Attendances 2025

[joey B]

Who needs a new stadium that keeps the rain off when people flock to games in the open wind swept grounds in the rain and abandon LoI when its sunny and warm. Makes no sense to me as there is nothing better than being at a game basking in the sun, European game feel, - closely followed by a crisp frosty night wrapped up under the floodlights and heading in to the club lounge to thaw out after!

I guess people reckon good weather is rare enough but Dundalk or whoever will always be there!

[Nesta99]

I guess people reckon good weather is rare enough but Dundalk or whoever will always be there!

Yikes!!! Youve just described the Dundalk public perfectly....

Ach I get it, a family trip to the beach when weather tips above 12c or head to the football, the argument isnt worth it. Things is kids generally hate the beach, men look bored, water is always freezing, east coast and its smelly pond water, sand everywhere for the rest of the year no matter how much the car is hoovered and people are power hosed....ugh!

[trevy]

2966 was official attendance given at Waterford v Bohs. About 450 Bohs fans.

[oriel]

1,428 in Oriel Park tonight.

Half the town at the Mary Wallopers in Malahide, or loads just couldn't prize themselves away from the BBQ or just couldn't be bothered, lowest of the season and around 1,300 down on opening night v Athlone.

FD is not getting the love it seems............................

[EatYerGreens]

Half the town at the Mary Wallopers in Malahide, or loads just couldn't prize themselves away from the BBQ or just couldn't be bothered, lowest of the season and around 1,300 down on opening night v Athlone.

FD is not getting the love it seems............................

Cork will sort that out when they trade places with you there for next season.

[nr637]

Cork will sort that out when they trade places with you there for next season.

Or maybe Sligo ! :confused:

[nr637]

Any attendance figure for the UCD v Cobh fixture on Friday night yet!

[El-Pietro]

1815 at Turners Cross for City v Drogs.
Maybe 30 away fans.

[culloty82]

Even allowing for a Monday KO, must be sometime since you'd a league attendance under 2k?

[nigel-harps1954]

672 in a rainy Finn Park.

[Shinkicker]

Bohs could have filled the Aviva again!!

[brendy_éire]

Bohs could have filled the Aviva again!!

Maybe there's a logic to having these games on Monday night, as they'll sell out regardless.

[timothydec77]

Even allowing for a Monday KO, must be sometime since you'd a league attendance under 2k?

It's one of the worst attendances in a long time only matched by the terrible league position.

Effectively 14 points behind 8th and therefore little chance of anything but a playoff. Meaning all other matches are meaningless.

And paying €25 for pleasure.

[2 Year Contract]

Effectively 14 points behind 8th and therefore little chance of anything but a playoff. Meaning all other matches are meaningless.
Err I think if you ask any Drogheda fan they’ll tell you how finishing 9th instead of 10th last season was quite meaningful ;)

[timothydec77]

Err I think if you ask any Drogheda fan they’ll tell you how finishing 9th instead of 10th last season was quite meaningful ;)

The playoff matches then becomes the meaningful match.

[pineapple stu]

1050 announced in the Carlisle

[2 Year Contract]

The playoff matches then becomes the meaningful match.

Yes, but actually getting the playoff spot is quite obviously meaningful, which means all of Cork’s matches are meaningful at the moment

[EatYerGreens]

1050 announced in the Carlisle

That feels like a good crowd there for a Monday night?

[Mr A]

Was very impressed with the crowd in Bray for our recent visit, busiest I've seen the place bar playoffs

[TVFBLOCKF]

The playoff matches then becomes the meaningful match.

That doesn't make any sense. You have to get to the play off spot first meaning all your remaining games are quite meaningful.

[Yossarian]

The playoff matches then becomes the meaningful match.

The playoff match will be a formality. No first division team is winning it.

[bohsmug]

That doesn't make any sense. You have to get to the play off spot first meaning all your remaining games are quite meaningful.

Is it a pessimist being optimistic or an optimist being pessimistic?

[nigel-harps1954]

The playoff match will be a formality. No first division team is winning it.

Rinse and repeat the same quote practically every year since the playoff became a thing.

