Attendances 2025

[legendz]

I think a season opener at the Aviva (like last Sunday) is the way to go. How many fans would a St Pats v Shels game attract? - or should it always be Bohs v Rovers?

Probably. Could be Dublin teams on rotation. Pat's and Shels next season maybe?

[EatYerGreens]

I think a season opener at the Aviva (like last Sunday) is the way to go. How many fans would a St Pats v Shels game attract? - or should it always be Bohs v Rovers?

If there were to be more of these and involving additional teams, I think it'd be wise to expand gradually out from the 2 teams who've tried it so far. So go with Pats v Rovers next (with Pats the 'home' team), and then potentially Bohs v Shels.

[outspoken]

Would an opening weekend double header ever be a runner (Gardai would probably say no).

[EatYerGreens]

Would an opening weekend double header ever be a runner (Gardai would probably say no).

It doesn't feel very 'football' to me. I think te league would be careful to not do things which would seem gimmicky and too far from the norm of how the sport works. As to do so would risk its credibility IMO.

[legendz]

The Dublin Derby was a success. Bohemians must be at least tempted to repeat starting the season against a Dublin opponent in the Aviva. If other Dublin clubs want to do the same, possibly all 4 in rotation can reach some agreement. One match curtain raiser for the season seems the approach to take.
Dublin GAA used to do something similar for a few years. A warning that it might not last. Dublin LoI clubs have the advantage though that they should be competitive.

[LTFC]

The Dublin Derby was a success. Bohemians must be at least tempted to repeat starting the season against a Dublin opponent in the Aviva. If other Dublin clubs want to do the same, possibly all 4 in rotation can reach some agreement. One match curtain raiser for the season seems the approach to take.
Dublin GAA used to do something similar for a few years. A warning that it might not last. Dublin LoI clubs have the advantage though that they should be competitive.

It might not last- a very valid point Legendz. The biggest and best supported local team on the island is Dublin GAA football How many times in a season can they get 40k plus to see them.

I love the growth we are seeing in our league, but that is happening despite crap facilities and clubs only being able to extend capacity a small bit, Pats and Shels. Lets see how Derry get on this year, they have a good bit of extra capacity so will they get the odd sell out and reguarly hit 90% of capacity?.

[LTFC]

RSC 3488
Drogs 2212
Cobh 1357
Galway 4231
Athlone 673
F Harps 1420

[nigel-harps1954]

1,420 given in Finn Park but is almost certainly inaccurate. It was much closer to 2,000. Likely to have been a lot of tickets not scanned properly.

[gufct]

Massive crowd in Edp closer to 5,000 and the capacity will be increased to 5,200 for the Shels game on.

Looked brilliant on virgin and their coverage was excellent .miles ahead of Rte. We have a whole new generation of supported and the atmosphere is brilliant .

[Shearer]

Interesting first round attendances in the First Division.

Poor showing in Athlone, a smidge higher than Longford but both clubs would have contrasting expectations for the season.

Dundalk - 2,600
Finn Harps - ~2,000
Cobh Ramblers - 1,357
Treaty United - 1,236
Kerry FC - 810
Athlone Town - 673
Longford Town - 646
UCD - 318
Bray Wanderers -
Wexford FC -

[culloty82]

Wasn't sure what to make of the Cobh figure, but seems they hadn't been in four digits since Cork visited, so evidently full of hope about being in the promotion shake-up.

[oriel]

RSC 3488
Drogs 2212
Cobh 1357
Galway 4231
Athlone 673
F Harps 1420

Read online that Drogs have extra seats in the stand that is the other side of the Windmill Road, obv they need to keep the away shed free, and no idea how many Sligo took but wondering what the capacity is now, any Drogs know, is it up to 2,500 now?

Also heard they had to hit the 2k min seating that is PD (not PL;)) requirement. Not sure they got over 2k last year, so it must be the extra seats that side.

[Acornvilla]

Read online that Drogs have extra seats in the stand that is the other side of the Windmill Road, obv they need to keep the away shed free, and no idea how many Sligo took but wondering what the capacity is now, any Drogs know, is it up to 2,500 now?

Also heard they had to hit the 2k min seating that is PD (not PL;)) requirement. Not sure they got over 2k last year, so it must be the extra seats that side.
I might be misremembering/misquoting a fella I spoke to at the ground a week ago, I think he said 2,300 is what they were aiming for. Have lost some standing capacity because of the seating. Were moving some stuff behind the goals further back to make that area a bit wider/safer for people to go through as well.

