The match with the most record-breaking crowd attendance in football history

Despite the great development in football and its huge modern stadiums, the matches that witnessed the largest and largest crowd attendance in the history of the game were more than 70 years ago.

Football matches always attract large crowds of fans, however, in the 21st century, the highest average number of fans in stadiums, whether in the European Championships or even in the World Cup, ranges from 70 to 90 thousand fans, but these numbers are nothing compared to the incredible numbers of… Where the public attendance was in the fifties the last century And before that, some matches witnessed double the current crowd numbers.

The absence of satellite television and social networking sites – which enable fans to watch matches live from anywhere – in that era may be the reason for the huge public turnout that we observe.

The fourth edition of the FIFA World Cup in 1950, which was held in Brazil, especially the Maracanã Stadium, had the lion’s share of the record crowd matches, and the tournament was the first since the World Cup in France in 1938, after a 12-year hiatus due to World War II that swept the world, especially… Europe.

Below are the 5 largest matches that witnessed a crowd attendance in the history of football:

• 5. Brazil 2-0 Yugoslavia (Maracana Stadium in Brazil – World Cup 1950) 142,429 fans.
• 4. Celtic 2-1 Aberdeen (Hampden Park Stadium, Scotland – Scottish Cup Final 1937) 147,365 fans.
• 3. Scotland 3-1 England (Hampden Park Stadium in Scotland – British Championship 1937) 149,547 fans.
• 2. Brazil 6-1 Spain (Maracana Stadium in Brazil – World Cup 1950) 152,722 fans.
• 1. Brazil 1-2 Uruguay (Maracana Stadium in Brazil – 1950 World Cup Final) 173,850 fans.

Despite the huge record number of people attending the match, some sources claim that more than 200,000 fans were in the famous Maracanã stadium, and after Brazil won convincingly in its first two matches in the final stage of the World Cup, a draw with Uruguay was enough for it to win the World Cup title for the first time. Absolutely.

Samba fans gathered to celebrate their most fortunate team, especially since it was playing on its home soil and among its huge fans, but in one of the biggest surprises in the history of the sport, Uruguay came from behind to beat Brazil 2-1 and win the World Cup in the greatest remontada in the history of the round.