2015 attendances

[Charlie Darwin]

Fenlon has returned the arrogance to Rovers anyway.
We saw how well it's been working out for Dundalk and decided to give it a shot.

[nigel-harps1954]

So, attendances then?

Week 4:

Rovers v Bohs - 5,000
Dundalk v Sligo - 3,021
Galway v Longford - 1,251
Harps v Cobh - 753
Shels v Athlone - 718
Limerick v Pats - 425
Wexford v UCD - 211

Derry v Drogs - ?
Cabinteely v Waterford - not counted yet.
Bray v Cork - ?

[nigel-harps1954]

753 official in Finn Park, to be confirmed for definite though. A total of 2 more paying customers than the first home game, but there were well over 100 free kids tickets so total attendance was around the 900 mark. Hopefully a good result against UCD next weekend will see a big crowd for Athlone game.

[nigel-harps1954]

Anyone able to help with missing attendance figures? While some clubs have been very helpful, others are less than excellent at responding to emails or social media requests.

[El-Pietro]

no idea what the Bray crowd was to be honest - there were maybe 150 City fans there, but I'm not familiar enough wite ground to give a good estimate of the home crowd. Think that was my first visit since we came back up I think.

[dublinwanderer]

no idea what the Bray crowd was to be honest - there were maybe 150 City fans there, but I'm not familiar enough wite ground to give a good estimate of the home crowd. Think that was my first visit since we came back up I think.

Would have said around 500-600 at it. Smallest crowd for us so far and with the results and the way we are playing only going to go 1 way!

[nigel-harps1954]

Cabinteely haven't confirmed their count yet, but initial estimates have it close to 700, according to the club. Will go with 550 for Bray until I get anything more official. Thanks for the help.

[nigel-harps1954]

EDIT:
Week 4: Updated.

PREMIER DIVISION

Bohs - 1,691 (1,395; 1,597; 1,496; 1,488; 1,835; 2,366)
Bray - 981 (718; 891; 965; 1,121; 952; 1,169)
Cork - 3,876(3,777; 1,965; 2,786; 2,128 FD; 1,693 FD; 2,681)
Derry - 1,550(1,106; 1,446; 1,460; 2,135; 1,965 FD; 2,436)
Drogheda - 764 (1,064; 817; 977; 811; 859; 1,106)
Dundalk - 3,369 (2,534; 1,997; 949; 1,355; 1,877; 2,371)
Galway - 1,627 (975 FD)
Limerick - 609(757; 1,649; 734 FD; 569 FD; 598 FD; 429 FD)
Longford - 930 (567 FD; 379 FD; 365 FD; 315 FD; 230 FD; 260 FD)
Pat's - 1,136 (1,386; 1,687; 1,474; 1,346; 1,756; 1,631)
Rovers - 4,661 (2,269; 2,763; 3,127; 3,779; 3,794; 3,611)
Sligo - 2,492 (1,959; 2,342; 3,007; 2,103; 1,807; 1,756)

FIRST DIVISION

Athlone - 340 (653 PD; 754; 271; 200; 354; 462)
Cabinteely - 1,102 (No previous)
Cobh - 301 (223; 439; 2008 - 1,122 PD; 681; 368; 403)
Harps - 752 (449; 479; 429; 433; 644; 480) -
Shels - 723 (713; 1,114 PD; 1,187 PD; 781; 737; 972)
UCD - 294 (397 PD; 487 PD; 506 PD; 558 PD; 610 PD; 272)
Waterford - 542 (470; 478; 453; 466; 619; 434)
Wexford - 374 (331; 227; 302; 216; 343; 494)


PREMIER AVERAGE: 2,037 (1,502; 1,566; 1,630; 1,547; 1,512; 2,010)
FIRST DIVISION AVERAGE: 601 (495; 391; 372; 578; 682; 417)

OVERALL AVERAGE: 1,537 (1,160; 1,140; 1,125; 1,110; 1,095; 1,175)


TOTAL WEEKLY ATTENDANCE: 13,529

OVERALL FIRST ATTENDANCE: 9,615(55,408)
OVERALL PREMIER ATTENDANCE: 61,105 (297,334)

OVERALL COMBINED ATTENDANCE: 70,720 (352,742)

[outspoken]

Longford V Bray - 480 official

[nigel-harps1954]

Longford V Bray - 480 official

Just noticed Extratime.ie have an article with attendances from the midweek fixtures. 420 was given for Longford v Bray, 574 for Drogheda v Limerick.

