Largest attendance at a football match

The largest official attendance at a football match was 173,850 for the game between Uruguay and Brazil at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 16 July 1950. Unofficial figures for this game put the attendance as high as 199,854 people with thousands entering the stadium without a ticket to watch what they expected to be Brazil’s first World Cup triumph. The British record paid attendance is 149,547 at the Scotland v. England international at Hampden Park, Glasgow on 17 Apr 1937. It is, however, probable that this total was exceeded (estimated 160,000) at the FA Cup final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United at Wembley Stadium on 28 Apr 1923, when the crowd spilled onto the pitch and the start was delayed 40min until it was cleared. The counted admissions were 126,047.