April 23 – Barcelona Femení have once again set a women’s world record attendance at Camp Nou with 91,648 supporters attending the club’s Champions League semi-final against Wolfsburg.
The Spanish club had set the world record at the end of March when 91,553 spectators watched their 5-2 win against Real Madrid, but the 5-1 victory over Wolfsburg proved even more popular. Barcelona sold out their allocation of 85,000 seats in just over 24 hours. An additional 6,000 tickets were then released.
Barcelona ran out comfortable winners, producing a devastating opening 30 minutes. Alexia Putellas scored a brace in the 5-1 win. Barcelona have now won all 40 matches they have played this season and scored in 87 consecutive games since losing to the German club in the 2020 Champions League. Cataclysm aside in the second leg, Barcelona will play Paris Saint-Germain or Lyon in the final.
Until last month, the top three attendances for a women’s football match were for games of the United States national team. Their 1999 World Cup final against China at the Pasadena Rose Bowl was attended by 90,185 fans with matches against Japan at Wembley and against Denmark at Giants Stadium also drawing mammoth crowds.
The support and enthusiasm for Barcelona Femeni – Daily Mundo Deportivo called the women’s team the new dream team – stands in contrast with the men’s team who crashed out of the Europa League last week against Eintracht Frankfurt at home. Thirty thousand German fans invaded the Camp Nou, prompting club president Joan Laporta to announce that tickets for European fixtures will no longer be transferable.
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