Accessed May 02, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1299617/australia-annual-difference-in-afl-club-membership-by-club/, Australian Football League. Use Ask Statista Research Service, World ranking of the Norwegian male national football team 1992-2022, World ranking of the Danish male national football team 1993-2022, Swedish men's national football team: top goal scorers of all-time 2022, World ranking of the Finnish male national football team 1992-2022, To download this statistic in XLS format you need a Statista Account, To download this statistic in PNG format you need a Statista Account, To download this statistic in PDF format you need a Statista Account. Essendon (-26.5%), Melbourne (-29.2%), Collingwood (-10.9%), Hawthorn (-6.4%), Geelong (-6.7%), Western Bulldogs (-14.1%) and North Melbourne (-9.7%) were all dealt significant drops in membership numbers while Carlton (+4.1%) and St Kilda (+ 11.4%) increased slightly. The AFL has today forwarded its 2021 financial results to the Presidents and Chairs of the 18 clubs, in the lead-up to next months Annual General Meeting. Closed now : See all hours. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. 9. Figure 1 plots all players on an AFL list in 2020, which is useful in demonstrating the AGP-Earlgram . West Coast, Hawthorn, Richmond and Collingwood receive the lowest distributions from the league, while the expansion Giants and Suns, along with St Kilda and Brisbane have tended to receive more under the AFL's equalisation funding model, a mechanism that has frustrated key figures at wealthier clubs. 2017 Annual Report. For the league, having stores of cash and a positive asset position was a help to getting through the financial pain. Clubs had no blueprint on how to react. Outside of Victoria, Sydney (-28.1%), Adelaide (-17.4%) and Port Adelaide (-11%) all copped drops to their 2019 totals. In 2020 and 2021, the AFL covered travel costs for teams impacted by state border restrictions. The rebuild may get ugly, but if they win a flag (or two) in the meantime it will be worth it. These cuts were designed to limit the losses of the yearand not cut the fat. Were working to restore it. Across all clubs, revenue dropped $342m, or an average of $19m per club. Of course, Richmond wasnt the powerhouse it is today in the early 2010s, carrying sizeable debt with much lower membership numbers and income. The Giants have received about $100 million more funding from the AFL than the Pies over the past decade. Where almost all of the historical backing from the game came from ticket sales, memberships and benefactors, now punters form a smaller part of the revenue pie. (March 7, 2022). Zeno thought that Achilles never actually caught the tortoise. Some reduced salaries uniformly; others cut the salaries of the better-off harder. Sport, religion and family: Who is incoming AFL boss Andrew Dillon? "We have been blown away by the loyalty and commitment footy fans around the country have demonstrated this season. Brisbane Lions: 29,277, up 4.2% from 2019's 28,023 total. 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Hawthorn, for instance, is facing the imminent loss of the huge income from playing in Tasmania if that state gains a team, plus an eventual transition to a future without pokies earnings two key planks of the Hawks rise to financial heavyweight. Eighty per cent of all jobs across AFL headquarters and the clubs were either cut or furloughed during the peak of the COVID shutdown, with the players taking a 50 per cent pay cut over the period. 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The best of the best: the portal for top lists & rankings: Strategy and business building for the data-driven economy: Industry-specific and extensively researched technical data (partially from exclusive partnerships). The Magpies and Bombers both bring in around $12 million annually from gambling. [Online]. 3. 1. $0.9 million to corporate and social responsibility initiatives. Carlton, despite a decade of on-field struggles, received slightly less than Richmond in variable funding, over the nine years to 2020. Collingwood: 76,862, down 10.9% from 2019's 85,226 total. AFL spokesman All clubs receive the same standard distribution, which was $10.45 million in 2021 and will reduce to $8.45 million in 2022, when Richmond, West Coast, Hawthorn and Collingwood will receive only that amount, with the remainder of the money re-allocated to teams deemed to have the greatest need. In modern footy the elite always get caught sooner or later. 11. The question for Collingwood is whether they have enough depth to cover their losses especially up forward, where they have struggled in recent years. Much of the hit came from the loss of match-day revenue. And it may have been the savior for 2020. Variable funding is the AFLs primary tool for evening up the competition financially and the league has increased the level of redistribution enormously since 2012, when St Kilda and the Lions were given several million fewer dollars than they were later granted from 2015-16, as Gillon McLachlan and his team increased subsidies to the poorer clubs. