And have sold a record number of season tickets. 55,000!
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Now has the biggest capacity in London for league games.
https://www.whufc.com/news/articles/...adium-capacity
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/62441004
62,443 today , amazing support
And have sold a record number of season tickets. 55,000!
Quite something. My mum is from that part of the world and I remember going to a family party in the late 90s in the east end and driving around there and essex and seeing west ham shirts hanging on the lines everywhere.
The whole issue with their capacity is weird though. Why so many hoops to jump through!?
How long is this sustainable ?
United , Liverpool , have the day tripper support
And whilst West Ham have a good following they are no Spurs or Arsenal in my opinion
Not sure why you don’t think they’ll keep these crowds. We get ~4k walk ups on average with 14k season tickets. If it scales up evenly then their 55k ST would be ~15k walk ups. Considering they’re a much bigger club and have a much bigger catchment area plus the tourists in London I wouldn’t be surprised if it was higher.
As for the empty seats they’ve had restrictions on their capacity from the local government. The reason for the record crowd today was they were given permission to increase capacity by 2500.
I think that Liverpool and United have fans to replace any fan that wants to give up their season ticket
They are enormous worldwide clubs
Below them in British football are spurs , the arse , man City, Newcastle
West Ham are a well supported club but if they dropped down the league or just tread water like I think they probably will do I can't see them getting 60000 plus gates
That puts them above Newcastle in terms of support . I don't think they are that big personally .
Apparently they've got 20k-30k members which automatically puts you on the ST waiting list. Most people on the waiting list seem to wait several years before getting one.
We sold 14500 STs last season and are on around the same now after our worst season in 20 odd years. I can only see relegation being enough to take their crowds below 60,000.
Cannot stand West Ham. The sooner they go down to league 3 the better.
Glory seekers
I know plenty of so called Cardiff fans who pleaded for fa cup final tickets and have barely watched us since
The fact we were only getting gates of 13000 or so in the championship surely shows you that we simply don't have the support the bigger clubs have ?
We returned 1500 tickets to Middlesborough when we beat them to get to Wembley
Again that tells a story to anyone except the most one eyed of Cardiff fans
We got good gates in the Premier league but they don't stick around do they ?
Against Norwich we had a crowd of just under 20000 with 1500 or so Norwich
18500 home fans
Swansea City had around 16000 home fans on Saturday
Now people may not like this but part of our problem is embarrassing ourselves thinking we are a bigger club than we actually are . We are , given that Swansea is a much smaller populated area , a club of similar size . I can't stand the jacks but you don't hear them talking about getting big crowds .
When hammam was here he and his followers were talking about huge crowds of 60000 !
I can't believe people are still doing it , it really is embarrassing 😳
The only way that the millennium stadium would be full for a football match would be to get Liverpool or Man United to play there .
There are plenty of football fans around here but sadly most of them are not Cardiff fans .
I wish it wasn't true , I would love to see a successful Cardiff City , supported by the crowds you talk about but its never going to happen .
Sorry .
Our fans emerge out of the woodwork for the big games ......take the fa Cup, carling Cup etc ......then vanish
The history of Cardiff City crowds don't tell of these huge crowds , they show a region capable of getting good gates for big games but then a return to moderate support.
It's always been this way .
It's that way for most clubs at our level. The only clubs at our level who still get the best gates are the ones who have had sustained presence in the PL.
I'm getting a bit fed up of discussing crowds with you. Your knowledge of football crowds beyond the 90s clearly hasn't improved. There is no evidence of our crowds plummeting to 90s levels. There is plenty of evidence to suggest that if we were PL regulars, we would soon outgrow the CCS. This is the same for so many clubs, not just us. I can see it. The data proves it.
yet again sludge clueless on his favourite subject, Cardiff crowds and now also West Ham crowds
its been explained why West Hams crowds have been lower, council restrictions, they are a big club support wise, the Boleyn ground was great but they outgrew the capacity, the will easily sustain an average of 60000 all season,support for them in East London and Essex is massive
As for Cardiff Sludge just cannot grasp that we have NEVER had sustained success and that's what builds higher support base, getting to the prem and staying there would easily see us fill CCS on a weekly basic,
You are another deluded Cardiff City fan , the type the jacks take the piss out of on a regular basis
When we were in the lower leagues some of our fans , the likes of you clearly , would say oh wait till we get back into the championship , watch our crowds then ! , huge , sell outs , potential , sleeping giant and all that bollocks 😴
Our first crowd back v Bradford? , including 500 of them ......16421
17 years away from any sort of success .....we get some .......and that's the sort of crowd we get
Basically what Cardiff fans like you are saying is yes we can get big crowds .......but only if we are doing well
That's a pretty poor defence 😕
As for West Ham I don't think they will be getting 60000 gates for long
The data proves that considering we have a catchment area of about 1 million , with no other professional club to compete with , this club does not get crowds on a regular basis to justify us being mooted as a big club , even by championship standards
I know this hurts people , we would all love CCFC to be getting better support from the locals but it's always been the same
Even a successful Cardiff City doesn't seem to hold onto its support . People fight to get season tickets when we go up but after the inevitable relegation 15000 of them disappear . I almost feel that locally people are there to watch the big teams as much as they are to watch us .
Cardiff fans and some of our players believe their own hype .....big club , massive club etc
We are no bigger than Swansea , Plymouth , Bristol , Coventry etc
It's sad but it's true