Attendance at Women's World Cup matches up nearly 30 percent from 2019

04.08.2023 - 06:39 france24.com

Data provided by football's governing body showed that after 48 matches so far, 1,222,839 fans had passed through the turnstiles.

That is a 29 percent increase compared to after 48 matches in France four years ago. The average crowd at this World Cup -- where the knockout stage begins on Saturday -- is just over 25,000.

There have been sell-out crowds, but games have generally been better attended in Australia than New Zealand. Under 7,000 watched Japan beat Costa Rica 2-0 in New Zealand's Dunedin and there were swathes of empty seats.

More than 1,715,000 tickets have been sold in total so far, surpassing the tournament's initial target of 1.3 million. "I'm confident by the final we will have more than 1.9 million fans having walked through the stadium gates," FIFA women's football chief Sarai Bareman told AFP.

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