I came across a list with all the details of every clubs record attendances, these are the top sixty, there's quite a few on there I found surprising... Manchester City 84,569, Manchester United 83,260, Chelsea 82,905, Everton 78,299, Aston Villa 76,588, Sunderland 75,118, Tottenham Hotspur 75,038, Charlton Athletic 75,031, Arsenal 73,707, Sheffield Wednesday 72,841, Bolton Wanderers 69,912, Newcastle United 68,386, Sheffield United 68,287, Huddersfield Town 67,037, Birmingham City 66,844, West Bromwich Albion 64,815, Blackburn Rovers 62,522, Liverpool 61,905, Wolverhampton Wanderers 61,315, Cardiff City 57,893, Leeds United 57,892, Hull City 55,019, Burnley 54,775, Middlesbrough 53,802, Crystal Palace 51,482, Coventry City 51,455, Portsmouth 51,385, Stoke City 51,380, Nottingham Forest 49,946, Port Vale 49,768, Fulham 49,335, Millwall 48,672, Oldham Athletic 47,671, Notts County 47,310. Leicester City 47,298, Norwich City 43,984, Plymouth Argyle 43,596, Bristol City 43,335, Preston North End 42,684, West Ham United 42,322, Derby County 41,826, Barnsley 40,255, Brentford 39,626, Bradford City 39,146, Bristol Rovers 38,472, Blackpool 38,098, Ipswich Town 38,010, Doncaster Rovers 37,149, Brighton and Hove Albion 36,747, Queens Park Rangers 35,353, Bury 35,000, Leyton Orient 34,345, Watford 34,099, Reading 33,042, Swansea City 32,796, Southampton 32,152, Swindon Town 32,000, Southend United 31,033, Chesterfield 30,561, Peterborough United 30,096
Wouldn't have expected to see the likes of West Ham, Forest and Derby to be that low. Especially not below ours.
perhaps some of the teams surprising people had limited space or didn't achieve much in the days of unrestricted attendances.
Not necessarily the fact that they were on there, but how high up they were, I didn't expect Charlton, Bolton, Burnley, Port Vale, Brentford, Leyton, Bury and a few others to be as high as they are(and there's others, like Liverpool and Leeds, that you'd expect to be higher).
Cardiffs is one person higher than Leeds. Maybe TWS should demand a re-count to find out just how many sheep were in that Cardiff figure.
i bet a lot of the attendances are pre-war. some of those clubs have won the league and cup and i bet the london and manc area ones were from cup games against local big teams.
Most of the top twenty are pre-war, but there's some odd ones, Man City have the highest attendance but it wasn't against United, it was against Stoke. Man United has the second highest and that was against Arsenal. They're almost all pre-50's, other than Arsenal's 73,707(which was against RC Lens in the Champions League) and was in 1998 while they were playing at Wembley.
In-and-around WWII, Charlton were by far the best supported club in London. They used to get 60-70,000 at The Valley every week.
On the debate on whether TWS is a bigger club than ours, not much between us on the largest attendance.
