• what games have you attended with highest attendance ?

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 7:48 pm**

Not too many for me, but was surprised to see a scotland eng game I went to as a teen was down as 120.000 at old Hampden !!

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 7:57 pm**

Sherpa van final...even

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 7:58 pm**

Barca v Real Madrid - about 100,000 - not sure of exact attendance....I should look it up really
It was a game that Real Madrid won- Ronaldo (Mark 1), Figo, Beckham, Zidane etc.
Bit surreal as could not see or hear any away fans so it was basically a wall of high pitched booing for most of the game.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:01 pm**

Burnley v Stockport play off final. Back row ( brother rubbish at ticket buying !)

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:01 pm**

That makes me a proper lightweight.

80,841 v Wolves in 1988.

80,518 v Sheffield United in 2009.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:08 pm**

FA cup quarter final v Newcastle at Hillsborough. Brother and I got tickets for wrong end. Bit uncomfortable as both wearing blazers with Lancashire rose on top pocket.
SHERPA van final.
Biggest at Turf, FA cup replay vs Chelsea 32,000+ I believe.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:15 pm**

SVT for me too,bit of a culture shock for a 12 year-old when i attended my first league match the following season,and there was about 6/7,000 on against torquay,with a smattering in the away end.

Non-Burnley games Celtic Park around 60,000,with a handful of away supporters in situ.Got gifted complimentary tickets by a family friend who couldn't attend,and therefore we were able to sample the hospitality suite,impressive i must say,and very welcome on a freezing Glasgow evening to get a warm at HT.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:19 pm**

Scotland v Wales World cup qualifier .Over 18000 on the Kop all standing
60,000 + for an away win at Goodison
Sherpa Van and many England v Scotland at Wembley

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:21 pm**

Sherpa for me ,though you’d think there was 150,000 on the Orient game if you believed everyone !

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:24 pm**

Play off final against Sheffield...what an absolute joy to be there that day.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:30 pm**

2009 play off final at Wembley is the largest crowd I think but at Turf Moor I was amongst about 45000 in 1967, (I think) v Liverpool and 42000 in the same season v Everton.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:41 pm**

AlargeClaret wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:21 pm
Sherpa for me ,though you’d think there was 150,000 on the Orient game if you believed everyone !

To be Fair that was for the evening fixture against Blackpool in the old 4th Division.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:50 pm**

1. May '62, BFC vs Spurs, Wembley, FA Cup Final. 100,000.

2.Feb '60, BFC vs Bradford, Turf Moor, FA Cup replay. 52,850.

3. Mar '60, BFC vs Rovers, Turf Moor, FA Cup. 51,501.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 9:01 pm**

Wembley 2009

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 9:01 pm**

Sell outs at Wembley for England, Bernabeu for Real Madrid, Olympic Stadium for Bayern Munich.
Biggest ont’Turf, Everton FA Cup 1966. 44k I think

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 9:09 pm**

outside of Wembley i remember 1974 playing Leeds at the Turf pretty sure we had over 40k on

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 9:18 pm**

Mine will be the 1962 FA Cup Final

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 9:28 pm**

exilecanada I was at those three games as well but I don't remember seeing you there.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 9:43 pm**

Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 10, 2020 9:01 pm
Sell outs at Wembley for England, Bernabeu for Real Madrid, Olympic Stadium for Bayern Munich.
Biggest ont’Turf, Everton FA Cup 1966. 44k I think

67... 0...0 Biggest attendance I've been to at Turf Moor 44 thousand on.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 9:44 pm**

Goalposts wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 10, 2020 9:09 pm
outside of Wembley i remember 1974 playing Leeds at the Turf pretty sure we had over 40k on

38.000 ?

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 9:58 pm**

redwasp wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 10, 2020 9:28 pm
exilecanada I was at those three games as well but I don't remember seeing you there.

That’s strange, I didn’t see you either, or maybe you were stood next to me!!….....

