Editing Valley Parade (section)

==Records==
[[File:Valley Parade attendances.PNG|left|thumb|[[Bradford City A.F.C.|Bradford City]]'s average and highest league attendances at Valley Parade, for full seasons, since the ground reopened in 1986]]

The record attendance at Valley Parade is 39,146 for Bradford City's FA Cup fourth round tie against [[Burnley F.C.|Burnley]] on 11 March 1911.<ref name="facts"/> The highest league attendance of 37,059 was for a [[Bradford derby]] match between Bradford City and [[Bradford Park Avenue A.F.C.|Bradford (Park Avenue)]] on 17 September 1927 in [[Football League Third Division North|Division Three (North)]].<ref name="f374">{{cite book
|last=Frost |title=Bradford City A Complete Record 1903–1988 |page=374}}</ref> The record attendance since the Valley Parade grounds were rebuilt in 1986 with all-seated attendance is 24,343, which was set on 14 July 2019 during a pre-season friendly against Liverpool.<ref name="Club facts" /> The highest attendance for a competitive fixture is 24,321, which was set on 7 March 2015 in the [[2014–15 FA Cup#Sixth Round Proper|2015 FA Cup quarter-finals]] draw against [[Reading F.C.|Reading]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/31669807|title=Bradford City 0-0 Reading|date=7 March 2015|access-date=13 November 2018|work=BBC Sport|archive-date=13 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113213356/https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/31669807|url-status=live}}</ref> exceeding the previous record of 23,971, which was set on 10 December 2012 in the club's [[2012–13 Football League Cup#Quarter-finals|2012–13 Football League Cup quarter-finals]] win against [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/20880586|title=Bradford 3-1 Aston Villa|date=13 November 2018|access-date=13 November 2018|work=BBC Sport|archive-date=3 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181103024339/https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/20880586|url-status=live}}</ref> The lowest attendance for a league home match at Valley Parade is 1,249, which occurred on 15 May 1981, for a [[Football League Fourth Division|Division Four]] fixture with [[Hereford United F.C.|Hereford United]].<ref name="f374"/> The record gate receipts for Bradford City is £181,990 for the Premier League game with [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]] on 13 January 2001.<ref name="facts"/>

[[The Football League]] did not record official attendance figures for league games until 1925. City's official highest-average attendance at Valley Parade since then is 18,551 for the [[1928–29 in English football|1928–29]] [[promotion and relegation|promotion]] season from Division Three (North),<ref>{{cite book |last=Frost |title=Bradford City A Complete Record 1903–1988 |pages=372–373}}</ref> although the club reported an average of 22,585 in [[1920–21 in English football|1920–21]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Dewhirst |title=City Memories – An Illustrated History of Bradford City A.F.C. |chapter=chapter&nbsp;2}}</ref> After Bradford City were promoted to the Premier League in 1999, the club again recorded average attendances in excess of 18,000. City recorded an average attendance of 18,030 in [[1999-2000 in English football|1999–2000]], and 18,511 the following season.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.premierleague.com/page/Statistics/0,,12306,00.html |title=Statistics |access-date=26 March 2008 |publisher=Premier League |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230130252/http://www.premierleague.com/page/Statistics/0,,12306,00.html |archive-date=30 December 2010 }}</ref>

During their two years at Valley Parade, Bradford Bulls recorded their highest attendance of 16,572 on 4 March 2001 against [[St Helens R.F.C.|St. Helens]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/bb_experience_full.asp?experienceid=13 |title=Records Board |access-date=26 March 2008 |publisher=Bradford Bulls official website| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080213103339/http://www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/bb_experience_full.asp?experienceid=13| archive-date=13 February 2008}}</ref> Bulls averaged 11,488 in 2002 for [[Super League VII]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/bb_news_full.asp?newsid=335 |title=Super League Crowd Boost |date=25 September 2002 |access-date=26 March 2008 |publisher=Bradford Bulls official website |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060928094142/http://www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/bb_news_full.asp?newsid=335 |archive-date=28 September 2006}}</ref> The highest crowd for a Bradford Northern fixture at Valley Parade was 20,973 on 13 February 1926 for a [[Challenge Cup]] game against [[Keighley Cougars|Keighley]], which finished 2–2.<ref name="f64"/>