For Tallaght i meant to add.
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Yeah, it was announced as a league attendance record for Tallaght stadium. Hopefully it'll be broken again this season. The potential is definitely there, it's a credit to SDCC that they've continued to push with the development and turned it into a great community venue, with Rovers as the anchor.
Expect sporadic updates this season. Any issues PM me.
PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 3,210 (2,148; 2,006; 1,627; 1,724; 1,395; 1,597; 1,496; 1,488)
Cork - 3,038 (4,245; 4,559; 2,533; 3,263; 3,777; 1,965; 2,786; 2,128 FD)
Derry - 3,560 (2,297; 1,517; 1,563; 1,124; 1,106; 1,446; 1,460; 2,135)
Dundalk - 2,961 (2,738; 2,674; 2,738; 3,158; 2,534; 1,997; 949; 1,355)
Harps - 1,420 (708 FD; 1,202; 1,216; 784 FD; 449 FD; 479 FD; 429 FD; 433 FD; 644 FD)
Pat's - 2,374 (1,621; 1,504; 1,088; 1,321; 1,386; 1,687; 1,474; 1,346)
Rovers - 3,707 (2,749; 2,809; 2,041; 2,890; 2,269; 2,763; 3,127; 3,779)
Sligo - 2,158 (1,853; 1,717; 1,750; 1,750; 1,959; 2,342; 3,007; 2,103)
Waterford - 2,473 (2,329; 1,550 FD; 314 FD; 460 FD; 470 FD; 478 FD; 453 FD; 466 FD)
UCD - 806 (365 FD; 236 FD; 297 FD; 216 FD; 397; 487; 506; 558; 610)
FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 518 (130; 154; 156; 314; 653 PD; 754; 271; 200)
Bray - 978 (643 PD; 966 PD; 957 PD; 769 PD; 718 PD; 891 PD; 965 PD; 1,121 PD)
Cabinteely - 430 (261; 346; 352; 610)
Cobh - 307 (236; 358; 403; 366; 223; 439; 2008 - 1,122 PD; 681)
Drogheda - 564 (377; 850 PD; 583; 813 PD; 1,064 PD; 817 PD; 977 PD; 811 PD)
Galway - 1,115 (746; 1,376 PD; 1,169 PD; 1,290 PD; 975)
Limerick - 564 (931 PD; 1,610 PD; 1,131; 1,206 PD; 757 PD; 1,649 PD; 734; 569)
Longford - 641 (449; 342; 488 PD; 803 PD; 567; 379; 365; 315)
Shels - 945 (654; 496; 554; 596; 713; 1,114 PD; 1,187 PD; 781)
Wexford - 264 (181; 338; 585 PD; 553; 331; 227; 302; 216)
PREMIER AVERAGE: 2,515 (2,170; 1,902; 1,476; 1,681; 1,502; 1,566; 1,630; 1,547)
FIRST DIVISION AVERAGE: 627 (413; 477; 476; 486; 495; 391; 372; 578)
OVERALL AVERAGE: 1,724 (1,249; 1,387; 1,117; 1,249; 1,160; 1,140; 1,125; 1,110)
OVERALL PREMIER ATTENDANCE: 153,388 (316,515; 376,627; 292,204; 332,805; 297,334)
OVERALL FIRST ATTENDANCE: 27,598 (55,756; 53,461; 52,807; 54,474; 55,408)
OVERALL COMBINED ATTENDANCE: 180,986 (372,271; 430,088; 345,011; 387,279; 352,742)
Excellent stuff Nigel.
I've started keeping a spreadsheet of the attendances too now and was going to chip in the figures over the next few days if you hadn't had the chance. Happy to stand back, or to lend you a hand on it all - whichever you fancy, as it's your baby.
Thanks again for posting the above. Some really encouraging figures in there.
Some impressive increases there. When you think that Bray and Shels are a sniff away from 1,000 average in the FD and Galway are well over that, and Dundalk are a whisker off the PD having four teams averaging over 3k there's something positive happening. Great to see, and long may it continue. Cork's the aberration, though. Artificial high in previous seasons, or results and style of play not holding fans?
That must be worth about €60,000 to the club in ticket sales roughly? 4,500-5,000 non season ticket holders at an average of €12 a ticket works out at €54,000-60,000. Before you add everything that comes with extra people in the ground, both income and expenses, that's not bad.
