2008 Australian football code crowds

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Australia is home to 4 professional football codes. This is a comprehensive list of crowd figures for Australian football codes in 2008. It includes several different competitions and matches from Australian Rules Football, Rugby League, Association Football and Rugby Union (International Rules is a code of football played by Australian Rules footballers). Sydney and Brisbane have teams represented in all four codes. Hobart and Darwin are Australia's only capital cities without a professional football team, but both cities play host to Australian Rules and Rugby League games during the pre and regular season.

Contents 1 Included Competitions 1.1 National Competitions 1.2 Other Competitions 1.3 Non-Competition Games 2 Attendances by Code 3 Attendances by League 4 Attendances by Match 4.1 Single Matches 4.2 League Matches 5 See also 6 External links

[edit] Included Competitions

[edit] National Competitions

Several football codes have national (domestic) competitions in Australia, the following are taken into consideration:

• The 2008 Australian Football League season (AFL), which includes a finals series and a pre-season cup (the 2008 NAB Cup)
• The 2008 National Rugby League season (NRL)
• The 2008-09 A-League season (A-L)

Two of these leagues, specifically the NRL and A-League, have one team in New Zealand. Attendance figures for the New Zealand teams are taken into account in the figures on this page.

Note that the Australian Rugby Championship folded at the end of 2007.

[edit] Other Competitions

Other competitions, such as international and representitive competitions, included are:

• The 2008 Rugby League World Cup, which will be held in Australia in 2008 (RL WC)
• The 2008 Tri Nations Series (Tri Nat)
• The 2008 Rugby League State of Origin series (SoO)
• The 2008 Super 14 season
• The 2008 Asian Champions League (ACL)
• The 3rd Round of Asian qualification for the 2010 FIFA World Cup (WCQ)

Note: For these competitions, only figures for games that take place in Australia are taken into account

[edit] Non-Competition Games

Some Non-competition matches (such as friendly and exhibition matches) are also included:

• AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match
• Home test matches played by the Australian National Rugby Union Team, the Wallabies, in 2008.
• Home test matches played by the Australian National Rugby League Team, the Kangaroos, in 2008.

Note: this list will be updated as more games are scheduled.

[edit] Attendances by Code

In order to directly compare sports, the total attendances for each major code are listed here. The colour-coding of the different codes is used throughout the article.

Code	Games Played	Total Crowd	Average Crowd
Australian Rules	71	2,473,988	34,845
Association Football	6	194,150	32,359
Rugby Union	6	125,825	20,971
Rugby League	0	0	0

Note that only the competitions that appear on this page are considered, there are many other (generally smaller) competitions, leagues and matches that take place for all of the football codes, but these are not included. The following are included:

• Crowds for Australian rules football include games from the pre-season NAB Cup.
• So far, no crowds for Rugby League are included.
• Association football attendances include the first World Cup qualifier played by the Socceroos.
• Rugby Union attendances include some games from the Super 14.

[edit] Attendances by League

Some codes have multiple competitions, several competitions are compared here.

League	Pre Season			Regular Season			Finals games
	Number	Crowd		Number	Crowd		Number	Crowd
		Total	Average		Total	Average		Total	Average
AFL	15	245,070	16,338	72	2,813,231	39,073	0(of 9)
Super 14	-	-	-	7	152,836	21,834
NRL	-	-	-	86	1,444,546	16,797	0(of 9)
A-League	-	-

• The "Regular Season" is also known as the "Home and Away Season", "Premiership season" or the "Group Stage", generally consisting of some form of league or round-robin format.

ŵ==Attendances by Team== Attendances that specific teams pull for their home games are listed here.

