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After that breathtaking grand final between the Brisbane Roar and the Central Coast Mariners, it’s worthwhile to sit back and reflect on the season that has been.
Most football followers would agree that it has been one of the best seasons on record on the field. The standard of play and the creative attacking football on display has been hailed by many as the best ever witnessed in domestic Australian football.
With that the Brisbane Roar set a domestic football record of going 28 games in a row unbeaten – a feat that will be very hard to improve on and a winning record that may stand for many years to come.
Season six of the Hyundai A-League has also been a record year for the aggregate attendances of any A-League season so far. The 2010-11 A-League season proper aggregate attendance of 1,395,734 sets a new attendance record, beating last year’s figure of 1,322,475 by nearly 75,000 spectators.
The total aggregate A-League attendance of 1,529,390 including the finals series, is also a record. This is another milestone and the first time more than 1.5 million spectators have attended an A-League season.
The A-League also passed its seven millionth spectator milestone during HAL season six.
After losing North Queensland Fury and the Football Federation of Australia (FFA) planning to possibly shorten HAL season seven to accommodate one less team and avoid the AFL and NRL finals, these attendance records may stand for many years to come.
The A-League grand final also proved to be an Australian pay TV ratings winner with over 400,000 watching the nail biting penalty shoot out finale. This was despite the fact that the game was played on the same weekend as the NRL opening round of the season and went head to head with the NRL Sunday match of the day.
This is 30 per cent more than the Australian pay TV audience for the Sydney FC versus Melbourne Victory A-League grand final of 2010.
Internationally the A-League was a big winner too and was shown to over 80 million households around the world and an estimated TV audience of between 30 to 50 million viewers.
The game was also featured in football betting around the world and shown live in pubs, clubs and betting shops across Europe, Asia and the Americas.
The next day, bloggers on football websites from all around the world were discussing the “fantastic” and “awesome play off final” from Australia.
HAL season six is done and dusted and has raised a lot of discussions during the season in the media, internet, pubs, clubs, work places and homes. In fact, our domestic football competition has never received so much attention and is very pleasing to note, from that point of view.
I’m sure season seven of the Hyundai A-League will be just as controversial, noteworthy and exciting and looking forward to it already, even if we may have to wait an extra few weeks to see it kick off in 2011.
More importantly, we wait in anticipation for the FFA’s A-League review and what changes and reforms will be introduced before the start of HAL 7.0.
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