Record attendance old division 3/ division 3 North

Been googling for the answer to this.
Can’t find a higher one than City v Rotherham 1948. Just under 50000. Does anyone know of an attendance higher?

 

There seems to be different figures for this game .
One says 49,655 another 54,652

 

How good would it be to be in a crowd that size in Hull. Time moves on and those days are long gone sadly.

 

Yes it would .
Things changed in the late 60s .
People started latching onto the bigger clubs and it wasn't just Hull .
Not sure why maybe it was more people watching them on TV more especially with MOTD becoming more popular along with more people having a TV

 

Sounds about right when you put it that way. Local teams used to get much bigger attendances. Way of the world now. Think I’ll stick to HCFC like my Dad and Son now.

 

Do you mean in the third tier ever, or specifically the old third division as it was called before the Premier League existed?

Sunderland claim to have broken the third tier record when they were down there a few years ago, if that's what you're referring to.

 

The Rotherham game was frequently cited as the biggest attendance in the 3rd division. The Sunderland gate is usually labelled the highest third tier attendance in the modern era but was well behind. I've just checked and there were much higher numbers than either in the 1930s. The best league gate I've been in at Boothferry park was the game against Millwall with 40000 plus. City won 1 - 0. The cup game (6th round replay) against Chelsea was similar but had a much better atmosphere - City lost 1-3 though.

 

It has been discussed before but we sold 55,000 tickets for that game (there were over 70,000 applications) but a transport strike on the day meant only (only!) just under 50,000 went to the game. Can you imagine that many turning up now if they had to walk or cycle on Christmas Day,hardly anyone had cars then, as people find it difficult coming by bus if it isn’t a 3 pm Saturday kick off.
Cardiff City have a similar discrepancy as some records show them having 52,000 around the same season or the one before but others show 49,000. Ours is higher than the oft quoted highest for a third tier match between the fowls and the Blunts as is Cardiff’s.

 

Third tier exactly all seasons so yes ever. Sunderland can’t of as Stadium of light holds 48k

 

Must of been some sight with that number of fans descending to Boothferry park on foot.

 

Thought a fairly recent Villa match in the third did for us ?

 

The Sheffield derby in 1979 came close with 49,300 ISH there .
The capacity around that time may have been 54,000

 

They are up there but fall short. 1970,s I think.

 

It was a chat re the Sheffield derby and 49300 that got me asking. They think it’s the record. Just want to be sure before I spoil the only thing they have to shout about currently..

 

Without checking, I'd be pretty sure that 49K was Rotherham league game, and 54K might be misstating of our overall record of 55K for Man Utd cup game?

 

This site is always useful for settling some arguments about attendances. It shows the the 54,000+ tickets sold for the Rotherham game as the attendance. Though the number who turned up is still higher than Wednesday’s in any case.
Got to be careful you say 3rd tier not 3rd division as to be pedantic Wednesday have the highest for Division 3 but not the third tier.

https://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/england.htm

 

No. Read my earlier post.

 

I think you're correct I remember my late uncle mentioning it in the 80s.
He didn't mention a transport strike and probably might have thought there was no transport due to Xmas day .