Attendances 2024

There were buses running 80+ minutes into the football-orientated bits of West Donegal to Harps games in the early 70s. Wild stuff.

Re: LTFC, Shels have an excellent community officer now fwiw. The same one Rovers used to have!

A little comparison -


The average attendance in the Irish League this season is 1,659
Lingfield - 3684
Glentoran - 2,545
Coleraine - 2,529
Larne - 1,988
Cliftonville - 1,913
Crusaders - 1,580
Ballymena - 1,398
Glenavon - 1,083
Newry - 926
Loughall - 792
Dungannon - 714
Carrick Rangers - 690



The average attendance across the National League in England is about 2,700 - although this is distorted by 3 clubs - Chesterfield with 7,683, Oldham with 6,897 and Southend with 6,323. Lowest - Oxford City 970

The average attendance in League 2 is 6,100 - with about half above and have below - highest is Bradford with about 16,000 and the clubs in the 3,000-6,000 range include (lower to higher) Colchester - Newport - Crewe - Grimsby - Gillingham - Tranmere.

Average attendance across League 1 is 9,500 - with the highest at Derby (26,500) and the lowest at Burton Albion (3,300) and Fleetwood (3,500)

Lowest attendance in the Championship is Rotherham (10,700) - and in the PL both Bournemouth and Luton at 11,000

In the Scottish PL the average is 16,000 - but only 5 clubs get above this - Celtic Rangers, Hibs, Hearts and Aberdeen - the average of the remaining 7 clubs is 5,350 - and all of these clubs get attendances boosted by playing Celtic and Rangers. Lowest is Livingston at 3,500
The average in the Scottish Championship is 3,400 - Dundee 8,000 - Queens Park 1,660
1,100 in SL1
and 570 in SL2

There are big variations across highest average to lowest across the premier leagues in most European countries

Austria - highest - Rapid Wien 16,700 - lowest - WGS Tirol 2000
Belgium - Club Brugge 21,000 - KAS Eupen 3,150
Croatia - Hajduk Split 22,000 - Slaven Belupo 1,100 (a majority of the Croatian clubs get less that 3,000)
Czech Rep - Slavia Prague 17,600 - Jablonek 2,600
Denmark - Copenhagen 26,600 - Hvidovre 4,100
Greece - AEK 24,400 - Kifisias 546 (Morgan Schneiderlin, formerly of Southampton, Man U and Everton, plays for Kifisias)
Holland - Ajax 48,000 - Almere 4,100 (Excelsior get a fraction higher)
Hungary - Ferencvaros 9,800 - Puskas 1,850
Poland - Legia Warsaw 24,500 - Puszcza Niepo?omice 2,800
Portugal - Benefica 58,000 - Arouca 1,860 (12 of the 18 teams in the Portuguese PL get less than 5,000)
Romania - FCSB 14,500 - Voluntari 1,100
Slovakia - average attendance across the league is 2,400 and only one club get over 5,000 (DAC 5,465)
Slovenia - Maribor 3,200 - Radomije 380
Switzerland - Young Boys 28,000 - Lausanne-Ouchy 2,500
Turkey - Galatasary 41,000 - Fatih Karagümrük 810 (six teams get less than 3,000)

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Speaking of UCD increasing numbers, the FAI app now gives our game against Treaty as 430, not 377 as originally stated.

UCD done that loads last year too, had a really official looking attendance figure on the night, and a few days later would round it up to some random number that was higher. Don't understand it. Kerry the same the other night. How does an official attendance count change?

Would the initial figure be the attendance and the revised one be tickets sold?

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

UCD done that loads last year too, had a really official looking attendance figure on the night, and a few days later would round it up to some random number that was higher. Don't understand it. Kerry the same the other night. How does an official attendance count change?

Could be online tickets as an initial figure and then cash tickets added. Not really sure. Thought it happened with more than just us an Kerry from this thread?

Originally Posted by oriel

One for the archives.

Just look at the crowd at Dalymount in this 2 min or so clip, from what a lot are saying is a 1966 or 67 game between Bohs and Dundalk.


https://x.com/DundalkFC/status/1763158931688300599?s=20

Great crowd - but bloody heck, I think the foot.ie discussion about "Worst standard LoI ever" has to take a new direction!