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. Review. Will The Tests success inspire others to follow Australias example. Some clubs relied on more walk-up fans and member churn for their attendance income. National cabinet encourages wearing masks to combat COVID-19. $29.5 million on the administration of the 2021 mens and womens season, including travel costs to relocate clubs impacted by state border restrictions and administer Covid-19 testing protocols; $53.0 million to Game Development; an increase of $21.0 millionin line with increased activity at Community level nationally through 2021; $18.5 million in running the NAB AFL Womens competition; $23.0 million to infrastructure comprising of elite and community facilities and contributions for stadia redevelopments; and. North Melbourne: 38,667, down 9.7% from 2019's 42,419 total. Rival clubs largely accept that GWS and Gold Coast will need massive levels of AFL support for decades to build backing in their challenging, non-traditional markets. Instead of accepting pick 11, the Giants ended up with picks 13, 15 and 20. The 1,113,441 number surpasses the record of 1,057,572 that was set in 2019. AFL trade period can be a tsunami of rumour, speculation, and conjecture, all of which can affect the mental health and wellbeing of the league's players, writes David Mark. Fremantle and St Kilda finished at the bottom of this list, although Fremantle has a fairly high level of corporate hospilality which would put these figures higher, and Port Adelaide didnt report sponsorship at all. How much extra could mortgage repayments be, now the cash rate is 3.85 per cent? This nearly all accrues to Victorian clubs since AFL Membership is effectively an MCG season ticket. Western Bulldogs spending the least with 18.77m (down 27%), and Collingwood spending the most at 26.4m (-14%). "but the reality is that before variable distributions, only nine of the 18 clubs make a profit. Remaining funds are then allocated to the teams most in need. It showed that West Coast, who made a monstrous profit after the 2018 flag, would have an aggregate profit of over $32 million ($8 million plus per year) without variable funding, and that under the same scenario the top six clubs would have averaged more than $3 million in profits, but that only eight clubs would be in the black. When you buy an AFL membership you nominate a club and they get a portion of your membership fee as compensation for that attendee not contributing to gate takings or club memberships. However, the prospects of future outbreaks, and related shutdowns, still loom onthe horizon. The clubs that think that theyve probably sacrificed too much already will want something else. Collingwood and Richmond also made more than 30m, while Gold Coast and GWS turned in just over 5m each at the bottom of the table. Other clubs will as well. Wed be pretty keen, wed have a lot to say in that, Brasher said. 4. Adelaide Crows: Malcolm Blight Medal. More sophisticated player valuation systems are explored further in Part 5 of this series. AFL clubs generated 751.79m in revenue (-31%), and lost a combined 28m. The extra support of the Giants and Suns is to be expected, having just joined the competition in 2012 and 2011 respectively, while the latter are paid to manage Metricon Stadium for the AFL. Sport wasn't immuneto thoseclosures. In 2021, the Suns were granted what industry sources said was about $14 million on top of the $10.45 million base funding, with GWS said to have gained an additional $13 million, the Lions around $10 million and St Kilda close to $9 million. At the personal level, the crisis was tough on those working within football as clubs were forced by policy to cut over a third of all spending from their off-field football budgets. In a funding table that reveals remarkable and growing differences in allocations to clubs, the Saints were clearly the most subsidised of the Victorian clubs, obtaining close to $17 million more than the next Melbourne club, the Western Bulldogs, in variable funding over the decade to 2021. Clubs & League combined cross the billion dollar revenuethreshold, but finished 24% down on 2019. twitter.com/footyi. Copyright 2023 Sporting News Holdings Limited. This result includes the AFLs controlled state subsidiaries, Marvel Stadium and Champion Data. Year on year difference in Australian Football League (AFL) club membership between 2020 and 2021, by club [Graph]. 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The clubs that think that theyve probably sacrificed too much already will want something else. While the AFL recorded a cash surplus, the AFLs underlying operating loss for 2021 was $43.0 million, compared to an underlying operating loss of $22.7 million in 2020. This also included the additional precautions taken during travel and interstate stays to safeguard the players, clubs, and the community. What happens off the field in Australian Sport. To use individual functions (e.g., mark statistics as favourites, set 15. The club gets over $20 million a year from poker machines at its gaming venues, a situation that led to president Jeff Kennett getting a serve from Port Adelaide chairman David Koch last week. AFL clubs and broadcasting manager Travis Auld speaking to media in 2020. In total, the AFL was hit with a 6.1 per cent drop in membership numbers after totalling 992,854, down from last year's record of 1,057,572. The focus remains on the rebuild and strengthening of the industry balance sheet that will enable future investment in the growth and development of our game from grassroots through to the elite platforms. COVID-19 has not disappeared from the public landscapeand likely won't for a fair while. Other clubs will as well. Premium events and corporate boxes were mostly impossible and many fans opted for options such as reduced cost memberships or fees deferred toward next year's membership. All in all, Collingwood lost Adam Treloar, Stephenson, Tom Phillips and promising youngster Atu Bosenavulagi with no ready-made replacements in their wake. The difference in funding has reportedly created agitation among traditional clubs. Chart. But clubs and draft prospects are still preparing for the draft despite a lack of action on the field, although the AFL is yet to confirm a date for this year's event. The figures showed St Kilda would have lost $32.6 million, Melbourne $19.1 million, Port Adelaide $14.56 million, Brisbane Lions $35.2 million and Gold Coast and GWS would have had aggregate losses of $45.2 million and $50 million, respectively.