The attendance figure for day two of Magic Weekend has been confirmed as 22,293 meaning that the combined total of the event sits at 53,103, the second-lowest in Super League history.
It was the first time that Super League had taken its showpiece event to Leeds with Elland Road selected as the destination, one that fans were generally not happy with.
The shift to Elland Road marked a change from the recent home of St James Park in Newcastle which had hosted every Magic Weekend event since 2015 barring the venture to Liverpool in 2019.
After a crowd of 30,810 passed through the gate on day one, ranking as the eleventh-best in the event’s 17-year history, a far more disappointing figure of 22,293 attended on day two.
As such, it now means the total of 53,103 ranks as the second-lowest combined attendance in the event’s history. It only surpasses the 2010 event in Edinburgh and is over 3,500 shy of the next best-attended Magic Weekend.
It appears like the move to Elland Road has been a major blow for Super League with a direct drop of just over 10,000 from the 2023 total at St James Park.
Perhaps even worse, the Sunday ranked as the lowest-ever day two total in the event’s history which is likely a damning blow of the scheduling given that five of the competition’s best-supported teams played on Saturday in Hull FC, Wigan, Saints, Leeds and Warrington.
Below is a ranking showing exactly where the 2024 event ranks in the 17-year history of Magic Weekend in Super League.
Super League Magic Weekend attendance ranked
17. Edinburgh 2010 – 52,043
16. Leeds 2024 – 53,103
15. Liverpool 2019 – 56,869
14. Cardiff 2007 – 58,831
13. Edinburgh 2009 – 59,749
12. Cardiff 2011 – 60,214
11. Newcastle 2021 – 60,866
10. Manchester 2013 – 62,042
9. Newcastle 2022 – 62,154
8. Cardiff 2008 – 63,154
7. Newcastle 2023 – 63,212
6. Manchester 2012 – 63,716
5. Newcastle 2018 – 64,319
4. Manchester 2014 – 64,552
3. Newcastle 2017 – 65,407
2. Newcastle 2015 – 67,841
1. Newcastle 2016 – 68,276
Stats sourced from Rugby League Project
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Anonymous
August 19, 2024 at 9:28 am
People haven,r got money got the money and it’s on sky and they will have lost money because of sky plus on another matter 9 yellow cards it’s a joke
Jill Didymus
August 20, 2024 at 12:40 am
ELLAND Road an atrocity. Clearly geared to football, stewards overkill, quite oppressive, only 4 ladies loo cubicles in operation causing huge queues, disabled loo then utilised and by day 2 quite frankly have experienced better in many 3rd world countries, if H & S contacted whole thing would have been shut down.
Bar staff a joke, have 2 x debits for one purchase as cider not a known quantity!
I am sure several players received unexpected enema due to unexpected use of pitch watering and when Warrington players interacting with fans at game end were nearly mown down with 3x lawnmowers and suffocated by shoulder to shoulder stewards clearly expecting pitch invasion. Generally shower of shit!!!!