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Organisers target record viewership at 2023 Women's World Cup - Australia FA boss

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Organisers of this year's women's soccer World Cup in Australia and New Zealand are hoping to attract record viewership of up to two billion viewers for the tournament, Football Australia (FA) chief executive James Johnson has said.A FIFA report published in 2019 said 1.12 billion viewers tuned into the 2019 Women's World Cup in France."I think (broadcast audience) is a very typical measure.

If we can hit two billion people, that's really doubling the audience (from France)... We think that's achievable," Johnson told the BBC in an interview published on Friday."And we know we'll get a good audience from the traditional football markets, like the United Kingdom, like Europe.

We're also in a time zone where all the big populations are. Our neighbours are China and Indonesia. "We're very close to the West Coast of the United States.

And we're also very close to India. So there's going to be so many people that would tune in and watch this competition."The 2022 Women's European Championship, which was won by hosts England, had a projected global cumulative live viewership of 365 million, while a record crowd of 87,192 were at Wembley Stadium for the final."It was extremely inspiring.

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