Season Tickets - 2022/23

[pauliewalnuts]

Someone needs to get on the phone to Purslow

“You don’t need to spend tens of millions expanding the ground, listen to Wilma on heroes and villains, he knows the score much better than you and NSWE ever will “

[saunders_heroes]

When was the last time we had a crowd of less than 40k at a Villa Park league game? We haven’t had this level of support in my lifetime.

[PeterWithesShin]

When was the last time we had a crowd of less than 40k at a Villa Park league game? We haven’t had this level of support in my lifetime.

39,839 v Millwall, 22/4/2019.
They only brought 1400 though.

Last one where the smaller away following wasn't the reason was 36,263 v Boro, 16/3/2019

[dave.woodhall]

I don't think we've ever had such consistent support. Even the post-war averages were boosted by some massive crowds.

[Stu]

My first game: Oldham, 4th April 1988, lost 2-1, attendance was apparently 19,138.

[Stu]

I’m also one of the fake 26,000 or whatever on the waiting list for an ST. Put myself down for the North Stand in the hope I’ll be near the top when the new one is built.

[olaftab]

Availability all over the stadium for Tomorrow. I did point out that we failed to sell out last season against Man City and was told it was because of Christmas. If we can't sell out a Saturday 5:30 KO how will we fill 50,000 +?

Terrible as only 41800 turned up. Looks like sold out to me other than hospitality seats but still  cancel that redev plan.

[PeterWithesShin]

85/86 was the nadir
Highest home attendance in 85/86 was 27,626 v Man Utd

Also that season we had
20,197 v Liverpool
22,048 v Everton
14,099 v Spurs
10,584 v Arsenal
26,694 v SHA
18,796 V WBA

FAC4 12,205 v Millwall
LCQF 26,093 v Arsenal
LCSF 23,098 V Oxford

And that's all the bigger games. You can imagine what it was like for Luton, Watford etc.
With the low point 8,456 for a league game v Southampton.

[four fornicholl]

When there’s only a few hundred tickets left, they’re almost always singles or concessions, difficult to shift.

[pauliewalnuts]

85/86 was the nadir
Highest home attendance in 85/86 was 27,626 v Man Utd

Also that season we had
20,197 v Liverpool
22,048 v Everton
14,099 v Spurs
10,584 v Arsenal
26,694 v SHA
18,796 V WBA

FAC4 12,205 v Millwall
LCQF 26,093 v Arsenal
LCSF 23,098 V Oxford

And that's all the bigger games. You can imagine what it was like for Luton, Watford etc.
With the low point 8,456 for a league game v Southampton.

Christ, did we only have 23k for that LCSF? That's not how I picture it in my mind.

Not saying i don't believe you, just mean I don't think back of it as a half empty ground.

[pauliewalnuts]

The kids don't understand how dead football was in the 1980s.

83-4 the average attendance for a top flight game was 18,000

Pretty amazing.

[PeterWithesShin]

The SF attendance is right.

There were only 3 games we played that season with an attendance over 30k.

Man Utd opening day, 49,743
Goodison 32,133
Highbury 33,091 for the LCQF replay.

Some league away games to show it wasn't just us
Arsenal 18,881
Spurs 14,854
Chelsea 17,509

[DeKuip]

85/86 was the nadir
Highest home attendance in 85/86 was 27,626 v Man Utd

Also that season we had
20,197 v Liverpool
22,048 v Everton
14,099 v Spurs
10,584 v Arsenal
26,694 v SHA
18,796 V WBA

FAC4 12,205 v Millwall
LCQF 26,093 v Arsenal
LCSF 23,098 V Oxford

And that's all the bigger games. You can imagine what it was like for Luton, Watford etc.
With the low point 8,456 for a league game v Southampton.

Christ, did we only have 23k for that LCSF? That's not how I picture it in my mind.

Not saying i don't believe you, just mean I don't think back of it as a half empty ground.

In the away leg at the Manor Ground it felt like there were 23k of us crammed in behind the goal!

[RamboandBruno]

85/86 was the nadir
Highest home attendance in 85/86 was 27,626 v Man Utd

Also that season we had
20,197 v Liverpool
22,048 v Everton
14,099 v Spurs
10,584 v Arsenal
26,694 v SHA
18,796 V WBA

FAC4 12,205 v Millwall
LCQF 26,093 v Arsenal
LCSF 23,098 V Oxford

And that's all the bigger games. You can imagine what it was like for Luton, Watford etc.
With the low point 8,456 for a league game v Southampton.

Christ, did we only have 23k for that LCSF? That's not how I picture it in my mind.

Not saying i don't believe you, just mean I don't think back of it as a half empty ground.

That is mad. I started going to a handful of games person season when i was 8 in 1982, by the time 85-86 came around i was going to a good few including the home leg of that semi. The dreaded 86-87 season was my first season ticket. The following year in Div 1, i vaguely remember regular attendances of around 11k or 12k, but through my early teenage eyes and blurry memory it never felt empty, how sparse the ground must of looked on a wet November afternoon with 11,000 inside. Perhaps because i was always in the Holte where most of the crowd must of been.
I remember the last home game of 87-88 vrs Bradford, that game we had to win to stand any chance of going up and there were 36,000 in the ground i think, it felt like id never experienced a crowd that big! Although we player Liverpool in the cup that year which must of been pretty close.

My teenage kids who have been going since 2014/2015, wouldn’t remember what the ground was like that wasn’t a virtual sell out every game.

[LeeB]

That Liverpool is the biggest crowd I've been in at Villa Park, it was proper rammed in the Holte End that day, though it was for that Bradford game too.

There were a few games in those years where the listed attendance seemed too low, that Everton 6-2 only had 17k.