; 1,949 PD)
Waterford - 619 (434; 670; 1,181 PD; 915 PD; 1,513 PD)
Wexford - 343 (494; 767; 810) (missing Monaghan 2 and Salthill 2)

Premier Division average - 1,512 (2,010; 1,746; 1,687; 1,535; 1,759)
First Division average - 682 (417; 641; 722; 570; 520)

Overall average - 1,095 (1,175; 1,221; 1,235; 1,070; 1,195)

[peadar1987]

Forget the Star guide, the official launch, or physically going through any turnstiles, you only know the season's really started when Pineapple Stu's Attendance thread appears on foot.ie!

Bring on Bohs!

[micls]

2102 at the Cross

[Dunny]

5400 in Tallaght according to RTE

[Doomofman]

5400 in Tallaght according to RTE

I doubt that... I'd have said more like 4,500 or so...

1,512 in Terryland

[Paddyfield]

1,512 in Terryland.

(Slightly under 500 Season Tickets sold according to a local newspaper)

[The Lep]

Decent turnout for the first night.

[Ezeikial]

I expect Fingal's departure should remove at least half the rows in this thread.


I'm absolutely adamant that there were 5 Fingal fans in Tallaght tonight, 3 in Bray, and 9 in Drogheda. Where the heck were the other 2?

[The Lep]

Did you take that from last years thread ?

[Spudulika]

Rte would have been pretty on the money, more than 5,000.

[TheBoss]

Premier Division
Shamrock Rovers v Dundalk -> 5,263 (ET.ie, AL.ie)
Bray Wanderers v Bohemians -> 2,500 est (ET.ie)
Derry City v Sligo Rovers -> almost 4,000 (RTE.ie, AL.ie)
Drogheda United v UCD -> 650 est (ET.ie)
Galway United v St Patrick's Athletic -> 1,512 (Et.ie, RTE.ie)

First Division
Cork City v Wexford Youths -> 2,149 (Et.ie)

Et.ie -> http://www.extratime.ie (http://www.extratime.ie/)
RTE.ie -> http://www.rte.ie/mns
AL.ie -> http://www.airtricityleague.ie (http://www.airtricityleague.ie/)

[bullit]

Bray Wanderers v Bohemians -> 2,500 est (ET.ie)
Bumper crowd for Bray and all round the numbers look good,happy days.

[dfx-]

Rovers - 3,794 (3,611; 1,468; 1,715; 1,089 FD; 1,539) (missing Fingal 2)

I'm afraid all recollections, records and video evidence of that game have been expunged

5,300 I thought tonight, RTE saying 5400 I think.

[de bowez]

Bumper crowd for Bray and all round the numbers look good,happy days.

Biggest crowd Bohs have brought to Bray in a good while and seemed to be some sort of Bray - Joeys linkup day with medals awarded at ht and anyone in Joeys gear getting in free.

[Rasputin]

Massive crowd in Derry.
Alot of Rovers fans up there, missed the first 10 minutes of the game queing for tickets.
Do Derry have the official away attendance?

[pineapple stu]

I heard the Cork game was held up 15 minutes to allow the crowd to get in? That's not a particularly big crowd though; what happened last night?

[sligored]

Great occasion in derry - derry have great fans - ridiculous about 1000 fans queing for 2 holes in the wall to buy tickets 45 minutes before the match. Was hoping for a quick pint but that was scuppered by a 25 minute queue.
I dont mind paying 15 euro in but charging a tenner for my 7 year old kid was over the top. Considering it is 20 euro for him for the season in the showgrounds and that gets into 18 games.
And we are trying to get kids to league matches.
And to finish my rant we were stuck in that dreadful Section A in the corner with the worst view of a football match bar none in the league.
Derry , sort out the match experience - ye are back in the premier league so start treating away fans properly.
I await other fans experiences before deciding if i go back.