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Could be online tickets as an initial figure and then cash tickets added. Not really sure. Thought it happened with more than just us an Kerry from this thread?

Just Kerry and UCD this year so far. Derry also change theirs, and definitely a few others last year had a few amended figures. UCD add a figure to FAI Connect after a game, and almost every one of them changed as the season went on last year!

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Great crowd - but bloody heck, I think the foot.ie discussion about "Worst standard LoI ever" has to take a new direction!

Indeed, some of the defending, just booting it out for a corner, and both sides seem to have trouble controlling the ball in most passes, still good to see it, not too many tv's in 1966 or 67, radio was king these days, hence the crowds flocked.

Originally Posted by oriel

Indeed, some of the defending, just booting it out for a corner, and both sides seem to have trouble controlling the ball in most passes, still good to see it, not too many tv's in 1966 or 67, radio was king these days, hence the crowds flocked.

Great to see it for sure - and in colour too. Cheers for sharing it! Can see the bit of the stand sold off to become the Mater car park. Radio was king - also meant we didn't know what we were missing across the water too.

Actually just realised, after slagging off the quality of the play, if it is 1966/67, we won the league that season !!

The huge Nestcafe Sign, that was our spot for some of the cup finals I went to as a kid, I remember standing there for cup semi final in 1979 v Cork Alberts and the final v Waterford.

Originally Posted by cláirseach

There were buses running 80+ minutes into the football-orientated bits of West Donegal to Harps games in the early 70s. Wild stuff.

Re: LTFC, Shels have an excellent community officer now fwiw. The same one Rovers used to have!

Ta, now getting someone in who knows what their doing, what works and what doesent, that is great and looks it is paying off already!

Originally Posted by oriel

One for the archives.

Just look at the crowd at Dalymount in this 2 min or so clip, from what a lot are saying is a 1966 or 67 game between Bohs and Dundalk.


https://x.com/DundalkFC/status/1763158931688300599?s=20

Great find !is it me or how come is there no sound from audio?

Its standard cine reel footage didnt have sound, not til 1973 but still very rare. VHS was when A/V became the norm but cameras were carried on shoulders they were that big and heavy, but of a hassle to take to a game....i still find it oddly amusing to think back now that everyone has a HD digital cam in their back pocket.

3076 in Waterford, 2047 Drogheda, 1663 Dundalk, 4883 Rovers.

Other than Dundalk, terrific attendances on a Monday night.

Originally Posted by LTFC

3076 in Waterford, 2047 Drogheda, 1663 Dundalk, 4883 Rovers.

Other than Dundalk, terrific attendances on a Monday night.

Approx. 200+ away support in the RSC from St. Pats,
Approx. 200+ away support in Tolka from Galway,
Approx. 50+ away support in Oriel from Sligo,

Other than a ban on away support at Drogheda, terrific away attendances on a mostly wet Monday night.

A special well done to all the travelling away support!

Originally Posted by LTFC

4883 Rovers.

I thought Tallaght looked sparesely populated on TV. The weather obviously pushed everyone out of the lower rows, and there was little shown of the North Stand, but the new South Stand is really spreading the crowd at games out thin if the ground was almost 50% full and yet still looked fairly empty on TV.

Dundalks crowd really poor, for a town with a population of over 40k and so much tradition they dont seem to be getting any benefit from the resurgence in interest

Originally Posted by LTFC

3076 in Waterford, 2047 Drogheda, 1663 Dundalk, 4883 Rovers.

Other than Dundalk, terrific attendances on a Monday night.

Drogs a bigger crowd than Dundalk :-| didn't expect that and Drogs must be close to capacity.

Originally Posted by nr637

Approx. 200+ away support in the RSC from St. Pats,
Approx. 200+ away support in Tolka from Galway,
Approx. 50+ away support in Oriel from Sligo,

Other than a ban on away support at Drogheda, terrific away attendances on a mostly wet Monday night.

A special well done to all the travelling away support!

Saw a photo of the Galway support and it looked a lot bigger than 200.

Originally Posted by ger121

Saw a photo of the Galway support and it looked a lot bigger than 200.

I think the section in the East stand allocated to away support holds about 350 seats with about 50 empty spaces for security included.

200+ means a lot bigger than 200.

Maybe 2 to 300 so!