[oriel]

Always thought behind the non housing estate goal, there is a fair bit of space to stand at Drogs.

There were comments before they were at capacity, but that part never seems to have fans in it, and its not due to all seater regulations etc.

[Straightstory]

Bohs average home attendance of 33,208 is still very impressive.

[EatYerGreens]

Bohs average home attendance of 33,208 is still very impressive.

Almost as impressive as the rate at which it will plummet from now on :p

[Nesta99]

Bohs average home attendance of 33,208 is still very impressive.

Typo! Its the amount of times they've tried to sell Dalymound before DCC bit!

I dont think those numbers will be repeated tbh, doesnt mean holding games in the Aviva would be a fail just the the figures would fall below 33k and reduce each time. If it were Dundalk getting that financial boost I would cre a dot about some unfair advantage but that aside if its an FAI driven thing then there should be broader benefit.

[oriel]

Massive crowd in Edp closer to 5,000 and the capacity will be increased to 5,200 for the Shels game on.

Looked brilliant on virgin and their coverage was excellent .miles ahead of Rte. We have a whole new generation of supported and the atmosphere is brilliant .

Why was 4,231 announced?

[CorribsideSteve]

Bohs average home attendance of 33,208 is still very impressive.
33,208 new kits next year to commemorate the occasion! j/k

[2 Year Contract]

Why was 4,231 announced?

Might be because the ground doesn’t hold 5,000 and there wasn’t that many people there.

I read from a Galway fan on Twitter that 2 games were announced as officially sold out at EDP last season, the first game of the season against Pats (4,094 attendance) and the last home game of the season against Sligo (4,323). So where they’ve allegedly fit in room for an extra 1,000 people I have absolutely no clue

[Buckett]

Capacity has just been increased to 5,100. I'm not exactly sure what happened for it to go up, but it was increased by 800

[2 Year Contract]

Capacity has just been increased to 5,100. I'm not exactly sure what happened for it to go up, but it was increased by 800

Have the club actually confirmed that figure anywhere?

[Buckett]

If they have, I haven't seen it.

[nr637]

Might be because the ground doesn’t hold 5,000 and there wasn’t that many people there.

I read from a Galway fan on Twitter that 2 games were announced as officially sold out at EDP last season, the first game of the season against Pats (4,094 attendance) and the last home game of the season against Sligo (4,323). So where they’ve allegedly fit in room for an extra 1,000 people I have absolutely no clue

EDP has a safe capacity of 4,300, so I suppose the 4,231 announced is close enough!

[gufct]

The figure was reduced to 4,300 just after Covid there was a new engineers report at the end of last season which ratified the new safe holding capacity to 5 ,200 which comes into effect on Monday.

[yurt]

Might be because the ground doesn’t hold 5,000 and there wasn’t that many people there.

To be fair the ground is definitely well able to hold 5k. There's been over 6k+ capacity games in there in years gone by. I'm not going full hog on a conspiracy that GUFC would have sold more than the 4300 capacity but it did strike me as peculiar that there wasn't regular social media posts leading up to the game telling people that there was a chance the game would sell out and to buy tickets early.

Just odd they'd get within 70 people of capacity and to not have made a big deal over the scarcity like they're usually in too much of a rush to do.

[CorribsideSteve]

With the stands combined, that's about 3K seats (open to correction), is there really room for 2 or even 3K more standing behind the clubhouse goal and around the perimeter?

[gufct]

There is standing room at the back of the old stand and room at the other 3 sides to accommodate the extra 900.

[culloty82]

Took longer than might have been expected, but Kerry v Dundalk looks to have sold out, going by the ticket section of the club website.

[EatYerGreens]

Took longer than might have been expected, but Kerry v Dundalk looks to have sold out, going by the ticket section of the club website.

What's the capacity?

[culloty82]

1,200 - there were 1,150 at the first Cork game last season, and you'll always get some few no shows.

[dundalkfc10]

Took longer than might have been expected, but Kerry v Dundalk looks to have sold out, going by the ticket section of the club website.

Away tickets sold out aswell. I'm actually really looking down to going down Friday.

Really hope none of the younger crew flying down Friday on same flight do anything stupid on board (there's always one or two eejets unfortunately)

[outspoken]

Away tickets sold out aswell. I'm actually really looking down to going down Friday.

