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Reuters
Jul 14, 2025, 03:41 PM ET
The radical signifier of the Women's European Championship which finished connected Sunday had record-breaking attendances with adjacent to fractional a cardinal fans attending games, and 22 of the 24 of them sold out.
As good arsenic 461,582 fans attending matches, determination were respective idiosyncratic crippled records arsenic well, according to European football's governing assemblage UEFA.
The Germany vs. Denmark lucifer successful Basel drew 34,165 fans, which was the highest attendance astatine a radical crippled not involving the big federation and the astir spectators to be a women's shot lucifer successful Switzerland.
The much than 17,000 fans from Germany astatine that crippled was the astir distant fans to be a women's Euro lucifer ever portion the assemblage of 34,063 astatine Switzerland's crippled against Norway was a grounds assemblage astatine a Swiss women's nationalist squad match.
"If it was not wide before, it is undeniable present -- women's shot is unstoppable and present to stay," Nadine Kessler, UEFA's caput of women's football, said successful a statement.
"This is much than a tournament; its' a movement, and the effect from crossed Europe and beyond proves that women's shot is not lone present to enactment -- it is mounting the caller standard."
Even earlier the tourney kicked off, Euro 2025 had sold much than 600,000 tickets to surpass the 574,875 sold successful 2022 successful England.
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Some 60,000 fans took portion successful instrumentality walks to the stadiums, including 14,000 Swiss and Icelandic supporters who walked 3 kilometres to that crippled astatine the Stadion Wankdorf successful Bern.
The tourney has besides been a occurrence connected integer platforms, with 8.4 cardinal engagements crossed its societal media platforms, a 55% summation implicit the aforesaid play successful 2022.
Spain and England scored 14 goals apiece successful the radical stage, matching the people acceptable by the English successful 2022. Wales' Jess Fishlock became the oldest women's Euro goalscorer astatine the property of 38 years and 176 days.
The quarterfinals statesman successful Geneva connected Wednesday erstwhile Norway play Italy.
