Ground capacities and record attendances

[London-Irish]

Is there a link that shows the ground capacities and record attendances for each eircom League club? If not, perhaps local experts could list the details from their club here please.

[Buller]

Where's Pineapple Stu when you need him....

[holidaysong]

The current capacity of Oriel Park is 6,000. The record attendance is 21,000. This was set in 1979 in a European Cup 2nd Round tie against Celtic.

[London-Irish]

UCD and Sporting Fingal are both at new grounds this season so their record attendances will be fairly recent, whilst Athlone's record would probably have been their first match at the new stadium last year.

[DmanDmythDledge]

UCD Bowl has capacity of 3,000. Record attendence is 1,005 against Bohs, obviously this season.

Belfield Park's record attendence was somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 against Derry sometime in the 80s. Can't remember the exact details.

[John83]

This link has the grounds with estimates of capacities, though it's a little out of date and I don't know how accurate the capacities are.

[Buller]

Rovers V ManUtd in Dalymount in the European Cup - 40,000+

[Buller]

Dalymount -
Capacity :
Seated 4250
Terraced 7750

Is that not off?
The Jodi has 2,700 seats, the Des Kelly at least 700, and the Connaght Street 2000ish?

Also 7,750 is very accurate for standing... Were these figures derived off the top of their webmasters head I wonder?

[pineapple stu]

Where's Pineapple Stu when you need him....

Here. There's no Capacities Thread though.

Think Belfield Park's record is usually put as 3500.

[MariborKev]

Dalymount -
Capacity :
Seated 4250
Terraced 7750

Is that not off?
The Jodi has 2,700 seats, the Des Kelly at least 700, and the Connaght Street 2000ish?

Also 7,750 is very accurate for standing... Were these figures derived off the top of their webmasters head I wonder?

Are the figures not related to what the H&S clearance is given as?

[HarpoJoyce]

Dalymount -
Capacity :
Seated 4250
Terraced 7750

Is that not off?
The Jodi has 2,700 seats, the Des Kelly at least 700, and the Connaght Street 2000ish?

Also 7,750 is very accurate for standing... Were these figures derived off the top of their webmasters head I wonder?

Is this terracing for the Tramway/Shopping Centre end. Maybe out of use is a better discription.
Capacity of Terracing was always calculated, the totals used to get reduced every few years until big blocks of terrace were no longer used or replaced with seating. There was always a figure for each stand.

At the recent League cup game against Dundalk I saw about a dozen Bohs fans on some steps beside the Burdocks shop. In a tangent out from the corner flag before the Des Kelly entrance. That corner was near capacity.

[alkev]

Rovers V ManUtd in Dalymount in the European Cup - 40,000+

49000 Ireland v England 1957

45000 (approx) Rovers V Bohs (Sean Thomas's team) Leinster Senior Cup in th Sixties

[kingdomkerry]

I think turners cross is a seating capacity of 6,800. The highest attendance was 12.000 against Dundalk on the last game of the season in a title decider in 92.

There was close to that a couple of years ago at the cork derry game on the last day of the season

[pineapple stu]

8058 was the official crowd for that one.

[Student Mullet]

UCD Bowl has capacity of 3,000. Record attendence is 1,005 against Bohs, obviously this season.

I was in the Bowl for Blackrock College v Skerries in the 2000 Leinster Schools' Cup and there were more than 1,005 there.

[CuanaD]

These are capacity figures I had as of last year - a few changes since then (e.g. Pat's new stand adds 1500 to their seating, also Cobh have new stand)
Plenty of gaps but I hope this helps

Seated Terraced
Bohemian F.C 7,935 1,000
Bray Wanders
Cork City
Derry City
Dundalk 1,200 8,800
Finn Harps 250 5,000
HFE
St. Patrick's Athletic 1,823
Shamrock Rovers
Shelbourne 9,861 0
Sligo Rovers . . . .
UCD . . . . . . . . . . 1,448 1,052
Athlone Town . . . . 2,038 2,000
Cobh Ramblers . . 1,400 3,500
Drogheda Utd. . . .
Galway Utd. . . . . 3,400 1,500
Kilkenny City . . . .
Limerick F.C. . . . .
Longford Town . . . 6,700 0
Monaghan Utd. . . .
St. Francis . . . . . .
Waterford Utd. . . .

Totals . . . . . . . . . 36,055 22,852

58,907

[CuanaD]

BTW, the figures quoted above by Buller & Harpo for Dalymount are out of date - they relate to when only the Jodi & School ends were seated & Connaght St side was terrace
I think now the figures are approx: Jodi 3-3200, School 1-1200, Connaght 3,600ish

[crc]

I think turners cross is a seating capacity of 6,800

Isn't it 7,485?

[Paddyfield]

There were just under 7000 at GUFC v. Cork City in the first game under lights in the in October 1993. United won 2-1 to go top of the Premier Division

Last Monday, not even 800 went to see GUFC v. Cobh at the other end of the Premier Division in Terryland.

[TheBoss]

This is what I have regarding highest attendance:

Dalymount Park: 46,700
Carlisle Grounds: 5,200 (v Bohs 2002)
Turners Cross: 11,000
United Park: 6,000
Flancare Park: 4000 (2004)
Tolka Park: 9,000 (v Bohs)
Showgrounds: 9,000 (Shamrock Rovers)
Richmond Park: 13,000
Belfield: 3,750
RSC: 8,000
St Mels Park: 9,000 (v AC Milan)
St Colmans Park: 6,612(v Finn Harps)
Oriel Park: 22,000
Finn Park: 8,000
Terryland Park: 7,260 (v Cork City)
Station Road: 2,500 (2002)
Buckley Park: 6,500
Hogan Park: 5,500
Gortakeegan: 2,000