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@LanguageMan1 @atomicpoet Just out of curiousity, how much do general admission CFL tickets cost?

In Melbourne, you can get regular season adult general admission tickets to AFL games for A$27 and U14 kids tix for A$5. (Although you'll probably be at the back of the MCG at that price.)

"The AFL is pleased to announce, for the seventh straight season, a price freeze on general admission tickets for all matches at the MCG and Marvel Stadium across the 2025 Toyota AFL Premiership Season.

"General admission tickets will remain at $27 for adults, $18 for concession and $5 for juniors aged 14 and under, while children aged four and under continue to be free.

"A general admission ‘Family ticket' consisting of two adults and two children will also be frozen at $54 for all home and away season games at both the MCG and Marvel Stadium."

https://www.afl.com.au/news/1266505/price-freeze-on-general-admission-tickets-at-mcg-and-marvel-stadium

It's A$35 for adults in Sydney for Sydney Swans games, but climbs steeply after that (as high as $96): https://www.sydneyswans.com.au/news/1419166/ticket-pricing

A lot of people, possibly most, who regularly go to games tend to get a club membership. That gets access to a set number of games, plus because most clubs are member-owned, you become a part-owner of your favourite club for a year.

How does that compare to CFL?

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@atomicpoet It's counterintuitive, but having multiple teams in the most populous city has a lot of benefits over having just one.

Down here, the AFL has nine of its teams in Melbourne, plus two each in Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, and Southeast Queensland.

And the National Rugby League has 8.5 of its teams based in Sydney.

It's a different setup for European football with promotion and relegation. But again you have multiple teams in the EPL based in London (Arsenal, Chelsea, West Ham, Tottenham Hotspur, Crystal Palace, etc).

Having cross-town rivalries helps to build interest, because you're likely to regularly come across people who barrack for your city's other teams.

You often get people who'll watch games to barrack against the crosstown rivals. ("My two favourite teams are the Adelaide Crows, and whoever is playing against Port Adelaide".)

You get multiple games each week involving teams from your biggest TV market.

You can have multiple teams sharing a stadium, which brings down the cost per game.

The costs of running the league go down in terms of travel and accommodation.

And you get the big matches where all the regular supporters of two of the city's teams pile into the same stadium.

Given the GTA has 7 million people, so it /should/ be able to support more than one team.

Presumably there'd be people who'd support a Mississauga or Brampton or Durham Region CFL team who don't currently follow the Argonauts.

Each of those clubs would be competing against each other for supporters.

It's a model that works very well elsewhere, why not in Canada?

@atomicpoet Okay, with over a million an Atlantic team admittedly makes a bit more sense.

I'm curious why there's only one team each in the Vancouver and Greater Toronto metro areas? Surely you could have multiple teams in each city?

@atomicpoet In defence of the Canadian Football League suggesting it could do a team in the Maritimes but never actually delivering...

After decades of our AFL (Australian Football League) doing the same thing to Tasmania, it did actually offer them a licence.

The condition was that Tasmania, which has a population of ~500,000 people, had to build a new stadium with a roof.

Well, it's been a bit of a debacle. The cost of just the stadium blown out to over $1 billion, even before it's officially approved.

The legislation to get the stadium led to a no confidence motion against the state government passing, leading to an early state election.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-23/macquarie-stadium-debate-tasmanian-parliament/105806814

Maybe the CFL is wise to not actually go ahead with a team in the Maritimes?

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