2013 Attendances

[White Horse]

Drogheda fans saying the need to get in over 1,000 on average to even have a chance of paying wages.

A Sunday afternoon kick-off with no English football will be a good test of how much the Drogheda public back their club and team.

[nigel-harps1954]

Happy with Harps attendances so far. They can only keep going up if the team keeps winning. Was delighted to get over 700 on a night as cold and blustery and wet as last night.

A good result in Mervue next week will hopefully see us closer to the 1,000 mark against Wexford. Been a few years since there was over 1,000 in Finn Park for a league game that wasn't against Derry, would be wonderful to see again.

[Ezeikial]

Drogheda fans saying the need to get in over 1,000 on average to even have a chance of paying wages.

A Sunday afternoon kick-off with no English football will be a good test of how much the Drogheda public back their club and team.

Extratime:

Teams are in for this afternoon's game, both sides are playing a 4-5-1 formation. There are just over 250 hard souls here and when i say it's cold, it's very cold.

http://extratime.ie/fixtures/detail/19100/1/

[nigel-harps1954]

2,334 at Cork v Derry
1,704 at Shels v Rovers.

[oriel]

I cant understand why Drogs didnt go for Sat night for this game v Bray. Sunday afternoon was just asking for trouble, unlike Shels, they had a choice.

[patrickccfc]

2,334 at Cork v Derry
1,704 at Shels v Rovers.

Looked less at our game tbh but then im not good at estimating

[nigel-harps1954]

Week 3:

Missing Salthill v Wexford.

PREMIER DIVISION

Bohs - 2,684 (1,496; 1,488; 1,835; 2,366; 1,993; 1,924; 1,463; 1,976)
Bray - 1,200 (965; 1,121; 952; 1,169; 1,106; 1,200; 1,027; 1,550)
Cork - 2547 (2,786; 2,128 FD; 1,693 FD; 2,681; 3,142; 2,897; 2,941; 3,644)
Derry - 1,825 (1,460; 2,135; 1,965 FD; 2,436; 3,363; 2,614; 3,229; 2,698)
Drogheda - 825 (977; 811; 859; 1,106; 1,631; 1,919; 1,751; 1,682)
Dundalk - 2,326 (949; 1,355; 1,877; 2,371; 1,459 FD; 1,406 FD; 1,078 FD; 474 FD)
Limerick - 2,735 (734 FD; 569 FD; 598 FD; 429 FD; 517 FD; 670 FD; 364 FD; 669 FD)
Pat's - 1,706 (1,474; 1,346; 1,756; 1,631; 1,795; 1,910; 1,342; 1,599)
Rovers - 4000 (3,127; 3,779; 3,794; 3,611; 1,468; 1,715; 1,089 FD; 1,539)
Shels - 1402 (1,187; 781 FD; 737 FD; 972 FD; 986 FD; 888 FD; 1,690; 1,949)
Sligo - 2,498 (3,007; 2,103; 1,807; 1,756; 1,960; 1,448; 1,806; 1,794 FD)
UCD - 236 (506; 558; 610; 272 FD; 546; 663; 546; 653; 306 FD)

FIRST DIVISION

Athlone - 346 (271; 200; 354; 462; 387; 670; 421; 316)
Cobh - 824 (2008 - 1,122 PD; 681; 368; 403; 240)
Harps - 667 (429; 433; 644; 480; 1,607 PD; 1,164; 428; 1,347 PD; 1,106) -
Longford - 320 (365; 315; 230; 260; 406; 885 PD; 681 PD; 1,004 PD)
Mervue - 265 (243; 349; 123; 166)
SD Galway - 100 (182; 125; 122)
Waterford - 519 (453; 466; 619; 434; 670; 1,181 PD; 915 PD; 1,513 PD)
Wexford - 149 (302; 216; 343; 494; 767; 810)

PREMIER AVERAGE: 1,995 (1,630; 1,547; 1,512; 2,010; 1,746; 1,687; 1,535; 1,759)
FIRST DIVISION AVERAGE: 402 (372; 578; 682; 417; 641; 722; 570; 520)

OVERALL AVERAGE: 1,178 (1,101; 1,110; 1,095; 1,175; 1,221; 1,235; 1,070; 1,195)

TOTAL WEEKLY ATTENDANCE: 8,534
OVERALL ATTENDANCE: 45,980

[nigel-harps1954]

I cant understand why Drogs didnt go for Sat night for this game v Bray. Sunday afternoon was just asking for trouble, unlike Shels, they had a choice.

