Brisbane Broncos overtake the Melbourne Storm to be the most widely supported NRL club in 2024 with 1.3 million supporters

[Alan79]

Didn't the Roy Morgan polls also predict a LNP government leading up to our last election?

 

[Moedogg]

One thing for sure is, whoever paid them for surveys is getting ripped off.

Imagine if you used this data for a business case.

 

[Bulldogs09]

Must be counting their second heads

 

[Marki]

Broncos finally win something.

Kevvie spewing this poll wasn't released last week....

Would have saved his job!

 

[boggie23]

So dogs get 3 50k crowds in a season. In a market with 7-8 teams in a 50km radius (probably the most dense professional competition in the world). Their round 1 final which was 6th vs 7th is still by far and away the biggest crowd of the finals 20% more than any other game. And the 2 semis combined last week was just more than their 6th 7th game (about 10k more across 2 Games with teams that have all won it in the last 10 years).

Not saying we are the biggest club. I’m sure broncos monopoly will be hard to topple. But no way we are 335k or what ever they quoted. For a long time we were the second most supported team in Brisbane and NZ. We used to have one of the best selling jerseys in the country about 15-20 years ago. Our average audience on tv was the highest in the comp. Yes the last 10 years have been tough and affected our attendance and following. But we had a run of 5 wins in a row and belmore was getting closed down for regular season games like most teams wouldn’t have after a GF. I can’t imagine roosters fans ever closing down a street like what happened in belmore.

Souths who are always quoted as the biggest club in the comp or Sydney atleast has 7-8k attendances at the end of the season. They were grand finalist 2-3 years ago. So barely even a lean trot.

Anyways. If the nrl still wants panthers and storm and roosters to the the teams heavy weights the game will die. They can not pack out accord for a grand final let alone a regular season game. If dogs were at accord last week I’m sure 70k plus would have been there. No matter who the opposition was.

 

[TwinTurbo]

My take from that survey is that Bulldogs supporters are the most passionate, based on the % of the reported supporters that actually attend games. Other clubs may have more "supporters" but they aren't passionate enough to bother attending games. Whereas us Bulldogs supporters are passionate enough to spend our hard earned and make the effort to get off the lounge and actually go to games. The other teams may have more "casual" supporters but we have far more committed supporters.


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[Rod67]

While we don’t have the biggest supporter base I believe we have the biggest support nationwide and abroad.

When we’ve taken games to Mackay, Bundaberg even when we’ve gone to Adelaide, Perth or in New Zealand we have strong support in the crowds. New Zealand makes sense as there’s a Canterbury in New Zealand and most people are drawn to the Blue & White Colours.

They can’t count for that but from my experience I’d say we are right up there as the most supported club more broadly.

 

[BDPScarface]

1 million Storm Supporters and @ASSASSIN never met one of them....they're hiding from you bro lol.

Their methodology must be "there's a storm game away, we expect Richmond vs Hawthorn to get 60k. Got half, therefore add another 30k supporters who stayed away as storm supporters who prioritise the Storm"

 

[chisdog]

The latest data from Roy Morgan shows the total NRL supporter base has grown strongly from a year ago to over 7.4 million Australians (33.1%), up 2.4% from a year ago, who now support an NRL team. Looking over a longer time-period the increase is even more impressive, up by over 2.1 million (+39.7%) compared to four years ago in 2020.

For the first time since 2020 it is the Brisbane Broncos who are now the most widely supported NRL club in 2024 with 1,302,000 supporters, a stunning increase of 152,000 (+13.2%) on a year ago. This boost for the Broncos comes after the club played off in last year’s NRL Grand Final and had their most successful home and away season for over two decades – however, the club failed to repeat their success this year.

In second place and losing top spot which the club has held for the past four years, is the Melbourne Storm with 1,118,000 supporters. The Storm have been one of the most successful NRL clubs over the last two decades and are set to play off in another NRL Grand Final this weekend against the Penrith Panthers.

Speaking of the Panthers, another successful year has seen support for three-time reigning NRL Premiers increase again, up 18,000 (+5%) to 377,000. Support for the Panthers has skyrocketed in the last few years and has more than doubled since 2020 – up by 189,000 (+100.3%).

The most widely supported Sydney-based club is again the Parramatta Eels with 500,000 supporters despite missing the finals for a second straight year and finishing well down the ladder in 15th place this year. Behind the Eels are beaten Preliminary Finalists the Sydney Roosters (474,000 supporters), the South Sydney Rabbitohs (468,000 supporters) and the St. George Illawarra Dragons (419,000 supporters).

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Over the last few years, in which the Penrith Panthers have played in four straight NRL Grand Finals and won three straight Premierships, the Panthers have overtaken several New South Wales clubs on the supporter ladder including the Canterbury Bulldogs (357,000 supporters), Wests Tigers (348,000), Manly-Warringah Sea-Eagles (280,000) and Newcastle Knights (273,000).

Other clubs to increase their support over the last year included this year’s beaten Semi-Finalists the North Queensland Cowboys on 471,000, up 8,000 (+1.7%) from a year ago, the beaten Preliminary Finalists the Cronulla Sharks on 235,000, up 17,000 (+8%) on a year ago, the Australian-based supporters of the New Zealand Warriors on 194,000, up 30,000 (+18.3%) on a year ago and the Gold Coast Titans on 156,000, up 15,000 (+10.9%) on a year ago.

In addition to growth in support for a majority of clubs (10 out of 17 clubs increased their support) the NRL consistently rates as one of Australia’s favourite ‘TV products’. Now 7.1 million Australians (31.8%) watch the NRL on TV, up 318,000 (+4.7%) on a year ago and up over 1.3 million (+23%) on four years ago.

The most popular NRL product on TV is again the annual State of Origin series between New South Wales and Queensland with 5.9 million Australians (26.5%) watching Origin on TV, up 213,000 (+3.7%) on a year ago and up by 957,000 (+19.3%) on four years ago. Close behind in popularity is the NRL Grand Final with 5.6 million Australians (24.9%) watching the season decider on TV.

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Brisbane Broncos overtake the Melbourne Storm to be the most widely supported NRL club in 2024 with 1.3 million supporters - Roy Morgan Research

The latest data from Roy Morgan shows the total NRL supporter base has grown strongly from a year ago to over 7.4 million Australians (33.1%), up 2.4% from a year ago, who now support an NRL team.

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I don't get these stats. Some of these teams listed higher up struggle to fill a stadium. I know the Storm have had good attendance but I find it hard to believe that there are more supporters of Melbourne than the big clubs in traditional rugby league heartland.

So from 60,000 people they extrapolated it out that Melbourne & Brisbane have over 1M supporters. Where did they survey? Queensland? And they used TV viewership which skews the data. Neutral observers will watch the better teams because they play a higher quality of football, not because they support them. How do we know that the reason most people watch is because they support the referee teams?

 

[chisdog]

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Those figures are flawed as well. I used to regularly look at the CB x site, but never followed. Does that mean I am not a supporter?

 

[Wahesh]

I don't get these stats. Some of these teams listed higher up struggle to fill a stadium. I know the Storm have had good attendance but I find it hard to believe that there are more supporters of Melbourne than the big clubs in traditional rugby league heartland.

That's because they're 1-team cities, whereas Sydney, the heartland, has 9 teams to cover the same type of population. It's likely that the Sydney Swans would have more supporters than a lot of the Melbourne clubs do, yet Melbourne is the heartland. It's the same thing bro.