Melbourne Victory FC supporters

Melbourne Victory FC has the largest supporter base in Australia for soccer and has consistently set record highs in membership and attendance, since the club's foundation in 2004.

A number of blogs, supporter clubs, and fans websites have been dedicated to the club and its supporters, and the fans have long-standing rivalries with several other clubs; the most notable of these is with neighbours Melbourne City, with whom they regularly contest the Melbourne Derby.

List of supporter groups

Melbourne Victory has a variety of supporter groups throughout Victoria. The two most notable groups are the 'North Terrace' and the 'South Terrace'. The North Terrace has various sub groups who gather at their respective meeting place, most commonly a pub that is near the home stadium, before uniting and marching as one to the game.

Major groups

• North Terrace
• South Terrace

North Terrace sub-groups

• Blue & White Brigade
• Blue & White Brigade Youth
• Fratelli
• Horda
• Nomadi

Incidents

The first notable incident involving Melbourne Victory supporters occurred in February 2011, when four Melbourne City supporters were charged with "conspiracy to falsely imprison a [Victory supporter] " after an ultras-style supporter group within Victory's North Terrace, known as Horda was pictured in possession of a banner of a Heart supporter group called Yarraside. Tensions caused by the picture had reportedly led to two Yarraside supporters attempting, but failing to kidnap a Melbourne Victory supporter who was believed to have been in the picture holding the banner.

On 28 December 2014, before a match between Melbourne Victory and Western Sydney Wanderers, both teams' supporter groups clashed in the streets of the Melbourne central business district, leading to more than five arrests and at least four needing medical attention. It was considered to be the most recent incident of a major off field rivalry clashing between two A-League clubs following the tensions between the HORDA support group of Melbourne Victory and the Yarraside supporter group of Melbourne City. Football Federation Australia threatened to deduct 3 points from both Melbourne & Western Sydney if similar incidents were to reoccur in the next match, which was scheduled weeks later.

Statistics

Season	Members	Average attn.	Total attn.	Source
2005–06	14,908	14,167	141,668
2006–07	19,235	25,427	352,412
2007–08	22,591	27,728	407,144
2008–09	21,908	26,504	368,420
2009–10	22,526	26,620	376,516
2010–11	17,642	19,458	224,875
2011–12	18,047	20,714	268,916
2012–13	18,432	23,789	329,298
2013–14	22,021	21,808	283,507
2014–15	-	-	-

Since the A-League's second season, Melbourne Victory has had the highest, average, highest match day, and total attendances in the A-League. In Victory's first season, the club was third highest in these statistics.

Notable supporters

• George Calombaris, celebrity chef from television show Masterchef and is considered to be the club's number one ticket holder

References

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