Attendances 2024

[gufct]

Are you forgetting the the fans that were in the shed end as well ?

[2 Year Contract]

Are you forgetting the the fans that were in the shed end as well ?
No, read my post again

[Buckett]

282 seems right. Nearly three times more than my prediction pre-match!

[Buckett]

Sligo v Bohs
3,436

[nigel-harps1954]

Weekend rundown:

Premier Division:

St Pats v Galway - 4,851
Shelbourne v Waterford - 4,755
Sligo v Bohs - 3,436
Drogheda v Shamrock R - 2,357
Dundalk v Derry - 2,350

First Division:

Cork v Wexford - 4,268
Harps v Treaty - 913
Cobh v Bray - 428

Kerry v Athlone - N/A
UCD v Longford - N/A

[Straightstory]

Just over 3,000 at the completely weird and strange game which was the Women's Cup Final. That's a very, very, very poor attendance by any standard.

[Acornvilla]

Just over 3,000 at the completely weird and strange game which was the Women's Cup Final. That's a very, very, very poor attendance by any standard.
Storm weather conditions probably not a great help in getting neutrals to show up.

[ger121]

A good crowd in Oriel all things considered.

[Nesta99]

I dont know how successful these virtual ticket were but I got one and I highly doubt (?) they were counted. For the serious situation we are in, last chance saloon if to take what has been said at face value, things weem very low key in general. Now Im not in Dundalk currently nd have been cut off from the wider world so maybe there's plenty of activity around Dundalk but online not to the extent youd hope will a serious and ongoing push needed highlighting things like virtual tickets for games people cant attend. Should be wrecking heads everywhere ye look stuff! Club cold calling ST holders and any other list of fan contacts they have access to to survey generally and guage thinking on ST renewal along with everything else. Set up an escrow where ST sales are lodged so people wont fear being duped if thing go very badly over the next months.

[Shearer]

Just over 3,000 at the completely weird and strange game which was the Women's Cup Final. That's a very, very, very poor attendance by any standard.
I'm a fan of the Women's Premier Division and even I couldn't be arsed driving up to Tallaght for that, or any, Cup final.

Not a whole pile of glamour to it compared to the men's game which has become an annual pilgrimage for me and many more.

[wonder88]

I went to the women's cup final yesterday. Weather I am sure kept some away, also 22euro for adult ticket was a little too much I think. The all-Ireland cup at the same venue was a tenner and Galway did a bus and ticket deal for 5e also which got a great response. The attendances at women's soccer/sport is coming from a very low base. This was my 3rd ladies game at the venue, the other one was an Ireland v Germany qualifier a good few years back and I think about a thousand was at it, including Katie Taylor. It will won't be easy but I think there is a lot of potential for the women's game in Ireland, that many young players also play gaelic is a big benefit in raising standards. There might be a bit of glamour attached to the men's cup final(which is great), but 6-7k was the usual crowd for the FAI cup final not so long ago.

[Nesta99]

Game administrators probably dont want to be accused of being disrespectful but wouldnt it be better to hold a game with that level of ticket sales in say Inchicore? Imo atmosphere is as important if not more so than the stadium category. It's a very old comparison but in relative terms a sold out Tolka in 2002 helped create a new generation of fan, even if we'd won the '93 cup final it was just awful in Landsdowne with a similar crowd.

[2 Year Contract]

Game administrators probably dont want to be accused of being disrespectful but wouldnt it be better to hold a game with that level of ticket sales in say Inchicore? Imo atmosphere is as important if not more so than the stadium category. It's a very old comparison but in relative terms a sold out Tolka in 2002 helped create a new generation of fan, even if we'd won the '93 cup final it was just awful in Landsdowne with a similar crowd.

Fair point. It reminds me of when Limerick played in Thomond Park. Crowds of around 1,000-1,500 felt like 100 in a ground as big as that

[Straightstory]

There might be a bit of glamour attached to the men's cup final(which is great), but 6-7k was the usual crowd for the FAI cup final not so long ago.

Not quite that bad. 7,000 at 1985 Final (Shams v Galway) and 5,000 at the THIRD game between Bray and Harps in 1999. (I'm discounting the official '0' that attended to 20202 Rovers v Dundalk Final). But generally (although wildly fluctuating), attendances have been above 6-7k (and usually a lot more).