• Teams are listed by competition - generally the figures only take regular season games into account, however international teams may include all games played (competition games and non-competition games)
• The Socceroos are Australia's national association football (soccer) team, The Wallabies are Australia's national Rugby Union team - their nicknames are used to avoid confusion

Team	Competition	Played	Home Crowds	Average
Carlton Blues	AFL	2	118,906	59,453
Geelong Cats	AFL	4	121,961	30,490
Nth Melbourne	AFL	4	139,735	34,934
Collingwood Magpies	AFL	3	186,372	62,124
Brisbane Broncos	NRL	4	143,443	35,861
Hawthorn Hawks	AFL	4	177,389	44,347
St Kilda Saints	AFL	4	171,170	42,793
West Coast Eagles	AFL	4	158,174	39,544
Richmond Tigers	AFL	4	223,231	55,808
Adelaide Crows	AFL	4	165,138	41,285
Fremantle Dockers	AFL	3	113,585	37,862
Brisbane Lions	AFL	4	115,825	28,956
NSW Waratahs	Super 14	2	59,282	29,641
Port Adelaide Power	AFL	3	73,928	24,643
Melbourne Demons	AFL	3	94,036	31,345
Western Force	Super 14	1	27,011	27,011
Western Bulldogs	AFL	4	131,196	32,799
Sydney Swans	AFL	3	98,014	32,671
Canterbury Bulldogs	NRL	3	72,836	24,279
Gold Coast Titans	NRL	4	90,581	22,645
South Sydney Rabbitohs	NRL	3	64,213	21,404
North Queensland Cowboys	NRL	3	60,440	20,147
Parramatta Eels	NRL	2	40,241	20,121
Queensland Reds	Super 14	2	37,013	18,507
Newcastle Knights	NRL	2	35,350	17,675
Wests Tigers	NRL	3	49,231	16,410
Sydney Roosters	NRL	2	30,861	15,431
Melbourne Storm	NRL	2	30,804	15,402
Brumbies	Super 14	7	99,898	14,271
New Zealand Warriors	NRL	3	42,680	14,227
Cronulla Sharks	NRL	1	13,852	13,852
Canberra Raiders	NRL	5	66,425	13,285
Manly Sea Eagles	NRL	2	25,599	12,800
St George Illawarra Dragons	NRL	3	37,478	12,493
Penrith Panthers	NRL	2	18,342	9,171
Essendon Bombers	AFL	3	140,258	46,753
Queensland Roar	A-League	0	0	0
Melbourne Victory	A-League	0	0	0
Central Coast Mariners	A-League	0	0	0
Wellington Phoenix	A-League	0	0	0
Newcastle Jets	A-League	0	0	0
Melbourne Victory	A-League	0	0	0
Sydney FC	A-League	0	0	0
Perth Glory	A-League	0	0	0

[edit] Attendances by Match

Attendances for single matches are listed here. Note that not all matches are necessarily included.

[edit] Single Matches

These are once-off matches, that aren't part of any regular league competition.

Crowd	Home team	Score	Away team	Score	Ground	Match Type
69,294	Victoria	21.11.137	The Dream Team	18.12.120	MCG	AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match
67,620	New South Wales	18	Queensland	10	ANZ Stadium	State of Origin
50,969	Socceroos	3	Qatar	0	Telstra Dome	WCQ
48,943	Socceroos	1	Iraq	0	Suncorp Stadium	WCQ
34,571	Australia	28	New Zealand	12	Sydney Cricket Ground	Centenary Test
30,127	Socceroos	1	Ghana	0	Sydney Football Stadium	Friendly Match

[edit] League Matches

Matches that are part of a league or regular competition.

