Plenty has been made of Spurs’ capacity, which comes in 1802 greater than Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium.
The White Hart Lane club purposely made sure their new ground was bigger than the Gunners’ home down the road.
Yet opening night saw just 59,215 watch the 2-0 win - a staggering 2,847 below capacity and 1045 fewer than Arsenal’s maximum.
And rival fans were quick to mock the club over the capacity issue.
Tottenham opened their new stadium on Wednesday night (Image: GETTY)
Tottenham beat Crystal Palace 2-0 last night (Image: GETTY)
Tottenham's stadium was over 2,000 seats below capacity (Image: GETTY)
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“Spurs attendance tonight 3,000 under capacity??? Surely not!” one fan tweeted.
A second wrote: “Spurs are the only team who couldn’t fill their own stadium capacity in their 1st Match there.”
A West Ham fan said: “West Ham had a higher attendance against Huddersfield than spurs did for the first game at the new stadium. Goodnight”
A fourth fan wrote: “Spurs couldn’t even sell out the opening ceremony of their new stadium.”
And a fifth said: “Arsenal had a higher attendance against Newcastle Monday night than Spurs did at their brand new stadium tonight. Pass it on.”
Snow fell in north London (Image: GETTY)
After the game Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino expressed his delight at getting a win in the new ground.
"It's a special moment, a special night. I feel and believe it is the best stadium in the world,” he said.
"We knew the game was going to be difficult and tough.
“You don't know how we're going to react but, playing the way we played in the first half, we were going to score.