Football: Most popular in which State or Territory?

It's Canberra of course..with the highest percentage of registered players. Surely a base to build long-term local football support for an A-League side...

but NSW have 232,000 players whereas Victoria has just 37,000 players. Now we know the Vic's won't allocate pitches to football, away from their beloved AFL but the difference in numbers between the two states is incredible. See numbers below.

The FFA 2008 Annual Report shows the players per state and if you add the NSW & ACT player number you get 58% of Australia’s total player numbers refer to the chart below. http://www.producegroup.com.au/docs/ffa_fact_sheet.pdf

State ......Player No....... % per State..... Aus Pop ........% of pop
NSW ....... 232,897 ............... 55% ...... 6,967,200 ...... 3.34%
QLD ..........65,270 ............... 15% ...... 4,279,411........ 1.53%
ACT ......... 13,147 ................. 3% ........ 344,200 ........3.82%
TAS ......... 13,579 ............... 3% ......... 498,200......... 2.73%
VIC .......... 37,964............... 9% ........5,927,600 ......... 0.64%
WA .......... 32,117 .............. 8% ....... 2,163,200 ..........1.48%
SA ........... 25,365 .............. 6% .......1,601,800 ...........1.58%
NT ..............2,773 ...............1% ........ 219,900 ...........1.26%
Total ........423,112 ...........................22,001,511 .........1.92%