What's the most away fans you can remember us taking away?

[Star]

Grimbsby by a long chalk - never seen so many Chelsea in my life, Cambridge one year when we had the whole ground, up the floodlights and top of the stands, Abroad has to be Stockholm - kin planes landing next to us on the runway!

 

[secbastia]

euston 1970, there were trains leaving every half hour or so taking 25,000 , not many went by coach or jam jar in those days

 

[Bovis Messroom]

In London of course that Highbury game in '84 takes some beating. As well as the Clock End there were thousands in the seats and a large group on the North Bank. Big turnout there in '77 too. As well as the other games outside of London already mentioned, there's also Brighton and Portsmouth in 83/84, Derby in the FA Cup in '83(?), Man Utd on that Bank Holiday Monday in '87 when plod had to shove the mancs out of the side paddock to make room for more blues. In Europe Austria Memphis (Vienna) in '94 and AC Milan in '99 were impressive showings.

 

[secbastia]

derby was in 83 in the cup, we also had a massive following in the fa cup semi-final at villa park in 96 where united never sold all their tickets and after the game there was a load of chelsea grouped up outside on the grass who afterwards wasted the mancs

 

[chels53]

has to be the replay at old trafford, 30,000 reported at the time, me and me mate came back on the players train, 1st time we won the cup, i went to moscow without me mate, we lost , we both going to munich, its gotta be an omen

 

[Mike Carefree]

In the old days we had massive away support everywhere...I remember being at highbury, maybe when we were relegated, had half the northbank most of the clock end and groups all over the rest of the dump

 

[coco]

To be fair most of the saturday away games in the 83/84 season saw masses of chelsea fans, my fav was 1984 Cardiff City, we had 10'000+ travel to Cardiff, probably about 8-9k of us got into Ninnian park, - a quarter of our home capacity all travelling away, most looking for trouble, the old bill earned their money in them days.

 

[Chelseaboy]

The crowd at Cardiff in 83/84 was only just over 11,000 so good as our support was that day - we didnt have 10000+ mate! I think we outnumbered them though, and kicked their boys out of the main stand for good measure. The man city game on the friday night that season is another where our overall support is exagerrated.Reckon 5000 at a push, nowhere near 88/89 when there was about double that. Tremendous mob for the friday night though.

 

[Carshalton Blue]

The crowd at Cardiff in 83/84 was only just over 11,000 so good as our support was that day - we didnt have 10000+ mate! I think we outnumbered them though, and kicked their boys out of the main stand for good measure. The man city game on the friday night that season is another where our overall support is exagerrated.Reckon 5000 at a push, nowhere near 88/89 when there was about double that. Tremendous mob for the friday night though.

The crowd at Cardiff in 83/84 was only just over 11,000 so good as our support was that day - we didnt have 10000+ mate! I think we outnumbered them though, and kicked their boys out of the main stand for good measure. The man city game on the friday night that season is another where our overall support is exagerrated.Reckon 5000 at a push, nowhere near 88/89 when there was about double that. Tremendous mob for the friday night though.

Cardiff 3 Chelsea 3

prt 2

 

[Nitro]

Chelsea Luton Semi final at Wembley, no idea of official numbers but we must have had 2 thirds of the support, Luton did not sell all theirs.

45,000 Chelsea fans seems about right?

 

[erskblue]

Chelsea Luton Semi final at Wembley, no idea of official numbers but we must have had 2 thirds of the support, Luton did not sell all theirs.

45,000 Chelsea fans seems about right?

Wow amazing support that day at Wembley.

 

[shedpensioner]

Chelsea Luton Semi final at Wembley, no idea of official numbers but we must have had 2 thirds of the support, Luton did not sell all theirs.

45,000 Chelsea fans seems about right?

Top notch day out! And the reception Kerry got was out of this world!

 

[ws6blue]

Portsmouth away 83-84 I think, midweek league game, 10k minimum, whole open end and extra stand opened (oh and a riot at the end)

Wolves away 1977"............

Agree that most away 83-84were very big turnouts - Chelsea are back!

Oh and man city away cup winners cup semifinal 1971 - dunno how many but 15k plus

 

[Blue Tony]

In London of course that Highbury game in '84 takes some beating. As well as the Clock End there were thousands in the seats and a large group on the North Bank. Big turnout there in '77 too. As well as the other games outside of London already mentioned, there's also Brighton and Portsmouth in 83/84, Derby in the FA Cup in '83(?), Man Utd on that Bank Holiday Monday in '87 when plod had to shove the mancs out of the side paddock to make room for more blues. In Europe Austria Memphis (Vienna) in '94 and AC Milan in '99 were impressive showings.

That is the memory that sticks with me about '84. Being crammed into The Clock, but when Dixon slams in the rebound it looked like the whole ground erupted, we had Chelsea EVERYWHERE, seats, and even the North Bank. It was brilliant and funny.

 

[just]

Grimbsby by a long chalk - never seen so many Chelsea in my life, Cambridge one year when we had the whole ground, up the floodlights and top of the stands, Abroad has to be Stockholm - kin planes landing next to us on the runway!

All three games are contenders Star along with Le Arse 83/84 - see my avatar for Dixon's stunning goal and the crowd reaction. I had Arsenal mates at that match and they said it looked and felt like an away game at times.

At the Grimsby game me and a few of our little mob got to speak with one of the senior police officers on duty that day and he couldn't believe the numbers we had brought up. He told us they had had to cancel all police leave and bring in other extra police from other forces to cope

 

[Patten]

That is the memory that sticks with me about '84. Being crammed into The Clock, but when Dixon slams in the rebound it looked like the whole ground erupted, we had Chelsea EVERYWHERE, seats, and even the North Bank. It was brilliant and funny.

This game was a big turn out, but not as big as Arsenal Oct 1976, League cup which we lost 2-1. This game had one of Arsenal’s biggest attendances, 52,000. The clock end was closed 45 mins before kick-off and we were allocated a huge part of the North Bank with the Old Bill forming a cordon. We were so squeezed in nobody really realised how many Chelsea were in there until Hay equalised. It appeared there were only Arsenal fans under the roof part and the uncovered parts was all Chelsea. Stapleton scored immediately after and all hell broke loose. I’m not sure, but I think Brian Bason broke his leg in this game.

 

[Chelsea up Norf]

Dont forget Stockholm 1998, and Man City on the Friday night, always remember getting off the train at Picadilly. my mate and his bird were going the other way, home, all he said was, good luck, its bedlam out there, with that he got on the train and went to Sheffield, 

Always remember another Friday night game as well at Bramhall Lane think it was 1977 ish, lost 0-1, we were top of the second at the time, great night apart from the result 

 

[Tony Hateley]

The semi final at White hart lane in 1970,there was a crowd of 55,000 and we must have had at least 35,000 there.