Attendances 2023

[D24Saint]

Were you ever in Pike Rovers' ground? Limerick played there one year too. Remember being in the bar area pre-match and a couple of the UCD players came through to use the jacks. None in the changing rooms. Nothing bar a wall and a mound of grass outside

Never in it but remember they had to play at strange times if memory serves. There probably was no floodlights.

[nr637]

Cork v Shamrocks 1500


First Division Play -Off

Cobh v Wexford - 7/800

[ger121]

Cork v Shamrocks 1500


First Division Play -Off

Cobh v Wexford - 7/800

Cork must have the biggest yo-yo attendances in the league. Yeah, I know crowds are bigger when things are going well but you would think the core support would be higher than sub 2000. That’s 2 weeks in a row.

[Guitd]

1011 attendance at u19 cup final in Galway

[MartyRambler]

Cork v Shamrocks 1500


First Division Play -Off

Cobh v Wexford - 7/800

Cobh figure seems low....there is 900 seats on one side and another few hundred in the top stand, was there really that few people standing?

[El-Pietro]

Cork must have the biggest yo-yo attendances in the league. Yeah, I know crowds are bigger when things are going well but you would think the core support would be higher than sub 2000. That’s 2 weeks in a row.

Its two games in 4 days, not quite two weeks in a row. Two meaningless games in horrific weather, in the middle of the Jazz festival, which is either something you would be going to instead of a Cork City match, or avoiding the city like the plague because of. Not ideal, but understandable.
Parts of the Shed were shut for the Derry game too which would have an effect. I missed the Rovers game due to the early kick off. I was working, I'm sure that I wasn't the only one.

[sbgawa]

1011 attendance at u19 cup final in Galway

Rovers did well to beat Galway in the final considering 4 of the best under 19s were playing in Cork instead of the hungover first team.

[nigel-harps1954]

Cork v Shamrocks 1500


First Division Play -Off

Cobh v Wexford - 7/800

I'd be fairly sure these are both miles out.

Watched a bit of both games and I thought there was a good attendance at both. Perhaps double each of the figures you give.

[MartyRambler]

Cobh game defo double that, I heard 1900 but not sure....

[nr637]

I'd be fairly sure these are both miles out.

Watched a bit of both games and I thought there was a good attendance at both. Perhaps double each of the figures you give.

A reliable Cork source stated that Shamrocks took the option of 7/800 away tickets but after the St. Pats results less than a third travelled down.

The weather in Cobh on the day was poor and the attendance used the 900 seated main south stand and the 450 covered seated east stand behind the goal at the town end. You could put the Cobh attendance closer to 1,000!

[nigel-harps1954]

Cobh v Wexford - 1,970

Dundalk v Bohs - 2,780
Cork City v Shamrock Rovers - 2,184

[nigel-harps1954]

Ahead of the final weekend of league action:

Missing official:

Shelbourne v Dundalk - 6th Oct
Shelbourne v UCD - 27th Oct

Bray v Wexford - 14th July


PREMIER DIVISION

Bohs - 4,253 (3,209 {2022};2,878{19}; 2,148; 2,006; 1,627; 1,724; 1,395; 1,597; 1,496; 1,488)
Cork - 3,629 (3,517 FD; 2,505; 4,245; 4,559; 2,533; 3,263; 3,777; 1,965; 2,786; 2,128 FD)
Derry - 3,326 (3,184; 2,049; 2,297; 1,517; 1,563; 1,124; 1,106; 1,446; 1,460; 2,135)
Drogheda - 1,900 (1,941; 721 FD; ; 377 FD; 850; 583 FD; 813; 1,064; 817; 977; 811)
Dundalk - 2,636 (2,689; 2,775; 2,738; 2,674; 2,738; 3,158; 2,534; 1,997; 949; 1,355)
Pat's - 4,232 (3,489; 1,919; 1,621; 1,504; 1,088; 1,321; 1,386; 1,687; 1,474; 1,346)
Rovers - 5,996 (5,379; 3,384; 2,749; 2,809; 2,041; 2,890; 2,269; 2,763; 3,127; 3,779)
Shels - 3,335 (2,913; 1,071 FD; 654 FD; 496 FD; 554 FD; 596 FD; 713 FD; 1,114; 1,187; 781 FD)
Sligo - 2,555 (2,166; 1,995; 1,853; 1,717; 1,750; 1,750; 1,959; 2,342; 3,007; 2,103)
UCD - 822 (953; 739; 365 FD; 236 FD; 297 FD; 216 FD; 397; 487; 506; 558; 610)

