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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 2011. It includes several different competitions and matches from 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. Crowds exceeding 80,000 gathered 11 times for football games in Australia during 2011: 9 of them for Australian rules matches and 2 for rugby league matches.
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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 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:
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):
*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.
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
Total home attendances for domestic league competitions are listed here.
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.
Single Matches
These are once-off matches, that aren't part of any regular league competition.