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Following on from KK's thread:

Mine was an FA Cup replay against Sheff Weds I think, about 4 years ago. Don't think I ever went to a game under 22k at Maine Road.
Also, City Youth v Swansea.

Lots of foreign/lower league games smaller, too.

How many of the people on the site were at the Windscreens Shield match back in Div 2 (bet everyone claims to have been!)?

Peter Swales' testimonial.

To my eternal shame I was not at the Auto Windy game.
So 4,914 in the Both Members Cup v Wimbledon Nov 1986.
Wimbledon had FOUR fans that night. The whole Platt lane End for them.

One of the smallest no doubt bollocks what City say was

MIDGETLAND LAST SEASON,IF THERE WAS 10K THERE IM FATHER CHRISTMAS.
Bollocks 20k.

I boycotted the Auto thingy but I will have been at the Full Members one so presumably that's mine. There were some pretty piss poor league attendances round about Machin's time so I should imagine my lowest league gate was that season. Below 20k I would think.

Ted Hughes wrote:I boycotted the Auto thingy but I will have been at the Full Members one so presumably that's mine. There were some pretty piss poor league attendances round about Machin's time so I should imagine my lowest league gate was that season. Below 20k I would think.

When they were rebuilding the Kippax me and my eldest sat in those first dozen rows they opened in the winter. Remember sitting in a couple of evening games in the sleet, open-air etc, Chelsea and Ipswich was it?

Either way that winter our attendances dipped to around 19,000, partly because of the rebuild and partly because we were pretty shite. Norm for an evening game that year I recall was around 24K. Crap.

i was at huddersfield about 18000 but every blue u talk to was there. only won 10-1

Rochdale & Bury away pre season 4 yrs ago and Crewe Alex away 6-7 yrs ago maybe more. we had the whole of 1 side. I remember a pub in Crewe which is run by a blue, everybody i know went there so he must`ve made some coin that night

I was at a Meadowbank Thistle game where the attendance 96. This was the season before they became the soon to be defunct Livingston FC and all there fans stopped going.

Has to be Migetland at home last season think there was only 17,000 there?.

10.Goater_Legend wrote:Has to be Migetland at home last season think there was only 17,000 there?.

You got a typo there mate,10K.

i once went to a doncaster rovers game against tranmere i think, anyway it was on a friday night and it was a full teams out, but a friendley and there was 250 ish

Do pre-season friendlies count? Halifax still had all their main stand seats in cardboard boxes.

Dunne's Half-Time Pint wrote:Do pre-season friendlies count? Halifax still had all their main stand seats in cardboard boxes.

If they do then Emley for me, about 15 or so years ago. About 500 in all, think more sheep in fields under the mast than fans at the game. Tiny stand and the rest stood round the side of the pitch.

rural

had to be my cousins last game of the season a little while back which consisted of me, my uncle and a linesman

I was in an elevator before, it was me and the voices in my head. I asked them but they claimed they didn't count...so 1.

About 125 in a FA Cup qualifying round game between Atherton and Hyde United.

Off-stopic because it is RL: I actually watched a Salford reserve game on a Friday night about 20 years ago when there were about 15 of us in attendance.

Was it Mansfield we played at Maine Road when The Mirror decided to publish a full page picture of the empty seats at Maine Road?

I think that was one of the smallest crowds I have been a part of for a competitive game.

BlueinBosnia wrote:Following on from KK's thread......

Whilst your thread is pretty good mate I can't see it making the front page of the OS :o)

Smallest City crowd was at a pre-season friendly in Holland in 1993 (I think) against a village team called Halsteren. No more than a 1,000 there. Most of the then first team had a run out and we lost 2-1 to a bunch of amateurs.....