After High Attendances Numbers in Soccer, FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 Breaks All Ticket Sales by Record Margin Stunning Officials

The FIFA Women’s World Cup has grown in terms of numbers and quality over the years. With the first edition dating back to 1991, there have been significant firsts in this year’s [8th] edition. For starters, this is the first time that the soccer tournament will be held in the Southern Hemisphere with two host countries – Australia and New Zealand.

Despite the geographical challenge, extremely positive numbers have come to light in this edition’s ticket sales. FIFA earlier today announced that the ticket sales have broken last year’s numbers.

FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 already broke previous editions’ entire ticket sales by 200,000

Earlier today, Football Australia announced that the overall ticket sales in New Zealand and Australia have crossed the mark of 1.3 million. To put things in perspective, the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France sold 1.1 million tickets for the entire tournament.

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“Whilst the overall ticket sales across both host countries of 1.3 million have exceeded expectations, the tournament has not yet surpassed the stretched target of 1.5 million ticket sales,” revealed the press release. The Federation however sounded hopeful of selling out the entire arena considering the tournament is yet to take off.

“However, the tournament is in a strong position to break this number in the near future, which will be well in excess of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup held in France, where 1.1 million tickets were sold which is the current event record,” said the Association.

Australia defeats the Republic of Ireland in the World Cup opener

Host nation Australia kicked off the Women’s World Cup tonight against the Republic of Ireland. The match played at Stadium Australia in Sydney had more than 75,784 spectators. The host nation who are amongst the favourites won the match despite not having star striker and captain Sam Kerr with them.

Luckily for the Aussies, stand-in captain Steph Katley didn’t let the Matildas feel Kerr’s absence as she scored the all-important goal to take Australia over the winning line. The match-winner from Catley was a penalty and keeping the context in mind, there would have been extra pressure on her.

Speaking in the post-match conference, Catley acknowledged the pressure and shared her mindset before slotting the penalty.  “Yeah, it was a big moment,” accepted Catley.  “I’ve been practicing a lot, and I do like taking set pieces, so I take it like a set piece, take a breath, hit it where I want to hit it and luckily it went in,” revealed the Aussie captain.

With Australia starting their campaign with a win, it puts pressure on the other favorites to not mess up. Who do you think will win the Women’s World Cup? Let us know below!

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