Sponsors. Imagine how much Barclays pays for it to be the Barclays Premier League.

I think you will find that all 3 major sports in the US earn most of their income from TV rights, & probably EPL?

If AFL (sic) is regarded as a foreign code in Sydney, then GWS is a long term project & 50 years is not too far-fetched.

Gyfox is right that TV rights are a primary resaon. But it's also about (1) growth, with the aim of getting more youth playing Aussie Rules, & (2) more publicity, with an AFL game in Sydney every week.

The FFA for example get only 20% of their income from Broadcast Rights and slightly more than that from partnerships and sponsorships. They get another 20% from Socceroos gate takings if I recall correctly. I will see if I can find some of the figures again for other Leagues around the world. There were a few articles about it from memory.

Would have thought it'd be a drop in the ocean compared to what Sky (and other foreign TV networks) pay for the rights.

A quick google search - just over 20m pounds a year, i.e f**k all compared to the TV income.

I would guess that any sporting league with greater than novelty support in a first world country would earn the bulk of their income from TV, or at the very least it would make up, by far, their largest income stream.

In the AFL, match day income is highly likely to exceed TV revenue. It's just that the AFL itself doesn't see a lot of it. I'd imagine most other sporting leagues are set up a similar way. I don't know of any that would collect the bulk of match day income.

Man Uniteds single largest income stream is match day revenue it's around the 100 million pound turnover mark. It all depends on the league and the size of the club, stadium capacity and the ability to fill it.
EPL clubs get around 25 million pounds a year from tv rights if i remember correctly, and all clubs get the same amount where as in Scotland, Rangers and Celtic get a larger share of the TV money than the smaller clubs.

Are we confusing "code" with "league" and club income here?

And they also get "prizemoney" of 750,000 pounds (2009-10) a place depending on where they finish on the table

if movies have tought us anything in a hundred years we'll all be either robots or controlled by robot so im not too worried about this

Good news for the AFL then. Robots are gr8 athletes

I dunno, I assumed when someone referred to the 'AFL's income' that meant the league's income. i.e not including income earned by clubs.

If we're talking the League, it'd be media, daylight, sponsorship and the rest I'd say.

Does the league get a royalty for club ticket revenue or is it just the finals?

http://majorprojects.planning.nsw.gov.a ... ob_id=4188

Much better than the first renders we saw.

Seems that this is the $73m master plan, divided into 3 stages - 1, 1a and 2. I can't see any information that makes clear what is currently funded, but my guess is Stage 1.

Stage 1 is lower bowl, corporate/media North West stand, amenities, players facilities, new lights etc with temporary spectator stands in the North and South East stands.

Stage 1a replaces the temporary stands with permanent versions and adds a small grass hill under the scoreboard.

Stage 2 adds a roof to the North and South East stands.

Yes it is much better, but for the life of me I still cannot see why we need to oval venues within spitting distance of each other.

The SMH reveals that the Showground will be called Skoda Stadium.

I can't find the renders on that page.

Nor can I. Can someone upload them to the thread please?