[sbgawa]

Was very impressed with the crowd in Bray for our recent visit, busiest I've seen the place bar playoffs

They invited all the cabo schoolboy teams down plus Parents for free and the club cabo pushed it. Not putting it down they were right to push it as the crowd against UCD would have been brutal, just giving a bit of context

[redarmyfaction]

That doesn't make any sense. You have to get to the play off spot first meaning all your remaining games are quite meaningful.

Esp as play off might be V Cobham.

[holidaysong]

1,487 was the official attendance in Oriel. Having been at both games, it's implausible that there were only two more than last Friday against UCD. It was clearly at least 400 people more than last week.

[oriel]

I was speaking to PA guy on way out, he actually asked for it to be re-checked when it was passed to him to read out, there has been some very poor calls in recent years on the 'official' crowd but this was up there with one of the worst, it was 1,800 abs min and not too far off 2k more to think of it. One of our crew who doesn't have a ST got in 8 mins late due to only 3 hatches open to buy tickets.

[ToberonaTornado]

1436 is what was announced at Dundalk v Cobh and like... ..
. LoL 😆 temple must have had a word with Matthews on how to manipulate the figures OP
Biggest game of this season so far and nobody is falling for this .
My own estimate is 1900

[MoydowMonty]

The playoff match will be a formality. No first division team is winning it.

I never understand this assumption. Nothing formality about it. It's a one legged game, anyone can cause an upset in those. You'll have a first division team who should be used to winning the majority of the season vs the premier team who will have lost the majority of games. If you look at the last 10-12 years, it has been majority first division teams who won, and that's going back to when the final was (and should still be imo) 2 legged.

Last year Drogheda just became exceptional in the 2nd half of the season and Bray hadn't a prayer. But if I'm Cobh in October looking at Sligo, I'd be saying there's a chance here

[Shearer]

26,580 at Cork City v Celtic.

[EatYerGreens]

26,580 at Cork City v Celtic.

Played at Pairc Ui Chaoimh? If so - isn't that not much over half its total capacity?

[Shearer]

Played at Pairc Ui Chaoimh? If so - isn't that not much over half its total capacity?
About that. Cork City won't be too bothered, it was all the gaa's baby.

[pineapple stu]

Interesting that Idah wasn't involved at all - would have thought he'd have been the big draw for the locals?

[nr637]

26,580 at Cork City v Celtic.

36253 on FAI Connect!

[nr637]

Played at Pairc Ui Chaoimh? If so - isn't that not much over half its total capacity?

Yes m8, SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh capacity 45,300

[Martinho II]

Yes m8, SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh capacity 45,300

Didnt realise Pairc Ui Chaoimh is very close to Turners Cross. Good choice of venue!

[TVFBLOCKF]

Interesting that Idah wasn't involved at all - would have thought he'd have been the big draw for the locals?


https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/arid-41666165.html

[Shearer]

36253 on FAI Connect!
Including the population around the Marina!

[pineapple stu]

https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/soccer/arid-41666165.html
Hmmm - wasn't he specifically used in promoting the game? Yet it seems he was never going to play based on that

Be bit ****ed off to have bought a ticket to see the local Irish international play only for there to be no sign of him

That said, I'm never overly sympathetic of the 20k extra people who turn up for a pre-season friendly like this anyway

[nr637]

Any figure for Tolka last night, Riverside looked well packed!

[2 Year Contract]

Any figure for Tolka last night, Riverside looked well packed!
3,655

[nr637]

3,655

You wouldn't have a figure for the Richmond Park attendance last night? :confused:

[nr637]

2,800 estimate on extratime.ie!

[nigel-harps1954]

Here we go. The abacus has been put away for another month or two.


