2006 Attendances

**WindmillWarrior** · 19/11/2006, 12:08 PM

Would guess maybe 1,500 at Sligo v Drogs. And 2,200 at Drogs v Waterford.

**chippie0001** · 19/11/2006, 4:23 PM

Looking forward to seeing the ranking for the season when they come out. I reckon our crowd will be well down on last season, hardly surprising considering how bad our season was but will be interested to see where we rank against the team ahead of us. The figures overall will be disappointing I reckon and more than likely down on 2005 which is a bad omen.

**pineapple stu** · 19/11/2006, 7:25 PM

Update after the final round. 2005 and 2004 in brackets. FD and PD indicate average crowd got in a different division to current year. 1 and 2 refer to first round and second round of matches.

I'll put a few posts on other forums and see if I can fill in any of the gaps. Will put up a revised listing in a week or so. To date, we have 99% of Premier Division attendances and 92% of First Division attendances, compared to 99% and 91% respectively last year.

PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 1463 (1976; 2340)
Bray - 1057 (1550; 818 FD) (missing Longford 2)
Cork - 3003 (3644; 4033) (missing St Pat's 1)
Derry - 2973 (2698; 1672) (missing Sligo 2)
Drogheda - 1751 (1682; 1554)
Dublin City - 488 (175 FD; 592)
Longford - 725 (1004; 1131) (missing Bohs 2 and Shels)
Pat's - 1342 (1599; 1882)
Shels - 1690 (1949; 2158)
Sligo - 1859 (1794 FD; 781 FD) (missing Drogheda)
UCD - 546 (653; 306 FD)
Waterford - 915 (1513; 1753)

FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 421 (316; 291)
Cobh - 338 (403; 240) (missing Finn Harps (both), Limerick 1 and Rovers 2)
Dundalk - 1078 (474; 591)
Harps - 424 (1347 PD; 1106) (missing Dundalk)
Galway - 1148 (566; 571)
Kildare - 265 (186; 298) (missing Harps 2)
Kilkenny - 122 (185; 110) (missing Cobh (both) and Kildare (both))
Limerick - 365 (669; 188) (missing Athlone 2 and Rovers 2)
Monaghan - 204 (183; 182) (missing Harps 2, Kildare 2 and Limerick 2)
Rovers - 1089 (1539 PD; 1349 PD)

Premier Division average - 1513 (1759)
First Division average - 571 (520)

Overall average - 1056 (1195)

Recent games missing -
Cobh v Rovers
Harps v Dundalk
Limerick v Athlone
Monaghan v Kildare

**pineapple stu** · 19/11/2006, 7:29 PM

Couple of other random stats, starting with top crowds. The list is also sorted according to clubs' final ranking in the average crowd stakes.

Code:

Team	Top
PREMIER DIVISION	
Cork City	 5,500 v Shels
Derry City	 5,000 v Shels
Sligo Rovers	 2,900 v Shels
Drogheda United	 2,800 v Shels
Shelbourne	 4,000 v Bohs
Bohemians	 3,104 v Shels
Saint Pat's Ath	 2,145 v Shels
Bray Wanderers	 2,800 v Shels
Waterford Utd	 1,250 v Derry
Longford Town	 1,421 v Sligo
UCD	         1,250 v Shels
Dublin City	 1,900 v Bohs


FIRST DIVISION	
Galway United	 3,092 v Rovers
Shamrock Rovers	 2,000 v Dundalk
Dundalk	         3,500 v Rovers
Finn Harps	 700   v Rovers
Athlone Town	 2,000 v Monaghan
Limerick FC	 1,100 v Rovers
Cobh Ramblers	 550   v Rovers
Kildare County	 1,100 v Rovers
Monaghan United	 800   v Rovers
Kilkenny City	 278   v Dundalk

**EnDai** · 19/11/2006, 7:32 PM

Shels/Bohs, guessing 4000ish. Seemed a huge gate. Bohs fans in Riverside was pretty decent, the New Stand was full, and the main stand was so full it was locked off by security.

Of course, I could be miles off!

