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What was the largest attendance at a game you’ve attended watching Orient?

To start off...
59,361
Emirates Stadium
Arsenal 5 v 0 Leyton Orient
FA Cup 5th round replay
March 2nd 2011

I’d be surprised if anyone could/would beat that..

I' m out

Arsenal declared the crowd as 59,361, but that included everyone who paid, including season ticket holders, who did not take up their seats. There were large number of empty seats.

Did anyone watch our home match v Birmingham on 2nd May 1972? The official attendance was 33,363 but there were 35,000 at least in the ground.

Perhaps this could be amended to largest home attendance at Brisbane Road attended?

Article_50 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 1:15 pm Did anyone watch our home match v Birmingham on 2nd May 1972? The official attendance was 33,363 but there were 35,000 at least in the ground.

I was there. That was the largest crowd I have been part of at Brisbane Road. Thankfully I had a seat.

Vs Chelsea in the Cup in February? 72. 32000 plus is my recollection of the crowd number

Article_50 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 1:15 pm Did anyone watch our home match v Birmingham on 2nd May 1972? The official attendance was 33,363 but there were 35,000 at least in the ground.

Did you count them all?

Article_50 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 1:15 pm Did anyone watch our home match v Birmingham on 2nd May 1972? The official attendance was 33,363 but there were 35,000 at least in the ground.

They used to fiddle the figures regularly in those days.

Aston Villa - May 1974

Got to be about 30000

I was at the Birmingham game, officially 33,383 but it was packed everywhere, people up floodlight pylons, on top of tea huts! I was in the North Terrace, was there by six o clock, it was rammed all round the ground. The Villa game was given as 29,766 wasn't nowhere as bad.

yep I was at the Birmingham game

wasn't it something to do with either millwall or Birmingham getting promoted

I was at the Arsenal match, along with another 8,000 Orient "fans", a good proportion of whom had apparently never been to see us before in their lives

banqo wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:51 pm I was at the Birmingham game, officially 33,383 but it was packed everywhere, people up floodlight pylons, on top of tea huts! I was in the North Terrace, was there by six o clock, it was rammed all round the ground. The Villa game was given as 29,766 wasn't nowhere as bad.

Hundreds of Millwall fans battered down the gates at the north end of Brisbane Road …. anyone remember that?

Lucky7 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:20 pm

Article_50 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 1:15 pm Did anyone watch our home match v Birmingham on 2nd May 1972? The official attendance was 33,363 but there were 35,000 at least in the ground.

Did you count them all?

Lucky7 everyone is entitled to be stupid, but you abuse the privilege.

Born to run wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 1:19 pm

Article_50 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 1:15 pm Did anyone watch our home match v Birmingham on 2nd May 1972? The official attendance was 33,363 but there were 35,000 at least in the ground.

I was there. That was the largest crowd I have been part of at Brisbane Road. Thankfully I had a seat.

I was standing on the south terrace - as a shorter than average 10 year old I hardly saw a thing. Vividly remember scuttling down the back of the terrace into the bushes when there was a bomb alert and then explosion. Never a dull moment in the 70s...

Article_50 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:44 pm

Lucky7 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:20 pm

Article_50 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 1:15 pm Did anyone watch our home match v Birmingham on 2nd May 1972? The official attendance was 33,363 but there were 35,000 at least in the ground.

Did you count them all?

Lucky7 everyone is entitled to be stupid, but you abuse the privilege.

Look at your post and then get back to me Boris

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The Birmingham game really kicked off about a hour before the game,thousands of Birmingham fans were in the west side got chased out attacted by by millwall,they wanted orient to win to go up so millwall would go up,millwall and orient and millwall were together in the westside after that,birmingham scored and then kicked off behind the goals it made the Chelsea games look tame.

For me it was 56 years ago(oh dear) FA Cup 4th round v WHU 34,345. I think it is still recorded as our official highest attendance.

I was at the Chelsea, Arsenal, Birmingham and Aston Villa games, Brisbane Road was filled to capacity and more at all of them.

DaggerHam wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2020 12:11 pm For me it was 56 years ago(oh dear) FA Cup 4th round v WHU 34,345. I think it is still recorded as our official highest attendance.

It is and many people have told me there was more like 40,000 in the ground that day.

Article_50 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:40 pm

banqo wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:51 pm I was at the Birmingham game, officially 33,383 but it was packed everywhere, people up floodlight pylons, on top of tea huts! I was in the North Terrace, was there by six o clock, it was rammed all round the ground. The Villa game was given as 29,766 wasn't nowhere as bad.

Hundreds of Millwall fans battered down the gates at the north end of Brisbane Road …. anyone remember that?

Me, I was at all the games mentioned so far, I was swept into the ground when the North End gates collapsed due to people climbing all over them.
What was the attendance for the Man U v O's league 2 game, was at that as well

Kent wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 11:34 am What was the largest attendance at a game you’ve attended watching Orient?

To start off...
59,361
Emirates Stadium
Arsenal 5 v 0 Leyton Orient
FA Cup 5th round replay
March 2nd 2011

Similar - Stamford Bridge, Chelsea
FA Cup Semi-Final 1978
Attendance: 49,698

As for home attendance, probably when Stoke visited in 1978. No idea how many where there but a lot as Stoke were relegated a couple of seasons before and a pretty big club. Weird thing is I did remember the Pink Panther being on the cover of the programme for some reason,
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