Ticket sales update: Will we sell-out?
As of last night over 15,000 tickets sold so it will be a record for a Socceroos game in Canberra and expected to be bigger than the Brumbies crowds so far this year which is interesting.
With three days of sales to go and Canberra Stadium predicting over 4,000 fans will try and buy tickets on matchday at the gate, 20,000 plus seems guaranteed...now can we sell it out?
Don't do it buy at the gate. Get your ticket now and save the hassle. Do you want to miss the national anthems?
Although I've heard it sounds good from outside the stadium.
So 20,000 plus well done to Canberra sports fans? and that includes the 4,000 grumblebums in the queue outside
That will be one of the two FFA boxes to be ticked this week. And the other is the money at the meeting this week.
At the start of the week I was more confident about the money than the crowd so....will professional football be coming back to the Capital?
And the Wollongong bid is down the gurgler for this year I see from their local paper.
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Does anyone know if there will be buses running from the major bus interchanges to Canberra stadium for the Socceroos games?
There is nothing on the Action, Capital Football or Canberra Stadium websites. I also know that Action have stopped running them to Brumbies and Raiders games because of misbehaviour. I believe a service is being run by for Brumbies games by Deane's buses.
To compare the projected attendance of an international football match (however poor the two teams involved) with a provincial team just doesn't cut it, comparison wise. If Australia cannot sell out a 25,000 stadium for a competitive international, wherever it is staged, then the sport is in pretty poor shape.
However, if you want to compare Australian Super 14 attendances with attendances for football clubs in the same city (currently Sydney, Perth and Brisbane), that's a different matter. Studies show that in those three cities over the 3 years to November 2008, the A-League attracted 56.43% of the total S14 attendance. Transpose that figure to Canberra and the Brumbies attendances so far this season, and you get a figure of around 9300 - slightly more than the Raiders. Add in the fact that the Brumbies and the Raiders play in the strongest leagues of their kind in the world - and Canberra Utd won't - you start to see some of the figures for average attendance projections being bandied around for a Canberra A-League side (15,000 a week?) are looking a little shaky.
Scott Adams
Thanks Scott, but it's a blog and we won't be presenting my detailed blog analysis to the FFA..have no fear:)
Anything positive about the bid you see happening, because I reckon I've got a handle on the crowd projections etc etc
I've been in Canberra for 20 years
so I've a reasonable understanding of the crowd concerns
go the Socceroos and the Bid..are you a Foundation Member?
I have been so excited about the Soccoroos Game in Canberra and potentially getting our own A-League team in the future. But can anyone explain the costing of the tickets for the game this Thursday Night. People are so passionate about soccer and they will pay the money for the chance to see a quality game but the ticket prices, especially A & B reserve are absurd for the average person/family. This should be a game for the people not the rich. Who set these prices? What sort of way is this to encourage a capacity crowd? And shouldn't we be giving a new audience a chance to join a match and get caught up in the atmosphere! I'll be there and i'll be in full voice supporting but c'mon give the supporters a chance to justify why we love this game! Full capacity would be brilliant, wouldn't it?
The tickets for this game are actually quite cheap compared to other Socceroos games and other games by Australian team in other sports.
The Category A tickets for the World Cup Qualifier in Sydney between the Socceroos and Uzbekistan cost $127. Category C tickets cost $57. Tickets to a Socceroos friendly I went to in Sydney just before the World Cup were about the same as above.
This game is a bargain by comparison. I guess that’s what happens when the Socceroos do well and become one of the most popular of the national sporting teams.
Just found out that Action will be providing free special bus services to the Socceroos game courtesy of Football Federation Australia. See http://www.action.act.gov.au/buses_to_the_soccer.html for details.
Matt Simon doesn't deserve legs, he is for the tip
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