2008 attendances

[DonO'Bate]

According to today's Connacht Sentinel the attendance at the UCD v GUFC game was 850.

[sligofan4ever]

According to today's Connacht Sentinel the attendance at the UCD v GUFC game was 850.

I'd say alot of the 850 travelled down from Galway ?

[pineapple stu]

500-550, as per earlier in the thread.

[Battery Rover]

Athlone Town vs Longford Town Official 393

[pineapple stu]

First final update of the season so. Clubs who give official figures are in bold. 2 indicates a game in the second round of matches. I'll post on the various club forums to try fill some of the gaps. Usual thanks to everyone for posting figures during the season!


PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 1,993 (2007 - 1,924; 2006 - 1,463; 2005 - 1,976; 2004 - 2,340) (missing Cork 2)
Bray - 1,106 (1,200; 1,027; 1,550; 818 FD)
Cobh - 1,122 (681 FD; 368 FD; 403 FD; 240 FD)
Cork - 3,142 (2,897; 2,941; 3,644; 4,033)
Derry - 3,363 (2,614; 3,229; 2,698; 1,672) (missing Cobh 2)
Drogheda - 1,631 (1,919; 1,751; 1,682; 1,554) (missing Pat's 2)
Harps - 1,607 (1,164 FD; 428 FD; 1,347; 1,106 FD) (missing Cobh 2)
Galway - 1,393 (2,199; 1,148 FD; 566 FD; 571 FD)
Pat's - 1,795 (1,910; 1,342; 1,599; 1,882) (missing Cork 2, Derry 2 and Galway 2)
Rovers - 1,468 (1,715; 1,089 FD; 1,539; 1,349)
Sligo - 1,960 (1,448; 1,806; 1,794 FD; 781 FD)
UCD - 546 (663; 546; 653; 306 FD)

FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 387 (670; 421; 316; 291)
Dundalk - 1,459 (1,406; 1,078; 474; 591)
Kildare - 241 (243; 265; 186; 298) (missing Monaghan 2, Fingal 2 and Waterford 2)
Limerick - 517 (670; 364; 669; 188)
Longford - 406 (885 PD; 681 PD; 1,004 PD; 1,131 PD)
Monaghan - 177 (292; 204; 183; 182) (missing Kildare 2, Waterford 2 and Wexford 2)
Shels - 986 (888; 1,690 PD; 1,949 PD; 2,158 PD)
Sporting Fingal - 688 (N/A) (missing Kildare (both), Waterford (both))
Waterford - 670 (1,181 PD; 915 PD; 1,513 PD; 1,753 PD)
Wexford - 767 (810)

Premier Division average - 1,746 (1,687; 1,535; 1,759; 1,853)
First Division average - 641 (722; 570; 520; 512)

Overall average - 1,221 (1,235; 1,070; 1,195; 1,218)

FD is an average crowd in the First Division; PD is an average crowd in the Premier Division. I've only put that in where the attendances was when the club was in a different one to their current division.

Recent games missing -
Bohs v Cork
Derry v Cobh
Drogheda v Pat's
Pat's v Derry
Monaghan v Waterford

[Inside Man]

Sligo Rovers V Bray wanderers was 3,412 just to clarify.

[sligored]

great work stu all year.
i was hoping to pass bohs out to become the 3rd best supported loi club this year.

[John83]

i was hoping to pass bohs out to become the 3rd best supported loi club this year.
We tried, but frankly, your house just hasn't the capacity of Dalymount. ;)

Oh well, at least Bohs recently passed Sligo out in the race for LoI club third closest to bankruptcy. :p

[pete]

I would say maybe 2300 at Dalymount. On the Jodi was open.

[Dalymountrower]

Pete , what were you on? About 1800 I`d say. Good crowd of Corkies, sang their team off the field, they dont deserve you. Most spinelesss performance by a Cork team in Dalymount .......ever

[micls]

Pete , what were you on? About 1800 I`d say. Good crowd of Corkies, sang their team off the field, they dont deserve you. Most spinelesss performance by a Cork team in Dalymount .......ever

They do, they have been outstanding since all this crap started months ago. They won the Setanta cup on 30% of their wages, they attended meetings, fundrasiers and did everything they could to help out.

They've played an incredible amount of games for a squad of about 14(Mathews doesnt do subs) and we dont have any quality going forward.

It was an awful performance but they were quite simply wrecked. Some of them were in tears afterwards apologising for the performance.

Most of them were playing knowing they were unemployed at 9.30 and not knowing where the next paycheck was coming from.

They got the response they deserved for the season they put in, despite the performance that night.

Legends.

