Barcelona (dpa) – A world record in women’s football attendance has been set in FC Barcelona’s stadium: 91,553 people watched the 5-2 win of the Catalan team in the quarter-final second leg of the Champions League against arch-rivals Real Madrid at the Camp Nou.
The defending champion around FIFA world footballer Alexia Putellas had already won the first leg in Madrid 3-1 and thus easily made it into the semi-finals.
The previous world record for women’s games was almost a quarter of a century old: the 1999 World Cup final between hosts USA and China, which the home team won on penalties, was watched by 90,185 fans at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California – including then-US President Bill Clinton . This number has now been surpassed by 1368 fans in Barcelona. “Historic,” wrote the Catalan newspaper “La Vanguardia” and FC Barcelona in unison on Twitter.
Of course, Barcelona also surpassed the previous attendance record in the women’s Champions League, which was set at the 2012 final between 1. FFC Frankfurt and Olympique Lyon in Munich’s Olympic Stadium with 50,212 fans.
The previous world record for women’s club matches, meanwhile, was 60,739 spectators who watched the 2019 Spanish league match between Atletico Madrid and FC Barcelona at the stadium. The game Paris Saint-Germain against Real Madrid (18,344 in the Prinzenpark) had the best backdrop in this CL season so far.