Crowd	Home team	Score	Away team	Score	Ground	Competition	Round
88,999	Collingwood	23.16.154	Essendon	12.9.81	MCG	AFL	6
78,206	Collingwood	20.14.134	Geelong	7.6.48	MCG	AFL	9
77,873	Carlton	17.9.111	Collingwood	13.10.88	MCG	AFL	4
76,048	Hawthorn	24.10.154	Collingwood	13.11.89	MCG	AFL	7
72,552	Carlton	11.13.79	Richmond	17.7.109	MCG	AFL	1
70,802	Richmond	11.12.78	Collingwood	18.14.122	MCG	AFL	3
64,388	Essendon	23.12.150	Carlton	21.8.134	MCG	AFL	3
60,333	Essendon	10.12.72	Richmond	16.14.110	MCG	AFL	9
59,548	Melbourne	13.17.95	Collingwood	17.14.116	MCG	AFL	11
52,968	Collingwood	27.11.173	West Coast	10.13.73	MCG	AFL	10
51,990	Collingwood	15.15.105	North Melbourne	16.16.112	MCG	AFL	5
50,636	Geelong	22.18.150	Essendon	6.15.51	Telstra Dome	AFL	2
50,612	Broncos	36	Cowboys	2	Suncorp Stadium	NRL	3
48,417	St Kilda	14.10.94	Collingwood	16.7.102	Telstra Dome	AFL	8
48,100	North Melbourne	9.13.67	Essendon	19.8.122	Telstra Dome	AFL	1
47,641	Essendon	14.14.98	Western Bulldogs	19.14.128	Telstra Dome	AFL	4
46,792	St. Kilda	18.15.123	Essendon	14.3.87	Telstra Dome	AFL	5
46,377	Essendon	12.7.79	Hawthorn	19.16.130	Telstra Dome	AFL	11
46,231	Geelong	19.19.133	Carlton	12.5.77	Telstra Dome	AFL	10
46,076	Hawthorn	14.22.106	Richmond	15.4.94	MCG	AFL	6
45,524	Adelaide	12.13.85	Port Adelaide	11.13.79	AAMI Stadium	AFL	5
45,383	Collingwood	16.15.111	Fremantle	13.7.85	MCG	AFL	1
44,368	St. Kilda	13.16.94	Geelong	21.10.136	Telstra Dome	AFL	4
44,235	Sydney	16.11.107	West Coast	5.15.45	ANZ Stadium	AFL	4
44,159	Melbourne	9.14.68	Carlton	15.11.101	MCG	AFL	5
43,396	St. Kilda	19.11.125	Carlton	12.13.85	Telstra Dome	AFL	2
41,898	Adelaide	15.17.107	North Melbourne	11.8.74	AAMI Stadium	AFL	7
41,897	Adelaide	9.20.74	Essendon	10.9.69	AAMI Stadium	AFL	10
41,341	Melbourne	12.6.78	Hawthorn	14.13.97	MCG	AFL	9
41,254	West Coast	10.14.74	Carlton	17.9.111	Subiaco	AFL	7
41,033	Carlton	11.15.81	Adelaide	16.15.111	MCG	AFL	6
40,585	St Kilda	17.8.110	Richmond	16.11.107	Telstra Dome	AFL	7
40,141	Hawthorn	23.16.154	Melbourne	6.14.50	MCG	AFL	1
40,417	West Coast	14.8.92	Brisbane	11.10.76	Subiaco	AFL	1
39,816	Hawthorn	15.12.102	Kangaroos	13.8.86	Telstra Dome	AFL	3
39,554	Adelaide	12.16.122	Fremantle	10.11.71	AAMI Stadium	AFL	5
39,292	Richmond	13.8.86	North Melbourne	20.7.127	MCG	AFL	2
38,914	St.Kilda	11.13.79	Western Bulldogs	15.16.106	Telstra Dome	AFL	11
38,802	West Coast	11.12.78	Sydney	12.11.83	Subiaco Oval	AFL	11
38,675	Carlton	12.20.92	Brisbane	18.17.125	Telstra Dome	AFL	8
38,373	North Melbourne	17.12.114	Geelong	19.13.127	Telstra Dome	AFL	11
38,302	Port Adelaide	19.14.128	West Coast	16.8.104	Subiaco	AFL	5
38,162	Adelaide	21.7.133	West Coast	8.9.57	AAMI Stadium	AFL	2
38,022	Fremantle	13.10.88	Geelong	13.11.89	Subiaco	AFL	6
38,022	Fremantle	14.13.97	Hawthorn	16.16.112	Subiaco	AFL	2