Huh? We were winning for several seasons with very high attendances. Now we're not winning, attendances are lower. Look at Rovers crowds for the last four or five years, they were low. Now they are winning and so their crowds are high.
People like winning teams.
If Dundalk could add an average of 40 it would be 5 teams averaging over 3000, rather than 4. There is the feeling of somthing happening, sustaining it is the challange. If some of those averages were given as % of safe holding capacity they would look even better in some cases.
That's what I was was trying to get at, albeit I accept not very clearly. If 3k is your solid base, but you can get 4k+ regularly, the challenge (for every club, this isn't pointing fingers at Cork) is to see if the artificial high can become the norm. Hopefully numbers'll go back up again soon.
That's a pity. You need to get Michael D on the case!
Corks attendances aren't actually that bad in the grand scheme of the league, it's just that in comparison to previous seasons they're poor and this season attendances are higher than normal so they look bad but for a team, and I don't think Cork fans will mind me saying this, performing pretty poorly and 7th in the league their current average would still be the highest average last season so it's not all doom and gloom. I'd be worried if they dropped any more though.
What's the capacity now for tallaght after the new stand being added?
8,000 seems to be what most media outlets went with at the time it was opening. Haven't seen any official capacity figure anywhere though.
8000 is correct plus or minus 10. The new South stand holds 2,195
East stand: 2,800
Main Stand: 3,020
It's still a shame if there was further demand that some Bohs fans may have missed out if not a 'capacity' crowd. For all the policing that happens at the fixture and that there are games of 50-80k held in Dublin regularly surely Na Gardaí would be well fit to safely manage the additional 'away' fans. Their policy on limiting travelling support is perplexing considering the relatively small numbers overall and that there is little to no trouble in grounds. Those that cause trouble outside of the grounds generally dont actually go to games!
Seems a bit silly to be turning away paying customers, particularly as its a game that often gets people hooked on LOI but if the AGS make the call there is very little SRFC (or any club) can do. Fair to say the development of LOI is not an AGS priority ! There was plenty of room in the stand we were in the other night and it could easily have facilitated another couple of hundred, frustrating that the money is lost to clubs and the chance to attend lost to fans and potential fans.
The policing the other night was excellent and I didn't see any real incidents either in or around the ground (couple of bottles thrown at Talbot by a couple of morons after FT but nothing more). given the controversy it was very well behaved (but still as passionate as ever).
The attendance tonight will be interesting for Dundalk v Rovers, I know there was an extra 100 away tickets given, so that might allow for 600-650 away support, 500 max away terrace, maybe 150 max stand. Dundalk will probably account for at least 3.5k, so it should be well over 4k for this game. I think the safe capacity is now 5.5k in Oriel Park these days.
No online tickets also for this game, so not sure how that will affect the numbers.
You could be right Ez, the seating capacity is only 3,200 in any case.
Rovers fans better have brollies with them. Weather is poor and will knock a few hundred home supporters off the gate imo.
4026 Dundalk v Rovers
A disappointing 640 at Bray v Cabinteely tonight. Even given the bad weather it's a derby of sorts.
The Devlin factor would make it of interest too. Plus the fact that Cabo have asked before about groundsharing in the Carlisle.
Think calling it "a derby of sorts" is entirely fair.
2850 or so in Dalymount.
2,600 est at Derry city v Cork city.
(Extra time has it at 3,500 but was definitely nowhere near that.)
About 1100 at Pats v UCD
1,832 at the north west derby.....
I can read, and I know that you don't put a space between the end of a word and a question mark.
More of a derby or a bigger Derby; it's six of one, half dozen of the other. C
Cork/Waterford and Derry/Harps are derbies that draw big crowds and have seen tension occur in-game between the two sides. Bray and Cabinteely are meeting each other in the League of Ireland for the first time this year in a fixture that had 600 people and probably the tenacity of a pillow fight.
Nowhere was it suggested that Bray v Cabo was bigger.
It was just suggested that a "derby" tends to involve teams closer than 75 miles apart. There's a difference between a rivalry and a derby.
Anyone know what the official attendance was for St Pats v Derry on the 15th April ?