Attendances 2019

[ToberonaTornado]

Kicking off a new season with 2777 for the Presidents cup.

[CorribsideSteve]

2914 in Dalymount, as per Bohs Twitter

[micls]

Fantastic attendances in Richmond and the RSC. Great to see.

[nigel-harps1954]

2914 in Dalymount, as per Bohs Twitter

Excellent crowd there. Good Harps crowd down too.


St Pat's v Cork - 3,497
Waterford v Shamrock Rovers - 4,152

[CorribsideSteve]

Amazing crowds at Richmond and the RSC! Well done to all involved. Even taking into account the novelty of first night back in a new season.

[Shearer]

Estimates of 3,500 and 3,000 for Derry and Dundalk respectively according to Twitter.

[ger121]

Thought is was very close to 3k if not over. Nod to Finn Harps crowd. Be rare we open the Des Kelly for most fixtures outside of Dublin Derbies but they travelled in numbers.

[EatYerGreens]

The Brandywell was close to a sell out tonight. Not a lot of empty seats on show, and a lot of people standing in various places. I don;t know what the ground holds, but I'd say the crowd was definitely in the 3,500 ball park. With the exception of last year's League Cup Final, I haven't seen a crowd like it there for a while. Devine and the club have got a good buzz going about the place.

[dundalkfc10]

Dundalk 3000+
Waterford same
Pats same
Derry same
Bohs same

Wow

Decent Sligo crowd in Oriel, def was 150/200

[CuanaD]

So we are looking at 17,000+ for the opening night of the season - that's great in itself, but also the spread of attendances is great, looks like Bohs 2,900+ is actually the lowest! 🙌👏⚽

[D24Saint]

Just under 3500 in Richmond it’s the best crowd in years , surpassing any of out league winning crowds.

[RathfarnhamHoop]

So we are looking at 17,000+ for the opening night of the season - that's great in itself, but also the spread of attendances is great, looks like Bohs 2,900+ is actually the lowest! 🙌👏⚽

17,000 with the two clubs with last year's highest average attendances both playing away is super stuff.

[CuanaD]

17,000 with the two clubs with last year's highest average attendances both playing away is super stuff.
Last year's first weekend attendances were either 15400 or 14400 (Dundalk figure was disputed)
2017 was just over 14900

So 17000 is a big jump in the right direction

[Finlay Harp]

I enjoyed Dalymount last night. Proper old school ground. Two sets of supporters giving their all.

[EatYerGreens]

Should be another good set of attendances next weekend too hopefully :

- Rovers' first game of the season, and their first with the new stand open. Plus they're playing the league leaders :cool:
- Cork at home for first time this season.
- Sligo should hopefully draw a decent crowd after their away draw at Dundalk.
- Harps usually get decent crowds to their first game in the PD.
- I'm ignoring UCD.

Encouraging stuff

[ger121]

Should be another good set of attendances next weekend too hopefully :

- Rovers' first game of the season, and their first with the new stand open. Plus they're playing the league leaders :cool:
- Cork at home for first time this season.
- Sligo should hopefully draw a decent crowd after their away draw at Dundalk.
- Harps usually get decent crowds to their first game in the PD.
- I'm ignoring UCD.

Encouraging stuff

Bohs will bring a crowd to UCD. Always liked the bowl. Lovely surface for two teams that like to play ball. Be a good game.

[cob655]

official dundalk v sligo was 3347

[nigel-harps1954]

Weekend total:


St Pat's v Cork - 3,497
Waterford v Shamrock Rovers - 4,152
Bohs v Finn Harps - 2,914
Dundalk v Sligo Rovers - 3,347
Derry v UCD - 3,000 estimate

Total: 17,270

Not a bad start.

[Kingswood Rover]

How did Pats get that crowd was there a serious push locally in the weeks prior?

[D24Saint]

How did Pats get that crowd was there a serious push locally in the weeks prior?

The new community officer has had a massive effect imo, he is a life long Pats fan and has done a great job. The promo video we put together was great aswell. I’m sure their will be a dip in numbers but hopefully based on this number will be up this season.

[oriel]

Great to see by Pats, thats probably their best opening night crowd in over 5 years ? i dont even think they got close to this regularly when they won the league in 2013. Any idea on the away supoort from Cork **

Pats are probably behind Bohs and certainly Rovers in terms of supoort base, so if they can keep figures as close to 3k as possible that new guy is doing some job.

** edit, just saw that save online by Clarke in front of the shed, some save, looked a decent Cork away support in that section.

[PartySaint]

How did Pats get that crowd was there a serious push locally in the weeks prior?

Theres a few factors involved, obviously the first game of the season brings a bigger crowd, playing one of the big teams, new manager and Forrester being back also added to it, Rovers being away probably helped as a neutral on the Southside who wanted to check a game out only had one option

But as mentioned above the club have been doing a lot of stuff in the community over the last few months, the new community officer is doing a brilliant job. Things that have been missing for the last number of years, school visits, local football clubs visit, getting local businesses involved again and just generally really pushing the Pats and Inchicore connection has worked wonders.

