Richmond will create league football history if it can attract a crowd of 90,000 or more to Thursday night’s blockbuster 2018 season-opener against Carlton at the MCG.

Should that occur, it would be the fourth consecutive match the Tigers have had an attendance figure topping 90,000 – something never before achieved in the AFL/VFL competition.

Six clubs have completed the 90,000-plus crowd hat-trick, with Richmond and St Kilda doing so twice.

The Tigers initially accomplished the impressive attendance feat in the 1969 finals series, and they did it again during last year’s successful September campaign.

Here is the full list of league clubs that have managed the 90,000-plus crowd hat-trick (in chronological order, with all games having been played at the MCG) . . .

1966 – St Kilda

First semi-final v Collingwood: 95,614

Preliminary final v Essendon: 93,453

Grand Final v Collingwood: 102,055

1967 – Geelong

First semi-final v Collingwood: 91,715

Preliminary final v Carlton: 95,542

Grand Final v Richmond: 109,396

1968 – Essendon

Second semi-final v Carlton: 106,365

Preliminary final v Geelong: 103,649

Grand Final v Carlton: 116,828

1969 – Richmond

First semi-final v Geelong: 101,233

Preliminary final v Collingwood: 107,279

Grand Final v Carlton: 119,165

1971 – St Kilda

Second semi-final v Hawthorn: 99,822

Preliminary final v Richmond: 102,494

Grand Final v Hawthorn: 118,192

1972 – Carlton

Second semi-final replay v Richmond: 92,670

Preliminary final v St Kilda: 96,272

Grand Final v 112,393

2010 – Collingwood

Preliminary final v Geelong: 95,241

Grand Final v St Kilda: 100,016

Grand Final replay v St Kilda: 93,853

2017 – Richmond

Qualifying final v Geelong: 95,028

Preliminary final v GWS: 94,258

Grand Final v Adelaide: 100,021