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LOL. This is what you end up doing during lock-down. I've always been fascinated by the enormous attendances Scottish football has housed, mainly at Hampden, over the decades so Ive spent some hours on google and here's my list of top attendances involving club sides in Europe. I've found 14 over 129,000. 11 were at Hampden, 2 at the Bernabeu and 1 at the Estadio da Luz. Im fairly confident in the accuracy of this list mainly because there are only a handful of stadiums that historically have been capable of holding over 120,000. Note historions tend to treat attendances ending in 3 zeros with a high degree of scepticism! 1) 147,365 Celtic 2 Aberdeen 1. Scottish Cup Final. Hampden 1937. 2) 143,570 Hibernian 0 Rangers 1. Scottish Cup Semi-Final. Hampden 1948. 3) 136,505 Celtic 2 Leeds United 1. European Cup Semi-Final. Hampden 1970. 4) 136,274 Motherwell 4 Dundee 0. Scottish Cup Final. Hampden 1952. 5) 135,000 Benfica 3 Porto 1. Portuguese League Decider. Estadio da Luz 1987. 6) 133,750 Rangers 1 Morton 0. Scottish Cup Final replay. Hampden 1948. 7) 132,840 Hearts 3 Celtic 1. Scottish Cup Final. Hampden 1956. 8) 132,000 Celtic 4 Rangers 0. Scottish Cup Final. Hampden 1969. 9) 131,943 Celtic 1 Motherwell 0. Scottish Cup Final. Hampden 1951. 10) 130,060 Celtic 2 Aberdeen. Scottish Cup Final. Hampden 1954. 11) 130,000 Real Madrid 0 Juventus 1. European Cup Quarter-Final. Bernabeu 1962. 12) 129,761 Rangers 1 Aberdeen 1. Scottish Cup Final. Hampden 1953. 13) 129,690 Real Madrid 4 AC Milan 3. European Cup Semi-Final. Bernabeu 1956. 14) 129,643 Rangers 1 Celtic 1. Scottish Cup Final. Hampden 1963. I believe only some Rio de Janeiro derbies at the Maracana have topped the 147,365 that watched Celtic v Aberdeen in 1937.