2010 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 2010. It includes several different competitions and matches from Australian rules football, rugby league, association football 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.

Included Competitions

National Competitions

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

• The 2010 Australian Football League season (AFL), which includes a finals series and a pre-season cup (the 2010 NAB Cup)
• The 2010 NRL season (NRL)
• The 2010-11 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 not taken into account in the figures on this page.

Other Competitions

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

• The 2010 Tri Nations Series (Tri Nat)
• The 2010 Rugby League State of Origin series (SoO)
• The 2010 Super 14 season
• The 2010 Asian Champions League (ACL)

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:

• E J Whitten Legends Game
• Home test matches played by the Australian National Rugby Union Team, the Wallabies, in 2009.
• Home test matches played by the Australian National Rugby League Team, the Kangaroos, in 2009.

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:

• Crowds for Australian rules football include games from the pre-season NAB Cup.
• 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.

• 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.
• AFL regular season and final crowds totalled 7,083,018. This is an increase of 32,073 (or 0.45%)
• Warrior's home games are not included in the NRL's numbers
• Wellington's home games are not included in the A-league's numbers

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

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.

Pre Season

Finals

Regular Season

See also

• 2009 Australian football code crowds
• Australian rules football attendance records
• Sports attendance

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.