Record attendance for a 2 tier (Division 2/ championship) game ?

[kev20971]

Can anyone help ?
What's the record attendance for a 2 tier game ?
Tried the Internet but not much help, (It's crap at times lol).
Anyway found this ( Guardian from 2006). But along with the dig at City and Newcastle, it's seems bollocks, has I've found City v Burnley in 1947 beat it .
So is City v Burnley the record ?

 

[Stephen230]

I’ve no idea but if my fading memory serves, that United V Sunderland attendance was the biggest crowd in all English divisions for the whole of the ‘74/‘75 season.

 

[The Norfolk Blue]

69,463 dwarfs their 60,585.

 

[pride in battle]

69,463 dwarfs their 60,585.

Was that the City/Burnley game ? What year ?

 

[The Norfolk Blue]

Was that the City/Burnley game ? What year ?

Yes and it was 1947 … so some living Blues may have witnessed it?

 

[pride in battle]

Yes and it was 1947 … so some living Blues may have witnessed it?

Another record we have...no history though!

 

[Stephen230]

Never heard this Burnley game talked about before.

The crowds that season seemed to swing massively for some reason. Don’t know if it had something or other to do with the War having not long finished?

The final game of the season for example, just a few weeks later, where they actually clinched the title, only had a crowd of about 24,000.

 

[The Norfolk Blue]

So basically City have the biggest attendances for both Tier 1 and 2 League games.

In fact only Everton, Chelsea, United, Arsenal & Spurs have ever topped this 69,483 with Liverpool being some 7k short of it.

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

Yes and it was 1947 … so some living Blues may have witnessed it?

I’m sure Oakie would have been there.

 

[bluesmith]

So basically City have the biggest attendances for both Tier 1 and 2 League games.

In fact only Everton, Chelsea, United, Arsenal & Spurs have ever topped this 69,483 with Liverpool being some 7k short of it.

United have the top flight record albeit at Maine Road

 

[BlueFurn]

United have the top flight record albeit at Maine Road

We should never have agreed to that- whatever the reasons/cause/excuses/…

 

[bluesmith]

We should never have agreed to that- whatever the reasons/cause/excuses/…

Completely different times then - particularly so soon after the War.

 

[BlueFurn]

Completely different times then - particularly so soon after the War.

It was…

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Yes and it was 1947 … so some living Blues may have witnessed it?

@oakiecokie
@Eccles Blue

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

City v Charlton 1985
Officially 48,000
Unofficially????

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Never heard this Burnley game talked about before.

The crowds that season seemed to swing massively for some reason. Don’t know if it had something or other to do with the War having not long finished?

The final game of the season for example, just a few weeks later, where they actually clinched the title, only had a crowd of about 24,000.

Clearly the Burnley Suicide Squad swelled the attendance

 

[DelToro]

69,463 dwarfs their 60,585.

69,463 dwarfs?

Did they sneak in under the turnstiles?

 

[elbearos]

City v Charlton 1985
Officially 48,000
Unofficially????

It was bloody dangerous in the kippax that day

 

[ancoats]

City v Charlton 1985
Officially 48,000
Unofficially????

I was going to say the same thing, Under Swales City's home match day attendances back in the day was all over the place, Back in 1981 the Everton fa cup game at home in the replay and Liverpool in the league cup semi-final 1st leg

I swear both games were over 60.000 and you could not move in the Kippax and the away ends were packed, Platt Lane and North Stand, The Main Stand was also over full with standing fans,

 

[cookster]

It was bloody dangerous in the kippax that day

Agree, amazing there wasn't a major incident.