Women’s Super League crowds up 200 percent

Attendances within the Women’s Super League (WSL) are up 200% on final season, FA Director of the Women’s Professional Game Kelly Simmons mentioned, as ladies’s soccer continues to interrupt information.

A brand new WSL document attendance was set in September when 47,367 spectators turned out to look at Arsenal beat north London rivals Tottenham Hotspur 4-0 on the Emirates Stadium. This adopted a record-breaking ladies’s Euros marketing campaign which noticed 87,192 followers pack into Wembley Stadium to see England win the event.

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Built on the muse of the Lionesses’ success, Simmons mentioned the WSL had the right alternative to develop and is delighted to see a rising curiosity within the ladies’s recreation.

“Coming into the 2022/23 season, we knew that we had an extraordinary opportunity to introduce the Barclays Women’s Super League and the Barclays Women’s Championship to new audiences,” Simmons mentioned.

“The Lionesses’ victory propelled the women’s game in this country to new levels, and it was important for us to capture and capitalise on that momentum.

“It has typically been mentioned {that a} profitable ladies’s England workforce will assist generate curiosity within the home recreation. This is actually true, and I’ve been actually overwhelmed by the response we’ve seen from followers — new and previous — within the first half of the season.

“I am delighted to reveal that since the season commenced, we have seen almost 300,000 spectators attend matches across the Barclays Women’s Super League. This just highlights how much appetite there is for world-class women’s league football.

“We are at present averaging virtually 6,000 followers every week within the Barclays Women’s Super League as we go into the ultimate league fixtures of 2022 — which is up over 200% on this time final 12 months.

“The Barclays Women’s Championship is also performing brilliantly, with the average attendance up over 85% on this time last year.”

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