2011 Australian football code crowds

Australia is home to 4 professional football codes. This is a comprehensive list of crowd figures for Australian football codes in 2011. It includes several different competitions and matches from association football (soccer), Australian rules football, rugby league and rugby union (international rules football is a code of football played by Australian rules footballers). Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane have teams represented in all four codes. Hobart and Darwin are Australia's only capital cities without a professional football team.

Included Competitions

National Competitions

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

The 2011-12 A-League season (A-L)
- 2011-12 A-League regular season
- 2011-12 A-League final series
The 2011 Australian Football League season (AFL)
The 2011 National Rugby League season (NRL)
- 2011 NRL regular season
- 2011 NRL finals series
The 2011 Super Rugby season (SR)
- 2011 Super Rugby season
- 2011 Super Rugby finals series

Two of these leagues, specifically the NRL and A-League, have one club each in New Zealand, while only five of the fifteen Super Rugby franchises are located in Australia, with the other ten are split evenly between New Zealand and South Africa. Attendance figures for non-Australian clubs are not taken into account in the figures on this page.

Other Competitions

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

The 2011 AFC Champions League (ACL)
The 2011 Rugby League Four Nations (RL4N)
The 2011 State of Origin series (SoO)
The 2011 Tri Nations Series (Tri Nat)

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

Non-Competition Games

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

Home test matches played by the Australian National Rugby League Team, the Kangaroos, in 2011.
Home test matches played by the Australian National Association Football Team, the Socceroos, in 2011.
Home test matches played by the Australian National Rugby Union Team, the Wallabies, in 2011.
E J Whitten Legends Game, celebrity and former player Australian Rules charity exhibition match
NRL All Stars match, in 2011.

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

Competitions not included

There are several notable semi-professional regional and state based competitions which draw notable attendances and charge an entry fee that are not listed here. These are worth mentioning as some of their attendances rival those of national competitions and compete for spectator interest.

These include (ranked by approximate season attendances):

Competition	Sport	State or Territory	Teams	Games Played	Season attendance*	Average Crowd	Largest H&A crowd
South Australian National Football League	Australian rules football	South Australia
West Australian Football League	Australian rules football	Western Australia
Victorian Premier League	Football (soccer)	Victoria
Victorian Football League	Australian rules football	Victoria
Queensland Cup	Rugby league	Queensland
New South Wales Cup	Rugby league	New South Wales
Tasmanian State League	Australian rules football	Tasmania	10	1	8,480	8,480	8,480 (only included payers at the gate) 10,000+ overall)
Ovens & Murray Football League	Australian rules football	Victoria & New South Wales
Northern Territory Football League	Australian rules football	Northern Territory
Southern Football League	Australian rules football	Tasmania
New South Wales Premier League	Football (soccer)	New South Wales
Shute Shield	Rugby union	New South Wales

*includes finals

As the attendance figures for some of these competitions can be difficult to obtain (many don't publish season figures and some play matches as curtain raisers to other events), they have not been included in the official lists.

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 football	-	-	-
Rugby union -	-	-	-
Rugby league	-	-	-
Association football (soccer)	-	-	-

Note that only the competitions that appear on this page excluding those specifically not included 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:

Rugby union attendances include some games from the Super 14.
The Rugby league figures include representative matches (State of Origin and International Tests Matches).
Association football (soccer) attendances include the World Cup qualifiers played by the Socceroos, as well as Asian Champions League matches

Attendances by League

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

Only matches and competitions specifically controlled and sanctioned by each league are counted; matches such as inter-club trial matches are not counted.
Due to the irregular nature of the Round 1 matches of the 2011 NAB Cup, each set of three Round 1 matches are counted as one match.

League	Pre Season			Regular Season			Finals games
	Number	Crowd		Number	Crowd		Number	Crowd
	Number	Total	Average	Number	Total	Average	Number	Total	Average
A-League	-	-		-	-	-	-	-	-
AFL	8	155,751	19,469	-	-	-	-	-	-
NRL	-	-	-	15	276,024	18,402	-	-	-
Super Rugby	-	-	-	11	242,321	22,029	-	-	-

Attendances by Team

Total home attendances for domestic league competitions are listed here.

