The venues of the women’s European Championship remain small

While today the Camp Nouwith capacity for 99,354 people, reopens its doors to women’s football After the world attendance record achieved in the quarterfinals of the Champions League, the countdown to the kick-off of the Eurocup occurs surrounded by the controversial choice of one of its venues.

If already in 2018 when England, the only candidate country, announced its venues, there were those who criticized their proposal as not very ambitious due to the size of some of its headquarters, in this 2022 it has been definitively confirmed that there are those that have remained small.

The two that raise the most commotion are the Manchester City Academy Stadium, with 4,700 seats, and the Leigh Sports Village, with 8,000. The first is the field where the women’s team and the youth team play at home. citizen; and in the second, those of Manchester United. Both have capacity for more spectators, but are reduced by the obligations required by UEFA.

In fact, the latter, with its 8,000 seats, will host one of the quarterfinal matches, the one that will face the first of group C (Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and Russia*) with the second of group D (France, Italy, Belgium and Iceland). something with the data in hand seems to be too small.

In total, 700,000 tickets have been put up for sale for this Women’s Euro Cup, which will set a new attendance record for its organisation. 350,000 were already acquired in the presale and those of several meetings have already been exhausted: el inaugural en Old Trafford (74,000 seats), the others England group stage two (Southampton, 32.000; y Brighton & Hove, 30.000), the one at the wembley final (89.000) y the two that Iceland will play en el Manchester City Academy Stadium (4.700).

Precisely about the matches of the Icelandic team he pronounced, very angry, the soccer player Sara Björkcaptain of her national team and Lyon player, a few days ago on the podcast Their Pitch: “You are playing in England, you have so many stadiums and we have a City training ground. It is shameful. Women’s football today, they are filling the stadiums”.

And it is that although some of the venues are of teams from the men’s Premier League, in the list of ten host fields, there are only two large stadiums (Wembley and Old Trafford). Completing the list, in addition to those already mentioned above, el Stadium MK (30.000, Spain-Finland will be played here), Bramall Lane (30.000), Brentford Community Stadium (17.000here Spain will play against Denmark and Germany) and the New York Stadium de Rotherham (12.000).