Impressive attendance figures for Perth’s Optus Stadium, Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena

Two major concert and sports arenas on either side of the country – Perth’s 60,000-seat Optus Stadium and Sydney’s 21,000 capacity Qudos Bank Arena – reveal they generated impressive attendance figures in 2018.

Optus Stadium topped 2 million in its first year of operation, to 43 major events, 420 meetings and special events, and 1,450 stadium tours, reported VenuesWest.

Meantime Qudos Bank Arena, managed by AEG Ogden, welcomed over 1,066,607 ticketed patrons in 2018.

Optus Stadium CEO Mike McKenna said attendances in the first year of operation had exceeded expectations.

“The most pleasing was the results from six state government customer satisfaction surveys which showed overall fan satisfaction was 94% to 98%, across multiple Stadium events, demonstrating fans have really enjoyed their new home of sport and entertainment.

“We saw more than 122,000 regional, interstate and international visitors book tickets and travel to events at Optus Stadium making this venue a genuine tourism attraction.

“The Perth public embraced the public transport system with more than 1.46 million fans travelling to Optus Stadium on buses and trains.”

The catering division placed $21.8 million in orders to food and beverage suppliers, 68% to WA based companies.

 –  500,000+ buckets of chips sold;

–   225,000 Mrs Mac’s pastries sold;

–   Over 1 million litres of Gage Roads beer served;

–   21,546 rolls of toilet paper used;

 –  80% of transactions cashless;

 –  61,000 app downloads

Qudos Bank Arena general manager Steve Hevern, said the venue “hosted over 110 ticketed shows throughout 2018, and that level of event activity (is) likely to continue in 2019″.

Three entertainers set new records for the arena.

Pink’s nine Beautiful Trauma World Tour shows broke three Arena records.

These were for total ticket sales for any artist”; total ticket sales for a female solo artist’ and the longest run of shows ever for a solo artist at the Arena.

Bruno Mars’ five shows as part of his 24k Magic World Tour broke the Arena record for total ticket Sales for a male solo artist.

Kevin Hart’s two shows broke the venue’s sales record for a comedy act.