[2 Year Contract]

Not quite that bad. 7,000 at 1985 Final (Shams v Galway) and 5,000 at the THIRD game between Bray and Harps in 1999. (I'm discounting the official '0' that attended to 20202 Rovers v Dundalk Final). But generally (although wildly fluctuating), attendances have been above 6-7k (and usually a lot more).

Yeah aside from that behind closed doors final, there have only been 3 finals this side of the millennium that were under a 10k attendance. 2 of those were over 9k and the other was just over 8k which was in Tallaght

[2 Year Contract]

Both home and away tickets for Pats v Derry are sold out with over 4,500 of them being home tickets. Hopefully this is the start of being able to cut Shels and Bohs away allocations next year the same way they do to Pats. Although I’ve a feeling the Gardai wouldn’t be mad on having fans of 2 Dublin clubs in the shed end together with only a few moveable fences as separation

[nigel-harps1954]

Missing, likely gone with the wind:

Longford v Athlone - 5th Oct
Longford v Cobh - 12th Oct
UCD v Longford - 18th Oct
Kerry v Athlone - 18th Oct

PREMIER DIVISION

Bohs - 4,243 (4,243 {2023}; 3,209 {2022};2,878{19}; 2,148; 2,006; 1,627; 1,724; 1,395; 1,597; 1,496; 1,488)
Derry - 2,860 (3,336; 3,184; 2,049; 2,297; 1,517; 1,563; 1,124; 1,106; 1,446; 1,460; 2,135)
Drogheda - 2,023 (1,916; 1,941; 721 FD; ; 377 FD; 850; 583 FD; 813; 1,064; 817; 977; 811)
Dundalk - 2,430 (2,636; 2,689; 2,775; 2,738; 2,674; 2,738; 3,158; 2,534; 1,997; 949; 1,355)
Galway - 2,937 (2,018 FD; 2,081 FD; 780 FD; 746 FD; 1,376; 1,169; 1,290; 975 FD)
Pat's - 4,367 (4,232; 3,489; 1,919; 1,621; 1,504; 1,088; 1,321; 1,386; 1,687; 1,474; 1,346)
Rovers - 5,868 (6,109; 5,379; 3,384; 2,749; 2,809; 2,041; 2,890; 2,269; 2,763; 3,127; 3,779)
Shels - 4,233 (3,393; 2,913; 1,071 FD; 654 FD; 496 FD; 554 FD; 596 FD; 713 FD; 1,114; 1,187; 781 FD)
Sligo - 2,813 (2,555; 2,166; 1,995; 1,853; 1,717; 1,750; 1,750; 1,959; 2,342; 3,007; 2,103)
Waterford - 2,749 (1,833 FD; 1,705 FD; 1,496; 2,329; 1,550 FD; 314 FD; 460 FD; 470 FD; 478 FD; 453 FD; 466 FD)

FIRST DIVISION

Athlone - 642 (872; 307; 382; 130; 154; 156; 314; 653 PD; 754; 271; 200)
Bray - 644 (663; 482; 773; 643 PD; 966 PD; 957 PD; 769 PD; 718 PD; 891 PD; 965 PD; 1,121 PD)
Cobh - 731 (1,020; 872; 268; 236; 358; 403; 366; 223; 439; 2008 - 1,122 PD; 681)
Cork - 2,881 (3,666 PD; 3,517; 2,505 PD; 4,245 PD; 4,559 PD; 2,533 PD; 3,263 PD; 3,777 PD; 1,965 PD; 2,786 PD; 2,128)
Harps - 1,023 (1,154; 1,293 PD; 1,154 PD; 708; 1,202 PD; 1,216 PD; 784; 449; 479; 429; 433; 644)
Kerry - 610 (784)
Longford - 413 (679; 500; 610; 449; 342; 488 PD; 803 PD; 567; 379; 365; 315)
Treaty - 1,060 (642; 695)
UCD - 339 (809 PD; 953 PD; 739 PD; 365; 236; 297; 216; 397 PD; 487 PD; 506 PD; 558 PD; 610 PD)
Wexford - 556 (689; 445; 235; 181; 338; 585 PD; 553; 331; 227; 302; 216)