[D24Saint]

Cabinteely had around 300 for the Waterford match & there was 450 for the Limerick v Pats game.

[toffeejay]

Looking good for the average so far, but perhaps a false representation due to Rovers having quite attractive home fixtures - Pats, Cork and Bohs.

I know its early days but its quite hilarious that Cabinteely have an average higher than Shels and UCD combined.

[nigel-harps1954]

Looking good for the average so far, but perhaps a false representation due to Rovers having quite attractive home fixtures - Pats, Cork and Bohs.

I know its early days but its quite hilarious that Cabinteely have an average higher than Shels and UCD combined.

What'll make a big difference this year is the replacement of Shamrock Rovers B with Cabinteely. Time will tell what the rest will be like, but I can't image the overall average will improve by more than around 200.

What's most encouraging though is the total attendance figure so far. Within two weeks the total attendance figure will rise above 100,000, only 6 weeks into the season. Already, the total attendance is just under 1/5 of last seasons total.

At the same point last season, with each team playing the same amount of games they have this season, replacing Cabinteely with Shamrock B:

Total attendance: 60,696
Premier: 49,189
First: 11,507

Average: 1,319

Higher averages this season from Bray, Derry, Dundalk, Galway, Longford, Shamrock Rovers, Sligo, Cobh, Harps and Wexford. Cabinteely obviously much higher than Shamrock Rovers B, by around 750.

[sulywaterfordfc]

What'll make a big difference this year is the replacement of Shamrock Rovers B with Cabinteely. Time will tell what the rest will be like, but I can't image the overall average will improve by more than around 200.


Cabinteely is a better away trip in general, although you're stood next to the pitch without cover. But there is a somewhat sense of atmosphere given they've a bunch of young lads with a few flags and a drum giving it ago for the 90 minutes. It is much better than been in a soulless Tallaght surrounded by few thousand empty sits with the only noise been from both managers barking orders. Given it was Cabinteely's second home game on the trot there were a reasonably decent crowd there last weekend.

I personally thought there were more at the Cabinteely Blues game then our previous away trip to Wexford (Where just over 500 was the attendance I think), seemed as though more were there and looked as if more people were around three sides of the ground, the bar behind the goal seemed fairly full as well. I thought the Wexford game had less then 500. So on that basis of the Wexford game I'd estimate the attendance was 550-600 for the Cabinteely game.

[Dunny]

1,723 confirmed att. @ Sligo R v Bray W.

[CityRebel]

5,104 at the Cross tonight

[ger121]

1,723 confirmed att. @ Sligo R v Bray W.

You could possibly knock a 1 off that figure for the next home game, if Heary is still around.

[marty]

Some attendence for Cork City....needed a good home display too.

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

1,723 confirmed att. @ Sligo R v Bray W.

Counted 24 (happy) people in the away section. Although there a few more in the main stand.

[The Donie Forde]

Some attendence for Cork City....needed a good home display too.

Actually looked more - St Anne's End about half-full for first time in ages.
Best performance as well since beating Shams by the same score last season, I'd say.

[nigel-harps1954]

Hard to judge Belfield, in the end though, after looking like nobody would turn up, there were maybe 350 there with around 150 of that Harps.

[sulywaterfordfc]

558 in the RSC last night.

Looked as though there were a lot more there. It isn't our highest attendance so far this year but definitely looked like it was. Would of thought 700 there. Good traveling crowd from Shels too must of been a 100 there.