37,767	Western Bulldogs	19.16.130	Richmond	20.13.130	Telstra Dome	AFL	5
37,541	Fremantle	10.13.73	Richmond	20.17.137	Subiaco	AFL	4
37,275	Richmond	10.9.69	Geelong	14.15.99	MCG	AFL	8
36,649	Adelaide	22.18.150	Melbourne	11.8.74	AAMI Stadium	AFL	8
36,614	St. Kilda	6.15.51	Sydney	6.13.49	Telstra Dome	AFL	1
36,526	Bulldogs	12	Roosters	40	ANZ Stadium	NRL	4
35,624	Fremantle	17.9.111	Western bulldogs	17.12.114	Subiaco	AFL	2
35,471	Western Bulldogs	16.14.110	Kangaroos	16.17.113	Telstra Dome	AFL	9
35,348	West Coast	14.13.94	Adelaide	5.17.47	Subiaco	AFL	9
34,904	Sydney	21.17.143	Essendon	7.10.52	ANZ Stadium	AFL	8
34,236	Fremantle	10.15.75	Port Adelaide	16.7.103	Subiaco	AFL	10
33,867	Brisbane	13.18.96	Collingwood	13.16.94	Gabba	AFL	2
32,767	Richmond	14.12.96	Adelaide	22.14.146	MCG	AFL	11
32,271	NSW Waratahs	24	Brumbies	17	Sydney Football Stadium	Super 14	4
31,250	Broncos	48	Panthers	12	Suncorp Stadium	NRL	1
30,019	Hawthorn	19.16.130	Brisbane	17.16.118	Gabba	AFL	5
29,927	Western Bulldogs	20.14.134	West Coast	11.8.74	Telstra Dome	AFL	6
29,386	Rabbitohs	20	Roosters	34	ANZ Stadium	NRL	1
29,240	Port Adelaide	8.15.63	Carlton	10.15.75	AAMI Stadium	AFL	11
29,061	Sydney	13.10.88	Brisbane	10.11.71	Gabba	AFL	3
29,018	Western Bulldogs	18.4.112	Sydney	14.10.94	SCG	AFL	7
28,955	Carlton	14.13.93	Fremantle	14.4.88	Telstra Dome	AFL	9
28,409	Port Adelaide	24.14.158	Essendon	15.4.94	Telstra Dome	AFL	7
28,392	Kangaroos	9.10.64	Sydney	8.16.64	Telstra Dome	AFL	6
28,206	Port Adelaide	14.12.96	Geelong	15.15.105	AAMI Stadium	AFL	1
27,852	St Kilda	19.15.129	Melbourne	7.8.50	Telstra Dome	AFL	10
27,821	Melbourne	9.12.66	Western Bulldogs	21.17.161	MCG	AFL	2
27,566	Brisbane	21.15.141	St Kilda	14.11.95	Gabba	AFL	9
27,011	NSW Waratahs	20	Hurricanes	3	Sydney Football Stadium	Super 14	1
27,011	Western Force	24	Crusaders	29	Subiaco	Super 14	4
26,974	Titans	36	Cowboys	18	Skilled Park	NRL	1
26,852	Sydney	21.13.139	Richmond	8.9.57	SCG	AFL	10
25,065	Eels	28	Bulldogs	20	ANZ Stadium	NRL	1
25,013	Port Adelaide	14.10.94	Sydney	16.9.105	AAMI Stadium	AFL	9
24,835	Western Bulldogs	19.12.126	Adelaide	18.15.123	Telstra Dome	AFL	1
24,761	Sydney	22.14.146	Port Adelaide	11.12.78	SCG	AFL	2
24,506	Brisbane	14.12.96	Fremantle	10.14.74	Gabba	AFL	11
24,368	Geelong	16.18.114	Sydney	10.12.72	Skilled Stadium	AFL	5
23,569	Geelong	16.16.112	Melbourne	12.10.82	Skilled Stadium	AFL	3
23,388	Geelong	15.15.105	Brisbane	11.12.78	Skilled Stadium	AFL	7
22,878	Brisbane	19.23.137	Melbourne	13.7.85	Gabba	AFL	6
22,878	Brisbane	18.21.129	Kangaroos	15.8.98	Gabba	AFL	10
21,839	Rabbitohs	12	Bulldogs	25	ANZ Stadium	NRL	2
21,057	Bulldogs	32	Tigers	12	ANZ Stadium	NRL	3
20,517	Port Adelaide	12.10.82	St Kilda	9.7.61	AAMI Stadium	AFL	6
20,655	Cowboys	10	Tigers	30	Dairy Farmers Stadium	NRL	2
