{"id":1268984,"date":"2022-07-14T23:22:35","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T22:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1268984"},"modified":"2022-07-14T23:22:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T22:22:35","slug":"euro-2022-2017-womens-football-attendance-record","status":"publish","type":"features","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/euro-2022-2017-womens-football-attendance-record\/","title":{"rendered":"France beat Belgium 2-1 as Euro 2022 sets a stunning record to make women&#8217;s football history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>With 16 games played and 15 left to play, Euro 2022 has shattered a women&#8217;s football record.<\/strong><\/p>\n<!-- Shortcode [paddy-power-lto] does not exist -->\n<p>Euro 2017 was, at that point in time, the most attended women&#8217;s European Championship in history with 240,045 people attending the tournament hosted in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>That record has already been broken by Euro 2022. With 8,173 people watching France beat Belgium 2-1 in Rotherham, Euro 2022 blew by its predecessor and shot up to an overall attendance of 248,065.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">History made &#8211; and with 15 matches still to come! \u2705?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WEURO2022?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WEURO2022<\/a> has become the most-attended Women\u2019s EURO of all-time, surpassing the previous record of 240,045 set at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WEURO2017?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WEURO2017<\/a> ?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ticketing &#8211; UEFA Women&#39;s EURO 2022 (@WEUROTicketing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WEUROTicketing\/status\/1547681793670688768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 14, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li data-stringify-indent=\"0\" data-stringify-border=\"0\"><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/womens-euro-2022-fixtures-dates-kick-off-times-groups-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer sponsored\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/womens-euro-2022-fixtures-dates-kick-off-times-groups-results\/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Fixtures page<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li data-stringify-indent=\"0\" data-stringify-border=\"0\"><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/bet\/football-tips\/womens-euro-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer sponsored\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/bet\/football-tips\/womens-euro-2022\/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">UEFA Women&#8217;s Euro 2022 Betting Tips &amp; Predictions<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<li data-stringify-indent=\"0\" data-stringify-border=\"0\"><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><a class=\"c-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/womens-euro-2022-outright-odds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer sponsored\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/womens-euro-2022-outright-odds\/\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" data-remove-tab-index=\"true\">Women&#8217;s Euro outright odds: Favourites and dark horses for 2022<\/a><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>With 15 games yet to come, including the quarter-finals, semi-finals and the final itself in 90,000 capacity Wembley Stadium, who knows what figure we will end up at but it will be a long, long way ahead of 240,045!<\/p>\n<p>This speaks to the rapid growth of the women&#8217;s game over the last few years, exemplified by this last season when the attendance for any women&#8217;s football match in the world was shattered by Barcelona.<\/p>\n<!-- Shortcode [womens-euro-2022-odds] does not exist -->\n<p>For over two decades the 1999 World Cup final at the Pasadena Rose Bowl stood as the most-attended game in women&#8217;s football with 90,185 people showing up to watch the USA beat China 5-4 on penalties.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona smashed that record this season when, in the UEFA Women&#8217;s Champions League quarter-final second-leg, the Blaugrana obliterated Real Madrid 5-2 in front of a crowd of 91,553.<\/p>\n<p>They then beat their own record three weeks later, hammering Wolfsburg 5-1 to the delight of 91,648 people in attendance. Wembley could be the third women&#8217;s football match in the year with and attendance of 90,000+ attendance. That would be a huge symbolic leap forward for the women&#8217;s game in England, Europe and all around the world.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read more:<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/\"><strong>Latest football news<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/bet\/football-tips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Football betting tips<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/bet\/betting-sites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Best betting sites<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/bet\/betting-sites\/best-free-bet-offers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Best free bet offers<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/bet\/football-tips\/accumulator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Football accumulator tips<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 16 games played and 15 left to play, Euro 2022 has shattered a women&#8217;s football record. Euro 2017 was, at that point in time, the most attended women&#8217;s European Championship in history with 240,045 people attending the tournament hosted in the Netherlands. That record has already been broken by Euro 2022. 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