Accessed May 02, 2023. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1299617/australia-annual-difference-in-afl-club-membership-by-club/, Australian Football League. Rovi's. Unclaimed. Remaining funds are then allocated to the teams most in need. The 2021 total is 12 per cent growth on 2020. All in all, Collingwood lost Adam Treloar, Stephenson, Tom Phillips and promising youngster Atu Bosenavulagi with no ready-made replacements in their wake. Victorian AFL clubs claimed more than 44m in Jobkeeper entitlements this year, with North Melbourne claiming the least (2.81m) and Richmond by far claiming the most (10.8m). 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. However the Giants, (-$50m), Suns (-$45.2m), Lions (-$35.2m) Saints (-$32.6m), Demons (-$19.1m) and Power ($-14.56m) wouldve suffered big losses among 10 clubs with a negative result. Revenue of the AFL in Australia 2012-2021 Published by Statista Research Department , Dec 13, 2022 In 2021, the Australian Football League (AFL) in Australia generated over 738 million. AFL players agreed to take a 50 per cent pay cut in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The acquisition of Zac Williams and Adam Saad, and abandonment of this draft, means that the finals focus of the club has shifted firmly to next year. GWS, thus, is expected to get a small boost in funding, while the Bulldogs who rank only behind the Saints among Victorian clubs for extra funding will have their funding chopped. Collingwoods only non-base funding, according to the figures obtained by The Age, was $174,710 in 2012. Richmond sat just $2,000 outside the top four, while. But not all memberships are equal. Richmonds 2017 saw it charge up the AFLs revenue ladder finishing fifth in the list of clubs ranked by income, and judging on the 90,151 attendance at the season opener last night and an AFL record membership of over 85 thousand there may be room for some growth yet. "On behalf of the AFL, I want to say thank you to every single person who signed up this year.". Of course, Richmond wasnt the powerhouse it is today in the early 2010s, carrying sizeable debt with much lower membership numbers and income. Victorian AFL clubs have spent 21.% less on their football departments in 2020, down to 193m. More Clubs Hide AFL Clubs. Crowds in 2020 were at their lowest point since the middle of World War II, with just 826,458 punters walking through the turnstiles. Their best two players, Patrick Dangerfield and Tom Hawkins, turn 31 and 32 years old respectively. The ideal entry-level account for individual users. The Hawks riches are built on the back of a massive sponsorship to play four games in Tasmania each year plus a huge, and controversial, take from gambling income. We have survived the most challenging two years in the games history and while we know the next 12 months will continue to surprise and test us, our priority remains to keep our game as affordable and accessible as possible for all. The 2020 AFL trade period shows some teams are chasing Richmond - ABC 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. This revenue assisted in covering the following costs: Operating expenditure decreased by $22.5 million. North Melbourne, who have faced constant financial pressures and talk about relocation to their second home in Tasmania, ranked only sixth in variable funding, surprisingly trailing not only GWS, Gold Coast and the Lions (in that order), but the Saints and Bulldogs, despite the Dogs 2016 premiership and superior balance sheet. West Coast Eagles: 100,776, up 10.3% from 2019's 90,445 total. Gold Coast Suns: 16,236 up 15.9% from 2019's 13,649 total. The Giants averaged $10.46 million in variable funding from 2012-2020, followed by the Suns ($9.8 million), with a jump down to Brisbane Lions ($6.03 million) and then the Saints ($5.69 million). The games collective unity and determination enabled us to withstand what some would say was an even bigger test than the year prior. 3. To assign a user flair to yourself on desktop, expand the community options menu below and click the pencil icon by your username. The clubs that think that theyve probably sacrificed too much already will want something else. IN MY RUGBY LEAGUE? National cabinet encourages wearing masks to combat COVID-19. Rivals reportedly expect both clubs will need substantial funding for decades to come to help build them in non-traditional AFL markets. 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. The Club reported a 2020 operating loss before depreciation of $4.6m based on COVID-19 related issues, incurring $1.7m of one-off restructuring costs and non-cash balance sheet adjustments in addition to the operating loss. Privacy Policy. You only have access to basic statistics. 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.
