What's the biggest crowd you've been part of at a Football match?

[SeeGoals]

The reason I ask is I saw this yesterday:

The greatest recorded crowd at any football match was 199,854 for the Brazil v Uruguay World Cup Final in the Maracana Municipal Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 16th 1950.

I think all mine have been at Wembley (the original) watching the Albion or England so around the 70,000 - 80,000 mark I guess.

What's yours?

 

[itszamora]

The 60-whatever it was thousand at the Millennium Stadium in 2004 I think.

 

[Easy 10]

Whatever the FA Cup Final replay figure was. Probably around 80k ?

 

[strings]

86,657 at the 'new' Wembley (can we stop calling it new yet? - its' two years old now)

England 2-1 Switzerland. Capello's first game in charge.

 

[Knotty]

FA Cup Final 1983 - 100,000.

 

[Curious Orange]

England v Ukraine at Wembley on 1st April 2009 - 87,548

 

[strings]

The 1983 cup final attendance was 99,059.

The replay was 91,534

 

[Papa Lazarou]

The 1983 cup final attendance was 99,059.

The replay was 91,534

In which case, the largest crowd I've been a part of is 99,059... unless the few England matches I attended were higher.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Used to go to all the Scotland v England Home Internationals in the Seventies when Hampden had a capacity well in excess of 100,000. So must be one of those.

 

[NF9]

86,657 at the 'new' Wembley (can we stop calling it new yet? - its' two years old now)

England 2-1 Switzerland. Capello's first game in charge.

Ditto

 

[Blackadder]

99,059

Highest league attendance was 58,000 Chelsea V Leeds 1971 (or 1972 can't remember excatly).


Goldstone was probably the Rochdale promotion match under Sayward. Don't know if the gate was bettered under Mullery??

 

[hans kraay fan club]

99,059 it is then.

Followed by 91,534.

Then 90,000 for an England Friendly against Brazil in the 80's

Then 83,000 for England - Ukraine two weeks ago.

 

[junior]

Whatever the play-off final was at Wembley vs Notts County,anyone know?

 

[JJ McClure]

Football 71,233 for England-USA friendly at Wembley.
American Football 83,226 for Saints-Chargers at Wembley.

 

[Playing On The Grit]

Been to several Wembley sell outs for England and also a Charity Shield in the 80s but no idea of the crowd figure.

My biggest Albion attendance was 19,800 at The Goldstone for the final game of the 1988 season when we beat Bristol City (I think it was) 2-1 to get promoted. Stood at the back of the North Stand, pressed back against the wall and then we all piled on the pitch at the end of the game. First time I'd ever done that!

 

[fosters headband]

Wembley 1966 World cup match England v Argentina.
100,000 watched a very bad tempered game.

 

[burrish-gull]

Simple, FA Cup Final 1983, over 100,000 I think. To all those who only know modern football i.e The Premiership, the atmosphere back then was simply amazing. I can still remember as 13 year old the hairs standing up on the back of my neck when the teams came out, nothing else compares since or probably ever will.

 

[Everest]

100,000
2 FA Cup Finals

 

[Superphil]

99,059 then, as far as I know.

I went to many games at the old Wembley, England in the main, don't know if any of them were more than the '83 cup final.

 

[Dave the OAP]

F A Cup finals and also England vs Italy-1972 ish ( when the figure was quoted as over 100k) - but Alan will confirm the actual gate for us all