The best thing about about the crowd on Friday is that even though Cork brought a decent crowd over 3,000 were there supporting Pats.

I know I’m getting ahead of myself but we play Rovers in 3 weeks, 6/7 points from our 3 games before then and we could see a massive crowd at that, here’s hoping

[ger121]

Bohs vs Rovers already sold out. I imagine we could have sold even more tickets if we had extra capacity.

[EatYerGreens]

Bohs vs Rovers already sold out. I imagine we could have sold even more tickets if we had extra capacity.

What's the current capacity of Dalyer ? It's far too small whatever it is, so the sooner you get that redevelopment the better.

[oriel]

I don't have an exact figure but I heard at the Sligo game on Friday that Dundalk sold 'in excess of 1k season tickets' this is good going, but to be fair most are renewals.

It's obviously a big layout at the start of the season, most expensive being €225/275 for Dundalk, general / named seat stand, but it's great to have the card in your pocket / wallet for the season.

Some will argue ST sales reduce cash flow on match day, but I think the opositive, it can free up cash to spend in club shops etc.

[D24Saint]

I don't have an exact figure but I heard at the Sligo game on Friday that Dundalk sold 'in excess of 1k season tickets' this is good going, but to be fair most are renewals.

It's obviously a big layout at the start of the season, most expensive being €225/275 for Dundalk, general / named seat stand, but it's great to have the card in your pocket / wallet for the season.

Some will argue ST sales reduce cash flow on match day, but I think the opositive, it can free up cash to spend in club shops etc.

clubs should allocate certain amount to allow for ST holders but they always spend the cash.

[dundalkfc10]

Rovers have given us just 500 tickets for next Friday night?

Why in the name of God is this **** going on when they have a whole stand they can open?

[Asterix]

More tickets will be given if yous sell them. Dundalk don't bring 500 down most times.

Whatever this hold is what you'll be given.

https://foot.ie/attachment.php?attachmentid=2770&stc=1

[dundalkfc10]

More tickets will be given if yous sell them. Dundalk don't bring 500 down most times.

Whatever this hold is what you'll be given.

https://foot.ie/attachment.php?attachmentid=2770&stc=1

I thought that might be the case. In fairness we have took good crowds to Tallaght recentley (our fans are expecting a title race with you this year aswell)

Why not just let us pay at the gate instead of this ticket nonsense for a game the capacity is going to more than cover the away end.

[Ezeikial]

I thought that might be the case.

Who would have guessed that based on your less than moderate response.

It must be fairly obvious why the home club and AGS would want to know and control the visitor numbers through ticketing

[pineapple stu]

1500+ at the Bowl. Stand overflowing. Biggest crowd since Europe

[SkStu]

That's great to see PStu! Whats the split like?

[ger121]

Will be interesting to see attendances around other grounds tonight

[Dalymountrower]

About 1000 Bohs

[ger121]

500 for UCD is very good.

[Nah Nah Nah Nah]

3,314 in The Showgrounds

[Partizan]

4,382 at Turners Cross tonight for Cork City v Waterford.

[pineapple stu]

1609 official at the Bowl. Impossible to tell split, but 1000 anyway for Bohs alright.

[Shearer]

814 at Limerick and Longford.

[ger121]

2174 in Galway to see their side lose from 2 goals up.

[legendz]

814 at Limerick and Longford.Limerick's base support, plus a few Longfordians.

[Shearer]

Limerick's base support, plus a few Longfordians.
Not sure if a sly dig or...

[WoodquayBoy]

2174 in Galway to see their side
Fixed that for you

[nigel-harps1954]

Around about 2,000 at a push in Finn Park. 100-150 up from Dundalk.

[RathfarnhamHoop]

I'd guess around 5000 at Tallaght, main and south stands were packed and about 100 Derry fans in the East Stand. Huge Qs to buy tickets right up to kick-off which is great to see.

[ger121]

I'd guess around 5000 at Tallaght, main and south stands were packed and about 100 Derry fans in the East Stand. Huge Qs to buy tickets right up to kick-off which is great to see.

Saw 4522 on Twitter by Paul O’Hehir

[RathfarnhamHoop]

Saw 4522 on Twitter by Paul O’Hehir

I'd have thought it would be a bit higher but I guess given the front few rows of the south stand were closed off that sounds right. Hopefully more again for the Dundalk game.

[ToberonaTornado]

Around about 2,000 at a push in Finn Park. 100-150 up from Dundalk.

200 hardy souls bruv.

[nigel-harps1954]

200 hardy souls bruv.

Where were the rest of them hiding?

[ToberonaTornado]

Where were the rest of them hiding?

with your 1600 others.

you're right -2000 in attendance at a BIG push.