I don’t suppose you were at the BFC/Fulham FA Cup semi-final at Villa Park, Mar ’62, attendance 59,989? I was, albeit not for long. Got there early, stood behind the goal a few rows back from the wall, as the stadium filled up, some d*ckhead way up at the back decided to throw a bottle just for fun, hit me on the head. Medics took me to hospital for stitches, missed the damn game.

Drew 1-1, won the replay at Filbert St though……….nope, didn’t see that one, Mum wouldn’t let me go

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 10:07 pm**

tim_noone wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 10, 2020 9:44 pm
38.000 ?

trying to remember the crowd it could well have been Tim

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 10:07 pm**

exilecanada wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:50 pm
1. May '62, BFC vs Spurs, Wembley, FA Cup Final. 100,000.

2.Feb '60, BFC vs Bradford, Turf Moor, FA Cup replay. 52,850.

3. Mar '60, BFC vs Rovers, Turf Moor, FA Cup. 51,501.

Strange thing about those three games, even though all were massive attendances, I remember feeling quite comfortable at each one. The exact opposite applied at Goodison Park in Dec'60, the gate was 74,867 and you literally could not move. That was the most uncomfortable I've ever experienced at a match.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 10:09 pm**

Goalposts wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 10, 2020 10:07 pm
trying to remember the crowd it could well have been Tim

It was 40,087 in Nov'73.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 10:20 pm**

Royboyclaret wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 10, 2020 10:09 pm
It was 40,087 in Nov'73.

That was the days of the "pink" bought straight after the game ....mentioning the 38.000 and trouble on the beehole and. You may be correct though.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 10:23 pm**

Not so much biggest crowd, but remember the away end at the Sherpa semi at Preston...never felt so nervous in a stand....absolutely shoe horned in.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 10:29 pm**

ewanrob wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 10, 2020 10:23 pm
Not so much biggest crowd, but remember the away end at the Sherpa semi at Preston...never felt so nervous in a stand....absolutely shoe horned in.

That was the Northern Final second leg at Deepdale, the gate was 17,592, but as you say it was sardine time in the away end.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 10:30 pm**

ewanrob wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 10, 2020 10:23 pm
Not so much biggest crowd, but remember the away end at the Sherpa semi at Preston...never felt so nervous in a stand....absolutely shoe horned in.

Happy days pay on the gate... none of this ticket nonsense!

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 10:48 pm**

Crystal Palace v Clarets , 51,482 May 1979. Final game of the season with a win getting them promoted to Division one. Played on a friday night if my hazy memory serves me well.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 11:12 pm**

JoStarling wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 10, 2020 10:48 pm
Crystal Palace v Clarets , 51,482 May 1979. Final game of the season with a win getting them promoted to Division one. Played on a friday night if my hazy memory serves me well.

It was a Friday night and we lost 0-2 sending them to Division One and we finished 13th in Division Two.

Following season we were relegated to Division Three.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 11:36 pm**

Highest ever confirmed attendance in the UK was at Hampden Park for the 1937 Scotland v England Home International, 149,547 !

The highest ever world-wide, is thought to be the deciding pool match in the 1950 World Cup ( The only World Cup where the winners were determined by a final 4 Group stage ), 199,854 !!

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 11:38 pm**

Largest crowd at t'Turf I guess is 1970 FA Cup replay v Chelsea - though quite how many were on and how many were locked outside I don't know if anyone really knows. Or, maybe it was one or other of the ManU games in mid-60s while we still had the old Cricket Field stand. Anglo-Scottish v Celtic was also pretty busy in 1978!

Other Burnley games, are all at Wembley: Sherpa Van, Stockport and Sheff Utd. Newcastle at Hillsborough - which was semi-final (and not quarter, as posted by another above) - though I wonder whether Emirates and new WHL at 60,000 have exceeded the numbers at Hillsborough (I'm not that great a stato, to remember).

