2013 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 2013. It includes several different competitions and matches from association football (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.

There is only one change to the professional clubs across the four competitions, with the A-League excluding Gold Coast United and adding Western Sydney Wanderers.

Included Competitions

National competitions

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

• The 2012-13 A-League season (A-L)
  • 2012-13 A-League season
  • 2012-13 A-League final series
• The 2013 Australian Football League season (AFL)
  • 2013 NAB Cup
  • 2013 AFL premiership season
  • 2013 AFL finals series
• The 2013 National Rugby League season (NRL)
  • 2013 NRL premiership season
  • 2013 NRL finals series
• The 2013 SUPER Rugby season (SR)
  • 2013 Super Rugby season
  • 2013 Super Rugby finals series

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 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:

• The 2013 AFC Champions League (ACL)
• The 2013 State of Origin series (SoO)
• The 2013 Tri Nations Series (Tri Nat)

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:

• Home test matches played by the Australian National Rugby League Team, the Kangaroos, in 2013.
• Home matches played by the Australian National Association Football Team, the Socceroos, in 2013.
• Home test matches played by the Australian National Rugby Union Team, the Wallabies, in 2013.
• NRL All Stars match, in 2013.
• City vs Country Origin match, in 2013.
• E J Whitten Legends Game, celebrity and former player Australian Rules charity exhibition match

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:

• 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.

• Only matches and competitions specifically controlled and sanctioned by each league are counted; matches such as inter-club trial matches are not counted.
• Due to the irregular nature of the Round 1 matches of the 2011 NAB Cup, each set of three Round 1 matches are counted as one match.

Attendances by Team

Total home attendances for domestic league competitions are listed here.

• Teams are listed by competition - tournament and league competitions that are more than one game in length are taken into consideration.

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.

Pre Season

Finals

Regular Season

See also

• Australian rules football attendance records
• 2013 NRL season results
• Sports attendance
• List of sports venues in Australia

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.