Season Tickets - 2022/23

[Scratchins]

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.

Hmm wonder why?

[London Villan]

Ok so this is without checking, so it's always dangerous, but played Spurs in the league cup in 1987. I remember the PA asking for people to move forward in the Holte to let people in, it was the biggest crowd I'd been in as a young Villa fan. There were 27,000 there.

[Charlie8182]

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.

I remember going to the last home game of that season where we beat Chelsea 3-1 to guarantee staying in division 1, the crowd was 17,730 and I thought that was a decent attendance at the time!

The 10,584 against Arsenal was in March 86, we lost 4-1 sparking a demonstration by fans outside the dressing rooms on Trinity Road which got a bit lively; the home game against them the following season (November 86), we took another hammering (0-4) but the crowd more than doubled - 21658.  Oddly the average gate for the McNeill relegation season was 3000 up on the previous season, didn't make much sense.

[Mister E]

My first game was Aston Villa v Everton, on 06 May 1967; Score, 4-2 to Everton - we were relegated in front of 25,302.
I was also at the LCSF in December 1970 along with the other 62,500 and at the game vs Sunderland (crowd 57,000) when we celebrated our return to the top flight, in 1975.
As others have said, these last 2-3 years have been the most consistent period for high attendances that I've witnessed in my lifetime. Even in our League-winning season our average attendance was only 34k (with a high of 48k).

[LeeB]

Ok so this is without checking, so it's always dangerous, but played Spurs in the league cup in 1987. I remember the PA asking for people to move forward in the Holte to let people in, it was the biggest crowd I'd been in as a young Villa fan. There were 27,000 there.

Rememeber being shocked to see the queues for the Holte as we approached that night.

[Border villan]

On the Villa website. In “buying tickets” the number of seats available in some areas is in red and for other areas in blue. Any ideas why?

[aldridgeboy]

I’ve put mine for resale.

A very uncooperative bride won’t let me do 8-9 instead of 7-8 in the  city centre. I couldn’t be bothered parking for just the first half of the game.

I sold my Everton ticket back and didn’t find out until the Monday after, that  it had sold. I’m sure last season as soon as it sold I had an email. Not this year

I don't get the  7-8 and 8-9 bit of that post.

Work times. You wouldn't understand.

Yes apologies, I wasn't very clear! I meant she wouldn't let me do 8pm-9pm.
And sods law when I got there for 6.45, they were 45 mis running late

[UK Redsox]

On the Villa website. In “buying tickets” the number of seats available in some areas is in red and for other areas in blue. Any ideas why?

Segregating spectators by political leaning ?

[Richard]

Hurrah! Im 9826 on waiting list....

[Border villan]

Hurrah! Im 9826 on waiting list....

Fake news, there is no waiting list.

MAKE WILMA GREAT AGAIN

[Malandro]

Hurrah! Im 9826 on waiting list....

Just had mine too - Waiting list position: 15992

I may need another stand demolishing before I get one!

[chrisw1]

Hurrah! Im 9826 on waiting list....

Just had mine too - Waiting list position: 15992

I may need another stand demolishing before I get one!

When did you join?

[chrisw1]

Hurrah! Im 9826 on waiting list....

When did you join?

[Richard]

I joined just before last season started so maybe July 21

[chrisw1]

I joined just before last season started so maybe July 21

Interesting, so looking at your place of 9,826 from Jul-21 and Malandro's place of 15,982, then at least 6k joined since the start of last season - prob more depending on when Malandro joined.  This doesn't really fit Fred's narrative at all?

edit - seen someone on FB at 20,338, so that's at least 10k sold since the start of last season