Australia is home to 4 professional football codes. This is a comprehensive list of crowd figures for Australian football codes in 2012. It includes several different competitions and matches from Australian rules football, Association football (Soccer), rugby league and rugby union and International rules football which is hybrid game played between Australian & Ireland which takes aspect from Australian rules football & Gaelic football. Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane have teams represented in all four codes. Hobart and Darwin are Australia's only capital cities without a professional football team though they are home to professional games of Australian Football.
Contents
- National Competitions
- Other Competitions
- Non Competition Games
- Competitions not included
- Attendances by Code
- Attendances by League
- Attendances by Team
- Attendances by Match
- Representative Competitions
- Single Matches
- Pre Season
- References
There are two changes to the professional clubs across the four competitions, with the addition of Greater Western Sydney Giants to the AFL, bringing that competition to a total of 18 Australian clubs, and the addition of the Western Sydney Wanderers in the A-League replacing the now defunct Gold Coast United.
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.
No Rugby League Four Nations competition is scheduled for 2012 to provide players with a break in the lead up to the 2013 Rugby League World Cup.
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. The 2012 ANZAC Test was held in Auckland, New Zealand with a crowd of 35,329.
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.