Australia is home to four professional football codes. This is a comprehensive list of crowd figures for Australian football codes in 2009. It includes several different competitions and matches from Australian rules football,

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football (soccer) 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 t ...

and

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is a code of football played by Australian rules footballers). Sydney and Brisbane have teams represented in all four codes. Hobart and Darwin are Australia's only capital cities without a professional football team.

Included competitions

National competitions

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

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(AFL), which includes a finals series and a pre-season cup (the

2009 NAB Cup The 2009 NAB Cup is the Australian Football League pre-season competition that was played before the Australian Football League's 2009 Premiership season begins. It culminated with the final on 13 March 2009 played between Geelong and Collingw ...

) *The

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(NRL) *The 2009–10 A-League season (A-L) Two of these leagues, specifically the NRL and A-League, have one team in New Zealand. Attendance figures for the New Zealand teams 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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(Tri Nat) *The

2009 Rugby League State of Origin series The 2009 State of Origin series was the 28th time that the annual three-game series between the Queensland and New South Wales representative rugby league football teams was played entirely under ' state of origin' selection rules. Queensland won ...

(SoO) *The

2009 Super 14 season The 2009 Super 14 season kicked off in February 2009 with pre-season matches held from mid-January. It finished on 30 May, when the Bulls won their second Super Rugby title with a decisive 61–17 victory over the Chiefs at Loftus Versfeld stad ...

*The 2009 Asian Champions League (ACL) *The 3rd Round of Asian qualification for the 2010 FIFA World Cup (WCQ) Note: For these competitions, only figures for games that take place in Australia are taken into account

Non-competition games

Some non-competition matches (such as friendly and exhibition matches) are also included: *

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*Home test matches played by the

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, the Wallabies, in 2009. *Home test matches played by the

Australian National Rugby League Team The Australian National Rugby League Team, the Kangaroos, have represented Australia in senior men's rugby league football competition since the establishment of the 'Northern Union game' in Australia in 1908. Administered by the Australian ...

, the Kangaroos, in 2009. Note: this list will be updated as more games are scheduled.

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 the World Cup qualifiers played by the Socceroos, as well as Asian Champions League matches

Attendances by League

Some codes have multiple competitions, several competitions are compared here.

Attendances by team

Total home attendances for domestic league competitions are listed here. *Teams are listed by competition – generally the figures only take regular season games into account, however international teams may include all games played (competition games and non-competition games) *The Kangaroos are Australia's national

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 ...

team, the Socceroos are Australia's national

association football (soccer) 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 to ...

team, and the Wallabies are Australia's national

team – their nicknames are used to avoid confusion

Attendances by Match

Attendances for single matches are listed here. Note that not all matches are necessarily included.

Single matches

These are once-off matches, that aren't part of any regular league competition.

Finals

Regular season

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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