3 Dec 2013

A-League okay with numbers watching matches

11:46 am on 3 December 2013

The A-League says it's not too concerned about the dwindling attendances to football matches.

Fans flocked to stadiums in record numbers to watch the A-League's opening round this season, but now just seven weeks later attendance figures have more than halved.

Bolstered by massive crowds in Sydney, Melbourne and Gosford, more than a hundred thousand people attended the first round in October - the biggest figure for a regular-season round in the eight-year history of the league.

However last weekend and just 46 thousand were on hand for round 8 matches.

Just 7,000 attended the Wellington Phoenix's match against Western Sydney in the capital.

Head of the A-League Damien De Bohun considering where matches were played last weekend, the dip isn't a surprise to them.

However he says they're very pleased with the way the season's travelling, the broadcast and crowd numbers are still considerably up from last year collectively.