Attendances 2019

[Paulgufc]

438 in Athlone. More than 100 Utd fans

[David BOHie]

2968 in Dalyer tonight vs UCD. Cracking crowd it must be said. 1100 tickets for Rovers game too

[Candystripe]

3,900 at the Brandywell I would estimate.

[ForzaForth]

305 at Wexford v Cabinteely

[White Horse]

3,900 at the Brandywell I would estimate.

Great numbers going to watch Derry. The club should get on to Arlene to spent some of the Tory "cash for votes" money on extending the new stand.

[EatYerGreens]

Great numbers going to watch Derry. The club should get on to Arlene to spent some of the Tory "cash for votes" money on extending the new stand.

There's £32m available to spend on club football stadia in NI.

But without a working Stormont, no-one can access it.

[oriel]

2,616 announced at Dundalk v Harps. A good few seemed surprised as it looked just over 3k.

[marinobohs]

With 1100 northsiders over on Tuesday you can count on the full riot squad/ public order division being there as well as the shoplifting and pickpocket squads being out :)

And thats just for home fans 😁

[Martinho II]

saw it online that only 130 fans attended cobh ramblers longford town game last night!

[Jack B]

Don't know and haven't seen any official figures, but the crowd looked pretty bad for us vs Sligo on Friday. I'd say about 1300 ish.

[EatYerGreens]

saw it online that only 130 fans attended cobh ramblers longford town game last night!

It had been estimated at 350 though ?

[outspoken]

It had been estimated at 350 though ?
Don't know where Martinho has got that figure from. I've been in Cobh previously where you'd wonder if there was even 100 in the ground but on Saturday there was a nice crowd in the main stand. 350 sounds right to me.

[oriel]

Read something over the weekend, the average in the 5 PD games on Friday was 2,700. I’m almost sure the average running total for last season was just over 2k.

In comparison, the season average for the Irish League prem was 1,090 last season.

[marinobohs]

Read something over the weekend, the average in the 5 PD games on Friday was 2,700. I’m almost sure the average running total for last season was just over 2k.

In comparison, the season average for the Irish League prem was 1,090 last season.
Definite increase in crowds this year. Great to see and hopefully will continue. Bigger crowds encourage more people into grounds (and people bringing friends etc) also acts as an attraction for tourists which all adds up to bigger crowds which......
Great also to see a big increase in the number of tourists visiting grounds. Some clubs have marketed well and deserve credit for it.

[Nesta99]

There is that feeling of LoI being trendy or something. It doesnt get near the lambasting from the barstooler types. Id like to think the catalyst was Dundalk's European game and determination to not change the style of fooball. Obviously there is the community work at Bohs and Im sure other clubs have their initiatives. What is great to see on TV is the packed Jodi Stand and the Dalymount roar when a goal is scored - the impression is very good (as long as the camera doesnt pan around to the dugout side...

[Martinho II]

It had been estimated at 350 though ?

I saw it on the Shannonside match report but I stand corrected!

[ToberonaTornado]

1176 UCD V Dundalk/

[oriel]

I couldn't go today but I heard the away support was around 700-800. Seems very high, others who went might have a better opinion.

[joey B]

659 poor souls at Finn Park

[Nesta99]

I couldn't go today but I heard the away support was around 700-800. Seems very high, others who went might have a better opinion.

I thought there was about 1170 Dundalk fans and the 6 UCD fans there:p

There were a good few 'neutrals' (Rovers fans mainly) out on a pleasant bank holiday day. I'd have put the Dundalk support more at the 5-600, as I dont think the stand was half full of Dundalk fans and ye dont get the same amount of fans dotted about at UCD as you would in say Dalymount where there could be away fans in the Des Kelly and some in the Jodi Stand. That said, I usually try and take a walk behind a goal or opposite side to get and idea of the crowd at games but didn today. With the weather being good most Dundalk fans were in one of the uncovered wings of the stand or standing at the pitchside.

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

2302 in Turners Cross

[ger121]

2302 in Turners Cross

No resurrection from the Cross for JC.

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

Don't know and haven't seen any official figures, but the crowd looked pretty bad for us vs Sligo on Friday. I'd say about 1300 ish.

Think they said 1548 on Soccer Republic

[trevy]

1649 at the RSC yesterday.

[passinginterest]

I'd say over 6,000 in Tallaght. Maybe 6,500.

[red bellied]

1100 Bohs there. Seems a lot more comparing the crowd to what Dundalk brought judging from the pictures on tv.

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

Oh lets not start the argument about how many Dundalk brought to Tallaght again!

[ToberonaTornado]

6414 tonight in Tallaght. record league attendance according to those who know.

[Ezeikial]

Oh lets not start the argument about how many Dundalk brought to Tallaght again!

The argument was more about the appallingly slow reactions of the stewards and AGS in dealing with an overcrowding safety issue. The understated numbers claimed by some Rovers heads was just a red herring

[EatYerGreens]

6414 tonight in Tallaght. record league attendance according to those who know.

