Guiness counted them. They told me in their Rugby League fact book.

In my Guiness facts book the record crowd for HKR was on 3rd April 1953 V Hull and the crowd was 27,670

Harlequins - 5,001.

Must have been a "home" game not played at home!

It's a shame this thread has been slightly de-railed.


It's clear to see that alot of clubs (both SL and NL1) have had great attendences in the past and should be congratualted. We (as in SLRL) can only dream of repeating them.

However, I am sure, all jokes aside, most clubs would agree that Hull KR always take a large away following. While this may form part of a 'cliche' or 'joke' for some on here it cannot be denied that we provide alot of extra income for clubs which can only be positive. (Infact, the Bradford chairman has recently commented on how much he appreciates our support).


I don't comment often on here, but I really hope my fellow HKR fans can refrain from 'taking the bait' (from many on here) and just continue to support HKR in the most vocal way possible.... i.e. on the terraces!!

We may not have the highest 'home support' average, but certainly we must be amongst the highest away support average. I just wish all clubs followed their team as passionately away from home.

Joking aside you certainly took a lot to Cas last year, certainly the 2nd best in the league behind Leeds. We also had a lot of fans at the NRC final in 05' if you can remember it.. i would say there were a lot of KR fans there too, cracking day out. For me Wigan,Saints,Warrington didn't bring a lot to Cas (you could mabye exclude Wigan from that though) for the size of their clubs. Wakie,Hull and Bradford brought a lot more than i would have expected. Expected a lot from KR from the games i've been to not related to Cas. Salford brought a pathetic following on Saturday and Quins and Cats were both expected because of how far away they are.

crowd records for every club, from British Rugby League - a ground hoppers guide by mike latham



1. barrow - 21,651 vs salford, 1938, craven park
2. batley - 23,989 vs Leeds, 3rd round Challenge cup, mt pleasant
3. blackpool - 8000 vs st helens 1954 at bloomfield rd
4. bradford - doesnt say, says many crowds of 30,000 - 40,000 were common
5. castleford - 25,449 vs hunslet, march 1935, 3rd round CC tie
6. chorley - 8000 vs lancashire in 1878 (pre NU days)
7. dewesbury - 26,584 vs halifax in the yorkshire cup, crown flatt
8. doncaster - 10,000? i think in 1952, CC tie vs bradford at york rd
9. featherstone - 17,531 vs st helens, PO road, 1959
10. halifax - 28,150 vs wigan, Championship semi final replay 1950
11. huddersfield - 32,912 vs wigan, 1950
12. Hull FC - doesnt say
13. Hull KR - 27,670 vs HUll FC at boothferry park 1953, at craven park 22,282 1922 vs hull fc
14. hunslet - hunslet vs leeds at elland rd, champion ship final 54,112, can finals be counted though?, otherwise 24,700 vs wigan, 1924 3rd round of the challenge cup

Not the other Friday at our's it wasn't!

Gutted - if your figures are correct we've somehow lost 15,000 fans in the last 48 hours!

















P.S. Know your role - we're bigger then you.

2006 NL1 Grand Final - Hull KR support: 7000
2006 Challenge Cup Final - Huddersfield support: 6000

Don't make me keep repeating these figures.

IMO it's developed nicely.

Huge respect for Cas, one of my all-time fav SL teams and a genuine class about them (remember seeing one of your fans congratulate Leroy Rivett after the 2005 NRC Final, which sums up the decency of your support).



Hey, re that day, IIRC you had just over 6000 fans there. Do you realise that this means you were just as well supported at this as Hudds were at the CC Final the next year (as we were at the 2006 NL1 Final compared to them).



You reading this Giant Daz.

hull kr fan in pi$$ing contest shocker

So far outr as to be unbelievable . We had well over 10,000 there.




But the problem with HKR is not the facy that they take so many fans away it is the quality of them. Bradford fans last week were complaining about the KHR fans who came for the first game of the season. Apoparently they were fighting amongst themselves, and they had to close some of the bars as well as the disabled toilets.


If Hkr could take away 2,500 fans to every game but leave the 250 idiots at home that might be better.

additionally if HKR fans stopped carping about their support vis a vis other teams they may get a bit of respect particularly as they only tend to have short term memories


Unfortunatley LF may have a point about the evolutionary ladder.

Unfortunatley we have witnessed this as well , 2004 arriva trains final at Rochdale

Quote ="JB Down Under"Must have been a "home" game not played at home!'" Quote ="matty"Yes, according to the official site: Attendance Record: 27,670 vs Hull FC (Boothferry Park) 3rd April 1953 hullkr.co.uk/halloffame.php'" Had to laugh at the letter ion League express, from a hkr fan who claimed that the Bradford Bulls Chairman was wrong in his assessment of how many rovers fans were at osdal recently when infact apparently rovers took 5000

Quote ="JB Down Under"Must have been a "home" game not played at home!'" Quote ="matty"Yes, according to the official site: Attendance Record: 27,670 vs Hull FC (Boothferry Park) 3rd April 1953 hullkr.co.uk/halloffame.php'" Had to laugh at the letter ion League express, from a hkr fan who claimed that the Bradford Bulls Chairman was wrong in his assessment of how many rovers fans were at osdal recently when infact apparently rovers took 5000

It was a misprint. It was meant to read 50,000.

repeat whatever figures you like it doesnt mean your right :-




maybe that newspaper report from the time is wrong then ??

The truth is, I would say Rovers took between 2000 - 3000 to Odsal, not that it really matters, some teams travel better than others. I think the Bradford Chairman had it about right at 2500.

As much as Rovers fans exaggerate the figures to be more positive, the same could be said about some of the 'incidents' at away games that are reported on these forums.

The incident at Odsal first broke on the forums as "Rovers fans have smashed up a bar at the ground and a number of those involved were removed from the ground".

Turns out the truth was, and still out of order, that when the staff attempted to close the bar someone threw a plastic pint pot and a plastic bottle and sounded off some abuse.

To suggest that Rovers have a 250 strong mob intent on causing trouble at games is way off the mark. Here's the boring bit but every club has idiots, the bigger away following then I guess it is reasonable to think more 'idiots' will attach themselves to the support, but 250?

No no no... the idea is to inflate the number.

So let me get this right, the crowd that day was 90050 plus a few or was it 140000?

Wembley's capacity was around 100000, and I don't imagine that FC took only around 10000.

How is the Huddersfield crowd that day worked out? Tickets actually sold by the club? People in Huddersfield colours? People who travelled from Huddersfield? A count of the people who cheered the first try?

He was being sarcastic

Accepted form for that is one of these >

With the ammount of so called support being bandied around I am surprised East Hull is not a continent


OR IS IT!