Geelong has set a new Club membership record in 2025, finishing with 92,379 members.  

The number is the highest in the Club’s history and the fifth-consecutive year the Cats have broken their previous record. It is also the second straight year Geelong has surpassed 90,000 members, with that milestone celebrated at GMHBA Stadium in Round 22 against Essendon. 

The record number has helped the AFL achieve a similar feat, setting an all-time club membership record of 1,319,687 members in 2025, surpassing last year’s total of 1,264,952 by 3.26 per cent. That equates to one in every 20 Australians being a member of an AFL club, with more than 240,000 new members signing on this year. 

Geelong was among just six clubs to welcome over 15,000 new members in 2025, while over a third of the Club’s total has been hometown support, with 35 per cent of members hailing from the Geelong region. While 12 per cent of the membership base holds interstate memberships, and impressively nearly 400 members have thrown their support behind the Club internationally. 

Of the 92,000-plus members, the longest-tenured Cats member spans 81 years of continual support, while more than 600 people have been a member for 40 years or more. 

“On behalf of the Club, I would like to thank every single Geelong member for their support this season across our AFL and AFLW programs. You all play a significant role in helping us succeed on and off the field,  and your passion and commitment is unmistakably Geelong,” Geelong Cats CEO Steve Hocking said.