2023-08-06 11:54:00
Colombian players greet their supporters following the match once morest Germany at the World Cup on July 30, 2023 in Sydney ©AFP
The FIFA Women’s World Cup, currently taking place in Australia and New Zealand, has already reached record attendance, surpassing the 2015 edition in Canada, Fifa announced on Sunday.
Before the round of 16 between the United States and Sweden in Melbourne, 1,339,331 people had already passed through the turnstiles to get to the stadiums, said the federation which governs international football.
With 27,706 additional spectators in Melbourne this Sunday, the total number of spectators exceeds the old record – 1,353,506 – established in 2015 in Canada. At that time there were fewer teams and therefore fewer matches: 52 instead of 64 this year. The average attendance for the World Cup is just over 26,000 spectators, FIFA said.
This weekend, the Round of 16 kicked off with Spain over Switzerland and the Netherlands over South Africa. The two winners will meet in the quarter-finals. Japan has also won its ticket for the next stage and will have to face Sweden, which has just done the same this Sunday by winning once morest the United States. Four other round of 16 matches will then follow: England-Nigeria, Australia-Denmark, Colombia-Jamaica, and France-Morocco.
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