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Australia is home to four 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, football (soccer) and rugby union (international rules football 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.
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National Competitions
Several football codes have national (domestic) competitions in Australia, the following are taken into consideration:
Two of these leagues, specifically the NRL and A-League, have one team in New Zealand. Attendance figures for the New Zealand teams are not taken into account in the figures on this page.
Note that the Australian Rugby Championship folded at the end of 2007.
Other Competitions
Other competitions, such as international and representative competitions, included are:
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:
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):
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.
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:
Attendances by League
Some codes have multiple competitions, several competitions are compared here.
Attendances by Team
Attendances that specific teams pull for their home games are listed here.
Attendances by Match
Attendances for single matches are listed here. Note that not all matches are necessarily included.
Single Matches
These are once-off matches, that aren't part of any regular league competition.