Do England Home Games ever have empty seats?

[ironduke2010]

do seats ever go unsold when england play at home? even if it's, say, a friendly against andorra or san marino or something?

apparantly in the usa, where footie is not king, people don't buy tickets for friendlies against countries they don't care about: http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=468103

just wondering if that big new stadium of yours would ever be considered too big....

[Prenn]

Wembley was consistently undersold for midweek friendlies in the latter years of it's existence.

The new Wembley will go that way in a few years as the cockneys tire of the novelty.

Peas in a drum.

[Placid Casual]

There will be plenty of empty seats against Spain.

And plenty of empty seats whilst 10th choice Steve is in charge.

[Prenn]

There will be plenty of empty seats against Spain.

And plenty of empty seats whilst 10th choice Steve is in charge.

Yeah, playing lots of games in one location tends to hit the attendances. That and I wouldn't pay to watch and England game with McSven in charge unless he was going to be fed to lions at half time.

[ironduke2010]

There will be plenty of empty seats against Spain.

And plenty of empty seats whilst 10th choice Steve is in charge.

good to see we aren't the only ones whos attendance is affected by whos in charge and whos on the other side.

[Pigs]

the best thing the FA could have done would be to keep moving the england games around the country. It would be sold out every time. The new wembley is great, but it's in gay london. Which is not the home of football, home of football is the Northwest of england. Goodison Park to be precise.

[leg_breaker]

After the novelty wears off it'll be half-empty for many games.

[M]

good to see we aren't the only ones whos attendance is affected by whos in charge and whos on the other side.

That said, I don't think there's another European country that averages so much for home friendlies as England does. Whether that continues to be the case with the current incumbent remains to be seen.

Additionally, England is getting consistently good crowds for the U21 games. However, these have been spread around club grounds a bit more.

[afowler2988]

Oh man those England U-21 guys.....they could use them on the England squad. Cant wait to see the likes of Milner and Huntington just like at Newcastsle. I really wish I could afford to fly over to England and just watch a match, but I dont know if itd be worth it. I might have to lie to myself and say that the experience was worth it, not the outcome of the game..lol.

[england66]

There is always at least one empty seat....the one Stuart Pearce never sits in.

[Mad2Ad]

Theres never a seat empty for competitive matches when england play there usually isnt enough seats.

In friendlies aswell we usually get over 90% full which is unusual for international friendlies. Also i think the main reason we dont fill at friendlies is becasue the fa charge alot for tickets. way to much for a friendly.]

just because attendences in one place usually old trafford does mean attendences drop compared to playing at goodison or anfield or st james park because they dont have a big enough stadium.

IE
at old trafford we will see over 60,000 sumat thousand i reckon for the spain game tonight but if we were at anfield it would be full but the attendence would drop by 20,000. playing all your matches in one place doesn't eefect england enough to keep swapping were you play maybe rotating between emirates and old trafford but any were else your gunna lose attendences as the stadiums are not big enough.

for wembley though i think well be too small for competitive matches and too big for friendlies.

[lanman]

the best thing the FA could have done would be to keep moving the england games around the country. It would be sold out every time. The new wembley is great, but it's in gay london. Which is not the home of football, home of football is the Northwest of england. Goodison Park to be precise.

I agree that freindlies at least should be spread around the country, but the FA have to pay for Wembley and have committed all of their games to it. The corporate revenue will be higher there than anywhere else.

[Colm]

There wont be 76,000 fans there tonight, be quite a lot of empty seats I reckon.

[Captain Grimes]

watched the game. a lot of empty seats all around.

[Colm]

18,000 empty seats tonight

only just over 58,000

[Captain Grimes]

i feel terrible for the 58000 who went to the game. england again disappoints their supporters.

remember the days when an england home game meant a victory? :(

[dvandyke]

the best thing the FA could have done would be to keep moving the england games around the country. It would be sold out every time. The new wembley is great, but it's in gay london. Which is not the home of football, home of football is the Northwest of england. Goodison Park to be precise.

I think you got home of football mixed up with home of thieving little bastards on benefits. Goodison Park is an absolute shithole as is the rest of the north. It an embarrassment when foreign fans come to visit.

[Rig1964]

I think you got home of football mixed up with home of thieving little bastards on benefits. Goodison Park is an absolute shithole as is the rest of the north. It an embarrassment when foreign fans come to visit.

Can't really comment about Goodison because I've never been, but that's one hell of a narrow minded generalisation about the north.
What exactly do you mean by the north anyway?
Where are you from?

[Harry Boulton]

remember the days when an england home game meant a victory?


Vaguely. The management appointments just recently have stunk of easy-way-out beurocracy. Steve McCalren is an FA finger puppet who is not ready for international football.If he fials to get us to Euro 2008, he will, somehow, be remembered as worse than Eriksson.......... :mad:

[Alan_V]

FSC showed the Brazil/Portugal game from the Emirates this weekend. They didn't pan around too much but I didn't see many seats empty.