[Strawberry]

Great occasion in derry - derry have great fans - ridiculous about 1000 fans queing for 2 holes in the wall to buy tickets 45 minutes before the match. Was hoping for a quick pint but that was scuppered by a 25 minute queue.
I dont mind paying 15 euro in but charging a tenner for my 7 year old kid was over the top. Considering it is 20 euro for him for the season in the showgrounds and that gets into 18 games.
And we are trying to get kids to league matches.
And to finish my rant we were stuck in that dreadful Section A in the corner with the worst view of a football match bar none in the league.
Derry , sort out the match experience - ye are back in the premier league so start treating away fans properly.
I await other fans experiences before deciding if i go back.

I'd agree about the ticket selling but you cant really complain about away fans been given the worst seats in the house as I'm sure it will be a bit of a squash for Shams fans in the away section at the showgrounds next week.

[Dave_SRFC]

I doubt that... I'd have said more like 4,500 or so...

1,512 in Terryland

Where you at both grounds?

[oriel]

An average of 2,785 for the PD last night, obviously helped by Rovers and Derry but still an excellent start for the league after the usual crisis and doom and gloom pre season. Even higher if Cork were in PD.

A great start !

[Rasputin]

Great occasion in derry - derry have great fans - ridiculous about 1000 fans queing for 2 holes in the wall to buy tickets 45 minutes before the match. Was hoping for a quick pint but that was scuppered by a 25 minute queue.
I dont mind paying 15 euro in but charging a tenner for my 7 year old kid was over the top. Considering it is 20 euro for him for the season in the showgrounds and that gets into 18 games.
And we are trying to get kids to league matches.
And to finish my rant we were stuck in that dreadful Section A in the corner with the worst view of a football match bar none in the league.
Derry , sort out the match experience - ye are back in the premier league so start treating away fans properly.
I await other fans experiences before deciding if i go back.
The ticket scenario was a joke, I was queing for about half an hour aswell but to be fair we are no better in that regaurd.
As for the view well there is not much Derry can do about that, they can hardly lump us in the middle of the stand and if we were put in the jungle side then people would be complaining about being left open to the elements.

[Dodge]

An average of 2,785 for the PD last night, obviously helped by Rovers and Derry but still an excellent start for the league after the usual crisis and doom and gloom pre season. Even higher if Cork were in PD.

A great start !

We nearly always have great starts. its keping th feckers coming thats the problem

[Strawberry]

We nearly always have great starts. its keping th feckers coming thats the problem

Should be another big crowd in the showgrounds for the shams game next week.

[Sam_Heggy]

About 700 at the Harps game last night imo. I'll post official figure when I get it.

[gael353]

About 700 at the Harps game last night imo. I'll post official figure when I get it.


was that with the freebie schoolkids in the second half? first half there was less then 300 people there

[nigel-harps1954]

My guess is about 550. Not a hope it was 300 gael353. We had less than what was there last night all of last season when each game was averaging out at about 480. There was definitely less than 700, no less than 500. Those schoolkids aren't counted, unless they pay at the start.

[Sam_Heggy]

Official attendace for Harps v Limerick 504.

[micls]

I heard the Cork game was held up 15 minutes to allow the crowd to get in? That's not a particularly big crowd though; what happened last night?

Happened a few times last season too. Our fans, particularly the non regulars have the very annoying habit of all turning up 5 minutes before kick off.

[sheao]

Happened a few times last season too. Our fans, particularly the non regulars have the very annoying habit of all turning up 5 minutes before kick off.

In a way its a good problem to have .

[gael353]

Official attendace for Harps v Limerick 504.

looks like you were closer then me with my estimate then. second half the crowd was well up on the first

[geezer]

aproxx 280 guestimate

[Darkglasses]

Great to see a big increase at the Salthill game.

[avvenalaf]

I'd agree about the ticket selling but you cant really complain about away fans been given the worst seats in the house as I'm sure it will be a bit of a squash for Shams fans in the away section at the showgrounds next week.

