Women's Euros on track to beat 2022 attendance record 🏟️🇨🇭
UEFA have announced that 550,000 of 673,000 available tickets have been sold for this summer's tournament in Switzerland
Uefa says 550,000 tickets have been sold for the upcoming Women's Euros so far, with 673,000 available in total across the tournament. #WEuro25
— Tom Garry (@TomJGarry) May 12, 2025
An impressive tally just underlines how the women's game continues to go from strength to strength. The overall attendance at Euro 2022 was 574,875, with an attendance of 87,192 for the final at Wembley setting a new record for any individual Euros match, men and women.
That tournament was held in football-obsessed England, a country with a population almost 60 million people. To see the overall attendance record set to be broken in Switzerland, population 8.9 million (as of 2023) is an incredible step for the women's game. By way of comparison, in the men's game, the Premier League has attracted an average of 40,471 supports per game for the 2024/25 season, compared to an average attendance of 12,236 in the men's Swiss Super League.
To see the 2022 record closed in on in a smaller country with a smaller footballing fanbase just shows how the women's game is going from strength to strength.
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