Teams are listed by competition - tournament and league competitions that are more than one game in length are taken into consideration.
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
Collingwood	AFL	2	123,954	61,977
Carlton	AFL	1	60,654	60,654
Hawthorn	AFL	1	49,905	49,905
Geelong	AFL	1	42,869	42,869
Essendon	AFL	1	42,617	42,617
St Kilda	AFL	1	41,465	41,465
North Melbourne	AFL	1	40,578	40,578
Adelaide	AFL	2	75,950	37,975
Fremantle	AFL	1	37,004	37,004
West Coast Eagles	AFL	1	35,855	35,855
Brisbane Broncos	NRL	2	70,354	35,177
Melbourne	AFL	1	33,951	33,951
error: team parameter (essendonnab) is incorrect	???	2	62,936	31,468
Sydney Swans	AFL	1	28,082	28,082
Gold Coast	AFL	1	27,914	27,914
Canterbury Bankstown Bulldogs	NRL	2	50,460	25,230
Brisbane Lions	AFL	1	23,373	23,373
Waratahs	Super Rugby	3	69,692	23,231
Port Adelaide	AFL	1	23,214	23,214
Reds	Super Rugby	3	67,669	22,556
Western Bulldogs	AFL	2	43,704	21,852
Newcastle	NRL	1	20,986	20,986
Gold Coast Titans	NRL	2	41,955	20,978
Sydney Roosters	NRL	3	60,198	20,066
South Sydney Rabbitohs	NRL	2	36,379	18,190^[1]
Melbourne Rebels	Super Rugby	4	71,220	17,805
Wests Tigers	NRL	3	49,929	16,643
Parramatta	NRL	3	49,354	16,451
Western Force	Super Rugby	3	48,669	16,223
Brumbies	Super Rugby	3	47,265	15,755
Canberra Raiders	NRL	3	41,761	13,920
error: team parameter (westcoasteaglesnab) is incorrect	???	2	27,985	13,993
error: team parameter (demonsnab) is incorrect	???	1	13,863	13,863
Cronulla-Sutherland	NRL	2	27,316	13,658^[2]
Manly-Warringah	NRL	1	13,161	13,161
Melbourne Storm	NRL	3	38,734	12,911
North Queensland Cowboys	NRL	3	37,266	12,422
Penrith Panthers	NRL	3	31,935	10,645
error: team parameter (collingwoodnab) is incorrect	???	1	10,773	10,773
error: team parameter (geelongnab) is incorrect	???	1	9,670	9,670
Sydney FC	ACL	2	14,102	7,051
Melbourne Victory	ACL	1	4,825	4,825
Adelaide United	A-League	0	0	0
Brisbane Roar	A-League	0	0	0
Central Coast Mariners	A-League	0	0	0
Gold Coast United	A-League	0	0	0
Melbourne Heart	A-League	0	0	0
Melbourne Victory	A-League	0	0	0
Newcastle Jets	A-League	0	0	0
Perth Glory	A-League	0	0	0
Richmond	AFL	0	0	0
St George Illawarra Dragons	NRL	0	0	0
Sydney FC	A-League	0	0	0
New South Wales Blues	SoO	0	0	0
Queensland Maroons	SoO	0	0	0

Attendances by Match

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

Representative Competitions

These are matches that are part of a regular representative competition.

Crowd	Home team	Score	Away team	Score	Ground	Match Type
7,095	Sydney FC	0	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	0	Sydney Football Stadium	AFC Champions League
7,007	Sydney FC	1	Shanghai Shenhua	1	Sydney Football Stadium	AFC Champions League
4,825	Melbourne Victory	1	Jeju United	2	Etihad Stadium	AFC Champions League
	Sydney FC		Kashima Antlers		Sydney Football Stadium	AFC Champions League
	Melbourne Victory		Tianjin Teda		Etihad Stadium	AFC Champions League
	Melbourne Victory		Gamba Osaka		Etihad Stadium	AFC Champions League
	Australia		New Zealand		Suncorp Stadium	Tri-Nations
	Australia		South Africa		ANZ Stadium	Tri-Nations
	Queensland		New South Wales		Suncorp Stadium	State of Origin I
	New South Wales		Queensland		ANZ Stadium	State of Origin II
	Queensland		New South Wales		Suncorp Stadium	State of Origin III