[nigel-harps1954]

Seen a picture of the travelling Shelbourne support on Facebook that looked a hell of a lot more than 100.

Official attendance at UCD v Harps was 204...which is shocking altogether considering there were well over 100 Harps fans there.


Cork v Derry - 5,104
Shamrock Rovers v Galway - 3,298
Sligo v Bray - 1,723
Waterford v Shels - 558
UCD v Finn Harps - 204

Drogheda v Bohs - ?
Athlone v Wexford - ?

[Bawnville Hoop]

Seen a picture of the travelling Shelbourne support on Facebook that looked a hell of a lot more than 100.

Official attendance at UCD v Harps was 204...which is shocking altogether considering there were well over 100 Harps fans there.


Cork v Derry - 5,104
Shamrock Rovers v Galway - 3,298
Sligo v Bray - 1,723
Waterford v Shels - 558
UCD v Finn Harps - 204

Drogheda v Bohs - ?
Athlone v Wexford - ?

Hi Nigel do you mind me asking where you got the Rovers figure, be much appreciated!

BH

[nigel-harps1954]

Hi Nigel do you mind me asking where you got the Rovers figure, be much appreciated!

BH

Seen it posted on Facebook, no idea how accurate it really is yet.

[Longfordian]

Official attendance of 1024 at LTFC-Pats according to the Longford Leader. Maybe 250 Pats in their section I'd say plus a few dotted around the stand I think.

[Dunny]

720 official at Jackman Park tonight for Limerick v Dundalk.About 200 from Dundalk.There was a picket outside the ground before the match by some Lims fans.

[ATFC-1887]

Seen a picture of the travelling Shelbourne support on Facebook that looked a hell of a lot more than 100.

Official attendance at UCD v Harps was 204...which is shocking altogether considering there were well over 100 Harps fans there.


Cork v Derry - 5,104
Shamrock Rovers v Galway - 3,298
Sligo v Bray - 1,723
Waterford v Shels - 558
UCD v Finn Harps - 204

Drogheda v Bohs - ?
Athlone v Wexford - ?

Most reckoned Athlone game was around 700 mark. Not sure myself. Didn't hear an official number announced.

[dundalkfc10]

720 official at Jackman Park tonight for Limerick v Dundalk.About 200 from Dundalk.There was a picket outside the ground before the match by some Lims fans.

Was def more than 200 of us! The away section was packed and their was a good few in the stand

[Lim till i die]

No there wasn't.

Ye brought a bigger crowd than Pats and a smaller crowd than Bohs.

Would have put it at 120 to 150 out of a crowd of 550 to 600. (First time this season i didnt get bored enough to actually count)

[outspoken]

Most reckoned Athlone game was around 700 mark. Not sure myself. Didn't hear an official number announced.

No way in hell was there 700 at that athlone game.

[nigel-harps1954]

Cork v Derry - 5,104
Shamrock Rovers v Galway - 3,298
Sligo v Bray - 1,723
Longford v St Pats - 1,024
Limerick v Dundalk - 720
Waterford v Shels - 558
Cobh v Wexford - 410
UCD v Finn Harps - 204

Athlone v Wexford - 700 est

Drogheda v Bohs - ?

[nigel-harps1954]

Week 5: (Missing Drogheda v Bohs, waiting on official figure from Athlone)

PREMIER DIVISION

Bohs - 1,691 (1,395; 1,597; 1,496; 1,488; 1,835; 2,366)
Bray - 981 (718; 891; 965; 1,121; 952; 1,169)
Cork - 4,285 (3,777; 1,965; 2,786; 2,128 FD; 1,693 FD; 2,681)
Derry - 1,550 (1,106; 1,446; 1,460; 2,135; 1,965 FD; 2,436)
Drogheda - 764 (1,064; 817; 977; 811; 859; 1,106)
Dundalk - 3,369 (2,534; 1,997; 949; 1,355; 1,877; 2,371)
Galway - 1,627 (975 FD)
Limerick - 637 (757; 1,649; 734 FD; 569 FD; 598 FD; 429 FD)
Longford - 961 (567 FD; 379 FD; 365 FD; 315 FD; 230 FD; 260 FD)
Pat's - 1,136 (1,386; 1,687; 1,474; 1,346; 1,756; 1,631)
Rovers - 4,156 (2,269; 2,763; 3,127; 3,779; 3,794; 3,611)
Sligo - 2,300 (1,959; 2,342; 3,007; 2,103; 1,807; 1,756)

