Mount Royal Soccer · Apr 5, 2021
Monday Morning Image #11
The line-ups outside Celtic Park for tickets for the Celtic v Leeds ‘Battle of Britain’ European Cup semi-final 2nd leg in 1970.Billed the ‘Battle of Britain’, Celtic had already gone to Elland Road and won 1-0 in the first-leg, but this was the game no-one in the green half of Glasgow wanted to miss.
The demand for tickets was incredulous. So much so, Celtic decided to move the game to Hampden Park to avail of its greater capacity.
136,505 ticketed fans turned up on the night, 15 April 1970, fifty-one years ago. It remains a record crowd for any UEFA competition match and is unlikely ever to be beaten.