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
25,800	NRL All Stars	28	Indigenous All Stars	12	Skilled Stadium	Rugby League All Stars Match
20,000 ^[3]	Queensland Legends	20	New South Wales Legends	16	Parramatta Stadium	Flood Appeal: Legends of Origin
	Australia		New Zealand		Skilled Park	Trans-Tasman Test
	Country		City			City vs Country

Pre Season

Due to the irregular nature of the Round 1 matches of the 2011 NAB Cup, each set of three Round 1 matches are counted as one match.

Crowd	Home team	Score	Away team	Score	Ground	Competition	Round
45,304	Essendon	0.13.8 (86)	Collingwood	1.15.9 (108)	Etihad Stadium	NAB Cup	Grand Final
40,300^[4]	Carlton Richmond Carlton	0.6.5 (41) 0.1.1 (7) 0.3.8 (26)	Richmond Collingwood Collingwood	0.3.5 (23) 0.7.8 (50) 0.5.3 (33)	Etihad Stadium	NAB Cup	Round 1
25,776^[5]	West Coast Eagles Hawthorn West Coast Eagles	0.5.1 (31) 1.4.4 (37) 0.5.7 (37)	Hawthorn Fremantle Fremantle	0.4.5 (29) 0.3.5 (23) 0.4.1 (25)	Patersons Stadium	NAB Cup	Round 1
24,158^[6]	Essendon St Kilda St Kilda	1.11.1 (76) 1.5.5 (44) 0.6.2 (38)	Brisbane Lions Brisbane Lions Essendon	0.2.2 (14) 0.2.3 (15) 0.5.8 (38)	Etihad Stadium	NAB Cup	Round 1
19,267	St George Illawarra Dragons	32	South Sydney	10	ANZ Stadium	Rugby League Charity Shield	N/A
18,202^[7]	Adelaide Melbourne Adelaide	0.3.6 (24) 0.5.6 (27) 0.6.4 (40)	Melbourne Port Adelaide Port Adelaide	0.5.4 (34) 1.2.6 (36) 0.1.2 (8)	AAMI Stadium	NAB Cup	Round 1
17,632	Essendon	0.12.12 (84)	St Kilda	0.6.9 (45)	Etihad Stadium	NAB Cup	Semi Final
~13,232^[8]	Geelong North Melbourne Geelong	0.4.8 (32) 1.2.2 (23) 0.7.4 (46)	North Melbourne Western Bulldogs Western Bulldogs	0.2.2 (14) 0.8.6 (54) 0.4.1 (25)	Skilled Stadium	NAB Cup	Round 1
15,360	West Coast	0.8.8 (56)	Collingwood	1.9.17 (80)	Patersons Stadium	NAB Cup	Semi Final
13,863	Melbourne	1.11.7 (82)	Essendon	1.17.10 (121)	Etihad Stadium	NAB Cup	Quarter Final
12,761	Parramatta	30	Wests Tigers	10	Campbelltown Stadium	Trial Match	N/A
12,625	West Coast	0.12.15 (87)	Gold Coast	1.5.11 (50)	Patersons Stadium	NAB Cup	Quarter Final
10,773	Collingwood	1.12.12 (93)	Sydney	1.10.10 (79)	Etihad Stadium	NAB Cup	Quarter Final
9,670	Geelong	1.6.6 (51)	St Kilda	1.15.7 (106)	Etihad Stadium	NAB Cup	Quarter Final
9,447^[9]	Greater Western Sydney Giants Sydney Swans Greater Western Sydney Giants	0.0.4 (4) 0.3.4 (22) 0.4.3 (27)	Sydney Swans Gold Coast Gold Coast	0.13.5 (83) 0.4.1 (25) 0.8.4 (52)	Blacktown Olympic Park	NAB Cup	Round 1
6,169	Melbourne Storm	24	Canberra Raiders	4	Bega Oval	Trial Match	N/A
5,000 ^[10]	South Sydney	10	Newtown Jets	4	Redfern Oval	Trial Match	N/A
4,500 ^[11]	Sydney Roosters	22	Ipswich Jets	12	North Ipswich Reserve	Trial Match	N/A

