2008 attendances

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

Originally Posted by DonO'Bate

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 ?

500-550, as per earlier in the thread.

Athlone Town vs Longford Town Official 393

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

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

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

Originally Posted by sligored

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.

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

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

Originally Posted by 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

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.

[QUOTE=micls;1062372]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.[/QUOTE]

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

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"

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...

Originally Posted by Maribor

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.

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

Originally Posted by holidaysong

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

Sshhhhhhh

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

Originally Posted by Candystripe

Sshhhhhhh

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?!

Originally Posted by mrtndvn

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.

Originally Posted by Buller

Why are you paying less VAT on gate?!

The UK cut their VAT rate.