2009 attendances

Week 8 update. Official (or mostly official) figures in bold.

PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 2,475 (2008 - 1,993; 2007 - 1,924; 2006 - 1,463; 2005 - 1,976; 2004 - 2,340) (missing Pat's)
Bray - 1,560 (1,106; 1,200; 1,027; 1,550; 818 FD)
Cork - 2,652 (3,142; 2,897; 2,941; 3,644; 4,033)
Derry - 2,972 (3,363; 2,614; 3,229; 2,698; 1,672)
Drogheda - 1,148 (1,631; 1,919; 1,751; 1,682; 1,554)
Dundalk - 3,121 (1,459 FD; 1,406 FD; 1,078 FD; 474 FD; 591 FD)
Galway - 1,259 (1,393; 2,199; 1,148 FD; 566 FD; 571 FD)
Pat's - 2,050 (1,795; 1,910; 1,342; 1,599; 1,882) (missing Rovers)
Rovers - 3,333 (1,468; 1,715; 1,089 FD; 1,539; 1,349)
Sligo - 1,720 (1,960; 1,448; 1,806; 1,794 FD; 781 FD)

FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 631 (387; 670; 421; 316; 291)
Harps - 600 (1,607 PD; 1,164; 428; 1,347 PD; 1,106)
Kildare - 244 (241; 243; 265; 186; 298)
Limerick - 601 (517; 670; 364; 669; 188)
Longford - 448 (406; 885 PD; 681 PD; 1,004 PD; 1,131 PD)
Mervue - 308 (N/A)
Monaghan - 169 (177; 292; 204; 183; 182)
Shels - 1,051 (986; 888; 1,690 PD; 1,949 PD; 2,158 PD)
Sporting Fingal - 752 (688)
UCD - 200 (546 PD; 663 PD; 546 PD; 653 PD; 306)
Waterford - 509 (670; 1,181 PD; 915 PD; 1,513 PD; 1,753 PD)
Wexford - 585 (767; 810)

Premier Division average - 2,168 (1,746; 1,687; 1,535; 1,759; 1,853)
First Division average - 509 (641; 722; 570; 520; 512)

Overall average - 1,293 (1,221; 1,235; 1,070; 1,195; 1,218)

Recent games missing -
Pat's v Rovers

Interesting reading from those figures.Crowds slightly up despite the recession etc.Although thats because clubs have dropped prices dramatically too.Hopefully we have a good summer weather wise and crowd average will improve further.

Shame your "interesting reading" didn't extend to the whole thread. It's been shown that we're a good bit down on this time last year. Tempted to put a "YTD this time last year" in the update each time, though I also think I ultimately couldn't be arsed.

Originally Posted by eamo1

Interesting reading from those figures.Crowds slightly up despite the recession etc.

*Shakes head from side to side and clasps it between his hands*...

don't want to comment on the league as a whole but impressed with dundalks return.
hopefully we can keep it up but our crowds dropped (well in the 1st anyway) between may and september.
I think floodlight games are a crowd puller. creates a better atmosphere and a better game imo

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Recent games missing -
Pat's v Rovers

Rovers were at home and it was a full house

Originally Posted by eamo1

Interesting reading from those figures.Crowds slightly up despite the recession etc.

.....

Originally Posted by dcfcsteve

*Shakes head from side to side and clasps it between his hands*...

Originally Posted by HulaHoop

Rovers were at home

Oh yeah... Cheers.

Galway Utd vs St Pats - 1050

Absolutely pathetic attendance for us, but atmosphere was good

Originally Posted by joey4ireland

Cork City v ROvers attendance: 2489.

Absolutly patethic attendance

. If we got that for every home game we'd be delighted

Originally Posted by joey4ireland

Cork City v ROvers attendance: 2489.

Absolutly patethic attendance

Absolutly cracking atmosphere in the 2nd half,really drove the side on to victory.

Didnt hear an official attendance tonight. The crowd was similar to the UCD game at home so i will say somewhere between 650 to 700.

It was announced after the final whistle at 752 if i heard right.
Disapointed with our usual singing lads though , limerick fans sang loudly all through the match and only about 30 little kids who were there to play half time gave them any response by telling them in unison that they suck . Crap match, Limericks goal was a cracker but most were more interested in the side show of the antics of freddie the fox and leo the lion

Originally Posted by gufc2000

Galway Utd vs St Pats - 1050

Absolutely pathetic attendance for us, but atmosphere was good

thats really bad ! GBFM were saying they were told it was between 1400-1500 ?

Originally Posted by Terry

thats really bad ! GBFM were saying they were told it was between 1400-1500 ?

The general consensus is that 1050 is well off. I would have said around 1400

1500 would have beem my estimate, because the new stand was around 2/3 full (around 850), old stand had between our crew and the Pats lads there was around 450, and then you had about 150 dotted around the ground.

Originally Posted by foxx92

The general consensus is that 1050 is well off. I would have said around 1400

what was also the general consensus was that the supporters entering the ground werent even counted and just waved in as they chatted to others ! Cant see how they get an official count done when acting like that ?

Originally Posted by Terry

what was also the general consensus was that the supporters entering the ground werent even counted and just waved in as they chatted to others ! Cant see how they get an official count done when acting like that ?

One of the lads seemed to be marking it on a sheet, but he only marked every so often

I'd have said about 2000 in Drogheda last night. The West Terrace looked pretty much full (at least the part under the roof) and must hold about 1000 (?) and there were decent crowds in the main stand and the away terrace.


But I never guess attendances so I'm open to correction.

Originally Posted by The Lep

It was announced after the final whistle at 752 if i heard right.
Disapointed with our usual singing lads though , limerick fans sang loudly all through the match and only about 30 little kids who were there to play half time gave them any response by telling them in unison that they suck . Crap match, Limericks goal was a cracker but most were more interested in the side show of the antics of freddie the fox and leo the lion

Good crowd for us. I guess the nice weather and Bank Holiday weekend helped. Disagree about the match being crap. Could have and should have won it. We had more chances in that match than the shels one.