Unless those who know are talking solely about Tallaght Stadium, then they're talking out of their collective arses :D

[ToberonaTornado]

Unless those who know are talking solely about Tallaght Stadium, then they're talking out of their collective arses :D

For Tallaght i meant to add.

[passinginterest]

Yeah, it was announced as a league attendance record for Tallaght stadium. Hopefully it'll be broken again this season. The potential is definitely there, it's a credit to SDCC that they've continued to push with the development and turned it into a great community venue, with Rovers as the anchor.

[nigel-harps1954]

Expect sporadic updates this season. Any issues PM me.

PREMIER DIVISION

Bohs - 3,210 (2,148; 2,006; 1,627; 1,724; 1,395; 1,597; 1,496; 1,488)
Cork - 3,038 (4,245; 4,559; 2,533; 3,263; 3,777; 1,965; 2,786; 2,128 FD)
Derry - 3,560 (2,297; 1,517; 1,563; 1,124; 1,106; 1,446; 1,460; 2,135)
Dundalk - 2,961 (2,738; 2,674; 2,738; 3,158; 2,534; 1,997; 949; 1,355)
Harps - 1,420 (708 FD; 1,202; 1,216; 784 FD; 449 FD; 479 FD; 429 FD; 433 FD; 644 FD)
Pat's - 2,374 (1,621; 1,504; 1,088; 1,321; 1,386; 1,687; 1,474; 1,346)
Rovers - 3,707 (2,749; 2,809; 2,041; 2,890; 2,269; 2,763; 3,127; 3,779)
Sligo - 2,158 (1,853; 1,717; 1,750; 1,750; 1,959; 2,342; 3,007; 2,103)
Waterford - 2,473 (2,329; 1,550 FD; 314 FD; 460 FD; 470 FD; 478 FD; 453 FD; 466 FD)
UCD - 806 (365 FD; 236 FD; 297 FD; 216 FD; 397; 487; 506; 558; 610)

FIRST DIVISION

Athlone - 518 (130; 154; 156; 314; 653 PD; 754; 271; 200)
Bray - 978 (643 PD; 966 PD; 957 PD; 769 PD; 718 PD; 891 PD; 965 PD; 1,121 PD)
Cabinteely - 430 (261; 346; 352; 610)
Cobh - 307 (236; 358; 403; 366; 223; 439; 2008 - 1,122 PD; 681)
Drogheda - 564 (377; 850 PD; 583; 813 PD; 1,064 PD; 817 PD; 977 PD; 811 PD)
Galway - 1,115 (746; 1,376 PD; 1,169 PD; 1,290 PD; 975)
Limerick - 564 (931 PD; 1,610 PD; 1,131; 1,206 PD; 757 PD; 1,649 PD; 734; 569)
Longford - 641 (449; 342; 488 PD; 803 PD; 567; 379; 365; 315)
Shels - 945 (654; 496; 554; 596; 713; 1,114 PD; 1,187 PD; 781)
Wexford - 264 (181; 338; 585 PD; 553; 331; 227; 302; 216)

PREMIER AVERAGE: 2,515 (2,170; 1,902; 1,476; 1,681; 1,502; 1,566; 1,630; 1,547)
FIRST DIVISION AVERAGE: 627 (413; 477; 476; 486; 495; 391; 372; 578)

OVERALL AVERAGE: 1,724 (1,249; 1,387; 1,117; 1,249; 1,160; 1,140; 1,125; 1,110)


OVERALL PREMIER ATTENDANCE: 153,388 (316,515; 376,627; 292,204; 332,805; 297,334)
OVERALL FIRST ATTENDANCE: 27,598 (55,756; 53,461; 52,807; 54,474; 55,408)

OVERALL COMBINED ATTENDANCE: 180,986 (372,271; 430,088; 345,011; 387,279; 352,742)

[EatYerGreens]

Excellent stuff Nigel.

I've started keeping a spreadsheet of the attendances too now and was going to chip in the figures over the next few days if you hadn't had the chance. Happy to stand back, or to lend you a hand on it all - whichever you fancy, as it's your baby.

Thanks again for posting the above. Some really encouraging figures in there.

[Eminence Grise]

Some impressive increases there. When you think that Bray and Shels are a sniff away from 1,000 average in the FD and Galway are well over that, and Dundalk are a whisker off the PD having four teams averaging over 3k there's something positive happening. Great to see, and long may it continue. Cork's the aberration, though. Artificial high in previous seasons, or results and style of play not holding fans?

[RathfarnhamHoop]

6414 tonight in Tallaght. record league attendance according to those who know.

That must be worth about €60,000 to the club in ticket sales roughly? 4,500-5,000 non season ticket holders at an average of €12 a ticket works out at €54,000-60,000. Before you add everything that comes with extra people in the ground, both income and expenses, that's not bad.