PREMIER DIVISION

Bohs - 6,676 (4,241 {2024}; 4,243 {2023}; 3,209 {2022};2,878{19}; 2,148; 2,006; 1,627; 1,724; 1,395; 1,597)
Cork - 3,460 (2,881 FD; 3,666; 3,517 FD; 2,505; 4,245; 4,559; 2,533; 3,263; 3,777; 1,965)
Derry - 3,488 (2,875; 3,336; 3,184; 2,049; 2,297; 1,517; 1,563; 1,124; 1,106; 1,446)
Drogheda - 2,295 (2,023; 1,916; 1,941; 721 FD; ; 377 FD; 850; 583 FD; 813; 1,0641)
Galway - 3,017 (3,014; 2,018 FD; 2,081 FD; 780 FD; 746 FD; 1,376; 1,169)
Pat's - 4,607 (4,402; 4,232; 3,489; 1,919; 1,621; 1,504; 1,088; 1,321; 1,386; 1,687)
Rovers - 5,891 (6,071; 6,109; 5,379; 3,384; 2,749; 2,809; 2,041; 2,890; 2,269; 2,763)
Shels - 4,563 (4,262; 3,393; 2,913; 1,071 FD; 654 FD; 496 FD; 554 FD; 596 FD; 713 FD; 1,114)
Sligo - 2,810 (2,858; 2,555; 2,166; 1,995; 1,853; 1,717; 1,750; 1,750; 1,959; 2,342)
Waterford - 2,742 (2,733; 1,833 FD; 1,705 FD; 1,496; 2,329; 1,550 FD; 314 FD; 460 FD; 470 FD; 478 FD)

FIRST DIVISION

Athlone - 565 (642; 872; 307; 382; 130; 154; 156; 314; 653 PD; 754)
Bray - 1,084 (644; 663; 482; 773; 643 PD; 966 PD; 957 PD; 769 PD; 718 PD; 891 PD)
Cobh - 884 (731; 1,020; 872; 268; 236; 358; 403; 366; 223; 439)
Dundalk - 1,848 (2,419 PD; 2,636 PD; 2,689 PD; 2,775 PD; 2,738 PD; 2,674 PD; 2,738 PD; 3,158 PD; 2,534 PD; 1,997 PD)
Harps - 929 (1,023; 1,154; 1,293 PD; 1,154 PD; 708; 1,202 PD; 1,216 PD; 784; 449; 479; 429)
Kerry - 753 (610; 784)
Longford - 560 (450; 679; 500; 610; 449; 342; 488 PD; 803 PD; 567; 379)
Treaty - 1,119 (1,060; 642; 695)
UCD - 310 (336; 809 PD; 953 PD; 739 PD; 365; 236; 297; 216; 397 PD; 487 PD; 506 PD)
Wexford - 622 (556; 689; 445; 235; 181; 338; 585 PD; 553; 331; 227)

PREMIER AVERAGE: 3,966 (3,490; 3,289; 2,687; 2,185; 2,170; 1,902; 1,476; 1,681; 1,502; 1,566)
FIRST DIVISION AVERAGE: 862 (894; 1,035; 1,193; 586; 413; 477; 476; 486; 495; 391)

OVERALL AVERAGE: 2,453 (2,192; 2,162; 2,051; 1,500; 1,249; 1,387; 1,117; 1,249; 1,160; 1,140)


OVERALL PREMIER ATTENDANCE: 479,826 (628,157; 592,093; 486,365; 393,238; 316,515; 376,627; 292,204; 332,805; 297,334)
OVERALL FIRST ATTENDANCE: 99,108 (160,964; 186,369; 178,000; 79,115; 55,756; 53,461; 52,807; 54,474; 55,408)

OVERALL COMBINED ATTENDANCE: 578,934 (789,121; 778,462; 664,365; 472,353; 372,271; 430,088; 345,011; 387,279; 352,742)

[2 Year Contract]

The figure that stands out to me most there is Bray with their biggest average in well over a decade

[oriel]

Here we go. The abacus has been put away for another month or two.


