LASK: Don’t feel like a record attendance for women’s football in Austria?

Let’s start today! Anyone who has bought a subscription or tickets for the next two Bundesliga home games of the LASK men’s team can already attend the soft opening of the new arena today (7:08 p.m.): The LASK women’s team is playing against Geretsberg. The attendance record for a women’s soccer game in Austria (currently at 3,630) could have been smashed if the tickets had been used more generously. But this is how you miss the chance to write Austrian women’s football history…

The restrictive card policy is not well received by everyone: “Why exclude all those who only want to watch this one women’s game? The LASK ladies deserve fuller ranks and not an almost empty new arena. I’m also surprised that the Raiffeisen Bank, as the main sponsor, doesn’t do a big free ticket campaign for all women. It’s a shame that the women now have to play in front of almost empty stands. But it also shows once again the importance of women’s football in Austria,” writes reader Christian R.

Will the viewer record still fall?
But it would also have been exciting for a completely different reason to let more people into the stadium for the LASK women’s kick: The official attendance record for a women’s soccer game in Austria is 3,630 visitors, set in 2013 at the international match against Russia in St. Pölten . At club football level, the highest attendance is 2,412 – achieved in the Champions League game SKN St. Pölten against Paris Saint Germain. Both brands could have been easily beaten with a more generous card campaign, the LASK ladies could have set a record for eternity with 10,000 fans or more. Shame about the chance to write real women’s football stories.

Photo: Editor, Screenshot: Lask.at

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