Australasia Attendances : 2010-14

The average attendance for the previous five years was 15,900, a fantastic achievement. The next five years would be interesting as nothing new was happening but public interest was still strong.

In April 2010 the Melbourne Storm admitted an ongoing salary cap breach so were not allowed to earn any points for 2010. All titles for the period were taken away although bizarrely no one else were then awarded those titles. Go figure that one!

The St George Illawarra joint venture side won the league title from Sydney club Penrith and then St George took the grand final from the Sydney Roosters. The Melbourne Storm did well to win 14 of their 24 games with nothing to play for but pride.

The Brisbane Broncos passed the 35,000 attendance figure with the Sydney Bulldogs getting to 20,000. The average was 16,400 and 3,150,000 was the final aggregate figure. This was well up on earlier years.

For a relatively uneventful 2011 Melbourne won the league from Sydney's Manly club while the final had Manly defeating the New Zealand Warriors. Attendances were down slightly to 16,300 with only Brisbane over 20,000 (33,200).

In 2012 Sydney club the Canterbury Bulldogs won the league from Melbourne, but the Melbourne side went on to win the grand final from the Bulldogs. The average 16,423 who attended games was and is an all time record. Three side bettered 20,000.

During the 2013 season, the Cronulla club was found guilty of supplying supplements to players that were in breach of the rules, which led to the trainer being deregistered. The Sydney Roosters were the league winners from South Sydney and made it a double when beating manly in the final.

After three straight years of plus 16,000 attendances, this year fell to 15,900 and the ever popular Brisbane side barely made 30,000.

For 2014 the Auckland nines tournament was held over a weekend, with North Queensland taking the spoils. The Sydney Roosters won their second consecutive league while South Sydney overwhelmed the Canterbury Bulldogs in the final. Attendances were the same as last year at 15,900.

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NRL Attendances 2010-14
		Tot	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010
1	Brisbane	33014	33354	30439	33377	33209	35032
2	Canterbury	20840	15425	19590	23572	19528	20670
3	Newcastle	18414	17616	18758	20919	19186	14792
4	South Sydney	18225	19888	22261	18904	14381	17355
5	Wests Tigers	15904	13104	11452	16227	17852	18086
6	St George	15773	16056	12423	16426	17422	16820
7	New Zealand	15660	17131	16198	17111	16018	13313
8	Sydney Rooster	15595	14102	19368	12482	14344	16184
9	Gold Coast	15435	13194	14029	14405	15428	17877
10	Paramatta	15373	18788	12456	16804	15150	17080
11	Melbourne	14477	14894	16305	12685	14246	14670
12	Manly	14307	12613	13522	14593	15296	13816
13	Nth Queensland	14264	14613	14111	14415	14189	14340
14	Cronulla	12332	12631	13448	13234	12094	10551
15	Penrith	11638	11462	10337	10858	12299	13056
16	Canberra	11302	9608	10226	10190	12419	12373
	Total Average	16259	15905	15933	16423	16273	16406
	Total	3121637	3053743	3059062	3153142	3124415	3149927