PREMIER DIVISION

Bohs - 6,676 (4,241 {2024}; 4,243 {2023}; 3,209 {2022};2,878{19}; 2,148; 2,006; 1,627; 1,724; 1,395; 1,597)
Cork - 3,460 (2,881 FD; 3,666; 3,517 FD; 2,505; 4,245; 4,559; 2,533; 3,263; 3,777; 1,965)
Derry - 3,488 (2,875; 3,336; 3,184; 2,049; 2,297; 1,517; 1,563; 1,124; 1,106; 1,446)
Drogheda - 2,295 (2,023; 1,916; 1,941; 721 FD; ; 377 FD; 850; 583 FD; 813; 1,0641)
Galway - 3,017 (3,014; 2,018 FD; 2,081 FD; 780 FD; 746 FD; 1,376; 1,169)
Pat's - 4,607 (4,402; 4,232; 3,489; 1,919; 1,621; 1,504; 1,088; 1,321; 1,386; 1,687)
Rovers - 5,891 (6,071; 6,109; 5,379; 3,384; 2,749; 2,809; 2,041; 2,890; 2,269; 2,763)
Shels - 4,563 (4,262; 3,393; 2,913; 1,071 FD; 654 FD; 496 FD; 554 FD; 596 FD; 713 FD; 1,114)
Sligo - 2,810 (2,858; 2,555; 2,166; 1,995; 1,853; 1,717; 1,750; 1,750; 1,959; 2,342)
Waterford - 2,742 (2,733; 1,833 FD; 1,705 FD; 1,496; 2,329; 1,550 FD; 314 FD; 460 FD; 470 FD; 478 FD)

FIRST DIVISION

Athlone - 565 (642; 872; 307; 382; 130; 154; 156; 314; 653 PD; 754)
Bray - 1,084 (644; 663; 482; 773; 643 PD; 966 PD; 957 PD; 769 PD; 718 PD; 891 PD)
Cobh - 884 (731; 1,020; 872; 268; 236; 358; 403; 366; 223; 439)
Dundalk - 1,848 (2,419 PD; 2,636 PD; 2,689 PD; 2,775 PD; 2,738 PD; 2,674 PD; 2,738 PD; 3,158 PD; 2,534 PD; 1,997 PD)
Harps - 929 (1,023; 1,154; 1,293 PD; 1,154 PD; 708; 1,202 PD; 1,216 PD; 784; 449; 479; 429)
Kerry - 753 (610; 784)
Longford - 560 (450; 679; 500; 610; 449; 342; 488 PD; 803 PD; 567; 379)
Treaty - 1,119 (1,060; 642; 695)
UCD - 310 (336; 809 PD; 953 PD; 739 PD; 365; 236; 297; 216; 397 PD; 487 PD; 506 PD)
Wexford - 622 (556; 689; 445; 235; 181; 338; 585 PD; 553; 331; 227)

PREMIER AVERAGE: 3,966 (3,490; 3,289; 2,687; 2,185; 2,170; 1,902; 1,476; 1,681; 1,502; 1,566)
FIRST DIVISION AVERAGE: 862 (894; 1,035; 1,193; 586; 413; 477; 476; 486; 495; 391)

OVERALL AVERAGE: 2,453 (2,192; 2,162; 2,051; 1,500; 1,249; 1,387; 1,117; 1,249; 1,160; 1,140)


OVERALL PREMIER ATTENDANCE: 479,826 (628,157; 592,093; 486,365; 393,238; 316,515; 376,627; 292,204; 332,805; 297,334)
OVERALL FIRST ATTENDANCE: 99,108 (160,964; 186,369; 178,000; 79,115; 55,756; 53,461; 52,807; 54,474; 55,408)

OVERALL COMBINED ATTENDANCE: 578,934 (789,121; 778,462; 664,365; 472,353; 372,271; 430,088; 345,011; 387,279; 352,742)

Thanks for keeping all of this going, its very interesting to see the figs and trends.

Wondering if the Aviva one game was removed, what would Bohs fig be, prob still a healthy 4,400 or so?

[Buckett]

Thanks Nigel.

Rovers will probably finish with the highest average. Are Bohs planning on having another game in Lansdowne?

[nigel-harps1954]

Thanks for keeping all of this going, its very interesting to see the figs and trends.

Wondering if the Aviva one game was removed, what would Bohs fig be, prob still a healthy 4,400 or so?

4,264, minus the Aviva game.

[nr637]

Just some thoughts on the First Division attendances, I guess Dundalk had a big away following at Bray to make up the announced 1712 attendance?
Wexford home attendances are doing very well, 689 for the visit of bottom club Athlone!
Poor Treaty home attendance for the visit of high flying Cobh as they are average about 1,100!

Any reasons why?

[joey B]

How bad will Cork City’s crowd be for a non league team at 12pm on a Saturday????