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[Hugh]

This is a new record crowd for this level of football, and by a big margin, with Notts breaking their own record set last season. Surely it is now impossible to deny that with crowds like this, and average NL crowds over 3,000 and every club currently averaging over 1,000, that the National League is now effectively "League 3", and should have three or four promotion places. It seems ridiculous that Barrow could be voted out after finishing third from bottom and yet now a club finishing in the same position is safe (though perhaps Rochdale supporters would disagree!).

[Amsterdam Alty]

We've never agreed on anything more, Hugh.

[ianpickles]

Anyone tell us the previous record crowd?

[Bath Alty]

12 thousand and something. Also notts county vs someone last season

[Hugh]

12,843 vs. Solihull Moors, according to Football Web Pages. Lincoln City were the first team to get a really big Conference crowd (around 10,000 in 1989 or 1990). This though is in a different league, not far below the highest FL2 crowds of recent years.

[cheshire cat]

It's a shame they all got to see a 0 - 0 draw

[Ballers]

12,843 vs. Solihull Moors, according to Football Web Pages. Lincoln City were the first team to get a really big Conference crowd (around 10,000 in 1989 or 1990). This though is in a different league, not far below the highest FL2 crowds of recent years.

This mention of Lincoln crowds in that season makes me wonder if they are also the answer to the question of if we had played in front of 10,000 in the conference before Wrexham. We lost 0-5 there  when they were on a bit of a roll.

Anyhow, here’s a brief clip of our 0-0 draw in the home game against them that season.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kUU1ymxeNhA

[Ballers]

And here’s a clip you might have seen from the 84/85 season. I’ve seen most of these but don’t remember this one.

Interesting for the younger lads* for the clips of the ground (and Alty town centre).




https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HYxHNioMZ7c





* they might not find it interesting to be fair 😂

[CRT Butty]

In the early years of the ALL there was talk of 10k plus gates at the likes of Yeovil v Weymouth.

[ManagementGuru]

The 0-5 defeat at Lincoln was played in front of a crowd of 2720

The highest crowd in the first season of the APL was 4892 for Yeovil v Weymouth

The largest ever non-League crowd before Saturday was 16254 for Dulwich Hamlet v Nunhead in the Isthmian League in 1931.  Also until Saturday the  Midland League game between Peterborough United and Boston United in 1956 saw an attendance of 13341 and their game against Kings Lynn that same season had over 12000

[TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe]

12,843 vs. Solihull Moors, according to Football Web Pages. Lincoln City were the first team to get a really big Conference crowd (around 10,000 in 1989 or 1990). This though is in a different league, not far below the highest FL2 crowds of recent years.

This mention of Lincoln crowds in that season makes me wonder if they are also the answer to the question of if we had played in front of 10,000 in the conference before Wrexham. We lost 0-5 there  when they were on a bit of a roll.

Anyhow, here’s a brief clip of our 0-0 draw in the home game against them that season.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kUU1ymxeNhA

That was rather a curious evening, as the attendance of 2,398 was swelled by irate Stockport County supporters who had ventured along to vent their spleen at Lincoln City's manager Colin Murphy, who had recently abandoned Edgeley Park for Sincil Bank.

[RockyRobin]

Not forgetting we held the Conf record attendance for about a week

[Hugh]

The 0-5 defeat at Lincoln was played in front of a crowd of 2720

The highest crowd in the first season of the APL was 4892 for Yeovil v Weymouth

The largest ever non-League crowd before Saturday was 16254 for Dulwich Hamlet v Nunhead in the Isthmian League in 1931.  Also until Saturday the  Midland League game between Peterborough United and Boston United in 1956 saw an attendance of 13341 and their game against Kings Lynn that same season had over 12000

I seem to remember Yeovil getting a crowd of around 8,000 one season when they were promoted to the Conference from the Isthmian league. And I know that the likes of Dulwich used to get some very high crowds in the Amateur Cup, or at least in the final. But our old rivals Wigan used to get some very high FA Cup crowds, so I assume they would have got a few pretty large crowds in their NPL days at some point - or indeed in the Cheshire League, which was really more of a North West/ North Midlands/ North Wales league (and it would be interesting to see a list of teams who played in the CL when it was one of the top leagues outside the FL).  Anyhow, Wigan must have been doing something right as they were the only Northern team to get elected to the FL after the end of the Third Division South and the more Southerly clubs apparently went all huffy about having to play "oop Narth".

Interestingly, last season (before the relegation of Oldham) the representation of Lancashire clubs in the Football League was as high as it had ever been - and non-existent in the National League!

[Saughall Robin]

According to the report of the Woking game in the NLP, we nearly brought all three points back to Lancashire! 🤯😂😂

[Sale Holmfield]

The largest ever non-League crowd before Saturday was 16254 for Dulwich Hamlet v Nunhead in the Isthmian League in 1931.  Also until Saturday the  Midland League game between Peterborough United and Boston United in 1956 saw an attendance of 13341 and their game against Kings Lynn that same season had over 12000

You have omitted the Southern League, Bill, which had the biggest league  crowd between two non-League teams as we know them now when Ipswich Town played Colchester United in front of 23,449 on 5 February 1938. There were bigger attendances before the First World War at the likes of Tottenham Hotspur and Queens Park Rangers, but the Football League only had two divisions then, so it's not a fair comparison.
Also,I can't remember my source but I am sure I read something once about Port Vale reserves getting a bigger crowd in 1954 for  a Cheshire County League match when FA Cup semi-final tickets were on sale.  I am reluctant to count a reserve team too, but Notts County still have a way to go to beat Ipswich.