The Shams fans will have the entire Jinks' Ave. stand to themselves next week. Could not believe what i was seeing in Derry last night. We arrived an hour before kick off to find the ground closed and then watched for ten minutes as a guy tried to open the steel door in a turnstile. Were then told to go somewhere else to buy a ticket where we had to queue for twenty minutes. Did the news that the season was starting only get to Derry yesterday afternoon? Left a terrible impression of the way the club is going to be run.

[Aaron]

Great occasion in derry - derry have great fans - ridiculous about 1000 fans queing for 2 holes in the wall to buy tickets 45 minutes before the match. Was hoping for a quick pint but that was scuppered by a 25 minute queue.
I dont mind paying 15 euro in but charging a tenner for my 7 year old kid was over the top. Considering it is 20 euro for him for the season in the showgrounds and that gets into 18 games.
And we are trying to get kids to league matches.
And to finish my rant we were stuck in that dreadful Section A in the corner with the worst view of a football match bar none in the league.
Derry , sort out the match experience - ye are back in the premier league so start treating away fans properly.
I await other fans experiences before deciding if i go back.

Worrying about away fans match-day view is the least of our worries at the min. H&S have decided to take it upon themselves to reduce the seated stand to 1700, closing off 700 seats. Thats major loss of revenue for us. No reason has been given for this either. Also the wall at the other side of the ground has been declared unsafe and could fall over any time.

The Council are a complete and utter disgrace, but not unexpected from those running the council here

[bullit]

H&S up North is just a crazy situation :shock: They have seats closed in a lot of IFA grounds for no logical reasons .

[Aaron]

Its ridiculous. The stand at the Brandywell is not that old, I just fail to see where H&S have declared part of it unfit?

[peadar1987]

Great to see a big increase at the Salthill game.

Especially with a game at Terryland the same night.

[srfc1928]

Missed the first 15 to 20 minutes of the game in the brandywell.
Eventually they opened the big yellow gates on the opposite side to the main stand.
A couple of guys on the gate snapping the money out of our hands.
Around 200 Rovers ended up on that side of the ground
Couldnt get into the away section.
It was annoying to miss kick off but it was an enjoyable night out all the same.

[oriel]

Its ridiculous. The stand at the Brandywell is not that old, I just fail to see where H&S have declared part of it unfit?

Is this the main stand, running almost all one side ? Nothing wrong with that when I was last up or from tv photos, I`d know what I`d tell the council to do......................

[Quayman]

Especially with a game at Terryland the same night.

Where the two matches on separate nights??? Terryland on Friday and Salthill last night.

[geezer]

the crowd was half and half Mervue & Salthill as well as it was a town derby, Mervue would have a better chance of bigger crowds i would say but we will see next saturday when they play cork at home. Very disappointed that no match programme even if a team sheet was available, makes you wonder with all the licence lark how much the people who run the game really understand the importance of a team sheet match programme to the regular punters that pay in.

Also GUFC and Connacht rugby were competing against each other on friday night for punters. The venues are barely a mile apart

[Longfordian]

About 700 in Flancare I'd say. Quite a big Shels crowd, 250-300 of them maybe.

[Terry]

Also GUFC and Connacht rugby were competing against each other on friday night for punters. The venues are barely a mile apart

there was an estimate of 2000 at the rugby match on friday, with no rugby match when we next play at home, I will expect our attendance to increase even if the match will be against UCD.

[born2bwild]

I'm absolutely adamant that there were 5 Fingal fans in Tallaght tonight, 3 in Bray, and 9 in Drogheda. Where the heck were the other 2?
I was in Tallaght...so was R Finn's Da...I was talking to him...who were the other 3?

