2013 Attendances

[PartySaint]

A bit lower than expected from Sligo, Cork and Rovers in their first home league games of the season.

Rovers fans, any reason why there was 4,000 at the game the other night? Would I be right in saying your last 2 or 3 first home games of the season were close to sell outs?

[Charlie Darwin]

There was a lot more than 4,000 at it from what I could see. They didn't announce an official attendance as far as I remember.

[redobit]

a bit disappointing isnt it?

Ya it is a bit. I was expecting/ hoping for the 3000. It wasnt a million miles away from that and no disrespect to BW but they arent a big draw for our fans (first league game or not). Also they brought very little travelling support. Shams, Derry and Limerick all had the boost of good traveling fan numbers for their first home game. We had the guts of 500 in Derry. Pats had a great crowd in Tallaght. But as redbellied said our gate up 500 on the first home game against UCD, so a positive I suppose.

[adamd164]

After the first two weeks of matches, and everyone now played a home game, we can weigh a few things up.

1) 4 teams had a better first home attendance than the reigning Champions, while the team almost relegated were only a mere 100 behind.

Shamrock Rovers - 4,000
Limerick - 3,758
Derry - 2,850
Cork - 2,760
Sligo - 2,684
Dundalk - 2,598

2) Top 6 attendances all looking fairly healthy, (albeit something we usually say at this time of year) good for the league, a couple of good results might see most of them back. That's not to say Fran Gavin won't be too happy Limerick didn't reach his estimate of 10,000 in Thomond.

3) The return of Cobh saw the highest First Division attendance with an impressive 824. Waterford and Harps the only other teams posting reasonable attendances with both 600+.
Disappointingly, a couple of teams saw very poor attendances. Longford and Athlone can feel aggrieved, while Wexford must be scratching their heads at to why only 149 people came in the gates.

4) In 2012 with 2 rounds of games played, and each team playing one home game, there was a total overall attendance of 28,717.
In 2013, at the same point, that figure has increased, by a grand total of 63. 28,780 people have attended a League of Ireland match this season. 25,504 of that in the Premier, 3,287 in the First division.

Overall the picture looks decent given those top 6 attendances, I am disappointed with our figure though. Beating Bohs should help for our crowd at home to Derry next week.

It must be remembered that a good 7/800 of the Rovers attendance will have been Pats fans.

[oriel]

Some good points there Nigel. Just imagine the difference if we had a single 'super league'. Likes of rovers, Sligo. Derry. Cork. Dundalk etc all visiting. ballybofey. Athlone. Longford. Etc......then again would the home support last if heavy defeats were common?

[gufcfan]

Just imagine the difference if we had a single 'super league'. Likes of rovers, Sligo. Derry. Cork. Dundalk etc all visiting. ballybofey. Athlone. Longford. Etc......then again would the home support last if heavy defeats were common?

Imagine how badly the weaker First Division teams would get beaten by some of the top Premier teams?

People don't come out to see the opposition, they come out to see the home team compete against them. If they are not competing, they might as well be in a division where they have a chance of competing and improving over time. Getting battered every few weeks does far more damage than the boon people perceive a single division would bring could compensate for.

One big division removes a load of teams from promotion pushes, relegation battles and playoffs. If there is no consequence to finishing last, over say, higher mid-table, why give a damn about it? I wouldn't.

[Martinho II]

its yrs since we had an av gate of over 500 you have to go back to 2005 for the last av gate over a 1000 ppl. with Longford being a GAA county in the early yrs 2000-2003, with winter soccer a lot of our fan base were GAA fans and we got reg gates of over 3000 a lot but that disappeared with the summer season! we will never get gates now like in the early days again unless we go back to winter football!

[red bellied]

Attendance at the Drogheda against Limerick was 716 according to the report of the game on the http://www.extratime.ie/newsdesk/art...---2-limerick/ website.

[adamd164]

Attendance at the Drogheda against Limerick was 716 according to the report of the game on the http://www.extratime.ie/newsdesk/art...---2-limerick/ website.

Horrendous if true.

[White Horse]

Attendance at the Drogheda against Limerick was 716 according to the report of the game on the http://www.extratime.ie/newsdesk/art...---2-limerick/ website.

Sometimes I wonder what they want down there. A good team, going strong in the Setanta Cup, Euro football to come, and only 700 bother to go to the game?

Financial problems loom if this continues.

[patrickccfc]

Just seen the extratime.ie report of todays game.. top of the page says the attendance was 2,785 while the bottom says 4000.. any bohs or rovers fans able to tell which was more correct?

[SkStu]

Well a significant number of late arrivals were turned away from the ground after kick off as they were told that the game had sold out. 4000 is far closer to a sell out of Dalymount than 2785.

[MiniMourinho]

No white horse. We are financially prudent. We budget for a small income! Crazy idea I know!

[dong]

Jodi stand about eighty percent full, there was definitely a good few empty seats there and a full Des Kelly stand. Whatever that equates to.

[ger121]

Jodi stand about eighty percent full, there was definitely a good few empty seats there and a full Des Kelly stand. Whatever that equates to.

Jodi holds 2742 and the Des Kelly around 1400. Not sure if either attendance figure given is correct. One seems too low and the other probably too high.

[citybone]

There were people whose tickets weren't scanning at the gate so I'm not sure the official figure is right.

There were some people saying that there was one of the scanners not working, This may account for a difference of maybe 250 and 3,000 might be more accurate. Better than Limerick only printing 300 tickets for Cork fans in Thomand. Id say there were another 300 city fans queing to get in with one turnstile open and one ticket boot without any more tickets. wont be the same problem vs UCD 30 away tickets might do. imagine how bad that will look on MNS. Might aswell let them in on the same stand. no point having several stewards a bar man a food person for such a small away support.

[Charlie Darwin]

Jodi looked more or less full from what I could see, but then again I wasn't looking very closely.

[Dalymountrower]

Jodi looked more or less full from what I could see, but then again I wasn't looking very closely.

About 800 Hoops in the Des Kelly ,about 2,300 Bohs fans in the Jodi, about 100 other hanger ons and stray Hoops in the Jodi. 3,200 would be my best estimate. Hopefully the 40 Mongs who were "clashing" outside didn`t get in.

[nigel-harps1954]

I'll probably go with the 2,785 to be honest. Just don't see it being 4,000.

[Dodge]

There was a lot more than 4,000 at it from what I could see. They didn't announce an official attendance as far as I remember.

I don't there was a 'lot' more. Pats section fairly full but loads of space over on the far side. From TV there was plenty of space in the mainstand too