MADRID, 15 May. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Barcelona and Wolfsburg will play the first women’s Champions League final in history in front of a full stadium, after the Dutch Football Federation (KNVB) announced the ‘sold out’, with a total of 34,120 tickets sold, for the game on June 3 in Eindhoven.
KNVB General Secretary Gijs de Jong described the packed house at the Philips Stadium as “a fantastic milestone that will last forever.” “Bringing the women’s Champions League final to the Netherlands has been on our wish list for a while. Now we can add that the first sold-out final of this tournament in our country will take place,” he celebrated in statements inside the statement issued.
“We at the KNVB want more girls and women to be enthusiastic about football. With Euro 2017 we have seen what the effect of a major football event on Dutch soil can be. With this in mind, we have recently applied as candidates to organize the 2027 World Cup together with Germany and Belgium,” added the Dutch president.
Thus, the final on June 3, the third played by Barcelona Women -champion in 2021-, will be the first to be played with all the tickets sold, something that had not happened in previous editions, with an average of 18,900 spectators. in eight of the last ten finals, as reported by the KNVB.
In the Netherlands, the current record attendance for a women’s football match was set on June 1, 2019, when the ‘Oranje’ played in front of 30,640 against Australia. In the Women’s Eredivisie, 33,742 tickets were sold for the match between Ajax and Feyenoord at the Johan Cruijff Arena.
This season, the women’s Champions League is experiencing a record-breaking edition, as the average attendance at matches exceeds 10,000 people for the first time. The Barça team has played in seven of the ten games with the highest number of spectators in this Champions League.