PREMIER AVERAGE: 3,452 (3,289; 2,687; 2,185; 2,170; 1,902; 1,476; 1,681; 1,502; 1,566; 1,630; 1,547)
FIRST DIVISION AVERAGE: 890 (1,035; 1,193; 586; 413; 477; 476; 486; 495; 391; 372; 578)

OVERALL AVERAGE: 2,135 (2,162; 2,051; 1,500; 1,249; 1,387; 1,117; 1,249; 1,160; 1,140; 1,125; 1,110)


OVERALL PREMIER ATTENDANCE: 586,891 (592,093; 486,365; 393,238; 316,515; 376,627; 292,204; 332,805; 297,334)
OVERALL FIRST ATTENDANCE: 160,201 (186,369; 178,000; 79,115; 55,756; 53,461; 52,807; 54,474; 55,408)

OVERALL COMBINED ATTENDANCE: 747,092 (778,462; 664,365; 472,353; 372,271; 430,088; 345,011; 387,279; 352,742)

[Glen Of Aherlow]

Both home and away tickets for Pats v Derry are sold out with over 4,500 of them being home tickets. Hopefully this is the start of being able to cut Shels and Bohs away allocations next year the same way they do to Pats. Although I’ve a feeling the Gardai wouldn’t be mad on having fans of 2 Dublin clubs in the shed end together with only a few moveable fences as separation

Could we put in more permanent fencing and have home fans in Shed End enter and exit through Camac ?

[thebronze14]

Good we stayed over the 1k seeing the problems we had earlier in the season

[pineapple stu]

UCD v Longford looked slightly better than average; maybe 350

[Shearer]

572 at Athlone vs Wexford is really poor.

[joey B]

572 at Athlone vs Wexford is really poor.

That’s dreadful,sticking these games on a Thursday night did them no favours ……

[thebronze14]

Supposed to have been a great crowd in bray according to my mate

[nigel-harps1954]

Supposed to have been a great crowd in bray according to my mate

1,205 in Bray

[cobhlad]

Shocking crowd in Athlone for their biggest game of the season, regardless of it being a Thursday night. There are things being done right there, reaching the play-offs back to back shows that, but there are few LOI clubs less ingrained in their community than Athlone the way Valeo have gone about it.

[CorribsideSteve]

Shocking crowd in Athlone for their biggest game of the season, regardless of it being a Thursday night. There are things being done right there, reaching the play-offs back to back shows that, but there are few LOI clubs less ingrained in their community than Athlone the way Valeo have gone about it.
The only mitigating factor is that it was the wettest day and night for months in the West and Northwest, enough for it to be lashing down all day long.

[LTFC]

Galway 4323, Waterford 2463

[CorribsideSteve]

Galway 4323, Waterford 2463

Cracking crowd in Terryland, packed out, and a big praise for the Sligo fans. Must have been close to 500 of them, never stopped singing and jumping all match.

[2 Year Contract]

4,998 at Pats Derry

4,605 home fans, 393 away fans

[Buckett]

Cracking crowd in Terryland, packed out, and a big praise for the Sligo fans. Must have been close to 500 of them, never stopped singing and jumping all match.

Fair play to Sligo for really adding to the atmosphere. However, they're awful craytures. Marching through Woodquay with balaclavas and then posting shyte online basically saying they marched around the whole city untouched as if the locals were battening down the hatches. Most Galwegians couldn't give a continental f#ck about Galway Utd nevermind 40 or 50 prepubescent schooligans. Maybe it'll be more intimidating when their voices break.

[EatYerGreens]

Fair play to Sligo for really adding to the atmosphere. However, they're awful craytures. Marching through Woodquay with balaclavas and then posting shyte online basically saying they marched around the whole city untouched as if the locals were battening down the hatches. Most Galwegians couldn't give a continental f#ck about Galway Utd nevermind 40 or 50 prepubescent schooligans. Maybe it'll be more intimidating when their voices break.

Copying the antics oif the other Rovers' fans in Belfast last night perhaps?

Pathetic and hateful stuff all the same.

