54,775 against Huddersfield in 1924.

The population of Burnley in 1924 according to the census was approx 103,157.

So more than 50% of the population of the town was at the game ?

I wonder if thats a record, surely has to be ??

Dont know how we could find out but i find it hard to believe that any other club has had 50% of the town/citys population on a game.

Over half the population of Burnley was at the playoff final vs Sheff Utd

Same for the Cup Final v Spurs.

We are a phenomenon !!!!
(New song idea)

The Express pre-match would probably tell you that around 17,000 or more of that crowd were from Huddersfield.

"50% of the town's population, you'll never sing that!"

The Rose Grove with Lowerhouse area has a population of just over 7k.
They once had a bonfire attendance of 4 and half thousand.

Quickenthetempo wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 18, 2025 3:42 pm

The Rose Grove with Lowerhouse area has a population of just over 7k.
They once had a bonfire attendance of 4 and half thousand.

We don't have the chance to get out much around here !!

Funkydrummer wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 18, 2025 5:06 pm

We don't have the chance to get out much around here !!

Or just like showing your appreciation for someone trying to burn Parliament down.

Despite the official attendance and the huge gaps on the terraces I thought that more than half the population of Burnley was at the Colchester home game in 1986/7….

The population of the Burnley built up area is 193,474.

I write that for no other reason than I know it and I want everyone else to know I know it.

ClaretPete001 wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 18, 2025 5:43 pm

The population of the Burnley built up area is 193,474.

I write that for no other reason than I know it and I want everyone else to know I know it.

How far out does it spread?

Quicknick wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 18, 2025 6:38 pm

How far out does it spread?

To its perimeter obviously

Quicknick wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 18, 2025 6:38 pm

How far out does it spread?

To the west - Lammack, Shadsworth and Wilpshire (I believe?).

I’m led to believe that Leeds could attract more than half the planet if they get planning permission

Funkydrummer wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 18, 2025 3:02 pm

Over half the population of Burnley was at the playoff final vs Sheff Utd

Same for the Cup Final v Spurs.

We are a phenomenon !!!!
(New song idea)

By numbers yes, but actually people attending, no. Rough guess maybe a third of the 40k didn't live in Burnley.

BleedingClaret wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 18, 2025 6:45 pm

To its perimeter obviously

Are you counting Colne? It's built up that far.

If more than the 54,775, had turned up for the game, then the attendance would’ve been higher. It was not the capacity at the time.

Quickenthetempo wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 18, 2025 3:42 pm

The Rose Grove with Lowerhouse area has a population of just over 7k.
They once had a bonfire attendance of 4 and half thousand.

They once got more in attendance for a t20 game than Blackburn got on a home game the same evening.

There was always, still is, a big Claret base in Rawtenstall & up and down Rossendale.

Quicknick wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 18, 2025 7:22 pm

Are you counting Colne? It's built up that far.

Yes

Buxtonclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 18, 2025 9:19 pm

There was always, still is, a big Claret base in Rawtenstall & up and down Rossendale.

True. I’m Haslingden ( moved away now) and I was at the Stockport and Sheffield play off finals

Longsidebovril wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 18, 2025 9:33 pm

True. I’m Haslingden ( moved away now) and I was at the Stockport and Sheffield play off finals

Got coaches ( Althams ?) from Haslingden 2 or 3 times, for away games, back in the early/mid 70s.
I used to have relatives on Townsend St. Always plenty of Clarets around.

BleedingClaret wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 18, 2025 9:24 pm

Yes

You could say something similar about just about every team in the country, I suppose. Fair point, though.

BleedingClaret wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 18, 2025 9:24 pm

Yes

If you're counting me as a resident of Burnley, I would respectfully (or perhaps not so respectfully) suggest you count again.

Up the Colne!

Quickenthetempo wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 18, 2025 3:42 pm

The Rose Grove with Lowerhouse area has a population of just over 7k.
They once had a bonfire attendance of 4 and half thousand.

I think they were trying to burn the other 2,500. Family rows mean business in Lowerhouse.

ClaretPete001 wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 18, 2025 5:43 pm

The population of the Burnley built up area is 193,474.

I write that for no other reason than I know it and I want everyone else to know I know it.

The figure is based upon Burnley and Pendle. Burnley has a population of around 96,000 while Pendle's is around 97,000. It's the figure used by Centre for Cities.

It doesn't include bits of the Ribble Valley like SImonstone and Read, which are adjacent to the borough

The BB post code has a population of around half of a million.

Buxtonclaret wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 18, 2025 9:19 pm

There was always, still is, a big Claret base in Rawtenstall & up and down Rossendale.

Anecdotally, I would say it's Clarets from Bacup to Rawtenstall and turns more to Rovers as you get to Haslingden and Helmshore.

I do know that one or two Leeds away coaches went to pubs in the Edenfield area to avoid Rawtenstall for that reason.

ClaretPete001 wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 19, 2025 10:23 am

Anecdotally, I would say it's Clarets from Bacup to Rawtenstall and turns more to Rovers as you get to Haslingden and Helmshore.

