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

ancoats said:
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,
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Everton 81 was fucking rammed, couldn't move on the kippax!
 
Don't Spuds get some attendances over 80,000 when they borrowed Wembley? I know the thread title is second division but some have mentioned top flight attendances.
 
East Level 2 said:
Don't Spuds get some attendances over 80,000 when they borrowed Wembley? I know the thread title is second division but some have mentioned top flight attendances.
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Yes, 85,000 odd V Arsenal is the record for the first division/ Premier League, I think. Without fucking about looking it up.
 
kev20971 said:
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 ?
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69,463 watched City v Burnley in 1947 and that was the record for a Second Division game at the time and was the highest attendance in the country after the War (including the First Division).

However, Spurs beat that Second Division record attendance with 70,302 against Southampton 1949-50.

www.11v11.com

Tottenham Hotspur v Southampton, 25 February 1950

11v11 football match report for Tottenham Hotspur v Southampton, League Division Two 1950 , 25 February 1950
www.11v11.com

That still stands as the Second Division record.
 
xgorton said:
84,569 biggest ever gate at Maine road City v Stoke fa cup,Rags got 82,000 for League game when they used our ground just after the war.
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Yes my comment was in response to "85,000 odd V Arsenal is the record for the first division/ Premier League, I think."
 
Newcastle averaged over 56k in the old 2nd Division 47/48. Biggest average in the country; I think it still stands as a record. Averaged over 51k the last time we came up as well. And, yes, we did average just over 16k in 80/81in the 2nd Division when I witnessed some of the worst football ever seen, against a backdrop of boardroom turmoil, boycotts, NF, crumbling stadiums & football violence. We scored 30 goals in the 42 games played.
 
Stephen230 said:
Yes, 85,000 odd V Arsenal is the record for the first division/ Premier League, I think. Without fucking about looking it up.
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that was an all-seater stadium as well

The truth is all the old records for games when it was mostly standing and very little ticketing for games are going to be wildly wrong, because of the fiddles on the turnstiles and greedy chairman with his one for you two for me,

Swales and City had some official crazy figures for games that raised eyebrows ? I even worked on the turnstiles back in the early 1990s, the head of the turnstiles David Matthews I think that was his name, had all the turnstile staff sign off the final figures in pencil ??? I wonder why
 
The Norfolk Blue said:
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.
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Sheff Wednesday have had a 70'000 plus crowd. I think they got 72k against us in the FA Cup.
 
bluesmith said:
Completely different times then - particularly so soon after the War.
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You hear this a lot but from next season there will be 8 PL clubs getting 50k+ crowds for EVERY home game next season.

And probably another 3 that could if their grounds were big enough (Chavs, Villa, Leeds)?
 
ysmsa said:
You hear this a lot but from next season there will be 8 PL clubs getting 50k+ crowds for EVERY home game next season.

And probably another 3 that could if their grounds were big enough (Chavs, Villa, Leeds)?
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My comment was in relation to utd using Maine Road?
 
kev20971 said:
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 ?
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This snippet from the Guardian actually perfectly encapsulates the way City are reported on in most of the media.

A wholly gratuitous dig at City fans, followed by something that promotes both United and their fans, and yet the truth is the thing they are praising United for, we significantly exceed, which underlines the modern affliction of appalling lack of journalistic fact checking, despite being penned in the age of the internet. Hard pressed ffs. Embarrassing fucking ****.
 
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