[Dalymountrower]

They do, they have been outstanding since all this crap started months ago. They won the Setanta cup on 30% of their wages, they attended meetings, fundrasiers and did everything they could to help out.

They've played an incredible amount of games for a squad of about 14(Mathews doesnt do subs) and we dont have any quality going forward.

It was an awful performance but they were quite simply wrecked. Some of them were in tears afterwards apologising for the performance.

Most of them were playing knowing they were unemployed at 9.30 and not knowing where the next paycheck was coming from.

They got the response they deserved for the season they put in, despite the performance that night.

Legends.

Fair enough, hope it works out for them and the club.

[MariborKev]

From our chairman in today's press

"Our average attendance figure for the year was roughly 2,000 supporters. People talked about crowds of 3,500 and 4,000 fans attending Brandywell Stadium, that did not happen once last season," he insisted"

[Dodge]

So foot.ie has the average at 3,363 and the Derry chairman states that they didn't get one crowd over 3,500?

Thats remarkably consistent crowds by Derry... ;)

[mrtndvn]

From our chairman in today's press

"Our average attendance figure for the year was roughly 2,000 supporters. People talked about crowds of 3,500 and 4,000 fans attending Brandywell Stadium, that did not happen once last season," he insisted"

Whats your take on that quote? Is he still only referring to the paying customers and not season tickets?

I know its a lie, I seen the attendance against Harps with my own eyes. Unless he forgot about that one.

[holidaysong]

Sounds like he is trying to do a job on the VAT from the turnstiles.. ;)

[Candystripe]

Sounds like he is trying to do a job on the VAT from the turnstiles.. ;)

Sshhhhhhh :D

Good news is next year Derry only have to pay 15% of the gate instead of the 17.5% since 1985.

[Buller]

Sshhhhhhh :D

Good news is next year Derry only have to pay 15% of the gate instead of the 17.5% since 1985.

Why are you paying less VAT on gate?!

[Candystripe]

Whats your take on that quote? Is he still only referring to the paying customers and not season tickets?

I know its a lie, I seen the attendance against Harps with my own eyes. Unless he forgot about that one.

He has to be talking about paying at the turnstiles/ticket booths as there were nearly 2,000 Harps fans at the first game.

On my post above, we only have to pay VAT on tickets sold for a match night as we don't pay VAT on season ticket sales.

We had over 1,600 season ticket for last season so the figures do add up apart from the Harps and Linfield games.

[holidaysong]

Why are you paying less VAT on gate?!

The UK cut their VAT rate.

[Candystripe]

Why are you paying less VAT on gate?!

Clubs in the north always had to pay VAT on the gate unlike the 26 counties who don't pay any, but the government have dropped it to 15% a few days ago.

[OneRedArmy]

Ties in nicely with our wage bill in our annual accounts......

[garyderry]

Whats your take on that quote? Is he still only referring to the paying customers and not season tickets?

I know its a lie, I seen the attendance against Harps with my own eyes. Unless he forgot about that one.

harps & linfield had to be up there, but overall i doubt he is far wrong.

[garyderry]

Clubs in the north always had to pay VAT on the gate unlike the 26 counties who don't pay any, but the government have dropped it to 15% a few days ago.

only for one season then rumoured to be going up to at least 18.5%
so overall not that good

[dcfcsteve]

Good news is next year Derry only have to pay 15% of the gate instead of the 17.5% since 1985.

Bad news is that that VAT rate will go back-up again shortly to even higher than 17.5%....

[pineapple stu]

Meant to do this a while back, but a quick bump to see if I can fill any of the gaps.

I'm missing crowds for the following games -

14/11 - Bohs v Cork
14/11 - Derry v Cobh
14/11 - Drogheda v Pat's
22/08 - Harps v Cobh
04/11 - Pat's v Cork
10/11 - Pat's v Derry
20/10 - Pat's v Galway

01/08 - Kildare v Monaghan
31/10 - Kildare v Waterford
22/08 - Kildare v Sporting Fingal
02/11 - Monaghan United v Kildare
15/11 - Monaghan v Waterford
22/08 - Monaghan v Wexford
24/10 - Sporting Fingal v Kildare
19/06 - Sporting Fingal v Kildare
10/10 - Sporting Fingal v Waterford
26/05 - Sporting Fingal v Waterford

Usual thanks to people posting figures throughout the season, except for the Derry fans. ;)

[HarpoJoyce]

Meant to do this a while back, but a quick bump to see if I can fill any of the gaps.

I'm missing crowds for the following games -
...............


No..... I..... I wasn't at any of those games. Count me out of the attendance when you get them.

[Mr A]

Meant to do this a while back, but a quick bump to see if I can fill any of the gaps.

