A-League numbers
November 16, 2006 by Dave Earley
Filed under News
The Hyundai A-League, Australia’s top football league – the round ball type – is in its second year, and doing well. Quite apart from the games, which I hear are of a high quality but to my shame I have supported my local team at none of them, the all-important dollar signs have also shown improvement this year.
From the A-League site:
- Crowd numbers have increased 8.25% (536,976 up to Round 11 compared with 492,716 as the same point of last season)
- Hyundai A-League club membership numbers are approximately 34,000 in total, an amazing increase of 70%.
- Broadcast viewer numbers have increased a massive 32.2% at the same round last year.
- Hyundai A-League merchandise sales have also increased 20%
It’s the incoming money and public interest that will keep the league going, and lead to better quality coaching staff and players being attracted here, not the other way around I think. So hopefully people keep choosing to spend some of their disposable income on football.
