With a 5-2 victory in the Clasico against Real Madrid, the women of FC Barcelona have reached the semi-finals of the Champions League. The Catalans played in front of a record crowd.
A world record attendance in women’s football has been set at FC Barcelona’s stadium: 91,553 people watched the Catalan team win 5-2 in the quarter-final second leg of the Champions League against arch-rivals Real Madrid at the Camp Nou on Wednesday. The defending champion around Fifa world soccer player Alexia Putellas had already won the first leg in Madrid 3-1 and thus easily made it into the semi-finals.
Previous record with 90,185 spectators
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.
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, was of course also surpassed on Wednesday in Barcelona.
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.