FIRST DIVISION

Athlone - 520 (653 PD; 754; 271; 200; 354; 462)
Cabinteely - 1,102 (No previous)
Cobh - 337 (223; 439; 2008 - 1,122 PD; 681; 368; 403)
Harps - 752 (449; 479; 429; 433; 644; 480) -
Shels - 723 (713; 1,114 PD; 1,187 PD; 781; 737; 972)
UCD - 264 (397 PD; 487 PD; 506 PD; 558 PD; 610 PD; 272)
Waterford - 542 (470; 478; 453; 466; 619; 434)
Wexford - 374 (331; 227; 302; 216; 343; 494)


PREMIER AVERAGE: 2,066 (1,502; 1,566; 1,630; 1,547; 1,512; 2,010)
FIRST DIVISION AVERAGE: 574 (495; 391; 372; 578; 682; 417)

OVERALL AVERAGE: 1,524 (1,160; 1,140; 1,125; 1,110; 1,095; 1,175)


TOTAL WEEKLY ATTENDANCE: 13,041

OVERALL FIRST ATTENDANCE: 11,487 (55,408)
OVERALL PREMIER ATTENDANCE: 72,315(297,334)

OVERALL COMBINED ATTENDANCE: 83,802(352,742)

[donnrua]

I have noticed in recent years a drop off in the numbers of youngsters at games and wondered if it's time for clubs to consider letting children under a certain age let's say under 14's in for free. As the old saying goes "get them young and you have them for life"? Just a thought, it's not as if the grounds are full!

[nigel-harps1954]

I have noticed in recent years a drop off in the numbers of youngsters at games and wondered if it's time for clubs to consider letting children under a certain age let's say under 14's in for free. As the old saying goes "get them young and you have them for life"? Just a thought, it's not as if the grounds are full!


Harps do this already. Over 100 children in for free at both home games so far this season not included in attendance figures. Half the seating section is dedicated to schools and underage sports teams around the county each game.

[donnrua]

Good idea out of Harps. A pity other clubs don't follow their example. I was at Jackman Park Saturday night and there was a very noticeable lack of youngsters at the game. One punter said that he had 3 kids that wanted to come to the game but he couldn't afford to bring them as he was out of work. I asked him how old they were and was told that they were 5, 8 and 9 and the club was charging a fiver per child. In a league that's in need it does seem short-sighted of clubs to charge admission for children.

[Pablo Escobar]

I have noticed in recent years a drop off in the numbers of youngsters at games and wondered if it's time for clubs to consider letting children under a certain age let's say under 14's in for free. As the old saying goes "get them young and you have them for life"? Just a thought, it's not as if the grounds are full!
We have loads and loads of kids going to games anyway.

[bluewhitearmy]

Clearly the only approach to take is to ban anyone that swears at a game only way families will ever come to games.

[osarusan]

One of the stewards mentioned 184 tickets for the Dundalk section.

[Macy]

In the past, I know there's been issues with "kids free" being abused though, with lots dropped with no accompanying adult.

I also know members of our committee did a lot of work on a kids free promotion, with minimal uptake for the effort.

[oriel]

Dundalk gave out 500 free season tickets for primary schools kids for the second year running this season. The move appears to be working well as they obviously need to be accompanied by a paying adult, and there seems to be a lot more kids at games this season. Overall ST sales not including these 500, exceeded just over 1,000. This is the highest level ever. Then again there was rarely a better goodwill feel about the club having won the league. After 3 home games crowds are up by around 800 on 2014. Just a pity the facilities are not better, but hopefully they will improve over the next few years.

