18,000 cw seats, was 84,000 in 07 and it wasn't a sell out so I'd expect it to be a bit higher than that.

Yes, approx, see above.

Next Saturday's Challenge Cup final between Leeds and Warrington at Wembley will be the first sell-out in 13 years for rugby league's annual showpiece. Although the national stadium has a capacity of 90,000, Club Wembley seats account for nearly 18,000. And the Rugby Football League have now sold their allocation of 72,000. There was a crowd of 84,241 for the first final back at Wembley in 2007, while the last 'full house' for the Challenge Cup Final was in 1997. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 933013.stm

Next Saturday's Challenge Cup final between Leeds and Warrington at Wembley will be the first sell-out in 13 years for rugby league's annual showpiece. Although the national stadium has a capacity of 90,000, Club Wembley seats account for nearly 18,000. And the Rugby Football League have now sold their allocation of 72,000. There was a crowd of 84,241 for the first final back at Wembley in 2007, while the last 'full house' for the Challenge Cup Final was in 1997. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 933013.stm

Attendance last year was 76,560!

Edited, I meant in 07.

Says on the Wembley stadium website that there are approx 15,000 club wembley seats

Fair enough, I expect the crowd to be somewhere between 85 and 88k.

Quote ="efcrhino"Next Saturday's Challenge Cup final between Leeds and Warrington at Wembley will be the first sell-out in 13 years for rugby league's annual showpiece. Although the national stadium has a capacity of 90,000, Club Wembley seats account for nearly 18,000. And the Rugby Football League have now sold their allocation of 72,000. There was a crowd of 84,241 for the first final back at Wembley in 2007, while the last 'full house' for the Challenge Cup Final was in 1997. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 933013.stm'" Ok, the info I just got said 14,400 Club Wembley seats but maybe it is 18,000! 2007 was the first final back at Wembley (was it not?) and I suspect that Club Wembley attendance was quite high that year because of that. I can't see the Club Wembley seat turn-up being more than a third but happy to be proved wrong. It is a shame that the system they operate for Club Wembley debenture seats means that the chance of any capacity crowds, other than maybe for the FA cup final, are gone!

Quote ="efcrhino"Next Saturday's Challenge Cup final between Leeds and Warrington at Wembley will be the first sell-out in 13 years for rugby league's annual showpiece. Although the national stadium has a capacity of 90,000, Club Wembley seats account for nearly 18,000. And the Rugby Football League have now sold their allocation of 72,000. There was a crowd of 84,241 for the first final back at Wembley in 2007, while the last 'full house' for the Challenge Cup Final was in 1997. news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_l ... 933013.stm'" Ok, the info I just got said 14,400 Club Wembley seats but maybe it is 18,000! 2007 was the first final back at Wembley (was it not?) and I suspect that Club Wembley attendance was quite high that year because of that. I can't see the Club Wembley seat turn-up being more than a third but happy to be proved wrong. It is a shame that the system they operate for Club Wembley debenture seats means that the chance of any capacity crowds, other than maybe for the FA cup final, are gone!

Even at the Cup Final in 09 there were lots of empty seats in CW, it does spoil the atmosphere slightly having a half a tier of empty seats.

75k without CW.

I reckon 85,638.

I have been trying to get hold of some using Twitter but no luck! If I got some I was going to sell ours at face value and then give the money plus another £50 to a charity of the providers choice!

I understand that many other debenture seat schemes for major stadiums around the world operate an opt-in system. You get sent a form and/or e-mail about 8/12 weeks before each event included in your debenture asking if you want your seats for that event. If you don't fax it back or fill in an on-line form by 4 weeks from the event they are allowed to sell your seats. Of course many companies fill these in anyway and then still don't turn-up but it is clearly better to fill that would be otherwise empty seats, even if they cost a premium.

Tis the corporate way im afraid. You wont see most of the private box owners there either which is a great shame.

Some Club Wembley seats will be used: a friend of a friend ( strictly wendyball-watcher only ) is 'donating' half a twenty-seater box to me and my mates. The other half is being used, so that's at least 20. The same thing is probably being repeated with others. The system for offering use of seats in Club Wembley creaks and it's far too long winded and cumbersome, so not surprising that many of these seats are 'off the market' permanently.

I also noticed that some travel packages were being advertised with club wembley tickets...no idea how that works.

I really don't understand why our cup final was included in the club wembley thing.

The number of people who are present at an Event!!

I Win!!

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They are not all taken under debenture, so Wembley sell those at a premium via various other sources.

It is a set fixture in the Wembley Calender and it makes the club Wembley tickets more attractive on a cost to available event comparison.

Best bit of Dave Woods commentary yesterday was when he described Club Wembley as 'the Ring of Indifference'. Should go down in history that quote.

Spot on - the Club Wembley thing stinks.

Not sure how much say RL had about that, but as one of the key reasons for Wembley getting all of the grants it did was because of it's multisport credentials so I would have thought that the RL would have had some say.

Still think the whole Wembley thing is a joke - 3x as much as the Millenium Stadium - and (if I understand it) without closing roof.
Is it 3x the stadium?? No way.

Club Wembley is symptomatic of all that's wrong with it.

I was offered some Club Wembley seats and a private box for hire last week from someone with a couple of contacts, all very quiet and "don't tell them when you get there" sort of deal, seems like they have to offer them for re-hire through the stadium management company, sounds like its too much trouble for most of them to do that, I declined both offers mainly because I couldn't be ar$ed organising the whole thing at short notice - think it was the right decision now.

didn't seem like a sell out to me from watching it on the tele.. there was a lot of seats in the 'general sale' empty..

that or there was a lot of people in red t shirts

The attendence annouced was 85k. Less the club wembley seats that were included in that I think you're looking at around 75k.

They sold all the tickets made available to the RFL... that would therefore be a sell out! There were some empty seats we could see in the upper tier towards the Warrington end (and just because that is the way I was facing) but not many, so I can only assume there was some no shows which is fairly usual. It was only 5k off a full house, so with Club Wembley, that is not bad!

www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=3 ... 0192&saved Thats an album from when there were 84,256 (1k less than saturday) in last years NFL match. My guess is that there wasnt much more than 75k in the Stadium Saturday if the above album is anything to go by.

www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=3 ... 0192&saved Thats an album from when there were 84,256 (1k less than saturday) in last years NFL match. My guess is that there wasnt much more than 75k in the Stadium Saturday if the above album is anything to go by.

The NFL Wembley game is not included in Club Wembley, so they can sell all the Club Wembley tickets for this game with there only obligation being to offer Club Wembley ticket holders first dibs on their seats, if they don't take the option by the deadline set, they can sell them.

So even though there was 1k less people there for the NFL game than for the CC Final, the ground does look more full with Club Wembley full and the first 15/20 rows of touchline seats taken out instead. The NFL game was therefore probably closer to the actual available seating capacity than the CC final, even though more people were at the CC final.