Brian Kerr
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Brian Kerr
Cork City's best crowds in the last 13 year was 2003 before Pat Dolan. http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn.htm Im not sure where they get the stats from but seems close to accurate.
Derry City V Glentoran cup final att 90, 000+
Granted their was two replays but that is some attendance. 1949 I think.
Seeing as everyone has to chip in with a claim for their own club Dundalk *may* have had the biggest attendance at a competitive game involving a LoI side.... official attendance at Vasas Budapest v Dundalk in the 1967-8 European Cup at the Nepstadion (now Puskas Stadion) in Budapest was in the 80,000s, helped by the fact it was a double header with Ferencvaros v Arges Pitesti. It was 1-1 after half an hour, that's all you need to know about the scoreline!
What about the European away games involving Irish clubs? Rovers & Waterford both played in Old Trafford, must have been a huge crowds s it was Busby Babes era for Rovers & George Best era for Waterford. Also Dundalk player Porto away in the Uefa Cup in 1980, forget the figure but I'm sure it was circa 50k, the first leg was a 0-0 draw, so the tie was very much alive.
Dundalk, Rovers & Pats all played away to Celtic also in Europe.
Dno't forget UCD away to the Chinese and Iranian national teams; those drew huge crowds (70000+ apparently)
I think there was a Bohs Rovers FAI Cup replay that drew 10,000 in the early 90s, was at Dalymount
the title playoffs that season in the early 90s - Bohs, Cork and Shelbourne - drew some big crowds
I imagine Rovers got some big crowds in their title winning season at the RDS too
60,000 at the match according to the Irish Indo at the time.
The min I logged on and saw ATFC, I knew I forgot about the Milan v Athlone match in the mid 70's.
Apologies!
Pats played against the Iran National side on front of 60,000+ in Tehran, back in 1990. The game finished 0-0.
Not far as I remember? Flower Lodge was in Douglas, no direct bus from the Northside.
Celtic Hibs games in the 70`s drew "gates" of £15,000, at a time when kids got in for 20 pence and adults tickets were a £. I remember at the time that a £800 gate in Dalymount was about 1500 people, so work it out.
Sadly ,I was at the Waterford/ Celtic game, my abiding memory is that when a riot kicked off between Belfast and Derry based Celtic fans on the South Terrace, there was plenty of room! My memory of the crowd was that it was a lot less than, say the Ireland Swiss game a few years later, which was jammed,
The Rovers /Pats game, opening the RDS to Association Football in the 90`s?, had 21,000 for a league game. A lot of people there out of curiosity, including myself. Worst 0-0 draw ever.
There was actually 26k at that game. Was indeed a shocker. Following game against Derry have 20k at it. Rovers equalised a jammy goal by curly haired divy jonatha speake.
Real madrid v limerick 46,000
You are correct about Hibs not being northside. Although, Hibs were the more generally supported club. They seem to have drawn from everywhere else apart from the central southside area (Turners Cross, Ballyphehane, Togher, Douglas to generalise) where Cork Celtic drew from.