2008 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 2008. It includes several different competitions and matches from Australian Rules Football, Rugby League, Association Football and Rugby Union (International Rules 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 2008 Australian Football League season (AFL), which includes a finals series and a pre-season cup (the 2008 NAB Cup)
*The 2008 National Rugby League season (NRL)
*The 2008-09 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 taken into account in the figures on this page.

Note that the Australian Rugby Championship folded at the end of 2007.

Other Competitions

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

*The 2008 Rugby League World Cup, which will be held in Australia in 2008 (RL WC)
*The 2008 Tri Nations Series (Tri Nat)
*The 2008 Rugby League State of Origin series (SoO)
*The 2008 Super 14 season
*The 2008 Asian Champions League (ACL)
*The 3rd Round of Asian qualification for the 2010 FIFA World Cup (WCQ)

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:

*AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match
*E J Whitten Legends Game
*Home test matches played by the Australian National Rugby Union Team, the Wallabies, in 2008.
*Home test matches played by the Australian National Rugby League Team, the Kangaroos, in 2008.

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. Association

These include (ranked by approximate season attendances):

* 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%)

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

ee also

*2007 Australian football code crowds
*Australian rules football attendance records
*Sports attendance

External links

* [http://www.afl.com.au/ Official Website of the Australian Football League]
* [http://www.nrl.com.au/ National Rugby League]
* [http://www.a-league.com.au/ A-League Official website]
* [http://www.afcchampionsleague.com/ Asian Champions League Official website]

Note: Sources for this Article are from Wikipedia related articles regarding the included competitions and teams.