The figure given was before kick-off. Had to be more than 250 at the game.

[luiz]

Don't know how credible source would be a new user with 7 posts, but I've been to United Park today and counted exactly 296 brave people, one by one, just before the kick off, and kept an eye at the gate for a few minutes after it, when about 100 people entered, giving a total of about 400 (let's believe there were 2 in the bathroom and 2 in the queue for a cup of tea). Even considering the awful weather, that this is probably the coldest stadium of Ireland, that until the noon people weren't even sure that this game was going to happen (there were no burger and chips in the stadium because according to the lady "this is too few people to bother with frying them") and that certain team isn't exactly the opponent people most want to watch (but to be fair, they brought a decent number of supporters. Actually there were two banners from Trabzonospor there, so possibly some turks came to try to improve the numbers), this is totally embarassing.

[Martinho II]

Its embarrasing seeing our average gates is only fifth in the first division.. in fairness though its not good when our only home game in the first div so far is one of the top teams.. for gods sake ppl in longford come out and follow us!

[ger121]

2,334 at Cork v Derry
1,704 at Shels v Rovers.

Must have been a load of Rovers fans in the Riverside coz from looking at the match, I'd say there wasn't even 700 Shels fans in the main/lego stands.

[Sam_Heggy]

, that this is probably the coldest stadium of Ireland,

I've got to pull you up on that comment.

You have clearly never been to Ferrcarraig or Carlisle grounds... They'ed by baltic in a heatwave.

[gspain01]

I've got to pull you up on that comment.

You have clearly never been to Ferrcarraig or Carlisle grounds... They'ed by baltic in a heatwave.

Sligo last night was baltic it was genuinely colder than Stockholm the night before.

Lourdes Stadium (showing my age here) was notoriously the coldest ground in the league although I was only there once. Never thought United Park was a s bad although quite close by.

[MeathDrog]

Extratime:

http://extratime.ie/fixtures/detail/19100/1/

The attendance was poor but it was certainly more than 250.

[Dunny]

250 + 1 man and a dog then.

[nigel-harps1954]

400 estimated by Extratime.ie. I'll probably go with that after the post by luiz and ET article unless I can get an official attendance.

[Ezeikial]

The attendance was poor but it was certainly more than 250.

Sunday afternoon was a bad call by Drogheda (because of the ill-fated midweek Turkish friendly perhaps?). When you consider the direct clash with Louth intercounty GAA match right beside HD Park it appears completely mental.

A crowd of c 400 for a team that won a cup last season, finished league runners-up and making Setanta progress - it beggars belief

[MeathDrog]

250 + 1 man and a dog then.

Nice one.

Sunday afternoon was a bad call by Drogheda (because of the ill-fated midweek Turkish friendly perhaps?). When you consider the direct clash with Louth intercounty GAA match right beside HD Park it appears completely mental.

A crowd of c 400 for a team that won a cup last season, finished league runners-up and making Setanta progress - it beggars belief

Was there a match on in the Gaelic grounds? Didn't even notice.

To be fair there was a large crowd in attendance for the Limerick game. That awful performance probably kept a lot of people away for the mean time.

Another consideration is that we have a ridiculous amount of fixtures in March. People are cherrypicking which games to go to and all LOI fans are guilty of this.

And finally, it was absolutely f*cking freezing. No conditions to be out at all.

[El-Pietro]

Athlone Town vs Cobh Ramblers 311

about 20-30 teenaged Cobh fans, and 6 Cork City fans among that number.

[luiz]

I've got to pull you up on that comment.

You have clearly never been to Ferrcarraig or Carlisle grounds... They'ed by baltic in a heatwave.

Well, I've been to Carlisle and didn't find as bad as people say. Personally I think that Drogheda's stadium is much worse.