Away Attendances 2025

[nr637]

How Longford FC could attract more fans to their Strokestown Road ground for games!

[Martinho II]

How Longford FC could attract more fans to their Strokestown Road ground for games!

Once upon a time in the winter season we had home gates for some big games of approx 5k ie FAI semi Waterford 2001. The switchover to summer football hasnt worked for us at all!

[Nesta99]

2003, '04 must have been decent and during a Summer season? I know the standout crowd for me over the years was the cup semi in 2002. There were bigger crowds after but not sure there were many in my time before. Its was a home cup semi final and in a winter season but we won the league in front of 1500 or so in 1994. 1500 became our average gate in the 1st Division after 2002. The only way to really attract more to games is winning, unless you are a bee keeping society like Bohs.

% of population going to games across Europe, LoI is bang on or ahead of trend including Longford...probably as I havent looked up population or average gate.

[dundalkfc10]

There's about 9000 clubs in the smallest county of Louth, seems to be a final for each one of them too. Its a factor but not a total crowd buster for the Drogheda and Dundalk. Id have thought Leitrim would have less clubs, least population and all.

This always amazes me. Navan has a population of 33,000 approx and has 1 Gaelic team in the town itself

Dundalk and Drogheda have populations in and around 45,000 and Dundalk has 7 GAA clubs in the town and Drogheda has 5 in the town
I played Gaelic myself for many years and most of the lads I go to Oriel with also played Gaelic and it def takes away from the crowd in Oriel when there's GAA fixtures on a Friday night
Also does be plenty of NEFL games on a Friday night with local teams Glenmuir, Rock regularly playing at same time as Dundalk

[thebronze14]

Didn't see or hear any UCD fans tonight. 806 home fans

[Nesta99]

This always amazes me. Navan has a population of 33,000 approx and has 1 Gaelic team in the town itself

Dundalk and Drogheda have populations in and around 45,000 and Dundalk has 7 GAA clubs in the town and Drogheda has 5 in the town
I played Gaelic myself for many years and most of the lads I go to Oriel with also played Gaelic and it def takes away from the crowd in Oriel when there's GAA fixtures on a Friday night
Also does be plenty of NEFL games on a Friday night with local teams Glenmuir, Rock regularly playing at same time as Dundalk

Im wracking the brain but can only count 6 in the urban area but within 5 miles and it adds 5 more. 39+5 hurling clubs in Louth in total I think. Many run Senior men and women, junior/reserve/almost retired sides, minor and then all the underage stuff. So yeah fo sure if there is a round of games scheduled on Friday nights its knocks numbers off the LoI 2 clubs. I think though there is still enough either or attitude in Louth to limit the impact but that could and probably will change if the county side continues to improve and creates a broader participation. Throw in NEFL, race nights in Dundalk, it does help show why averages can be static enough but can the have big jumps for big games excluding away support and the bandwagon. The attendances at GAA is poor enough still so its near impossible to target the participants for growth, they wont cop out of a game or training to go to Oriel or United Parks.

[outspoken]

Athlone is always an impossible stand to guess numbers in as it's so long but I'd say 150-200 Longford fans over tonight

[dundalkfc10]

Im wracking the brain but can only count 6 in the urban area but within 5 miles and it adds 5 more. 39+5 hurling clubs in Louth in total I think. Many run Senior men and women, junior/reserve/almost retired sides, minor and then all the underage stuff. So yeah fo sure if there is a round of games scheduled on Friday nights its knocks numbers off the LoI 2 clubs. I think though there is still enough either or attitude in Louth to limit the impact but that could and probably will change if the county side continues to improve and creates a broader participation. Throw in NEFL, race nights in Dundalk, it does help show why averages can be static enough but can the have big jumps for big games excluding away support and the bandwagon. The attendances at GAA is poor enough still so its near impossible to target the participants for growth, they wont cop out of a game or training to go to Oriel or United Parks.

Gaels, Clans, Irelanders, O Mahony's,Dowdalshill, Noamh Moinne, Na Piarsagh are the 7 in town

[Nesta99]

Naomh Moninne of course! I just lump the hurling clubs together, I know where Knockbridge play!

[CorribsideSteve]

Athlone is always an impossible stand to guess numbers in as it's so long but I'd say 150-200 Longford fans over tonight
Is it just me, or is it the most dimly lit ground in the league? Its like the floodlights are made of 40 watt bulbs, or maybe that's just how it appears on stream? That for me makes it hard to see who is or isn't in the stand..

[nr637]

Is it just me, or is it the most dimly lit ground in the league? Its like the floodlights are made of 40 watt bulbs, or maybe that's just how it appears on stream? That for me makes it hard to see who is or isn't in the stand..

Time to go to Spec Savers! 🤓

[outspoken]

Is it just me, or is it the most dimly lit ground in the league? Its like the floodlights are made of 40 watt bulbs, or maybe that's just how it appears on stream? That for me makes it hard to see who is or isn't in the stand..

Noticed that last night, I don't know what it is, floodlights looked grand from the road, didn't notice any blown bulbs but it's just so dark..I think it could be the lack of lights behind the two goals, that back pitch is in total darkness and even the car park after games is very dimly lit

[Nesta99]

I was thinking the VM highlights were nostalgia like from European clips late 80s/90s last night, that dimmer orange like lighting rather than the whiter higher lux modern type. Just assumed it was the camera quality or run through some program to clean up footage and that was the end product but maybe it was a general broadcast thing, I know little about TV production. I know that floodlights have to be a certain standard for licencing as Dundalk are in a race to get them sorted in Oriel for PD.

I though the home crowd in the RSC looked sparce considering the importance of every game in the play-off battle.

[Martinho II]

2003, '04 must have been decent and during a Summer season? I know the standout crowd for me over the years was the cup semi in 2002. There were bigger crowds after but not sure there were many in my time before. Its was a home cup semi final and in a winter season but we won the league in front of 1500 or so in 1994. 1500 became our average gate in the 1st Division after 2002. The only way to really attract more to games is winning, unless you are a bee keeping society like Bohs.

% of population going to games across Europe, LoI is bang on or ahead of trend including Longford...probably as I havent looked up population or average gate.

Not for us it was ! Gates were never those numbers we got in SKs last full season. Think there was a drop of at least 2.5k per game

[Comic Book Guy]

About 200 Dundalk fans in Cobh last night.

[trevy]

2243 was the attendance at RSC with around 30 Derry fans.