ATTENDANCES IN THE League of Ireland Premier Division are up by 27% compared to the same period last year.
Across the opening series of games for the 2023 season, over 34,500 more people attended Premier Division games compared with the first series in 2022.
After nine rounds of fixtures, some 161,502 people altogether have attended games across the Division – up from 126,969 at the same point last season.
The average attendance in the Premier Division so far this season is 3,590, compared to 2,821 in 2022 – a rise of 27%.
Some clubs in the division are consistently selling out fixtures, with Bohemians and Derry both seling 95% of their capacity on average for their home games this season so far.
Premier Division stadiums are 77% full on average, compared to 65% after the same amount of games last season.
The highest attendance so far this season came at Tallaght Stadium on St Patrick’s Day, where 7,674 supporters were present as Shamrock Rovers and St Patrick’s Athletic played out a 2-2 draw.
Rovers also boast the highest average attendance at 5,835.
Top five attendances:
- Shamrock Rovers v St Patrick’s Athletic – 7,674
- Shamrock Rovers v Derry City – 7626
- Cork City v Bohemians – 6,487
- Cork City v Shelbourne – 5,452
- St Patrick’s Athletic v Bohemians – 5,002
Average per club:
- Bohemians – 4212
- Cork City – 4923
- Derry City – 3593
- Drogheda United – 2041
- Dundalk – 3122
- Shamrock Rovers – 5835
- Shelbourne – 3365
- Sligo Rovers – 3457
- St Patrick’s Athletic – 4354
- UCD – 632
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That’s a strong side and Porch is to be preferred at 15 ahead of TOH anyway. Surprising to see McAllister and Dillane not in the 23 as they would you’d imagine be in the reckoning for the Irish squad. They must be injured I guess.
@David Finn: I think Dillane failed a HIA in one of the matches after the restart? Might still be recovering
@Donogh O’Laighin: he did fail HIA so wasn’t available. Hopefully connacht get the season off to a good start but Glasgow team is very strong