I also got to World Cup semi at Stade de France, France v Croatia, 1998, capacity above 80,000.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 11:47 pm**

Clarets4me wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 10, 2020 11:36 pm
Highest ever confirmed attendance in the UK was at Hampden Park for the 1937 Scotland v England Home International, 149,547 !

The highest ever world-wide, is thought to be the deciding pool match in the 1950 World Cup ( The only World Cup where the winners were determined by a final 4 Group stage ), 199,854 !!

I assume that was Brazil then at the Maracana ? I hadnt realised such stadia existed that held so many, bloody hell.

Posted: **Mon Feb 10, 2020 11:55 pm**

Try as I might, no matter how many matches I have attended, I have only managed to increase the attendance by one.

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 12:00 am**

IanMcL wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 10, 2020 11:55 pm
Try as I might, no matter how many matches I have attended, I have only managed to increase the attendance by one.

strange as it is though, some clubs manage to make turnstile numbers just disappear, as if by magic !!

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 12:25 am**

Paul Waine wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 10, 2020 11:38 pm
Largest crowd at t'Turf I guess is 1970 FA Cup replay v Chelsea - though quite how many were on and how many were locked outside I don't know if anyone really knows. Or, maybe it was one or other of the ManU games in mid-60s while we still had the old Cricket Field stand. Anglo-Scottish v Celtic was also pretty busy in 1978!

Other Burnley games, are all at Wembley: Sherpa Van, Stockport and Sheff Utd. Newcastle at Hillsborough - which was semi-final (and not quarter, as posted by another above) - though I wonder whether Emirates and new WHL at 60,000 have exceeded the numbers at Hillsborough (I'm not that great a stato, to remember).

I also got to World Cup semi at Stade de France, France v Croatia, 1998, capacity above 80,000.

Happy Days!

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 12:27 am**

Wile E Coyote wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 10, 2020 11:47 pm
I assume that was Brazil then at the Maracana ? I hadnt realised such stadia existed that held so many, bloody hell.

Yes, Brazil played Uruguay in the final pool match in a winner takes all game, Uruguay won 2-1 !
Incidentally, Brazil's 7-1 win over Sweden in that final pool was refereed by Arthur Ellis, later of " It's a Knockout " fame ! Poor gate though, only 138,886 ...

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 12:35 am**

Wile E Coyote, I used to go to the Scotland v England games in the 60s and 70s, with crowds of 120,000, but another 10,000 were estimated to be inside. It was rife to see the turnstile operators taking Pound notes and more from drunken Scots, who then slipped under the turnstiles.
ExileinCanada, if you had ginger hair and I think called Paul, who lived in Fulledge, I was stood next to you, when you were hit, smack on the back your head, by a empty half whisky bottle.

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 1:03 am**

Bfc wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 11, 2020 12:35 am

ExileinCanada, if you had ginger hair and I think called Paul, who lived in Fulledge, I was stood next to you, when you were hit, smack on the back your head, by a empty half whisky bottle.

Damn small world! That would be me, although it was my Grandfather who lived on Mitella St.

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 1:45 am**

JoStarling wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 10, 2020 10:48 pm
Crystal Palace v Clarets , 51,482 May 1979. Final game of the season with a win getting them promoted to Division one. Played on a friday night if my hazy memory serves me well.

I was there that night. Quite a few Sunderland fans there as well if I remember right. If we’d‘ve won, Sunderland would’ve gone up instead of Palace.

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:23 am**

exileincanada, after my last post, I recalled you lived on higher Brunshaw Rd. I remember you had a phone ( not many had then) in the house and we would ring Woolers for a Taxi, but gave him the address of someone opposite. When he arrived we were peeping out through the curtains, while he went away without a fare. A boyish prank.