20,084	Storm	32	Warriors	18	Telstra Dome	NRL	1
19,423	Melbourne	17.17.119	Fremantle	15.23.113	MCG	AFL	7
19,378	Hawthorn	12.2.74	Western Bulldogs	15.16.106	Aurora Stadium	AFL	10
19,183	Qld Reds	22	Highlanders	16	Suncorp Stadium	Super 14	1
19,050	Titans	18	Sharks	4	Skilled Park	NRL	3
18,724	Roosters	14	Broncos	20	Sydney Football Stadium	NRL	2
18,211	Tigers	24	Dragons	16	SCG	NRL	1
18,117	Knights	13	Sea Eagles	12	Energy Australia Stadium	NRL	2
17,830	Qld Reds	16	Stormers	34	Suncorp Stadium	Super 14	4
17,233	Knights	30	Raiders	14	Energy Australia Stadium	NRL	1
15,682	Hawthorn	17.15.117	Port Adelaide	15.12.102	Aurora Stadium	AFL	8
15,550	Raiders	16	Storm	23	Canberra Stadium	NRL	6
15,424	Sea Eagles	10	Sharks	16	Brookvale Oval	NRL	1
15,250	Warriors	30	Eels	16	Mt Smart	NRL	2
15,244	ACT Brumbies	43	Qld Reds	11	Canberra Stadium	Super 14	3
15,124	Hawthorn	17.12.114	Adelaide	10.10.70	Aurora Stadium	AFL	4
15,176	Eels	24	Knights	23	Parramatta Stadium	NRL	3
14,400	Raiders	21	Dragons	14	Canberra Stadium	NRL	3
14,308	ACT Brumbies	15	Hurricanes	33	Canberra Stadium	Super 14	5
14,286	ACT Brumbies	22	Highlanders	20	Canberra Stadium	Super 14	2
14,122	ACT Brumbies	28	Chiefs	42	Canberra Stadium	Super 14	8
14,078	ACT Brumbies	28	Lions	21	Canberra Stadium	Super 14	11
14,076	ACT Brumbies	29	Hurricanes	23	Canberra Stadium	Super 14	6
13,784	ACT Brumbies	27	Sharks	21	Canberra Stadium	Super 14	10
13,831	Storm	28	Broncos	8	Olympic Park	NRL	4
13,632	Storm	26	Sea Eagles	4	Olympic Park	NRL	5
12,251	Storm	46	Bulldogs	0	Olympic Park	NRL	12
12,240	Raiders	30	Wests Tigers	24	Canberra Stadium	NRL	5
12,137	Roosters	10	Storm	6	Sydney Football Stadium	NRL	3
10,839	Ranthers	26	Rabbitohs	22	Penrith Football Stadium	NRL	3
10,720	Storm	16	Sharks	17	Olympic Park	NRL	2
10,624	Storm	18	Knights	4	Olympic Park	NRL	9
10,521	Dragons	30	Titans	12	WIN Stadium	NRL	2
10,175	Sea Eagles	52	Warriors	6	Brookvale Oval	NRL	3
9,450	Panthers	46	Warriors	22	CUA Stadium	NRL	10
9,343	Sea Eagles	38	Cowboys	6	Bluetongue Stadium	NRL	10
9,289	Bulldogs	30	Sharks	14	ANZ Stadium	NRL	11
8,761	Rabbitohs	10	Storm	15	Bluetongue Stadium	NRL	11
8,214	Sharks	30	Titans	14	Toyota Park	NRL	12
7,503	Panthers	16	Raiders	20	Penrith Football Stadium	NRL	2
6,881	Dragons	36	Storm	12	ANZ Stadium	NRL	10
6,354	Kangaroos	13.11 (89)	West Coast	12.11 (83)	Carrara Stadium	AFL	8

[edit] See also

• 2007 Australian football code crowds
• Australian rules football attendance records
• Sports attendance

[edit] External links

• Official Website of the Australian Football League
• National Rugby League
• A-League Official website
• Asian Champions League Official website

Note: Sources for this Article are from Wikipedia related articles regarding the included competitions and teams.

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