FIRST DIVISION

Athlone - 872 (307; 382; 130; 154; 156; 314; 653 PD; 754; 271; 200)
Bray - 663 (482; 773; 643 PD; 966 PD; 957 PD; 769 PD; 718 PD; 891 PD; 965 PD; 1,121 PD)
Cobh - 1,020 (872; 268; 236; 358; 403; 366; 223; 439; 2008 - 1,122 PD; 681)
Galway - 2,018 (2,081; 780; 746; 1,376 PD; 1,169 PD; 1,290 PD; 975)
Harps - 1,154 (1,293 PD; 1,154 PD; 708; 1,202 PD; 1,216 PD; 784; 449; 479; 429; 433; 644)
Kerry - 784 (No previous)
Longford - 679 (500; 610; 449; 342; 488 PD; 803 PD; 567; 379; 365; 315)
Treaty - 642 (695)
Waterford - 1,833 (1,705; 1,496 PD; 2,329 PD; 1,550; 314; 460; 470; 478; 453; 466)
Wexford - 689 (445; 235; 181; 338; 585 PD; 553; 331; 227; 302; 216)

PREMIER AVERAGE: 3,269 (2,687; 2,185; 2,170; 1,902; 1,476; 1,681; 1,502; 1,566; 1,630; 1,547)
FIRST DIVISION AVERAGE: 1,035 (1,193; 586; 413; 477; 476; 486; 495; 391; 372; 578)

OVERALL AVERAGE: 2,136 (2,051; 1,500; 1,249; 1,387; 1,117; 1,249; 1,160; 1,140; 1,125; 1,110)


OVERALL PREMIER ATTENDANCE: 572,001 (486,365; 393,238; 316,515; 376,627; 292,204; 332,805; 297,334)
OVERALL FIRST ATTENDANCE: 186,369 (178,000; 79,115; 55,756; 53,461; 52,807; 54,474; 55,408)

OVERALL COMBINED ATTENDANCE: 758,370 (664,365; 472,353; 372,271; 430,088; 345,011; 387,279; 352,742)

[nigel-harps1954]

Crunching the numbers overall League of Ireland attendances this season, including league matches, Presidents Cup, playoff matches, and all FAI Cup matches from Round of 16 onwards, where LOI clubs entered, the total attendance across Irish senior football this season is as follows:

League of Ireland Premier Division: 572,001
League of Ireland First Division: 186,369

First Division Play-offs: 6,814

FAI Cup Round 16: 15,915
FAI Cup Round 8: 11,942
FAI Cup Quarter: 10,136
FAI Cup Semi: 10,635

FAI Cup Total: 48,628

Presidents Cup: 3,700

Overall Total: 817,512


With an FAI Cup final, two play-off games, and the final round of Premier Division games to come, you'd expect that figure to go close to 875,000 for the years end.

[Burnsie]

great work on the stats, as always

[ontheotherhand]

A reliable Cork source stated that Shamrocks took the option of 7/800 away tickets but after the St. Pats results less than a third travelled down.

The weather in Cobh on the day was poor and the attendance used the 900 seated main south stand and the 450 covered seated east stand behind the goal at the town end. You could put the Cobh attendance closer to 1,000!

Not sure about that for Rovers v Cork to be honest. Away crowd looked good, home crowd looked really poor. Only the section behind the goal was reasonably well stocked with home fans. Both sides were really sparsely populated.

Check out the youtube highlights at 2:12. Away end is packed. As far as I know 750 travelled. Same video at 2:22 shows the empty seats in the home sections.

[joey B]

Cobh v Wexford - 1,970

Dundalk v Bohs - 2,780
Cork City v Shamrock Rovers - 2,184

Just seen 2,854 for the Cork/Rovers game on Twitter..

[nigel-harps1954]

Just seen 2,854 for the Cork/Rovers game on Twitter..

Nothing official on FAI Connect, seen elsewhere 2,184. Hopefully FAI Connect is updated soon to be sure! 2,854 looks a bit more accurate from the footage I seen though.

[culloty82]

Will be a challenge for Kerry to reach a similar figure next year, given the probable absence of any sell-outs, but if we can start out somewhere around the 600 mark that was being recorded as recently as September (the Galway game being discounted due to the exceptional circumstances), it's then down to results on the pitch to stabilise matters.

[joey B]

8021 at Tallaght
594 at UCD
2180 at Drogheda
4083 at Bohs

[nr637]

8021 at Tallaght
594 at UCD
2180 at Drogheda
4083 at Bohs

Derry will be the official 3700 "sold out" ?