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:33 am**

Goalposts wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 10, 2020 9:09 pm
outside of Wembley i remember 1974 playing Leeds at the Turf pretty sure we had over 40k on

Think it was 36k bud if it's the night match I remember. I walked into a load of Leeds fans at the back of the Longside with my scarf on. Just a bit scary.

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:42 am**

Wile E Coyote wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 10, 2020 11:47 pm
I assume that was Brazil then at the Maracana ? I hadnt realised such stadia existed that held so many, bloody hell.

The Maracana did for years have a capacity of 200k. Amazing ain't it? There have been attendances of 150k or more on 26 occasions. The last time was in '83 when Flamengo played Santos with over 155k on. Not sure if it's changed but 4 clubs shared the ground at one time. It has seen over 100k 284 times. Nothing compares.

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:47 am**

ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 10, 2020 9:18 pm
Mine will be the 1962 FA Cup Final

Ditto.

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 10:14 am**

Wile E Coyote wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 11, 2020 12:00 am
strange as it is though, some clubs manage to make turnstile numbers just disappear, as if by magic !!

I remember Stan Flashman (former ticket tout) chairman/owner of Barnet, used to have sbout 2000 fans at Barnet. When they were top of the league, the number did not increase much. When we played them in top of the table clash, Burnley fans were literally jammed together. The rest of the ground was full. The number recorded did go up but I think they just counted us!

Nowadays, in the prem, it seems to work the other way! How to be there, when you are not!

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 10:21 am**

houseboy wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:42 am
The Maracana did for years have a capacity of 200k. Amazing ain't it? There have been attendances of 150k or more on 26 occasions. The last time was in '83 when Flamengo played Santos with over 155k on. Not sure if it's changed but 4 clubs shared the ground at one time. It has seen over 100k 284 times. Nothing compares.

After being reconfigured to an all seater stadium, it's current capacity is said to be 78,738 ....

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 10:31 am**

Volvoclaret wrote: ↑
Mon Feb 10, 2020 8:08 pm
FA cup quarter final v Newcastle at Hillsborough. Brother and I got tickets for wrong end. Bit uncomfortable as both wearing blazers with Lancashire rose on top pocket.
SHERPA van final.
Biggest at Turf, FA cup replay vs Chelsea 32,000+ I believe.

In fact Burnley played Everton in an FA Cup match @1960/61 and there was a crowd of 52,000 there.

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 10:41 am**

IanMcL wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 11, 2020 10:14 am
I remember Stan Flashman (former ticket tout) chairman/owner of Barnet, used to have sbout 2000 fans at Barnet. When they were top of the league, the number did not increase much. When we played them in top of the table clash, Burnley fans were literally jammed together. The rest of the ground was full. The number recorded did go up but I think they just counted us!
Nowadays, in the prem, it seems to work the other way! How to be there, when you are not!

24th March 1992, I was there ! Finished 0-0 ... the gate was announced as 4,881, even the Police burst out laughing !

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 10:48 am**

Stayingup wrote: ↑
Tue Feb 11, 2020 10:31 am
In fact Burnley played Everton in an FA Cup match @1960/61 and there was a crowd of 52,000 there.

It was 52,000 but in March 1962. We've got a picture from the day in our scrapbook of Everton fans on the roof of the Longside. Won the game 3-1 to progress to 6 th rnd of FA Cup.

Posted: **Tue Feb 11, 2020 12:01 pm**

Watching the Clarets it has to be the three most recent Wembley appearances plus visits to Old Trafford in the 60s when standing was allowed.
Other big attendances I've been in; Celtic European night at Parkhead in the days of Jimmy Johnstone & Co. Anfield when they beat Borussia Munching Gladrags in a Euro semi 2nd leg and Goodison for the 2nd leg of the Euro Cup winners cup when they came back from 1-2 down to win 3-2 against Bayern Munich (I think) with Trevor Steven scoring their winner. That was probably the noisiest crowd I've ever been in as Andy Gray battered the Germans into submission.

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