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In a season of dwindling attendances in European women’s soccer, Hammarby of Sweden are set to host the largest crowd so far in the UEFA Women’s Champions League group stage.
As of Friday, almost 18,000 tickets have been sold for the Swedish champion’s match in Stockholm against Manchester City this week. It is expected that the final attendance may exceed 20,000 which would smash the Swedish record for a women’s game in European competition.
That figure could be surpassed once more when Hammarby, who are highly unlikely to qualify for the knockout stages after two defeats in three games so far, host the European champions FC Barcelona at the Tele2 Arena on December 12.
However, these crowds are out of context in a women’s Champions League season of disappointing attendances. Since a group stage for the UEFA Women’s Champions League was introduced in 2021, total attendances in the competition have exceeded half a million every season. During the 2021/22 season, the average crowd in the competition was over 10,000 for the the first time and was over 9,000 in the year before and after.
Yet in this campaign, with half of the group stage already completed, the average has plummeted to a mere 3,140, a drop of 34% on the previous season. After 24 of the 48 group stage matches there has yet to a single five-figure attendance, the highest so far in an underwhelming season was at Hammarby when 7,562 saw them open their group stage against St. Pölten last month.
Earlier in the season, a Swedish record of 12,062 were at the Tele2 Arena for Hammarby’s Qualifying Round 2 first leg against Benfica. It was a game they lost, ultimately coming through by winning 2-0 in the second leg in Lisbon, a match played in front of just 812 spectators.
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