[born2bwild]

I saw three matches this weekend and it was only watching liverpool that the following facts and questions occurred to me:
1. The population of the Liverpool Urban Area is 816,216 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Urban_Area all of my facts come from wikipedia)
2. The combined capacity of Anfield and Goodison is 85,000.
3. Even if Anfield and Goodison are 3/4 full (63,750) and if only half of that number is from liverpool (31, 875) that makes an attendance rate of 3.9% of the population of liverpool attending premier league football.
4. The population of Greater Dublin is 1,045,769 and 3.9% of that is 40, 784.
Demographically, culturally, Liverpool and Dublin are quite similar. 40,784 divided up between the five Dublin Area clubs is 8,000 each. Why isn't this happening? How can it be achieved? :ball2:

[Lim till i die]

culturally, Liverpool and Dublin are quite similar.

I agree, both Liverpool and Dublin have huge traditions of success in Gaelic Games and football at the European level.







No, wait.........

[born2bwild]

I take your point: football in liverpool doesn't have the GAA to compete with and the LOI has never been within an ass's roar of the group stages of European competition.
So you've answered my first question but that was the easy one.
When I talked about the similarities between liverpool and Dublin I was thinking about the following: both have large urban, working class populations and this is where support for football is rooted. The GAA isn't so ingrained in Dublin that it cannot be taken on and beaten. Look how Shams faced down Na Fianna.
My second question, rephrased is: 40,000 per week at games in place like Dublin is possible - how can we make it a reality? By the way, I'm really talking about anywhere in Ireland where football can be popularised - not just Dublin. There is a football loving public out there - stand in the arrivals hall on a Saturday night in the airport and you'll see people who are going to crazy lengths to watch 22 blokes kicking a ball around.

[Schumi]

I was in Tallaght...so was R Finn's Da...I was talking to himHe doesn't give you much choice does he? :)

[nigel-harps1954]

Premier Division
Shamrock Rovers v Dundalk -> 5,263 (ET.ie, AL.ie)
Bray Wanderers v Bohemians -> 2,500 est (ET.ie)
Derry City v Sligo Rovers -> almost 4,000 (RTE.ie, AL.ie)
Drogheda United v UCD -> 650 est (ET.ie)
Galway United v St Patrick's Athletic -> 1,512 (Et.ie, RTE.ie)

First Division
Cork City v Wexford Youths -> 2,149 (Et.ie)

Et.ie -> http://www.extratime.ie (http://www.extratime.ie/)
RTE.ie -> http://www.rte.ie/mns
AL.ie -> http://www.airtricityleague.ie (http://www.airtricityleague.ie/)


Some very decent attendances there and if that trend can be kept up for most of the season we could be looking at the highest averages in years.

[horton]

I saw three matches this weekend and it was only watching liverpool that the following facts and questions occurred to me:
1. The population of the Liverpool Urban Area is 816,216 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Urban_Area all of my facts come from wikipedia)
2. The combined capacity of Anfield and Goodison is 85,000.
3. Even if Anfield and Goodison are 3/4 full (63,750) and if only half of that number is from liverpool (31, 875) that makes an attendance rate of 3.9% of the population of liverpool attending premier league football.
4. The population of Greater Dublin is 1,045,769 and 3.9% of that is 40, 784.
Demographically, culturally, Liverpool and Dublin are quite similar. 40,784 divided up between the five Dublin Area clubs is 8,000 each. Why isn't this happening? How can it be achieved? :ball2:
According to Wikipedia, the population of Derrys urban area is 85,016. 3.9% of that (if my calculator is right) is 3316. Last season we were in the 1st Division so naturally that reduced our gates. In previous years our avg. gates were : 2,436 PD; 3,363 PD; 2,614 PD; 3,229 PD; 2,698 PD. which isn't to bad on its own. It looks a darn sight better when you remember that being a divided town, some parts of the city would never consider going near the Brandywell and would support Institute(IL) out in Drumahoe for their fix of local football. I don't know what Institutes avg. gate is but they are getting stadium work done ahead of us so they must be doing something right.:mad: