Most supported English clubs

[liamctid]

Re: Best supported English clubs

We're not as well supported as people make out. We have a very good hardcore base of about 30,000 but our national support is nowhere as high as people on here make out. We have had too many years with no success that has cost us fans. If we are as well supported as claimed in the above list we would have sold out last night, sold out the charity shield and not had so much trouble selling out the champions league (not sure we sold them all out). It's nothing to be ashamed off and it will get better!

Nah I think we are well supported throughout the country in terms of people who say their team is City. Have you never seen this forum after an away game in London!

As I was "between jobs" at the time, I went down to Brighton on the 24th October to visit my lady (she's at uni there), saw quite a few City shirts knocking about. And obviously I couldn't resist talking to them about it all - they all seemed as passionate about it as someone who was at the game.

 

[shackattack]

Re: Best supported English clubs

Sunderland above everton ?? I was at spurs last night and we sold out our allocation. Three thousand to whl on a weds night in January is amazing , considering the shite we are watching ! We may be quiet and poor in voice but only the rags, redshite, and arsenal sell out like we do.

 

[notts blue]

Re: Best supported English clubs

Sunderland above everton ?? I was at spurs last night and we sold out our allocation. Three thousand to whl on a weds night in January is amazing , considering the shite we are watching ! We may be quiet and poor in voice but only the rags, redshite, and arsenal sell out like we do.

only because you all bought tickets thinking it was the first game of the season mate, lol!

 

[bugsyblue]

Re: Best supported English clubs

Sunderland above everton ?? I was at spurs last night and we sold out our allocation. Three thousand to whl on a weds night in January is amazing , considering the shite we are watching ! We may be quiet and poor in voice but only the rags, redshite, and arsenal sell out like we do.

Having a strong hardcore following for away matches is very different to having 'fans' up and down the country. Personally I'd rather have 10,000 hardcore fans than 30,000 tourists so this isn't meant in any way derogatively. But the thread was evaluating how well supported English clubs were up in the UK based solely in terms of numbers of people that call themselves fans, not necessarily if they go to games.

 

[Sky Blue]

Re: Best supported English clubs

Sunderland above everton ?? I was at spurs last night and we sold out our allocation. Three thousand to whl on a weds night in January is amazing , considering the shite we are watching ! We may be quiet and poor in voice but only the rags, redshite, and arsenal sell out like we do.

only because you all bought tickets thinking it was the first game of the season mate, lol!

Haha.....

 

[liamctid]

Re: Best supported English clubs

Sunderland above everton ?? I was at spurs last night and we sold out our allocation. Three thousand to whl on a weds night in January is amazing , considering the shite we are watching ! We may be quiet and poor in voice but only the rags, redshite, and arsenal sell out like we do.

Very much agree. Never met a Sunderland fan outside of when we play them and know quite a few Everton fans. Was chatting to a lad in Bedford round Christmas time who was an Everton fan.

 

[tamsie]

The key word is supported club i.e. those who bother to go so we are 3rd on that one but after last night we may be a low as 20th as I am sure Sunderland both Sheffield clubs Villa Scum L'pool Everton Leeds Toon Arsenal Spurs Chelsea N'Forest West Ham Norwich Southampton Bristol City and the old City could sell more then 30,000 for a semi final

 

[MarkDennisTueart]

Has anyone ever seen any stats on our supporters clubs around the UK? i.e. how many we've got and the total number of members throughout. That might be a bit of an indicator although it still wouldn't give a complete view of supporters numbers due to the number of fans who don't belong to supporters clubs but at least you could then compare the figures to other clubs such as Newcastle, Spurs, Arsenal etc. to see where we're positioned. No point in comparing us to rags or red dippers because we're nowhere near either.

Personally I'd put the top ten like this:

1) Rags
2) Liverpool
3) Arsenal
4&5) City/Newcastle
6) Spurs
7) Chelsea
8) Sunderland
9) Everton
10) Villa

 

[shackattack]

Nottsblue I know we bought them for the initial game ffs but people could still offload and not have gone last night. As for supporters across the country I would still say we have more than many on that list. I live in a small resort on south coast and I know of ten lads where I live alone that watch everton regular. We have the biggest supporters club of any non London team in London.

 

[Mrs Merton]

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Seriously Chelsea?! Ok though is probably a slightly ironic comment considering our pretty poor attendance last night, but Chelsea don't sell out for a lot of their league games and they only hold 42k. I really don't think they have more support than us. Ok myabe they should just about make the top 10.

I'd put that down to away teams never taking their allocations at SB.

Trust me, I live down south and there's fucking loads of Chelsea fans about. And they've been about before Roman too.

There must be some really old people in London

Yes - there must be - and what did they ever do for us ?

