The GAA recorded an increase in gate receipts of 17% in 2025 with a 21% jump in attendances across all competitions accounting for the rise.<\/p>\n
In its annual financial report, the GAA recorded total revenue of \u20ac142million, an increase of \u20ac9m on 2024.<\/p>\n
In spite of this, the overall consolidated surplus figure declined to \u20ac3.7m, down from \u20ac6.3m in 2025.<\/p>\n
It was a decrease that the association says was planned and forecasted for.<\/p>\n
Gate receipts accounted for \u20ac45.7m of the revenue figure, which represents an increase of \u20ac6.6m on the previous year.<\/p>\n
The Sam Maguire Cup race drew in a total of 641,429 spectators in 2025, compared with 512,001 in 2024, a jump of 25.33%.<\/p>\n
The Liam MacCarthy competition saw an increase of 11% in 2025, jumping to 266,170 from the 2024 figure of 239,677.<\/p>\n
A greater combined attendance across the two semi-finals proved key, with a crowd in excess of 60,000 attending the Tipperary-Kilkenny semi-final in comparison to just 39,241 who attended the 2024 Clare-Kilkenny semi-final. Both the Cork-Limerick 2024 semi-final and the Cork-Dublin 2025 semi-final generated full-house crowds.<\/p>\n
The Allianz Hurling League saw a whopping 43% jump in attendances in 2025, with the league decider between Cork and Tipperary attracting a 45,000 sellout crowd to P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh.<\/p>\n
The Allianz Football League delivered a smaller but still substantial increase of 19% overall, with a total of 491,565 attending football league games in 2025 – as against 412,536 in 2024.<\/p>\n
Of the overall revenue figure of \u20ac142m, the Croke Park Stadium generated \u20ac50.5m, up \u20ac4.5m on the previous year following another summer of concerts, anchored in 2025 by Oasis.<\/p>\n
In their forecast for 2026, the GAA noted that there were 16 fewer championship fixtures due to the change in the All-Ireland football championship format, which is expected to hit gate receipts by \u20ac1m.<\/p>\n
In the report, the hope was expressed that the “greater level of jeopardy” in the new format would result in larger attendances in the early rounds of the championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The GAA recorded an increase in gate receipts of 17% in 2025 with a 21% jump in attendances…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-292826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}