Euro 2022 final at Wembley could break 58-year attendance record as tickets sell out

Tickets for this summer’s Euro 2022 final at Wembley have sold out in under an hour, according to the official UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 Twitter account. 

This year’s competition, which will be the 13th edition of the Women’s European Championship, will be held in England, having been postponed by 12 months because of the Covid-19 pandemic. 

England last hosted the tournament in 2005, when it featured just eight teams, but Euro 2022 will see 16 nations compete. 

Ten venues will be used in total, including Wembley Stadium, Old Trafford and St Mary’s Stadium. 

Demand for the tournament, in general, has been extremely high, with tickets only released early on Monday morning. 

And the official Euro’s ticketing account confirmed that tickets for the final at Wembley, which has a capacity of 90,000, have already sold out. 

“Demand was extremely high for the final,” they tweeted. “And all available tickets have now sold out. Additional tickets may be released at a later date, however, this is not guaranteed. Make sure you keep following us for the latest updates.”

Equally, England’s group-stage matches against Norway at the Brighton Community Stadium and against Northern Ireland at St Mary’s are both sell-outs as well. 

The speed at which tickets sold out speaks volumes about the growth of women’s football and the desire to watch games live this summer. 

To put the enormity of this into context, the largest attendance ever at a men’s Euros final is 79,115 in 1964, when Spain beat the Soviet Union at the Santiago Bernabeu. 

As the Telegraph’s Tom Garry has pointed out, it’s therefore “very possible” that this year’s final might break the record for the highest attendance ever in a Euros final. 

Though there is every chance that