Parramatta Stadium - Record Attendances

Record Attendances

• The highest crowd to attend a match at Parramatta Stadium was for the rugby league Test match between Australia and France in 1994. This game attracted a crowd of 27,918.

• The highest crowd to attend a match at Parramatta Stadium for a club match was 27,243 (Parramatta Eels versus South Sydney Rabbitohs in round 24 of the 1986 NSWRL season.)

• The highest crowd to attend a match at Parramatta Stadium after the redevelopment of the hill areas is 21,141 (Parramatta Eels versus Wests Tigers in round 7 of the 2006 NRL season.)

• The highest season average crowd for the Parramatta Eels in the NSWRL/ARL/NRL was set in the stadium's opening season, 1986 when an average of 19,600 fans attended the Eels 13 home games. As of 2011, 1986 is currently the last year Parramatta won the premiership.

• The highest season average crowd at the stadium for Parramatta Eels home games since the redevelopment was set in the 2005 NRL season at 16,478.

• The Parramatta Eels versus Great Britain Lions game on the Lions 1992 tour of Australasia attracted a crowd of 18,220, the largest non-Test match crowd of the Lions tour, with Parramatta winning 22-16. Prior to the match, Parramatta and Great Britain winger's Lee Oudenryn and Martin Offiah, generally regarded at the time as the fastest player in rugby league, faced off in a Tooheys Blue Label challenge race over 100m (try line to try line). Oudenryn caused what many believed to be a huge upset by defeating Offiah by approximately half a metre.

• The highest association football attendance at Parramatta Stadium stands at 26,353, set in the 1989–90 National Soccer League Grand Final between western Sydney based clubs Sydney Olympic and the Marconi Stallions, with Olympic winning 2-0.