Finals

Crowd	Home Team	Score	Away team	Score	Ground	Competition	Round

Regular Season

Crowd	Home team	Score	Away team	Score	Ground	Competition	Round
88,181	Collingwood	15.12.102	Carlton	11.8.74	MCG	AFL	3
60,654	Carlton	14.20.104	Richmond	13.6.84	MCG	AFL	1
49,905	Hawthorn	16.26.122	Melbourne	12.5.77	MCG	AFL	2
46,369	Richmond	6.16.52	Hawthorn	17.13.115	MCG	AFL	3
45,119	Brisbane Broncos	14	North Queensland Cowboys	16	Suncorp Stadium	NRL	1
42,869	Geelong	6.12.48	St Kilda	6.11.47	MCG	AFL	1
42,617	Essendon	16.17.113	Western Bulldogs	8.10.58	Etihad Stadium	AFL	1
42,536	Adelaide	16.9.105	Hawthorn	12.13.85	AAMI Stadium	AFL	1
41,465	St Kilda	13.17.95	Richmond	14.11.95	MCG	AFL	2
40,578	North Melbourne	7.14.56	Collingwood	21.17.143	Etihad Stadium	AFL	2
37,288	West Coast Eagles	13.10.88	Sydney Swans	15.11.101	Patersons Stadium	AFL	3
37,004	Fremantle	10.18.78	Geelong	13.11.89	Patersons Stadium	AFL	2
35,855	West Coast Eagles	13.14.92	North Melbourne	13.10.88	Patersons Stadium	AFL	1
35,773	Collingwood	24.11.155	Port Adelaide	12.8.80	Etihad Stadium	AFL	1
33,951	Melbourne	11.18.84	Sydney Swans	11.18.84	MCG	AFL	1
33,846	NSW Waratahs	30	Queensland Reds	6	ANZ Stadium	Super Rugby	2
33,414	Adelaide	7.12.54	Fremantle	11.13.79	AAMI Stadium	AFL	3
28,703	Sydney Roosters	40	South Sydney Rabbitohs	29	Sydney Football Stadium	NRL	1
28,082	Sydney Swans	14.14.98	Essendon	13.15.93	ANZ Stadium	AFL	2
27,914	Gold Coast Suns	7.10.52	Carlton	26.15.171	Gabba	AFL	2
26,737	Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs	24	Wests Tigers	14	ANZ Stadium	NRL	1
26,060	Queensland Reds	21	Western Force	20	Suncorp Stadium	Super Rugby	1
25,524	Melbourne Rebels	0	NSW Waratahs	43	AAMI Park	Super Rugby	1
25,235	Brisbane Broncos	18	Penrith Panthers	10	Suncorp Stadium	NRL	4
23,723	Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs	24	Sydney Roosters	20	ANZ Stadium	NRL	3
23,373	Brisbane Lions	14.8.92	Fremantle	13.16.94	Gabba	AFL	1
23,214	Port Adelaide	15.8.98	West Coast Eagles	16.20.116	AAMI Stadium	AFL	2
22,677	Wests Tigers	30	South Sydney Rabbitohs	6	Sydney Football Stadium	NRL	5
22,331	Western Bulldogs	19.9.123	Brisbane Lions	6.9.45	Etihad Stadium	AFL	2
22,153	Parramatta Eels	12	South Sydney Rabbitohs	32	ANZ Stadium	NRL	3
22,031	Queensland Reds	53	Melbourne Rebels	3	Suncorp Stadium	Super Rugby	5
21,729	Gold Coast Titans	16	St George Illawarra Dragons	25	Skilled Park	NRL	1
21,373	Western Bulldogs	18.14.122	Gold Coast Suns	7.9.51	Etihad Stadium	AFL	3
20,986	Newcastle Knights	18	St George Illawarra Dragons	20	Ausgrid Stadium	NRL	4
20,720	NSW Waratahs	23	Chiefs	16	Sydney Football Stadium	Super Rugby	7
20,479	Sydney Roosters	24	Wests Tigers	6	Sydney Football Stadium	NRL	4
20,226	Gold Coast Titans	8	Brisbane Broncos	14	Skilled Park	NRL	3
19,578	Queensland Reds	41	Central Cheetahs	8	Suncorp Stadium	Super Rugby	6
18,271	South Sydney Rabbitohs	19	Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs	28	ANZ Stadium	NRL	2
18,108	South Sydney Rabbitohs	32	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	30	Bluetongue Stadium	NRL	4
