sydneyfc wrote:leagueiscrap wrote:sydneyfc wrote:throwing this in due to relevance
2013-14
Adelaide United: 6,415
Brisbane Roar: 8,100
Central Coast Mariners: 5,960
Melbourne Heart: 7,307
Melbourne Victory: 22,021
Newcastle Jets: 10,115
Perth Glory : 5,000
Sydney FC: 10,658
Wellington Phoenix: 3,500
Western Sydney Wanderers: 16,904
the Victory are flogging the Melbourn Storm
the storm are battling it out with the Heart as most irrelevant team in Melbourne
even with all of storms success, they will be over taken by the heart now known as Melbourne city

I always felt like soccer was a bigger sport in melbourne than rugby league, i think the a-league memberships prove it ontop of the fact that it can facilitate 2 clubs vs the NRL's 1 club + international games that are played there usually have huge turnouts vs rugby league internationals
Sydney FC have over 20,000 memberships if the 11,000 junior memberships are included but i figured that would be looked down upon on here, either way i'd like to think soccer is doing great nonetheless. Don't think we'll ever be the most popular sport in any city or state in australia but a healthy 2nd/3rd is good enough especially since like aussie rules, we have teams all around the country whereas the NRL is eastern centric particularly in NSW and QLD
its not internationals that are our ... marquee events dickhead
Origin is our equivalent to the Sookeroos
& it stacks up quite nicely eh
Etihad sold out every time its been played there since 2006
the MCG next year
& I'd also doubt 906,000 Melbournians have ever watched a game of Wendyball .... ever
they have for Rugby League though

RL SOO II 4.194 Million veiwers
RL SOO I 4.068 Million
NRL GF 3.968 Million
VFL Grand Final 3.620 Million
SOO III 3.364 Million
NRL Prelim 2.219 Million
Kangaroos V NZ 1.214 Million
Sookerwhos V Japan 238K