 

[Sky Blue]

The key word is supported club i.e. those who bother to go so we are 3rd on that one but after last night we may be a low as 20th as I am sure Sunderland both Sheffield clubs Villa Scum L'pool Everton Leeds Toon Arsenal Spurs Chelsea N'Forest West Ham Norwich Southampton Bristol City and the old City could sell more then 30,000 for a semi final

Make your mind up....

best support in all the land as shown again on Sunday and we nearly did it

 

[citymad]

Newcastle should be higher. They have a huge fan base.

 

[Why Always Ste]

The list is obviously influenced by what you're seeing on Sky/Newspapers....

Who do you bump into on a regular basis?

And.... Supporters are not Fans, Fans are not Supporters.

Chelsea have a shedload of shirt wearing Sky Subscribers that have never even been to Stamford Bridge.
I worked with one just last week, had the Chelsea mug for his brew yet wouldn't even have a sniff at guessing which Tube stop is nearest to his clubs stadium.

Define what it is you're asking, do you want to know the most "supported" club, or who has the most "fans" ?

Leeds have a crapload of fans, yet don't go to Elland road anymore so they are not Supporters.

 

[bugsyblue]

The list is obviously influenced by what you're seeing on Sky/Newspapers....

Who do you bump into on a regular basis?

And.... Supporters are not Fans, Fans are not Supporters.

Chelsea have a shedload of shirt wearing Sky Subscribers that have never even been to Stamford Bridge.
I worked with one just last week, had the Chelsea mug for his brew yet wouldn't even have a sniff at guessing which Tube stop is nearest to his clubs stadium.

Define what it is you're asking, do you want to know the most "supported" club, or who has the most "fans" ?

Leeds have a crapload of fans, yet don't go to Elland road anymore so they are not Supporters.

What I was interested in was the most fans. This isn't a debate on how loyal or supportive the fans are to the team. Just interested in pure numbers of people who claim to be fans of a football club.

 

[Manc in London]

Nottsblue I know we bought them for the initial game ffs but people could still offload and not have gone last night. As for supporters across the country I would still say we have more than many on that list. I live in a small resort on south coast and I know of ten lads where I live alone that watch everton regular. We have the biggest supporters club of any non London team in London.

TBH you are playing the style of football we did under Pearce. Our crowds dipped as a result. I fully understand why you are not selling out.

In my view, London clubs have it easier as the catchment area is huge down here. I am sure I once heard someone say that 25 million people live in London or within an hour of it.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

I looked at the fan leagues in the Fantasy premier league about a year or so ago, every entrant is asked which team they support during registration and automatically entered into their teams fan league. Now this is worldwide support, not just the UK or England but it's a fair guideline as to where we stand globally.

This is the order, as it was then.

1 rags, 2, Dippers 3, Arsenal, 4 Chelsea, 5 Spuds, 6 City.

 

[Joe Cole's Box of Tricks]

Seriously Chelsea?! Ok though is probably a slightly ironic comment considering our pretty poor attendance last night, but Chelsea don't sell out for a lot of their league games and they only hold 42k. I really don't think they have more support than us. Ok myabe they should just about make the top 10.

I don't think we're as bad as what people make out. It should be said that attendances are only bang on 100% once in a blue moon, but in terms of average home league attendances over a season, it's only Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea and Tottenham that have maintained a 98% or higher attendance over the last 8/9 seasons and even the year before that it (for Chelsea) was 97%.

I live in London Liam and have two Chelsea mates who are fans. They are far, far outnumbered by Arsenal and Spurs.

While I don't doubt that those two have the largest fan bases (Arsenal for sure, I'd be genuinely interested to see how it now lies between us and Tottenham, particularly with the youngest generation) sometimes it's genuinely about the area of London you're in - go to some places in London and you'd be forgiven for thinking that West Ham were the only team around.

Chelsea are huge in areas like Oxford, Reading and Surrey.

This is true, we do have a fair few supporters from the outskirts and football wastelands like Surrey and Berkshire.

 

[Why Always Ste]

I looked at the fan leagues in the Fantasy premier league about a year or so ago, every entrant is asked which team they support during registration and automatically entered into their teams fan league. Now this is worldwide support, not just the UK or England but it's a fair guideline as to where we stand globally.

This is the order, as it was then.

1 rags, 2, Dippers 3, Arsenal, 4 Chelsea, 5 Spuds, 6 City.

Great data... But not everyone plays FF.

 

[bob89]

Semi-final last night?

Our 'support' was awful.

 

[philiph20]

There is a huge difference between supporters and followers, 90% of the people you see in pubs watching in Manchester are Rags but 90% of them have probably never been so i don't class them as fans, ditto plastic Liverpool supportes hundreds of miles from Merseyside. I would say:-

1. Vermin
2.Liverpool
3 Arsenal
4. Tottenham
5 Chelsea
6 Newcastle
7.Us
8.Everton
9.Aston villa
10.Sunderland or Leeds