Australia is home to four professional football codes. This is a comprehensive list of crowd figures for Australian football codes in 2012. It includes several different competitions and matches from

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an oval field, often a modified cricket ground. Points are scored by k ...

Association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

(Soccer),

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...

and

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...

and International rules football which is hybrid game played between Australian & Ireland which takes aspect from Australian rules football & Gaelic football.

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Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

and

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have teams represented in all four codes.

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and Darwin are Australia's only capital cities without a professional football team though they are home to professional games of Australian Football. There are two changes to the professional clubs across the four competitions, with the addition of

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to the AFL, bringing that competition to a total of 18 Australian clubs, and the addition of the Western Sydney Wanderers in the A-League replacing the now defunct

Gold Coast United Gold Coast United Football Club is an Australian soccer club based in Gold Coast, Queensland. The earliest incarnation of the club formed in 1966 and its home ground was at Nikiforides Family Park in Broadbeach. The first era of Gold Coast Unit ...

Included competitions

National competitions

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

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season (A-L) ** 2012–13 A-League regular season ** 2012–13 A-League final series *The

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(AFL) **

2012 NAB Cup The 2012 NAB Cup was the Australian Football League (AFL) pre-season competition played before the 2012 home-and-away season. The games were played between 17 February and 18 March 2012. The competition format was changed for the second cons ...

** 2012 AFL regular season ** 2012 AFL finals series *The 2012 National Rugby League season (NRL) ** 2012 NRL regular season ** 2012 NRL finals series *The

2012 Super Rugby season The 2012 Super Rugby season was the second season of the current 15-team format for the Super Rugby competition, which involves teams from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. For sponsorship reasons, this competition is known as FxPro Super R ...

(SR) **

** 2012 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 are split evenly between New Zealand and

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. 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

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(ACL) *The

2012 State of Origin series The 2012 State of Origin series was the 31st time the annual best-of-three series between the Queensland and New South Wales rugby league teams was played entirely under 'state of origin' rules. For the fourth successive year a Queensland victor ...

(SoO) *The 2012 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 The Rugby League Four Nations (known as the Ladbrokes Four Nations in 2016, for sponsorship purposes) was a biennial rugby league football tournament run in partnership between the Australian Rugby League Commission, Rugby Football League and N ...

competition is scheduled for 2012 to provide players with a break in the lead up to the

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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 2012. *Home test matches played by the

Australian National Association Football Team The Australia men's national soccer team represents Australia in international men's soccer. Officially nicknamed the Socceroos, the team is controlled by the governing body for soccer in Australia, Football Australia, which is affiliated with ...

, the Socceroos, in 2012. *Home test matches played by the

Australian National Rugby Union Team The Australia national rugby union team, nicknamed the Wallabies, is the representative national team in the sport of rugby union for the nation of Australia. The team first played at Sydney in 1899, winning their first test match against the ...

, the Wallabies, in 2012. * NRL All Stars match, in 2012. * City vs Country Origin match, in 2012. * Flood Appeal: Legends of Origin match, celebrity and former player charity exhibition match *

E. J. Whitten Legends Game The E. J. Whitten Legends Game was an annual Australian sports entertainment Australian rules football match. It is played for charity played as an all-star game. Retired star players are reunited, along with selected non-footballing celebrities, ...

, celebrity and former player Australian Rules charity exhibition match Note: this list will be updated as more games are scheduled. The 2012 ANZAC Test was held in Auckland, New Zealand with a crowd of 35,329.

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 A-League regular season and finals matches, and local attendances for international representative 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.

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.

Preseason

*Due to the irregular nature of the Round 1 matches of the

2011 NAB Cup The 2011 NAB Cup was the Australian Football League (AFL) pre-season competition played before the 2011 season. The games were played between 11 February and 11 March. The first match was between and in Adelaide at AAMI Stadium. This was th ...

, each set of three Round 1 matches are counted as one match.

Finals

Regular season

Notes

External links

Official Website of the Australian Football League

National Rugby League

A-League Official website

Asian Champions League Official website
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