Charlton ranked 8th highest out of the 92 league clubs..

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...for a single highest capacity at a home match.

i was doing some research and stumbled across this, thought it might interest a few people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_home_attendances_of_English_football_clubs

LargeAddick

so another eight more people and I could legitimately tell the Spurs fans at work that we are a bigger club than them.

Friend Or Defoe

Arsenal had to use an attendance set at Wembley, how small time is that?

Salad

10 clubs' record attendance was against Arsenal
and only about a third of the records were for league games

guinnessaddick

Both Man City & Man Utd record attendance where set at Maine Road? Must have been during the war, as I think Utd used Maine Road.

Happy Valley

I remember going to Highfield Road in 1977/8 with my then wife to be (in hindsight it was clearly not meant to be - she was a Sky Blue fan). We stood on the Spion Kop and couldn't see a damn thing cos it was so packed. The place was a dump. I went back during our first relegation season from the PL. Time had not been kind - it was even more of a dump than before, and we lost 2-1 after going ahead. Gone and should be forgotten.

TEL

That Stripey attendance of 51k in 1979 sticks in the craw a bit....remember it well being the day after my birthday...couldnt believe the size of it.

creepyaddick

I always thought we held the FA Cup record?
Oh well!

Saga Lout

[cite]Posted By: creepyaddick[/cite]I always thought we held the FA Cup record?
Oh well!

Me too?

DaveMehmet

It's believed that there were over 80k for a home game against Arsenal, I think in the 30's but the figure couldn't be confirmed as so many people had bunked in.

My great uncle used to work on the turnstiles for a while and he used to say that all the attendance figures were well under the actual figure. Every now and then they would take the money from 2 people but let them in on the same turn by keeping their foot on the lever/pedal.

Friend Or Defoe

I must have mentioned this story a hundred times before, but my granddad was at a game when the East Terrace was so full he couldn't put his hand in his pocket to get out his half time apple out. Thousands would climb over a fence.