[El-Pietro]

Some impressive increases there. When you think that Bray and Shels are a sniff away from 1,000 average in the FD and Galway are well over that, and Dundalk are a whisker off the PD having four teams averaging over 3k there's something positive happening. Great to see, and long may it continue. Cork's the aberration, though. Artificial high in previous seasons, or results and style of play not holding fans?
Huh? We were winning for several seasons with very high attendances. Now we're not winning, attendances are lower. Look at Rovers crowds for the last four or five years, they were low. Now they are winning and so their crowds are high.

People like winning teams.

[nigel-harps1954]

That must be worth about €60,000 to the club in ticket sales roughly? 4,500-5,000 non season ticket holders at an average of €12 a ticket works out at €54,000-60,000. Before you add everything that comes with extra people in the ground, both income and expenses, that's not bad.

After expenses, you'd imagine it's somewhere closer to €35k-€40k. Still mightly impressive income for one game.

[EatYerGreens]

After expenses, you'd imagine it's somewhere closer to €35k-€40k. Still mightly impressive income for one game.

Don't forget also the other matchday revenue - food, drink, merchandise, programmes etc.

Could've been more still if they'd let Bohs have extra tickets.

I don't see why they didn't try and maximise the revenue that way.

[RathfarnhamHoop]

Don't forget also the other matchday revenue - food, drink, merchandise, programmes etc.

Could've been more still if they'd let Bohs have extra tickets.

I don't see why they didn't try and maximise the revenue that way.

The Guards set 1,100 as the max. The whole ground was still packed bar the buffer between fans in the east stand and some seats in the Rovers section in the east stand

[Shearer]

Some impressive increases there. When you think that Bray and Shels are a sniff away from 1,000 average in the FD and Galway are well over that, and Dundalk are a whisker off the PD having four teams averaging over 3k there's something positive happening. Great to see, and long may it continue. Cork's the aberration, though. Artificial high in previous seasons, or results and style of play not holding fans?
Galway's is decreasing slowly and will be outside 1K soon

[Nesta99]

Some impressive increases there. When you think that Bray and Shels are a sniff away from 1,000 average in the FD and Galway are well over that, and Dundalk are a whisker off the PD having four teams averaging over 3k there's something positive happening. Great to see, and long may it continue. Cork's the aberration, though. Artificial high in previous seasons, or results and style of play not holding fans?
If Dundalk could add an average of 40 it would be 5 teams averaging over 3000, rather than 4. There is the feeling of somthing happening, sustaining it is the challange. If some of those averages were given as % of safe holding capacity they would look even better in some cases.

[Eminence Grise]

Huh? We were winning for several seasons with very high attendances. Now we're not winning, attendances are lower. Look at Rovers crowds for the last four or five years, they were low. Now they are winning and so their crowds are high.

People like winning teams.

That's what I was was trying to get at, albeit I accept not very clearly. If 3k is your solid base, but you can get 4k+ regularly, the challenge (for every club, this isn't pointing fingers at Cork) is to see if the artificial high can become the norm. Hopefully numbers'll go back up again soon.


Galway's is decreasing slowly and will be outside 1K soon

That's a pity. You need to get Michael D on the case!

[RathfarnhamHoop]

Huh? We were winning for several seasons with very high attendances. Now we're not winning, attendances are lower. Look at Rovers crowds for the last four or five years, they were low. Now they are winning and so their crowds are high.

People like winning teams.

Corks attendances aren't actually that bad in the grand scheme of the league, it's just that in comparison to previous seasons they're poor and this season attendances are higher than normal so they look bad but for a team, and I don't think Cork fans will mind me saying this, performing pretty poorly and 7th in the league their current average would still be the highest average last season so it's not all doom and gloom. I'd be worried if they dropped any more though.

[red bellied]

What's the capacity now for tallaght after the new stand being added?

[nigel-harps1954]

8,000 seems to be what most media outlets went with at the time it was opening. Haven't seen any official capacity figure anywhere though.

[Buller]

8000 is correct plus or minus 10. The new South stand holds 2,195
East stand: 2,800
Main Stand: 3,020

[PartySaint]

8000 is correct plus or minus 10. The new South stand holds 2,195
East stand: 2,800
Main Stand: 3,020

If the East Stand holds 2,800 there must have been way more than 1,100 Bohs fans in it the other night judging by the pictures I saw.

[Asterix]

If the East Stand holds 2,800 there must have been way more than 1,100 Bohs fans in it the other night judging by the pictures I saw.

They didn't go past the half way line and the rows at the front were blocked off.

[Nesta99]

It's still a shame if there was further demand that some Bohs fans may have missed out if not a 'capacity' crowd. For all the policing that happens at the fixture and that there are games of 50-80k held in Dublin regularly surely Na Gardaí would be well fit to safely manage the additional 'away' fans. Their policy on limiting travelling support is perplexing considering the relatively small numbers overall and that there is little to no trouble in grounds. Those that cause trouble outside of the grounds generally dont actually go to games!