explymouthnige
explymouthnige
Remember a home game at Priestfield against Lincoln, I think, with a crowd of just over 1000 and only 3 floodlights working - those were the days!!
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What's your record lowest crowds
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Surrey_Albion
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This at home, worse away was Scunthorpe 1997,cant rememebr the figure but the whole ground seemed empty we took a few hundred so good turn out by us,we won 2-0, or I remember a game at Reading but cant remember the year but I remember the home fans walking along the terrace and standing at whatever end they were attacking really made me laugh
Safeway
M0DERAT0R
Lowest away following was being one of the 86 at Swansea in the first round of the LDV. October 2002? Won 2-1 and had the added bonus of seeing Dirk Lehmann's solitary goal for the club.
It was 1,025 against Barnet (see below) or Millwall - I thought it was against Milllwall in JPT as well) , we lost 3-0 v Barnet (that's how crap we were then!) and the bus home broke down on the motorway and so we watch a firework display from the hard shoulder whilst a replacement was sorted out. . The smallest 'home' gate for BHA ever. I know cos I was there both times
But
Life was hard in Gillingham. In 1997/98 the team was even worse than the previous season, but Doncaster Rovers kept Albion off the bottom of the League. “Home” gates, naturally, fell to their lowest ever, an average of just 2,328 as few supporters trekked 70 miles into Kent. On Bonfire Night 1997, just 1,025 fans saw their team lose 3-0 to Barnet
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Home - 2621 v Cambridge at Priestfield in 1999.
Away - Can't be arsed to check all of them! Was at away games against Kidderminster and Barnet where there seemed to be very few home fans but our away following would have upped the overall figure.
Away - Can't be arsed to check all of them! Was at away games against Kidderminster and Barnet where there seemed to be very few home fans but our away following would have upped the overall figure.
Actually scrap that - I was at an Auto Windscreens game at the Goldstone in 1994 which attracted a MAHOOSIVE 1104. As I recall they only opened the West Stand.
Randsta
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I was there wasn't it 1,011 worst game ever!
Lowest home crowd was midweek v Peterborough at Gillingham, I believe (don't know the crowd).
Lowest away probably at Macclesfield.
Lowest neutral the "Challis" game at Stamford Bridge.
Lowest Albion attendance Birmingham in the first division. Less than 100 of us.
Lowest away probably at Macclesfield.
Lowest neutral the "Challis" game at Stamford Bridge.
Lowest Albion attendance Birmingham in the first division. Less than 100 of us.
The Wookiee
Back From The Dead
As a neutral I remember a couple of Inter Toto euro games at the goldstone. I think it was Wimbledon v some Turks and spurs v some Swedes ? Can't remember the games except the Turks being noisy. Crowds at both games were small I think.
Don't know it's the lowest ever away but I was at the Priestfield '94 for for the Autoglass 1v1 att 963
Gillingham v Brighton and Hove Albion, 27 September 1994 - 11v11 match report
Gillingham v Brighton and Hove Albion, 27 September 1994 - 11v11 match report
Seagull58
In the Algarve
Keegan had 2 disallowed before Wardy scored. A couple of 'Boro at work the next day both said to me that it was our season and we would be in the Cup Final.
For your record books
25 June 1995 (1995-06-25)
Tottenham Hotspur 0–2 Luzern Goldstone Ground, Hove
Attendance: 2,497
Referee: Bertrand Saules (France)
15 July 1995 (1995-07-15)
Tottenham Hotspur 1–2 Öster Goldstone Ground, Hove
Attendance: 2,143
McMahon
June 24/25 1995
Wimbledon F.C. 0–4 Bursaspor
July 15/16 1995
Wimbledon F.C. 0–0 Beitar Jerusalem FC
1These matches were played at Brighton and Hove Albion's Goldstone Ground as Selhurst Park was unavailable.
No attendance for the Wimbledon games so presumably they were lower than the "Spurs" games.
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
The lowest was probably a wet night in Swansea for a Johnstone Paint Cup game. I'm not exactly sure of the away attendance that night, but someone passed around a programme for us all to sign. The signatures fitted on the front cover!
thisistips
New member
I know it doesn't count, but went to some reserve games as a kid. There were maybe 100 or 200 people sitting in the West Stand. This was the only time I went in there, normally I was in the East Terrace, wondering what it would be like to be in the surges in the North Stand. There was one match when it was raining and we were sitting there being larey to the away team bench.
Other than that, I remember a weird match vs Wimbledon at Selhurst. We were in the shite away stand. I think there about 2,500 there. Only about 100 Wimbledon due to a boycott. Two of the Dons fans that went were my mates from Sussex, who also follow the Albion. They did the unthinkable and crossed the lines, coming from the Wimbledon stand to sit with the Albion supporters.
Other than that, I remember a weird match vs Wimbledon at Selhurst. We were in the shite away stand. I think there about 2,500 there. Only about 100 Wimbledon due to a boycott. Two of the Dons fans that went were my mates from Sussex, who also follow the Albion. They did the unthinkable and crossed the lines, coming from the Wimbledon stand to sit with the Albion supporters.
Publius Ovidius
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Actually, my dad, mum, brother an I went to see Huddersfield vs Cardiff at ninian park in the 70's when we lived down in melksham and we were the only huddersfield fans in the gound. Town lost 4-1 and when we scored, I was the only one apart from the bench to leap up off my seat.....we sat behind the goal with a load of welsh homicidal maniacs....my mum refused to go to football ever again and the next time she went was Portsmouth when we lost 5-1 willie Youngs famous game and we spent most of the game fending off their thugs....aaah the good old days
thedeadone
Member
Barnet 1997 at gillingham
pre season game v palace at Gillingham (how low was that?)
Behind closed doors game v york at goldstone
JPT game v Barnet at withdean was very low aswell
pre season game v palace at Gillingham (how low was that?)
Behind closed doors game v york at goldstone
JPT game v Barnet at withdean was very low aswell
Hans Kraays Tackle
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Barnet at Gillingham.
Remember it well ,as well as the comment from the radio 5 tosser. I must admit on te drive back to Bracknell I did ask myself the same question but it seemed like the last stand at the time and any more not going would have been the final nail.
Remember it well ,as well as the comment from the radio 5 tosser. I must admit on te drive back to Bracknell I did ask myself the same question but it seemed like the last stand at the time and any more not going would have been the final nail.