18,011	ACT Brumbies	22	NSW Waratahs	29	Canberra Stadium	Super Rugby	6
17,620	Western Force	12	Sharks	39	nib Stadium	Super Rugby	3
16,800	Melbourne Rebels	42	Wellington Hurricanes	25	AAMI Park	Super Rugby	6
16,146	Canberra Raiders	4	Brisbane Broncos	20	Canberra Stadium	NRL	2
16,027	ACT Brumbies	25	Queensland Reds	31	Canberra Stadium	Super Rugby	3
15,975	Parramatta Eels	6	Penerith Panthers	20	Parramatta Stadium	NRL	2
15,931	Western Force	22	Auckland Blues	22	nib Stadium	Super Rugby	4
15,849	NSW Waratahs	3	Central Cheetahs	23	Sydney Football Stadium	Super Rugby	5
15,126	Melbourne Rebels	32	Sharks	34	AAMI Park	Super Rugby	4
15,133	Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks	13	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	19	Toyota Stadium	NRL	5
15,118	Western Force	25	Melbourne Rebels	26	nib Stadium	Super Rugby	7
14,234	Melbourne Rebels	25	ACT Brumbies	24	AAMI Park	Super Rugby	2
14,651	Melbourne Storm	18	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	6	AAMI Park	NRL	1
14,091	Wests Tigers	34	Canberra Raiders	16	Campbelltown Stadium	NRL	3
14,061	North Queensland Cowboys	22	Newcastle Knights	34	Dairy Farmers Stadium	NRL	2
13,651	North Queensland Cowboys	22	Gold Coast Titans	12	Dairy Farmers Stadium	NRL	5
13,450	Canberra Raiders	40	Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks	12	Canberra Stadium	NRL	1
13,227	ACT Brumbies	28	Chiefs	20	Canberra Stadium	Super Rugby	1
13,161	Wests Tigers	20	New Zealand Warriors	12	Leichhardt Oval	NRL	2
13,161	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	26	Newcastle Knights	12	Brookvale Oval	NRL	3
12,431	Penerith Panthers	8	Newcastle Knights	42	Centrebet Stadium	NRL	1
12,391	Melbourne Storm	40	Gold Coast Titans	12	AAMI Park	NRL	2
12,183	Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks	16	St George Illawarra Dragons	10	Toyota Stadium	NRL	2
12,165	Canberra Raiders	22	Gold Coast Titans	23	Canberra Stadium	NRL	4
11,592	Melbourne Storm	30	Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs	16	AAMI Park	NRL	4
11,226	Parramatta Eels	22	North Queensland Cowboys	20	Parramatta Stadium	NRL	4
11,016	Sydney Roosters	16	Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles	27	Sydney Football Stadium	NRL	2
10,229	Penerith Panthers	36	Canberra Raiders	10	Centrebet Stadium	NRL	5
9,554	North Queensland Cowboys	34	Melbourne Storm	6	Dairy Farmers Stadium	NRL	3
9,275	Penerith Panthers	12	Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks	44	Centrebet Stadium	NRL	3

Notes

^ Includes one home game played at Bluetongue Stadium in Gosford, New South Wales
^ Excludes one home game played at Owen Delany Park in Taupo, New Zealand
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Note: Sources for this Article are from Wikipedia related articles regarding the included competitions and teams.

[Two-1] Includes one home game played at Bluetongue Stadium in Gosford, New South Wales

[One-2] Excludes one home game played at Owen Delany Park in Taupo, New Zealand

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