Lowest crowd at a Villa Park game attended

[andyaston]

Whats the lowest crowd excluding, those simod cup games in the 80s that you have been in at Villa Park.

I thankfully didnt go to the infamous game against Souhampton in the mid 80s. So, the lowest crowd at a competative game was against QPR in 1989/90, just over 14,000 turned up to see Trevor Satan Francis score a hat trick against us in a 3-1 defeat. Taylor nearly got the sack but we went on a run after that awful match in the eventual runners up season.

The crowd looked lost inside Villa park that day, Rangers brought about 500 fans which is more than alot of teams in those times. The lower trinity was full of brown seats either side of the dug out towards the corner. Terrible times for crowds.

[bertlambshank]

Southampton for me.There was still a queue for the pies.

[Reuben]

I was at that QPR game.  Didn't realise the crowd was that low! 

Was that lower than most of the the games in the Division 2 season 87/88?  I went to a couple of night matches but they were against decent teams in that division (Blackburn and Crystal Palace) 

Scunthorpe in the milk cup must have been lower?

[dave.woodhall]

Exeter in the League Cup 1985-86, 6,000-odd.

[bertlambshank]

Exeter in the League Cup 1985-86, 6,000-odd.

Forgot about that one.

[Dave Clark Five]

I would like to say Besiktas but, watching it from the park through the gap between the Holte End and Trinity Road Stand, does not count. I know one person who did get in.

[Chipsticks]

I'm only 17, so obviously those fixtures were a bit before my time. Lowest attendance I've ever been to was last season, in Houlliers first game at home against Blackburn (who else would it be?) in the League Cup 3rd round.

won 3-1, with just over 17,000 if I remember correct. Me and my mates still made fun of it, mind.

[Charlie8182]

Went to the Exeter (7,000 odd) game and 8,456 against Southampton in 85/86, where we regualarly got somewhere between 10 - 12,000 crowds all season.  Oddly for our relegation season the following year, our attendances were a bit better.

[BC54 VFC]

Went to the Exeter (7,000 odd) game and 8,456 against Southampton in 85/86, where we regualarly got somewhere between 10 - 12,000 crowds all season.  Oddly for our relegation season the following year, our attendances were a bit better.

Ditto.

[E I Adio]

Take your pick from pretty much any game in the mid to late 60's.

Wander in through the Holte end turnstiles at five minutes to three, take a minute or so to choose which crush barrier you prefer to lean on, light a fag and away you go.

I do remember a game against Blackpool, when they had a young unknown lad in the side called Alan Ball. It was a very windy day and it started to pour with rain. The entire "crowd" on the Holte retreated out of the rain to the very back of the terrace and everyone was accommodated on about the top half dozen steps.

Exciting times.

[Rico]

Southampton for me! Can't remember exactly what the official attendance was,but probably could have counted everyone before the end of the match! Do you know what the sad thing was? I started watching Villa in the late 70s and I really thought that we were going to turn it all around, and that this relegation nonsense was not for us. No! The mighty Aston Villa who were European champions a few years before couldn't get relegated! How wrong was I? Still preferred going down the Villa then to now though!

[Deano's Mullet]

Southampton in 1993 - and we were 2nd in the table at the time! Two Le Tissier goals in a 2-0 defeat and the absentees sure didnt miss much. Lousy performance, lousy night. 17,000 or so.

[Deano's Mullet]

Although saying that, the Intertoto game with Zurich in 2002 probably pushed it close, 12,000 or so? Allback and Boulding scored and Staunton got a penalty. We wore white at home as well.

[Hammer]

I was at that Zurich game... didn't strike me as a bad turnout at all in the circumstances. Think it was about 20,000.

[rogfromb6]

Not the lowest crowd but I remember going to a televised game against Liverpool in the early 90s where the crowd was about 19k. This was at the time when Liverpool still won league titles.

There is lots wrong with modern game but it was also pretty shite for different reasons in the past as well!