[Buckett]

I saw videos of Rovers fans in Belfast. When they come to Galway, from my experience, they're there for the craic. I've ran pubs and have had the pleasure of dealing with them. They sing their songs but don't chant "intimidating" stuff that's copied from the Brits and they generally mingle with the locals in good humour. The village idiots from Shligo are pathetic. They were down earlier in the season and started throwing glasses into a pub where Utd fans were drinking. The pub also had families in there having a bit of food, I saw a pint glass miss a toddlers head by inches that night. Eir, the company with the worst customer service reputation, had to close their Sligo call-centre due to a lack of an available educated workforce. Says everything you need to know about them.

[outspoken]

Fair play to Sligo for really adding to the atmosphere. However, they're awful craytures. Marching through Woodquay with balaclavas and then posting shyte online basically saying they marched around the whole city untouched as if the locals were battening down the hatches. Most Galwegians couldn't give a continental f#ck about Galway Utd nevermind 40 or 50 prepubescent schooligans. Maybe it'll be more intimidating when their voices break.

I wonder if the same gob****es from 10 years ago are still involved or if it's just a new generation of gob****es. They used to be messaging longford fans trying to organise scraps when we were in the PD in 2015/16. Bumped into the ring leader while I was shopping in sligo one day and he wouldn't say boo.

[redobit]

Eir, the company with the worst customer service reputation, had to close their Sligo call-centre due to a lack of an available educated workforce. Says everything you need to know about them.

Hahaha. That was a good read.

[Olander]

Brilliant crowd last night.

Let's get off our high horse a bit though. I saw the video of the Sligo fans marching through Woodquay last night. Gimps. They had a lot of scrotes in their support at the game last night. Sorry Ultras :rolleyes:

But we're not in a position to be lording over them either though. A portion of our own fans embarrassed the club by vandalising the Showgrounds earlier in the year. We can't be questioning the education of Sligo fans when our own couldn't even spell inbreds correctly.

There's morons on both sides. I find the Green Street behaviour and muck posted online from both fanbases to be embarrassing.

[nigel-harps1954]

Missing:

Shelbourne v Drogheda - 25th Oct
Longford v Athlone - 5th Oct
Longford v Cobh - 12th Oct
UCD v Longford - 18th Oct
Kerry v Athlone - 18th Oct

PREMIER DIVISION

Bohs - 4,243 (4,243 {2023}; 3,209 {2022};2,878{19}; 2,148; 2,006; 1,627; 1,724; 1,395; 1,597; 1,496; 1,488)
Derry - 2,860 (3,336; 3,184; 2,049; 2,297; 1,517; 1,563; 1,124; 1,106; 1,446; 1,460; 2,135)
Drogheda - 2,023 (1,916; 1,941; 721 FD; ; 377 FD; 850; 583 FD; 813; 1,064; 817; 977; 811)
Dundalk - 2,419 (2,636; 2,689; 2,775; 2,738; 2,674; 2,738; 3,158; 2,534; 1,997; 949; 1,355)
Galway - 3,014 (2,018 FD; 2,081 FD; 780 FD; 746 FD; 1,376; 1,169; 1,290; 975 FD)
Pat's - 4,402 (4,232; 3,489; 1,919; 1,621; 1,504; 1,088; 1,321; 1,386; 1,687; 1,474; 1,346)
Rovers - 5,868 (6,109; 5,379; 3,384; 2,749; 2,809; 2,041; 2,890; 2,269; 2,763; 3,127; 3,779)
Shels - 4,262 (3,393; 2,913; 1,071 FD; 654 FD; 496 FD; 554 FD; 596 FD; 713 FD; 1,114; 1,187; 781 FD)
Sligo - 2,813 (2,555; 2,166; 1,995; 1,853; 1,717; 1,750; 1,750; 1,959; 2,342; 3,007; 2,103)
Waterford - 2,733 (1,833 FD; 1,705 FD; 1,496; 2,329; 1,550 FD; 314 FD; 460 FD; 470 FD; 478 FD; 453 FD; 466 FD)

