Spotless Stadium has been voted the number one AFL venue in the country for fan experience as the GIANTS get set to return home to Sydney for the first time this year to face the three time reigning premiers Hawthorn.
The AFL conducted independent research across the 2015 season to examine customer satisfaction across major AFL venues in terms of match day experience.
The survey was conducted over four GIANTS games (against Hawthorn, Adelaide, Essendon and the Swans) and compared against 10 other AFL stadiums.
Of the 43 individual experience areas assessed, Spotless Stadium led on 19, rating highly for entertainment, food and beverage options and pricing.
Feedback from fans has praised the ground’s security and cleanliness as a safe place to bring kids, community engagement with kick-to-kick on the field after every match and also the emphasis on match-day entertainment.
This week one of Australia’s hottest musical acts, Thirsty Merc, will perform on the Virgin Australia Stage to kick off the 2016 season. The trio will perform a half-time show as well as playing post-match during kick-to-kick on the purpose-built stage just metres from the field.
Kick-to-kick returns after every GIANTS home game - rain, hail or shine - and there’s plenty of action off the field … Not to mention, what looks to be a cracking game of footy on the field.
20 Good Reasons … to get to Spotless Stadium
“We got 13,500 last year against Hawthorn which is the biggest non-derby crowd ... and increasingly the voices of our fans are growing louder,” GIANTS CEO David Matthews told News Corp.
“As a young club there will often be a bit of a focus on the quantity in terms of crowd sizes among others but we’re big believers that quality will lead to quantity.
“To get that feedback as the number one ranked stadium in the competition for the fans is just a significant feather in our cap.
“There’s not a bad seat in the house and what we’re doing more of now is providing quality entertainment on the field.”
There’s the Woolworths AFL playground, kids zone, inflatables, giveaways, face painting, colouring in, G-MAN appearances and much more with family passes starting from just $48 for two adults and two kids and FREE train travel included with every ticket and membership.
“We’ve won our last two games and it’s a huge game this week — so we’re hoping the more and more people who experience our stadium, the more that will come back,” said Matthews.
“Having Hawthorn is the perfect lead-in to the start of our schedule in Sydney.
“It’s helped us too having the Sydney Thunder relocate and start playing their games there because our fan bases would overlap to some extent and certainly the Thunder are showing a lot of people in western Sydney what a great stadium it is as well.”
The GIANTS take on the three-time reigning premiers Hawthorn in their first game at Spotless Stadium for the year on Saturday April 30 at 4.35pm. Click here to buy your tickets now.
