Attendances....

[dcdulwich]

Our final 2016/17 average home league attendance is 1317 - down from 1343 last season (-1.98%)

But:
The midweek average is up: 723 vs 663
The Sat/BH average is up: 1587 vs 1583

We just played more midweek home league games: 8 vs 6 last year (due entirely to our FA Trophy run).

 

[EDC]

The bubble has burst.

 

[Dulwich Mishi]

Rest In Peace PartisanDulwich

I am assuming he slashed his wrsits last night, after the official attendance drop was confirmed...

 

[scousedom]

Am I right in thinking that if we just took our midweek attendances, we'd still be top of the league...?!
Ryman League Premier Division | Attendances

And our midweek attendance would also be good enough for sixth in Conference South...?
National League South | Attendances

 

[B.I.G]

Am I right in thinking that if we just took our midweek attendances, we'd still be top of the league...?!
Ryman League Premier Division | Attendances

And our midweek attendance would also be good enough for sixth in Conference South...?
National League South | Attendances

Looks right - we are a similar size club to Wealdstone I would say - and they are some of our only friends too

 

[editor]

There's not a massive difference between the two leagues really

 

[Cyclodunc]

Meh

 

[PartisanDulwich]

now for a record London Senior cup final attendance

 

[dcdulwich]

Rest In Peace PartisanDulwich

I am assuming he slashed his wrsits last night, after the official attendance drop was confirmed...

now for a record London Senior cup final attendance

Back with a bang!

 

[dcdulwich]

Am I right in thinking that if we just took our midweek attendances, we'd still be top of the league...?!
Ryman League Premier Division | Attendances

Hmm. There's a bit of a discrepancy here. Football Web Pages now has the H&W vs Bognor gate on Monday as 3455 (confirmed on their website). It was reported on the day (and appears on other websites) as 2307. Assuming the higher figure (a new club record) is correct it takes their season average to 763 - above our midweek average of 723.

It also means that, for the first time since Maidstone left the Ryman Premier, we don't have the highest gate of the season.

 

[B.I.G]

Hmm. There's a bit of a discrepancy here. Football Web Pages now has the H&W vs Bognor gate on Monday as 3455 (confirmed on their website). It was reported on the day (and appears on other websites) as 2307. Assuming the higher figure (a new club record) is correct it takes their season average to 763 - above our midweek average of 723.

It also means that, for the first time since Maidstone left the Ryman Premier, we don't have the highest gate of the season.

The new one is the right one I believe.

 

[EDC]

They were saying on the Bognor site that the 2307 figure was a joke.

 

[the 12th man]

They were saying on the Bognor site that the 2307 figure was a joke.

3 days to work out the attendace! Once all the monies had been counted! It stinks, they got found out and were given a chance to own up!

 

[Dulwich Mishi]

now for a record London Senior cup final attendance

I think it, somehow, might have been a lot bigger than our capacity right up until the Sixties, at a guess.

 

[Paula_G]

I'm assuming Havant & Waterlooville must have a massive stand if the picture in this report is from the Bognor game on Easter Monday...
Havant And Waterloovile V Bognor Regis Town Sets Ryman Premier Attendance Record - Pitchero Non-League

 

[YTC]

Looked pretty rammed!

 

[liamdhfc]

I'd like to think that error would have been uncovered if it was a cup or play off game but somehow doubt it. When the turnstiles are clicking over I still don't understand how you can get the number so wrong and what it has to do with the money taken.

Surely the money is balanced to the numbers being shown as coming in not the other way round.

 

[Paula_G]

Picture used for that article is clearly not from Monday as Bognor played in a claret kit and H&W in all white. Wonder if, due to the crowd size and to avoid congestion, H&W might have opened up a side gate and just took cash off fans?

 

[EDC]

Their attendance for the Dulwich match was wrong too, there was at least one extra person in n the ground.

Wink wink.

 

[YTC]

Picture used for that article is clearly not from Monday as Bognor played in a claret kit and H&W in all white. Wonder if, due to the crowd size and to avoid congestion, H&W might have opened up a side gate and just took cash off fans?

That could be an option, kick off was delayed due to trying to get everyone in.

 

[Pink Panther]

I'd like to think that error would have been uncovered if it was a cup or play off game but somehow doubt it. When the turnstiles are clicking over I still don't understand how you can get the number so wrong and what it has to do with the money taken.

Surely the money is balanced to the numbers being shown as coming in not the other way round.

From a health and safety aspect I find it a bit worrying that they could let an extra 50% of a crowd of 2,300 into a ground that size without realising until afterwards.

 

[PartisanDulwich]

Dulwich Hamlet V Enfield Town (Ryman Premier play off semi final)
Thursday 27th April 2017
Attendance 2,517

Largest mid week Dulwich Hamlet attendance in the new stadium (and probably since the 1950's ?)

 

[B.I.G]

From a health and safety aspect I find it a bit worrying that they could let an extra 50% of a crowd of 2,300 into a ground that size without realising until afterwards.

According to da forums. Its a rule to declare the attendance before a certain time. They guessed to meet the rule and then changed it when totalled correctly.

 

[Roger D]

It certainly used to be the case the gate had to be reported with the final score so the reasons given above are plausible.

Memories of making up / guesstimating our then record crowd v Southport as we had to declare the gate on the match info sheet faxed to the FA and Press Association, from memory, within something like 15 mins of the final whistle.

 

[PartisanDulwich]

Now we see large crowds on a regular basis its hard to believe just 1,835 for Southport - I remember struggling to see the game 2 or 3 deep all around the ground

For the record, still believe our record attendance to watch a game involving Dulwich Hamlet was when

FA Cup Amateur Final 1937
Saturday 16th April 1932
at West Ham's Boleyn Ground (Upton Park)
Dulwich Hamlet (2) V Leyton (0)

attendance 33,000


second highest

Dulwich Hamlet beat Kingstonians 1-0 in the F.A. Amateur Cup semi-final, at Selhurst Park,
Saturday 5th March 1932
Attendance on that day 27,840

FA Amateur Cup semi final at Stamford bridge
Saturday 10 March 1956
Dulwich Hamlet V Corinthian Casuals (lost 3-1)
attendance 27,000

 

[PartisanDulwich]

But what was the record attendance for a Dulwich Hamlet game at the old Champion Hill stadium ??

 

[Paula_G]

If the actual crowd for the Southport game was 1835 then I'm wearing clogs and living in a windmill in old Amsterdam

 

[Dulwich Mishi]

But what was the record attendance for a Dulwich Hamlet game at the old Champion Hill stadium ??

For a Hamlet game almost certainly the opening game against Nunhead.

 

[Dulwich Mishi]

Dulwich Hamlet V Enfield Town (Ryman Premier play off semi final)
Thursday 27th April 2017
Attendance 2,517

Largest mid week Dulwich Hamlet attendance in the new stadium (and probably since the 1950's ?)

Certainly had a bigger midweek crowd against Chelsea for the floodlight opening in 1964.

 

[PartisanDulwich]

Dulwich Hamlet FC V Chelsea

Match Date: Wednesday, 28th Oct 1964
Competition: Friendly (New Floodlights)
Venue: Champion Hill (Old Stadium)
Result: 0 - 3
Attendance: 4,021