Towards the end of a typically
raucous Champions League night
at the Nou Camp, a number was
announced on the public address
system which reverberated around
the football world: 91,553, the record
attendance figure for a match between
two women’s club sides.
This was not only a world record for
the professionalwomen’s game, but
the highest crowdfigure at any football
match played in Europe to that point
this season. Moreover, it was a defining
moment for the women’s game.
The pre-match choreography, “More
ThanEmpowerment”, was unusually
displayedseveral times by the fans
during the match on a night to believe
in the European women’s club game
as commercially viable, justifying the
faith shown by UEFA, and their
Head of Women’s Football Nadine
Kessler, in the re-branded Women’s
Champions League.SPAINA Nou record
Asif Burhanreports
eye
witness