FIRST DIVISION

Athlone - 642 (872; 307; 382; 130; 154; 156; 314; 653 PD; 754; 271; 200)
Bray - 644 (663; 482; 773; 643 PD; 966 PD; 957 PD; 769 PD; 718 PD; 891 PD; 965 PD; 1,121 PD)
Cobh - 731 (1,020; 872; 268; 236; 358; 403; 366; 223; 439; 2008 - 1,122 PD; 681)
Cork - 2,881 (3,666 PD; 3,517; 2,505 PD; 4,245 PD; 4,559 PD; 2,533 PD; 3,263 PD; 3,777 PD; 1,965 PD; 2,786 PD; 2,128)
Harps - 1,023 (1,154; 1,293 PD; 1,154 PD; 708; 1,202 PD; 1,216 PD; 784; 449; 479; 429; 433; 644)
Kerry - 610 (784)
Longford - 413 (679; 500; 610; 449; 342; 488 PD; 803 PD; 567; 379; 365; 315)
Treaty - 1,060 (642; 695)
UCD - 339 (809 PD; 953 PD; 739 PD; 365; 236; 297; 216; 397 PD; 487 PD; 506 PD; 558 PD; 610 PD)
Wexford - 556 (689; 445; 235; 181; 338; 585 PD; 553; 331; 227; 302; 216)

PREMIER AVERAGE: 3,461 (3,289; 2,687; 2,185; 2,170; 1,902; 1,476; 1,681; 1,502; 1,566; 1,630; 1,547)
FIRST DIVISION AVERAGE: 890 (1,035; 1,193; 586; 413; 477; 476; 486; 495; 391; 372; 578)

OVERALL AVERAGE: 2,157 (2,162; 2,051; 1,500; 1,249; 1,387; 1,117; 1,249; 1,160; 1,140; 1,125; 1,110)


OVERALL PREMIER ATTENDANCE: 605,654 (592,093; 486,365; 393,238; 316,515; 376,627; 292,204; 332,805; 297,334)
OVERALL FIRST ATTENDANCE: 160,201 (186,369; 178,000; 79,115; 55,756; 53,461; 52,807; 54,474; 55,408)

OVERALL COMBINED ATTENDANCE: 765,855 (778,462; 664,365; 472,353; 372,271; 430,088; 345,011; 387,279; 352,742)

[sbgawa]

A full house of 10000 on Friday for either a celebration or a wake would give us an average of 6097 for the season compared to 6109 last year which wouldn't be bad considering the amount of Monday and Sunday games whi h drag things down.

[2 Year Contract]

1,251 in Wexford at the playoff game today against Athlone. Good crowd for them

[ger121]

Looks a full house in the Bowl.

[pineapple stu]

1112 apparently. So stand about 70% full

[ger121]

1112 apparently. So stand about 70% full

Ah ok. The lads on commentary were saying it was full and 1400 tickets were available for sale.

[pineapple stu]

Not actually at it myself mind - heard the stand was full alright and while there's usually always some gaps, I was hoping you might come along and say it's never 70% full and increase the figure :p

[2 Year Contract]

Definitely not a 30% empty stand

https://x.com/derekgoulding/status/1850954489983115395?s=46

[pineapple stu]

Nigel gives out we keep changing attendances a couple of days later. I've a feeling we announce the cash attendance on the day and add in the online tickets later. Or vice versa. Only explanation I can come up with

[nigel-harps1954]

Nigel gives out we keep changing attendances a couple of days later. I've a feeling we announce the cash attendance on the day and add in the online tickets later. Or vice versa. Only explanation I can come up with

I've started holding off updating my spreadsheet for a week to allow UCD and Shels update their match announced attendances :cool:

[Buckett]

It's a fantastic service that you provide to LOI supporters, very much appreciated. Fair play

[Kingswood Rover]

Rovers website saying that the final game v Waterford is now sold out.

[yurt]

How many games is that Rovers have sold out since opening the 4th stand? I'd wonder how many could they have sold if capacity wasn't an issue.

[EatYerGreens]

How many games is that Rovers have sold out since opening the 4th stand? I'd wonder how many could they have sold if capacity wasn't an issue.

The obvious answer being 'none', if capacity wasn't an issue :p

[nr637]

How many games is that Rovers have sold out since opening the 4th stand? I'd wonder how many could they have sold if capacity wasn't an issue.

8,745 at Tallaght last night to see the Women's Euro 2025 Play-Off.