“UEFA Women’s Champions League Sets New Attendance Record: Barça Appears in 7 of Top 10 Game Crowds”

The average attendance at the women’s Champions League matches exceeds 10,000 people for the first time

Barça has played in seven of the ten games with the highest attendance

Women’s football is at a record. Today the countdown begins: in just one month, the 3 of Junewill be disputed final de la UEFA Women’s Champions League en Eindhovenin a match that will face Barça y Wolfsburg.

Before reaching the final, which will host the Philips Stadiumhe PSV field, UEFA has released attendance figures for UWCL matches. These are encouraging figures that clearly show how women’s football has more and more followers and greater visibility.

during the season 2018/2019the average attendance at the matches of Champions it was of 5.000 personas and, in total, from the group stage, 144,995 people gathered. In the season 2021/2022the figures practically doubled: 9,043 people on average per party, 551,578 people in total.

This campaign, however, all kinds of records have been broken: the average attendance per game has been 10,800 and the stadiums of the teams that have paraded through the Champions have brought together a total of 648,028. These are overwhelming figures that show how women’s football has skyrocketed in popularity and visibility.

However, it is evident that all the teams have to bet on the women’s section, since there is a detail that attracts attention: the women’s FC Barcelona appears in seven of the ten games with the most spectatorsa record to be valued and to be proud of, as it shows the furor that this winning generation has caused.

The game with the most spectators is, in fact, the second leg of the semifinal that was played at the Camp Nou against Chelsea, which brought together 72,262 people. The other semifinal, the one that was played between the Arsenal and the Wolfsburg, occupies the second position with 60,063 attendees and Barça closes the podium with the return of the quarterfinals against Roma.

A reflection: Why limit a phenomenon that can reach these figures to play the final in a stadium with a capacity of 35,000 spectators? Much remains to be done but, little by little, records are being broken and, even more important, barriers.