I think the product we have at Chippenham is good for the £14 entrance fee.

I think you're correct CB when you say attendances swell when there's a winning team (or more likely to win games).

I agree the local press don't do enough to cover their own town's football team, the  internet tells me Chippenham has a population of 36,548 people, so 594 people is 1.63% of people of the town attending, Bath, in comparison have an average attendance of 1,062 from a town population of 101,557 which is 1.05%.

Weymouth have an average attendance of 810 from a town population of 53,427 which works out at 1.52% so about the same as us.

I'd love to do the figures for other clubs in the division when I've got enough time but I'd love to know the reasons why the population of Chippenham only come out for the big games.

Edit:

Farnborough 595 from 57,486 so 1.02%
Worthing 810 from 111,338 so 0.73%
Hungerford 404 from 5,869 so 6.88%


 

Last edited by AllThatJazz (14/3/2023 2:37 PM)

To be fair the club have secured sponsorship with CMC to allow under 16’s in free until 30th April l, they are the future supporters and the LIT fibre deal appears pretty good from the outside.

I think the issue of lower crowd figures came up a year or so ago... I'm not convinced success on the pitch is a factor currently considering last season saw us making a playoff push but no notable difference in attendances!

inthebox wrote:

But under 16's can already get free entrance if accompanied by a paying adult.

The whole point of CMC offering the free child place, is because they are generating new support through there huge web presence.
I for one received an email from them.
So looks like good advertising to me .
Well done Simon.