Austria’s women’s soccer team breaks a record

“It will be a special highlight.” Austria’s women’s soccer team boss Irene Fuhrmann is full of anticipation for Tuesday’s Nations League home game against France (6:30 p.m., ORF 1): More than 9,000 spectators will fill Austria Wien’s Generali Arena – so many have never been to a woman in Austria -Football game included.

The previous record is eleven years old and is 3,630 spectators who watched the 2-0 defeat against Russia in the play-off first leg in St. Pölten on October 21, 2012. “Now we have what we always wanted. I’m incredibly happy,” said Verena Hanshaw, who is playing her 100th international match. “It doesn’t get any better than this for a hundred euros.”

“The fan response can help us get one or two percentage points,” said Fuhrmann. That will also be necessary against France: against the World Cup quarter-finalists, European Championship semi-finalists and the current fifth-placed team in the world rankings, the result in eight duels so far has been two draws. Fuhrmann once again rates France as “one level above Norway”, against whom they had a lucky 1-1 draw at the start of the National League last Friday.

France is the clear favorite

“We all can’t wait to play against a great opponent in front of so many spectators,” said Sarah Puntigam. The former France legionnaire, who played with three current French team players at Montpellier between 2018 and 2022, knows what to expect. “The French are clearly favorites. We need a great day. We’ll have that, then we’ll annoy them.”

Football attendance record

• 183,513 Spectators filled the Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro for Brazil’s men’s international match against Paraguay on March 21, 1954. Depending on the source, there were said to have been 199,854, 203,851 or even 220,000 spectators in the Maracana for the decisive game of the 1950 World Cup final between Brazil and Uruguay; the official figure is 173,850.

• 85,000 Spectators are the record crowd at a football game in Austria: That’s how many people were at the 0-0 draw in the men’s international match between Austria and Italy on April 15, 1923 at the Hohe Warte in Vienna.

• 91,553 Spectators are the record for a women’s game: They saw FC Barcelona beat Real Madrid 5-2 in the quarter-final second leg of the Champions League in March 2022 at the Camp Nou.

• 3630 Spectators attended the women’s international match between Austria and Russia in St. Pölten in 2012. This record for a women’s football match in Austria will be shattered today. At club football level, the test match between LASK and Geretsberg/Bürmoos at the opening of the Raiffeisen Arena holds the record with 3,500 fans.

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