I do know that one or two Leeds away coaches went to pubs in the Edenfield area to avoid Rawtenstall for that reason.

Starts to get more Blackburn in Haslingden & Helmshore as you say, there must be a divide line between there and Rawtenstall.

I understand our 3rd round replay v Chelsea in the Fa cup had over 39,000 on?

Well, all of my immediate family were Haslingden based and there's no doubting which team we follow.
I would say that when I was at junior school( a very long time ago now) the support for both clubs was about 50/50. Except for a few houses Helmshore was still a big field ....... plenty of horses knocking around so that may have something to do with it now I think about it.

Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 19, 2025 10:56 am

I understand our 3rd round replay v Chelsea in the Fa cup had over 39,000 on?

And thousands locked out, too. I ended up on the Beehole End. Some on here have suggested that the gate was 'swollen' by a large Chelsea contingent but I didn't see nor hear anything resembling Chelsea fans. Never saw any either if it was a league game on a Saturday so an FA Cup 4th round replay on a Tuesday evening in the middle of winter would hardly be appealing. Competed with Leeds that season for the 'Dirty' tag. If anyone is in doubt watch clips from the FA Cup Final replay at Old Trafford( especially the bit where McCreadie attempts to decapitate Bremner and the ref just nonchalantly waves play on).

Rossendale stretches from East to West and Helmshore is only a Grane Road away from Blackburn whereas Bacup is a long way from Blackburn.

Interestingly I would say there is quite strong support for Bury once you get into Edenfield.

I'm always quite impressed that there is so much support for local clubs in Haslingden and Helmshore given it's proximity to the M66 and the fact that it has become a bit of a Manchester commuter belt town.

It's a testament to the fact that East Lancashire has a strong sense of itself even though it's not a term often used.

If the criterion is local authority population, the pre-1974 Stretford Municipal Borough was a contender. Its local team's attendances regularly exceeded Stretford's 55,000ish. Sadly.

Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 19, 2025 10:56 am

I understand our 3rd round replay v Chelsea in the Fa cup had over 39,000 on?

32.000 exactly..

Silkyskills1 wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 19, 2025 11:08 am

And thousands locked out, too. I ended up on the Beehole End. Some on here have suggested that the gate was 'swollen' by a large Chelsea contingent but I didn't see nor hear anything resembling Chelsea fans. Never saw any either if it was a league game on a Saturday so an FA Cup 4th round replay on a Tuesday evening in the middle of winter would hardly be appealing. Competed with Leeds that season for the 'Dirty' tag. If anyone is in doubt watch clips from the FA Cup Final replay at Old Trafford( especially the bit where McCreadie attempts to decapitate Bremner and the ref just nonchalantly waves play on).

Remember my Dad getting tickets outside cricket field stand and paid a bit one of my first games and Ralph giving us the lead with a cracking goal and official attendance was 32.000 ha ha might have something to do with Bob the chairman..

It was a great goal by Ralph Coates, playing probably his best football for us. They quickly decided that he needed stopping and chopped and hacked away at him for the rest of the game. Some good players that included some nasty pieces of work in their team.

Woodleyclaret wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 19, 2025 10:56 am

I understand our 3rd round replay v Chelsea in the Fa cup had over 39,000 on?

The attendance published for the game was 32,000.

https://www.uptheclarets.com/fixtures-r ... 70-results

I was on the FA Cup replay against Bradford City at the Turf with a crowd of over 52,000- I think we won 4-0 ( having scraped a 2-2 draw at their place, or it may have been 3-3, but we were behind until near the end of that game-I think Connelly bagged a couple to draw late on). I think that crowd of 52,000+ will be a post war record for us at the Turf

I was also in a big crowd in the early 50's when we beat Utd 5-3 or 5-2 in the 3rd round FA Cup. That would have been over 50,000 and again in the next round when we drew 1-1 with Newcastle, when I think Mitchell stubbed his toe taking a penalty at the Bee Hole end on a frosty pitch.
We had some really big crowds in the 50's.

Re Ralph Coates wasn't he sold to Sours that season?

Looks like Burnley v Liverpool on Feb 23rd 1952 in the 5th round of FA Cup, 54,031-won 2-0-didnt see that game but saw us scrape 1-0 win against Hartlepool in the 3rd round and remember the 6th round at Deadwood, not there but must have been on the radio and form dictated a win for us against a Division 2 team, but lost 3-1 after Chew gave us the lead-remember Chew scoring but most of the info thanks to the hours of work Claret Tony put in tabulating all our post war tables and results-superb references for Geeks like me, not to mention all the pre-WW2 tables and results to WW1.
Does make UTC so special IMO.
Thanks CT

dsr wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 19, 2025 2:20 am

If you're counting me as a resident of Burnley, I would respectfully (or perhaps not so respectfully) suggest you count again.

Up the Colne!

Yes indeed
Colne is an outlying area of Burnley to me