What's the smallest crowd you've been in when watching your team?

[editor]

I've certainly been to a few sub 1,500 gates when supporting Cardiff City away, and I can remember hideously small crowds at Ninian Park struggling around the 2,000 mark around around 95-96.

So what's the smallest crowd you've seen your team play in front of?

(*friendlies don't count!)

 

[revol68]

Saw Larne play infront of 80 people.

 

[marty21]

Saw Larne play infront of 80 people.

is your team Larne?

 

[revol68]

is your team Larne?

The first team I was taken to see, I say taken because there is no fucking way a child would want to sit and watch the shit the irish league serves up for 90 mins.

 

[editor]

This is what I'm talking about!

Barnet v Cardiff 1997.

Rochdale 1 Cardiff 0, 1997

 

[mattie]

I saw west Ham at a practically deserted Selhurt Park, no idea how many were there but it looked like more West Ham than Wimbledon.

 

[strung out]

I'm guessing we had a few 3-4000 attendances in the brief period we were playing in bath, for autoglass trophy matches etc. I expect jtg has been to some shockingly badly attended away matches, though i havent been away as much as him

 

[bluestreak]

Having only been to West Ham a dozen times I don't think I can join in the one-downmanship on this thread.

I was one of about 15 people watching a Barkingside FC match in the rain once. Normally they get at least 50, I was told.

 

[kained&able]

think it will be the west ham boro game on valentines day this year.

although attencdence was 33,000 odd so maybe not.

umm errrr blackburn??? maybe? thats was 6/7 years ago. Don't think it will have been much under 30k though.


Lowest attendence for a proper game rather then a friendly i've been in was wallsall away at northhampton. can't have been any more then 10 thousend.


dave

 

[revol68]

you're all fancy dan wankers , with your poncy stadiums, prawn sandwhiches and full time footballers.

 

[mattie]

I've seen Team Bath play in front of a few roadsweepers, but they are in no way 'my team'

 

[Onket]

Some very low attendances in dodgy cups & Anglo Italian efforts at hom in the early nineties I expect.

When I lived up north & used to go to York City their crowds were consistently low, and some of the away games were very quiet. Wigan before the money, Stockport, Southport in the cup, etc.

 

[Refused as fuck]

Heaton Mersey vs Chapel(?) 2002 - 25.

 

[editor]

I've had some of the best times at football at three quarter empty grounds.

A night-time Brighton game in the pouring rain on their open terraces in their old ground springs to mind.

 

[kained&able]

fine if we can count silly teams that don't exist.

Harpenden colts vs some team from watford i think possibly. - 15 people and 3 dogs.


dave

 

[Refused as fuck]

fine if we can count silly teams that don't exist.

Harpenden colts vs some team from watford i think possibly. - 15 people and 3 dogs.


dave

Heaton Mersey FC did exist until a couple of years ago. It's a small sub-urb in South Manchester. I played for them.

 

[kained&able]

hapenden colts technically exist.

actully bollocks thats the youth team that i played for.(when i say youth team that implies a certain level of orginisation, don't be fooled!)

Harpenden rovers! thats who i mean.

still in front of 25.

i mean don't exist as in i'm being a patroniing cock.


dave

 

[sned]

I've seen Team Bath play in front of a few roadsweepers, but they are in no way 'my team'

No-one's team anymore - been forced to disband... no more epic Bath derbys

Probably, at a guess, mine would be (Bristol) City v Mansfield back around 2002ish when i worked on the turnstiles. Naturally we won 4-3, think we were 3-0 up after about 20 mins!

Seen smaller crowds at Bath City and Chippenham Town - few hundred at a guess. Not really my teams though.

 

[Sootysoots]

Never a small crowd with Man City or at least their first team. Been to a few reserve matches with Cardiff City like attendances mind.

 

[Sootysoots]

Heaton Mersey FC did exist until a couple of years ago. It's a small sub-urb in South Manchester. I played for them.

I'd say the Heatons are Stockport. Manchester ends with Pleasanthulme. Heaton Chapel ftw btw.

 

[TheDave]

Bristol Rovers away. 500 or so in a corner with no roof when it was pissing with rain. We won 4-3 and was a fantatastic game of football for League One (Old Division Two). I've probably been to a couple with smaller crowds but that one stands out the most.

 

[tbaldwin]

Saw Chelsea at home a couple of times with crowds of 6,000. Away games at the likes of Middlesboro with just over 8,000 and lots of smaller clubs gates about 6 and 7,000. I reckon smallest was probably a friendly at Hillingdon less than 1,000 id guess.

 

[phildwyer]

Saw Cardiff City lose 0-2 at home to Doncaster on a wet Wednesday night in front of 2,000, back in 94 or 95. That's loyalty that is.

 

[T & P]

In our first season in the Combined Counties league we learnt that it was not uncommon for clubs to have attendances of 30 or 40.

As we regularly brought up to 20 times as many supporters as their average gates, we were received with open arms. They'd even put up marquees and sell alcohol there throughout the game, so you could watch from the line with a beer in your hand. Happy days

 

[tbaldwin]

In our first season in the Combined Counties league we learnt that it was not uncommon for clubs to have attendances of 30 or 40.

As we regularly brought up to 20 times as many supporters as their average gates, we were received with open arms. They'd even put up marquees and sell alcohol there throughout the game, so you could watch from the line with a beer in your hand. Happy days

T and P did you ever watch the original Wimbledon at Plough Lane? You must have seen some really low crowds under 2,000 if you supported the original club id guess. And under 4,000 even in the top flight.

 

[bigbry]

T and P did you ever watch the original Wimbledon at Plough Lane? You must have seen some really low crowds under 2,000 if you supported the original club id guess. And under 4,000 even in the top flight.

I remeber seeing in the newpapers around 2000 that Wimbledon had a home league cup game with someone like Bury or Rochdale that was watched by less than a thousand people.

 

[tbaldwin]

I remeber seeing in the newpapers around 2000 that Wimbledon had a home league cup game with someone like Bury or Rochdale that was watched by less than a thousand people.

Wimbledon always had really low crowds it only changed when they moved to Selhurst park. And their corwds were mostly made up of away fans or neutrals at the time football sadly started to become really trendy.

 

[T & P]

T and P did you ever watch the original Wimbledon at Plough Lane? You must have seen some really low crowds under 2,000 if you supported the original club id guess. And under 4,000 even in the top flight.

I wasn't living in the UK then.

 

[Silva]

Excluding friendlies and reserve side matches, maybe a Porto - V. Guimarães in 2003. Less than 10000 in attendance, I'm sure. Saw one of the most bizarre goals ever in that match, 'to.

 

[el-ahrairah]

I was at a football game once where there were so few people some of the players had to take turns as spectators.