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Cardiff And Us,20 Year Crowds


Portland Bill

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Just thought i would have a look back over the last 20 years at ours and Cardiffs crowds.

I keep reading all this rubbish about Cardiff being some kind of super club.

Since 1990 the rounded up average crowds are.

Cardiff City 8,000

Bristol City 12,000

This is including the last couple years in there new Legoland stadium. So i think we can now put to bed who has the better and more loyal support. And its not Cardiff :rolleyes:

Anyone who wants a more in depth look, heres the links.

http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attnclub/carc.htm

http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attnclub/bric.htm

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So you won't have been at Ninian Park in September 1989 when Bristol City had more fans in attendance than Cardiff City, the home team?

Clearly not if I've only been supporting since 1995 :laugh: Listen, I only deal with the present and future and at the moment we are miles ahead of you in terms of infrastructure and our playing squad. :bounce:

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For all you history lovers out there, here are our home league attendance figures for the current season:

Sun 08 Aug Sheffield United 20,573

Sat 21 Aug Doncaster Rovers 24,027

Sat 11 Sep Hull City 24,083

Sat 25 Sep Millwall 23,010

Tue 28 Sep Crystal Palace 22,007 - for an evening game :)

Your turn :)

Just shows you have 15,000 people who dont really support your club ALL OF A SUDDEN :yes: where have they been for all these years,( waiting for Craig Bellamy!!!!!!) and how long they will stay once you lose a couple games:yes: .

I also wonder how many of them actually know who Robin Friday was ?????

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Clearly not if I've only been supporting since 1995 :laugh: Listen, I only deal with the present and future and at the moment we are miles ahead of you in terms of infrastructure and our playing squad. :bounce:

but finances is where were winning though eh ;) you best seriously hope you get promotion this year, or you really are in the poo :D

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Clearly not if I've only been supporting since 1995 :laugh: Listen, I only deal with the present and future and at the moment we are miles ahead of you in terms of infrastructure and our playing squad. :bounce:

I expect your proud that the year you started following them you averaged 4,500:laugh: :laugh: you forgot to mention your also miles in front of us in Debt as well:yes:

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Nice links. So the top ten averages are:

1. 37,933 (Cardiff)

2. 37,871 (Cardiff)

3. 35,091 (Cardiff again)

4. 32,410 (and again)

5. 28,945 (again...)

6. 28,680 (still Cardiff)

7. 28,604 (Cardiff)

8. 28,412 (Cardiff, but I'm sure Bristol'll appear...)

9. 26,624 (...sooner or later...)

10. 26,575 (Bristol! At last)

Good stuff. Kudos on your impressive support.

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Nice links. So the top ten averages are:

1. 37,933 (Cardiff)

2. 37,871 (Cardiff)

3. 35,091 (Cardiff again)

4. 32,410 (and again)

5. 28,945 (again...)

6. 28,680 (still Cardiff)

7. 28,604 (Cardiff)

8. 28,412 (Cardiff, but I'm sure Bristol'll appear...)

9. 26,624 (...sooner or later...)

10. 26,575 (Bristol! At last)

Good stuff. Kudos on your impressive support.

Not many of us were about when the Romans were here though:whistle2: , but most of us were when you averaged 2,958 only NINETEEN years ago:trumpet: .

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First up, I'm ashamed that Cardiff's crowds fluctuated so much, and coincided with a real low in the 1980's and early 1990's. That said, this was a trend that affected pretty much every club at the time. Cardiff's crowds of 2,958 in 1990/1991 are awful for a club of Cardiff's history and city size, but that is as much a reflection on football at the time as the club itself.

Evidence? That same season 1990/91, Fulham averaged 4,057, Birmingham 7,030, Bolton 7,281, and that was in the league above. Yep, Cardiff's crowds were shoickingly low, but it does need to be seen in the context that clubs like Newcastle and Chelsea would regularly get sub 15,000 gates in the top two divisions.

While I'm ashamed at Cardiff's crowds in that era, I don't think anyone can claim that Bristol City fans were ultra loyal at the time. As you slid down the leagues the decade before, you lost almost 20,000 fans in 4 seasons

1978/79 22,306

1979/80 18,932

1980/81 9,765

1981/82 6,511

1982/83 4,799

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First up, I'm ashamed that Cardiff's crowds fluctuated so much, and coincided with a real low in the 1980's and early 1990's. That said, this was a trend that affected pretty much every club at the time. Cardiff's crowds of 2,958 in 1990/1991 are awful for a club of Cardiff's history and city size, but that is as much a reflection on football at the time as the club itself.

Evidence? That same season 1990/91, Fulham averaged 4,057, Birmingham 7,030, Bolton 7,281, and that was in the league above. Yep, Cardiff's crowds were shoickingly low, but it does need to be seen in the context that clubs like Newcastle and Chelsea would regularly get sub 15,000 gates in the top two divisions.

While I'm ashamed at Cardiff's crowds in that era, I don't think anyone can claim that Bristol City fans were ultra loyal at the time. As you slid down the leagues the decade before, you lost almost 20,000 fans in 4 seasons

1978/79 22,306

1979/80 18,932

1980/81 9,765

1981/82 6,511

1982/83 4,799

Totally agree, we were in freefall and the support deserted the club. It was shamefull, i can hold my head up and say i was one of the 22,306 and the 4,799 though.

Both clubs have such a big "floating" support. Neither will make the big time and stay there untill this changes.

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Just shows you have 15,000 people who dont really support your club ALL OF A SUDDEN :yes: where have they been for all these years,( waiting for Craig Bellamy!!!!!!) and how long they will stay once you lose a couple games:yes: .

I also wonder how many of them actually know who Robin Friday was ?????

Why don't you take an average for all the years on that website, going back to 1947? I think that would give a truer picture?

Ours is 14,163 and yours is 14,279 so I'd say we're pretty evenly matched.

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