With fans of the Lions lapping up their team's good performance this season and the traditionally football-crazy Highlanders sure to turn up in droves, the Dynamos-Northeast clash looks to break attendance record at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on November 3.
Fans of both sides have been buying tickets in large numbers for the highly anticipated clash. A NEUFC fan Dani Nobin said, "As soon as the tickets were available for this game, we bought 24 tickets for our group of friends. I know many who will be attending the match in groups of 20s and 30s. We are going all-out in supporting our team."
The first fan club of Delhi Dynamos - the DDFC Ultras - said that they are "hard at work in gathering even more support, and engaging more people in their efforts to upstage any NEUFC fans that come for the game on Tuesday".
Last season's fixture between the two sides here had seen an overwhelming number of supporters cheering the visiting side, making it look like a home game for the Highlanders.
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Delhi Dynamos, after playing away for most of this season, play the next four consecutive matches at home. DDFC President Prashant Agarwal said, "The atmosphere in our last home game was electrifying and now with the festival season approaching, I am sure the team on the pitch and the fans in the stands will start our celebrations in advance. It is a great time to be a Delhite."
The match also saw the first ever "mobile torch wave" in a sporting venue in India. The "mobile torch wave" is a modified form of the popular Mexican wave where the supporters turn on their mobile phone torches and hold it up as they do the Mexican wave.