All-time attendance record for 2008
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 3:06 pmTHE massive crowd at the MCG for Saturday's grand final has ensured that 2008 was the best attended season in the league's history.
An amazing 100,012 fans watched the wasteful Cats go down to Hawthorn on the weekend taking the total to 7,083,015 for the season.
The previous record was 7,049,945 in the 2007 season.
AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou lauded the outstanding result on Monday and thanked all the fans around Australia who had supported the game.
"The 2008 season was given an emphatic exclamation mark on Saturday to conclude our year with a wonderful match between Hawthorn and Geelong in front of our biggest crowd at a grand final for more than two decades," Demetriou said.
"The AFL wishes to thank each and every single supporter across the country who made the effort to attend a match in person this year and to congratulate again the work of our 16 clubs in building their memberships to record levels.
"The AFL's commitment is always to maximise attendances at our matches and to be able to draw more than seven million fans through the gates for our year is a source of great pride for the game," he said
The leading attendances in history, when counting both the premiership season and finals are as follows:
2008: 7,083,015
2007: 7,049,945
2005: 6,763,852
2006: 6,736,234
1998: 6,691,897
for further details go to: http://www.afl.com.au/News/NEWSARTICLE/ ... wsId=68430
An amazing 100,012 fans watched the wasteful Cats go down to Hawthorn on the weekend taking the total to 7,083,015 for the season.
The previous record was 7,049,945 in the 2007 season.
AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou lauded the outstanding result on Monday and thanked all the fans around Australia who had supported the game.
"The 2008 season was given an emphatic exclamation mark on Saturday to conclude our year with a wonderful match between Hawthorn and Geelong in front of our biggest crowd at a grand final for more than two decades," Demetriou said.
"The AFL wishes to thank each and every single supporter across the country who made the effort to attend a match in person this year and to congratulate again the work of our 16 clubs in building their memberships to record levels.
"The AFL's commitment is always to maximise attendances at our matches and to be able to draw more than seven million fans through the gates for our year is a source of great pride for the game," he said
The leading attendances in history, when counting both the premiership season and finals are as follows:
2008: 7,083,015
2007: 7,049,945
2005: 6,763,852
2006: 6,736,234
1998: 6,691,897
for further details go to: http://www.afl.com.au/News/NEWSARTICLE/ ... wsId=68430