I'm missing crowds for the following games -

14/11 - Bohs v Cork
14/11 - Derry v Cobh
14/11 - Drogheda v Pat's
22/08 - Harps v Cobh
04/11 - Pat's v Cork
10/11 - Pat's v Derry
20/10 - Pat's v Galway

01/08 - Kildare v Monaghan
31/10 - Kildare v Waterford
22/08 - Kildare v Sporting Fingal
02/11 - Monaghan United v Kildare
15/11 - Monaghan v Waterford
22/08 - Monaghan v Wexford
24/10 - Sporting Fingal v Kildare
19/06 - Sporting Fingal v Kildare
10/10 - Sporting Fingal v Waterford
26/05 - Sporting Fingal v Waterford

Usual thanks to people posting figures throughout the season, except for the Derry fans. ;)

22/08 - Harps v Cobh around 800 I think.

[oriel]

Stu - would you be able to pull out a high and low for each club for 2008.

If you cant no probs, just interested..

PS thanks for compiling these for 2008 - have a good xmas !

[pineapple stu]

Think you asked that before actually... :o


Team Top Bottom
PREMIER DIVISION
Derry City 6,870 1,700
Cork City 4,791 900
Bohemians 4,105 1,124
Sligo Rovers 3,412 800
St Patrick's A 3,050 700
Drogheda United 2,500 500
Finn Harps 4,700 800
Shamrock Rovers 4,300 466
Galway United 2,790 779
Cobh Ramblers 3,400 600
Bray Wanderers 2,200 300
UCD 1,100 230


FIRST DIVISION
Dundalk 2,300 500
Shelbourne 2,038 512
Wexford Youths 1,826 360
Sporting Fingal 1,276 300
Waterford Utd 1,200 320
Limerick FC 749 292
Longford Town 950 150
Athlone Town 741 146
Kildare County 1,023 100
Monaghan United 502 47

[oriel]

Thanks for that.

Derrys looks a bit high for their lowest, also Mons low could well be a european record.

[pineapple stu]

We know all about Derry's figures.

In fairness, other European countries, especially at lower levels, get poor crowds. Look at the Estonian league (http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/2000/aveest.htm), for example.

[mrtndvn]

Thanks for that.

Derrys looks a bit high for their lowest, also Mons low could well be a european record.

Derry's attendance against Harps was around that figure and I would not be surprised if it was bigger. It was easily as big as the crowd that we had against Cork for the league decided two years ago.

In fact, the crowd was so big, KO was delayed due to crowd congestion.

[Dodge]

He talked about your "lowest" figure

[mrtndvn]

He talked about your "lowest" figure

I now realize that!

I don't know what match that was supposed to be so I cant really say how my opinion of the figure compairs.

[OneRedArmy]

We know all about Derry's figures.Surely the point is that we don't?

Wildly conflicting info.

[pineapple stu]

We do know that the figures here appear to be way too high. Which is enough to know, if not, I'll concede, "all".

[Mr Maroon]

When did Kildare get over 1,000?

[Dunny]

When did Kildare get over 1,000?

The night we won the FD AFAIK.

[holidaysong]

Yeah not hard to work that one out!

[Inside Man]

Just for personal interest. Does anyone know Kildare's second highest figure?

[oriel]

Yeah not hard to work that one out!

I coulnd`t make the match, but did i hear they upped the admission from 10.00 to 15.00 for this game ?

[The Lilywhites]

True, with €10 still printed on the ticket.

[Dunny]

And the fellas selling the tickets telling us to f**k off..

[jinxy lilywhite]

And the fellas selling the tickets telling us to f**k off..

True but lads if they charged €25.00 in and if the game went the same way it still would of been worth it. That night was priceless

[Black and White]

Yeah but its the principle of it...they had no right to do that...bottom of the 1st division and charging bloody €15 in...didnt affect me i had a student card!!!lol but like was a disgrace esp with the bloody original €10 price stil printed on the ticket!!

[pineapple stu]

Just for personal interest. Does anyone know Kildare's second highest figure?
429 (and then 350) against Shels.

[dcfcsteve]

True but lads if they charged €25.00 in and if the game went the same way it still would of been worth it. That night was priceless

Not the point....

[ShnaeGuevara715]

Have we come to final definitive (as we'll ever be) figures on the 2008 season that can be committed to the archives?

Your work is vastly underappreciated pineapple! Kinda like pliny the elder mappin the world thousands of years ago for the craic, to be treated like sacred manuscript in human development for thousands of years after lol

[pineapple stu]

It's as is. I sent it on to www.EUropean-Football-Statistics.co.uk, but they haven't updated for 2008 yet.

Nice analogy though!