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ComeOnYouWolves wrote:

I found this....seems more accurate. Wasps did get one match with 31000 fans

Tigers - 19,888
Wasps - 17,975
Bristol - 16,413
Bath - 14,024
Gloucester - 13,996
Saints - 12,471
Harlequins - 12,391
Exeter - 10,964
Saracens - 8,622
Worcester - 7,848
Newcastle - 7,440
Sale Sharks - 6,365

Also try here, can see by season total number of fans for the season https://rd.premiershiprugby.com/stats/attendance.php?includeref=18099&season=2018#18099

Leicester Tigers228,865
Harlequins212,435
Bath Rugby201,977
Bristol Bears179,827
Wasps177,761
Northampton Saints169,369
Gloucester Rugby158,158
Exeter Chiefs144,446
Saracens143,845
Newcastle Falcons100,826
Worcester Warriors91,162
Sale Sharks72,443


That looks about right - Giving an average of around 12.5k although slightly artificially inflated by some of their double headers and event games. Essentially they bake in the wembley and twickers games to include them as average gates....in essence our game v wire at magic would have counted as a 30k gate for us and wire....the good old union calculator eh :wink:

Still, their true averages are probably 11k vs what is around 8.5k now for SL. 20 years ago we were averaging about the same and union about 4-5k averages, but they hugely took off after the union WC win. That said, underneath the premiership they are probably much weaker....the championship and lower leagues get much less than ours.

Despite all this, we are actually not too far away....The top teams need to be more pro-active and push up to figures comparable to union (leicester excepted), and those at the bottom (salford, wakefield, huds) who's desperately poor averages of 3-4k pull the whole league down, either need to get their act together or play in the championship which is probably more their level.

if you could get some half decent marketing at your top clubs like wigan / leeds saints hull etc. theres no reason why we can't push average gates up to 15/16k plus, like we got around 10 years ago. Catalans will probably average over 10k next year with their success, if they can keep the fans from the semi final engaged etc, and Tolouse will make a fist of 8-10k gates next season. Add say 7k Cas, 8k HKR and clear out those with sub 5k gates your not far off.

The best thing that could happen to the top level is getting teams like Bradford back in, and Newcastle and London to replace the cellar dwellers. London then needs to be marketed as a regional side to exiled northerners and those interested in League down south - Perhaps even renamed to appeal to the whole SW, in the same way Sale are, to achieve decent gates. There is very few 'local' sale fans, and most are union rah rah types living and working in Manchester or a culmination of union fans across the north west coming together to watch one club.

Statistics: Posted by afootingmiracle21-12 — Tue Oct 19, 2021 11:45 am — Replies 23 — Views 2647


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