**pineapple stu** · 19/11/2006, 7:35 PM

Percentage change in the last thre seasons -

Code:

Club	        Overall	   2006	   2005
Athlone Town	 44.83%	 33.21%	  8.72%
Bohemians	-37.49%	-25.97%	-15.56%
Bray Wanderers	 29.29%	-31.80%	 89.57%
Cobh Ramblers	 40.37%	-16.15%	 67.40%
Cork City	-25.54%	-17.59%	 -9.64%
Derry City	 77.79%	 10.20%	 61.33%
Drogheda United	 12.66%	  4.08%	  8.24%
Dublin City	-17.55%	179.64%	-70.52%
Dundalk	         82.31%	127.38%	-19.82%
Finn Harps	-61.71%	-68.55%	 21.73%
Galway United	101.11%	102.77%	 -0.82%
Kildare County	-10.83%	 42.47%	-37.41%
Kilkenny City	 10.78%	-34.05%	 67.96%
Limerick FC	 93.67%	-45.44%	254.95%
Longford Town	-35.90%	-27.83%	-11.18%
Monaghan United	 11.70%	 11.09%	  0.55%
St Pat's Ath	-28.70%	-16.06%	-15.06%
Shamrock Rovers	-19.24%	-29.19%	 14.05%
Shelbourne	-21.70%	-13.27%	 -9.72%
Sligo Rovers	137.99%	  3.62%	129.67%
UCD	         78.20%	-16.43%	113.24%
Waterford Utd	-47.82%	-39.52%	-13.72%
			
Premier	        -18.35%	-14.01%	 -5.04%
First	         11.56%	  9.87%	  1.54%

Overall average	-13.33%	-11.62%	 -1.94%

The columns from left to right are % change from 2004 to 2006, from 2004 to 2005 and from 2005 to 2006. Figures in bold indicate a season in a new division.

**pineapple stu** · 19/11/2006, 7:39 PM

Originally Posted by EnDai

Shels/Bohs, guessing 4000ish. Seemed a huge gate. Bohs fans in Riverside was pretty decent, the New Stand was full, and the main stand was so full it was locked off by security.

Of course, I could be miles off!

Gone with that until something better comes along! Stats updated.

Should be noted, of course, that they should be taken with the usual pinch of salt for obvious reasons.

**sligoman** · 19/11/2006, 7:41 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Recent games missing -
Bray v Sligo

About 600/650.

**chippie0001** · 19/11/2006, 7:45 PM

Originally Posted by EnDai

Shels/Bohs, guessing 4000ish. Seemed a huge gate. Bohs fans in Riverside was pretty decent, the New Stand was full, and the main stand was so full it was locked off by security.

Of course, I could be miles off!

I would have said somewhere between 3,500 and 4,000 for the game as well.

**Raheny Red** · 19/11/2006, 7:53 PM

Jaysis I thought there was alot more than 4,000 there

**DmanDmythDledge** · 19/11/2006, 8:00 PM

Hopefully there will be an increase in crowds overall next year. Games clashing with the World Cup and plenty of midweek games hit many crowds this season. With the standard of football increasing all the time and hopefully clubs in Europe will be more professional and play games midweek and at the weekend will ensure a rise in attendences.

**Comic Book Guy** · 19/11/2006, 8:11 PM

Cobh Rams v rovers, I reckon about 1,500.

**Paddyfield** · 19/11/2006, 8:33 PM

150 at Kilkenny City V. Galway United

**monzo** · 19/11/2006, 8:34 PM

I think maybe 500 at the Harps match earlier.

**pete** · 19/11/2006, 9:42 PM

Originally Posted by Raheny Red

Jaysis I thought there was alot more than 4,000 there

I would have guessed 4,000 from tv footage. Bohs had 1000 odd.

I have no doubt our crowd are down but i think the 2004 figures were too high. Terraces hard to estimate & people standing in seated areas much easier to estimate.

**thedoyler** · 19/11/2006, 9:58 PM

there was probably 1,000 approx at bray sligo judging by previous crowds 3 sides of the ground had a lot of people at them. The previous estimates are far too low id say.

**depor** · 20/11/2006, 12:12 AM

hopefully from next year there will be definite figures as clubs will have to have proper counters on the turnstiles to comply with new regulations. i think the days of clubs quoting less than actual attendences to avoid the revenue are coming to an end.

**dcfcsteve** · 20/11/2006, 1:06 AM

Pineapple - what figure have you included for City v Cork on Friday?

There was easily 7,000+ at that game, yet you've got our game v Shels down as our top game.

I'll ask for the official figure, but the ground holds 7,700 and was easily at least 90% full on Friday.

That would give us top individual attendnace for the season, and possibly top average crowd as well.

**Schumi** · 20/11/2006, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by dcfcsteve

Pineapple - what figure have you included for City v Cork on Friday?

The average is the same as the previous one so either he hasn't included it or exactly 2973.

**dcfcsteve** · 20/11/2006, 11:07 AM

Update on City attendances :

Two different people who work for the club have given me 2 very different figures for Friday night's attendance ! Therefore, I would go with the 'official' figure of 6,800.

Versus Sligo, difficult given that one of them was back in March (I assume you're only talking League games here ?). But take a figure of 3,000 for March and 3,500 for the October game, and you won't be too far wrong on average bnetween the 2.