Post by coloradoflyer on Jun 28, 2015 21:23:23 GMT
taken from the caps forum.
The figures below only relate to Elite League games. They do not include purely Challenge Cup games nor do they include the playoffs. In this way, we are able to make proper comparisons with previous years.
1. Total attendances: In 2012/13, a total of 609,000 attended Elite League games. In 2013/14, this increased to 626,000 and, in the 2014/15 season just ended, attendance increased by an impressive 70,000 to 696,000. It's impossible to tell how much of this is due to an increased number of existing fans going to away games and how much represents new fans to the sport, but whatever, it means the sport took in an extra £1 million in gate money compared to 2013/14. Only 3 teams failed to participate in this increased income being Edinburgh, Dundee and Hull.
2. Conferences in general: The increase of 70,000 was split 22,000 to the Northern conference representing a 12% increase, and 48,000 to the Southern conference representing an 8% increase.
3. The Southern conference: All 5 teams increased their average attendance. Top by far was Cardiff whose game average rose by 46% from 1419 to 2065 followed by Belfast which rose 17% to 4944.
4. The Northern conference: The increase of 22,000 was due wholly to Braehead and Fife with the attendances of the other 3 teams down. Fife's average attendance rose 35% from 1634 to 2211 making it the second highest riser in the League as a whole behind Cardiff. Fife's 4 home games against Braehead were an important factor in this, averaging 3,000 a game compared to an average of 2,200 against them in 2013/14. As regards Braehead, their attendances rose 21% to 3100 helped along by a flurry of capacity crowds of 3,576 in the final games of the season.
5. Highest and lowest: The largest attendance in 2014/15 was 8864 at the game between Sheffield and Nottingham on 26th December. The lowest recorded was 502 for the game between the Capitals and Dundee at Murrayfield on 7th December.
6. Edinburgh Capitals: The Capitals average attendance per game fell 9% from 956 to 868. Apart from Dundee and the now defunct Hull, that goes against the trend of all the other clubs in the league and especially our near neighbours Fife where the contrast is now stark. For example, how can Fife pull in 58,000 spectators last season while the Caps can only muster 22,500 ? Answers on a postcard !!
I hope the above is of interest.
The figures below only relate to Elite League games. They do not include purely Challenge Cup games nor do they include the playoffs. In this way, we are able to make proper comparisons with previous years.
1. Total attendances: In 2012/13, a total of 609,000 attended Elite League games. In 2013/14, this increased to 626,000 and, in the 2014/15 season just ended, attendance increased by an impressive 70,000 to 696,000. It's impossible to tell how much of this is due to an increased number of existing fans going to away games and how much represents new fans to the sport, but whatever, it means the sport took in an extra £1 million in gate money compared to 2013/14. Only 3 teams failed to participate in this increased income being Edinburgh, Dundee and Hull.
2. Conferences in general: The increase of 70,000 was split 22,000 to the Northern conference representing a 12% increase, and 48,000 to the Southern conference representing an 8% increase.
3. The Southern conference: All 5 teams increased their average attendance. Top by far was Cardiff whose game average rose by 46% from 1419 to 2065 followed by Belfast which rose 17% to 4944.
4. The Northern conference: The increase of 22,000 was due wholly to Braehead and Fife with the attendances of the other 3 teams down. Fife's average attendance rose 35% from 1634 to 2211 making it the second highest riser in the League as a whole behind Cardiff. Fife's 4 home games against Braehead were an important factor in this, averaging 3,000 a game compared to an average of 2,200 against them in 2013/14. As regards Braehead, their attendances rose 21% to 3100 helped along by a flurry of capacity crowds of 3,576 in the final games of the season.
5. Highest and lowest: The largest attendance in 2014/15 was 8864 at the game between Sheffield and Nottingham on 26th December. The lowest recorded was 502 for the game between the Capitals and Dundee at Murrayfield on 7th December.
6. Edinburgh Capitals: The Capitals average attendance per game fell 9% from 956 to 868. Apart from Dundee and the now defunct Hull, that goes against the trend of all the other clubs in the league and especially our near neighbours Fife where the contrast is now stark. For example, how can Fife pull in 58,000 spectators last season while the Caps can only muster 22,500 ? Answers on a postcard !!
I hope the above is of interest.