Really hope none of the younger crew flying down Friday on same flight do anything stupid on board (there's always one or two eejets unfortunately)

You can't buy drink on a domestic flight and it's literally 30 mins up and down, you'd have to be some waster to make a hames of yourself in that situation

[EatYerGreens]

You can't buy drink on a domestic flight and it's literally 30 mins up and down, you'd have to be some waster to make a hames of yourself in that situation

Am i the only one who thinks that people taking a domestic flight to an LOI game is peak Celtic Tiger behaviour? :D

I doubt the teams even fly, nevermind the fans.

[brendy_éire]

Am i the only one who thinks that people taking a domestic flight to an LOI game is peak Celtic Tiger behaviour? :D

I doubt the teams even fly, nevermind the fans.

Heady days. There used to be a 'domestic fast-track' security queue in Dublin airport.

Used to be fairly regular for us fans going to Cork away. Flight from Belfast City-Cork, or Dublin-Cork (or even Derry-Stansted-Cork).

The team used to always fly to Cork the day before the match. Aer Arann had a Derry-Cork route with a stop in Dublin, or they'd go from Belfast City. The bus would drop them off at the airport, then drive down to Cork empty to bring them back up.

We went bust around that time too, for one reason or another.

[Jamesie]

In fairness its hard to resist at €20 for the flight

[dundalkfc10]

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Am i the only one who thinks that people taking a domestic flight to an LOI game is peak Celtic Tiger behaviour? :D

I doubt the teams even fly, nevermind the fans.

Have you seen the price of return flight to the train?
I got my flights for 40 euro and sharing a room for 60 euro.
Train was close to 100 alone

[pineapple stu]

Something pretty wrong with our carbon emissions plan in that case!

[sbgawa]

Some friends of mine rent a Driveyou/Gocar/Yuko carsharing car in Dublin and the 4 of them head off to away matches, costs about €80 between the 4 of them and insurence and petrol are free.
Only draw back is someone has to volunteer to be designated driver each week , they are always on the look out for a non drinker :)

[EatYerGreens]

Heady days. There used to be a 'domestic fast-track' security queue in Dublin airport.

Used to be fairly regular for us fans going to Cork away. Flight from Belfast City-Cork, or Dublin-Cork (or even Derry-Stansted-Cork).

The team used to always fly to Cork the day before the match. Aer Arann had a Derry-Cork route with a stop in Dublin, or they'd go from Belfast City. The bus would drop them off at the airport, then drive down to Cork empty to bring them back up.

We went bust around that time too, for one reason or another.

I'm telling Greta Thunberg....

[EatYerGreens]

Something pretty wrong with our carbon emissions plan in that case!

Welcome to Ireland! Where we'll make up for having awful roads, buses and trains by spaffing your money on heavily-subsidised internal flights for a tiny number of people, rather than invest in decent infrastructure so them flights aren't actually needed. But sure, aren't we a great bunch of lads altogether with our sky high GDP and expensive houses these days!

[Jamesie]

Ryanair Kerry flights are subsidised to the hilt and they don't pay duty on fuel...it stinks obviously...if they did Chinese style high speed rail you'd do the journey in an hour and clear the roads too

[EatYerGreens]

Ryanair Kerry flights are subsidised to the hilt and they don't pay duty on fuel...it stinks obviously...if they did Chinese style high speed rail you'd do the journey in an hour and clear the roads too

You can't have Chinese-style high-speed rail with an Irish-style population and distances. Just a vaguely normal train service would do the job. Its less than 300km, so should be possible in 2hrs/2hrs 30mins with very ordinary technology.

[outspoken]

Aye some price gouging there. 160 brick for a seat on the flight this morning. I went in 2023 and it was 40 return

[holidaysong]

Aye some price gouging there. 160 brick for a seat on the flight this morning. I went in 2023 and it was 40 return

Isn't 'dynamic pricing' wonderful. It's €56 at the moment for the next Dundalk visit in July.

[outspoken]

Given it's subsidized that price today should be looked into by local reps, not good enough

[pineapple stu]

That's capitalism for you in fairness.

[LTFC]

Drogs 2161
Pats 4829



UCD 224
Wexford 848

[culloty82]

Kerry 1195

[Shearer]

1,378 in Limerick.