March 8 – Tickets for the May 25, UEFA Women’s Champions League Final have gone on sale for Bilbao’s 53,000-capacity San Mamés Stadium – a significant hike up from last season’s final host, the 36,500-seater Philips Stadion in Eindhoven.
A sold-out final would break the current record attendance for a UEFA Women’s Champions League final, which stands at 50,212, set in 2012 when Olympique Lyonnais beat 1. FFC Frankfurt 2-0 at the Olympiastadion in Munich, Germany.
The tournament record turnout is 91,648, set during a match between Barcelona Femení and Wolfsburg at the Camp Nou on April 22.
Off the back of their World Cup win last year, Spain have proved themselves as world leaders in Women’s football, also boasting the best club side in Europe: the unstoppable FC Barcelona.
Nadine Kessler, UEFA managing director of women’s football, said: “Spain is currently one of the global epicentres of women’s football and so I can’t think of a better way to celebrate women’s football by having the two best club teams in Europe face-off in Bilbao, in a stadium as grand as La Catedral.”
Ticket prices for the final are:
Prime seats: €45
Category 1: €23
Category 2: €20
Category 3: €15
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