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List of record home attendances of English football clubs

List of record home attendances of English football clubs

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This is a list of record home attendances of English football clubs. It lists the highest attendance of all English non-League, English Football League and Premier League clubs, for a home match above a highest attendance of 5,000. It is noticeable that a large proportion of records were set at matches in the FA Cup.

St Mary's, the home of Southampton, is one of the few club grounds to have set an attendance record in the 21st century.

Ground capacities have declined for many clubs since all-seater stadia were introduced in the late 1980s, especially at older grounds, with many records set at the terraced stadia, with their high standing capacities, that were replaced. In several cases records were achieved at a former ground rather than the club's current location. For example, Wigan Athletic's record was set at Springfield Park, not their current home, the DW Stadium.

The record home attendance for five clubs occurred away from their usual home grounds. Manchester United's record home attendance was set at Maine Road, the home of neighbours Manchester City, during a period when United's Old Trafford was being rebuilt following bomb damage sustained during the Second World War.[1] During the 1998–99 season Arsenal played their UEFA Champions League home matches at Wembley,[2] with the 73,707 attendance against Lens exceeding the record for Highbury and Tottenham Hotspur also played their UEFA Champions League games at Wembley Stadium in the 2016–17 season.[3] Similarly, Accrington Stanley's record home attendance was set when the club played an FA Cup home tie at Blackburn's Ewood Park instead of their usual home (the Crown Ground) and Stevenage's record was set when the club played a "home" FA Cup tie against Birmingham City at Birmingham's St Andrew's ground.[4]

List

Records correct as of 23 December 2023. Italics denote attendance record set at ground not designated as usual home ground; Bold denote attendance record set at current ground.

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Footnotes
  1. 2016–17 European matches played at Wembley due to redevelopment work at Tottenham Hotspur's home ground, White Hart Lane; record at usual stadium 75,038 vs Sunderland (FA Cup 6th round, 5 March 1938).
  2. Match played at Manchester City's home ground, Maine Road, due to World War II bomb damage at Manchester United's ground, Old Trafford. Record at own ground is 76,098 against Blackburn Rovers 31 March 2007, however a higher attendance of 76,962 was recorded at Old Trafford for an FA Cup Semi Final between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Grimsby Town 25 March 1939.
  3. In order to boost attendance figures, Arsenal was granted permission by UEFA and the Football Association to host their home Champions League matches at Wembley Stadium rather than at their home ground of Highbury. Highest attendance at own stadium, Highbury, was 73,295 against Sunderland 9 March 1935.[15]
  4. Record at own stadium, Broadhall Way, is 8,040 against Newcastle United 25 January 1998 (FA Cup 4th round).
  5. Record at own stadium, The Crown Ground, is 5,397 against Derby County 26 January 2019 (FA Cup 4th round).

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