Kids tickets are very important to any club, even without the free tickets, it's only €5 in for an under 12 in oriel park, that's pretty good value.

[Nesta99]

In the past, I know there's been issues with "kids free" being abused though, with lots dropped with no accompanying adult.


Or in Dundalk where adults tried the free primary school ticket to get in unaccompanied by a child!? Chancers..

[oriel]

I heard about this, think it was in our game v Pats, adults trying to use child ST to get it, was only a few people but disgraceful carry on all the same.

[D24Saint]

The problem with free kids tickets is that the clubs have to be strict on a accompanying adult otherwise it attracts a schooligan element, their should be a strategy put in place at league level for clubs to attract more family's.

[GypsyBlackCat]

Cork v Derry - 5,104
Shamrock Rovers v Galway - 3,298
Sligo v Bray - 1,723
Longford v St Pats - 1,024
Limerick v Dundalk - 720
Waterford v Shels - 558
Cobh v Wexford - 410
UCD v Finn Harps - 204

Athlone v Wexford - 700 est

Drogheda v Bohs - ?

Drogheda v Bohs was about 1,100. That was according to someone who works on the gate at United Park.

[MeathDrog]

Drogheda v Bohs was about 1,100. That was according to someone who works on the gate at United Park.

About that alright.

[nigel-harps1954]

Drogheda v Bohs official was 1,226

[nigel-harps1954]

Update from Week 5:

PREMIER DIVISION

Bohs - 1,691 (1,395; 1,597; 1,496; 1,488; 1,835; 2,366)
Bray - 981 (718; 891; 965; 1,121; 952; 1,169)
Cork - 4,285 (3,777; 1,965; 2,786; 2,128 FD; 1,693 FD; 2,681)
Derry - 1,550 (1,106; 1,446; 1,460; 2,135; 1,965 FD; 2,436)
Drogheda - 918 (1,064; 817; 977; 811; 859; 1,106)
Dundalk - 3,369 (2,534; 1,997; 949; 1,355; 1,877; 2,371)
Galway - 1,627 (975 FD)
Limerick - 637 (757; 1,649; 734 FD; 569 FD; 598 FD; 429 FD)
Longford - 961 (567 FD; 379 FD; 365 FD; 315 FD; 230 FD; 260 FD)
Pat's - 1,136 (1,386; 1,687; 1,474; 1,346; 1,756; 1,631)
Rovers - 3,645 (2,269; 2,763; 3,127; 3,779; 3,794; 3,611)
Sligo - 2,300 (1,959; 2,342; 3,007; 2,103; 1,807; 1,756)

FIRST DIVISION

Athlone - 520 (653 PD; 754; 271; 200; 354; 462)
Cabinteely - 1,102 (No previous)
Cobh - 370 (223; 439; 2008 - 1,122 PD; 681; 368; 403)
Harps - 752 (449; 479; 429; 433; 644; 480) -
Shels - 723 (713; 1,114 PD; 1,187 PD; 781; 737; 972)
UCD - 264 (397 PD; 487 PD; 506 PD; 558 PD; 610 PD; 272)
Waterford - 547 (470; 478; 453; 466; 619; 434)
Wexford - 374 (331; 227; 302; 216; 343; 494)


PREMIER AVERAGE: 1,986 (1,502; 1,566; 1,630; 1,547; 1,512; 2,010)
FIRST DIVISION AVERAGE: 579 (495; 391; 372; 578; 682; 417)

OVERALL AVERAGE: 1,484 (1,160; 1,140; 1,125; 1,110; 1,095; 1,175)


TOTAL WEEKLY ATTENDANCE: 13,997

OVERALL FIRST ATTENDANCE: 11,584 (55,408)
OVERALL PREMIER ATTENDANCE: 71,499 (297,334)

OVERALL COMBINED ATTENDANCE: 83,083 (352,742)[/QUOTE]

[GCdfc]

3457 announced in Orie park tonight

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

1,762 in Galway