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TeaCider
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"The Club made 50,000 tickets available for the game today and they are fully sold out. Members had the opportunity to obtain 4 free tickets per membership (only paying administrative costs) for any of the zones made available to watch this women's Champion's League clash in the stadium.
The remaining tickets will go on sale from 9.00pm CEST on Tuesday April 5 to all remaining fans, with prices ranging from €9 to €15. Tickets can be bought through the Club's website or from the FC Barcelona ticket office. Neither Camp Nou season tickets nor children's passports will be valid for this game."
Very cheap and heavily incentivised.
The remaining tickets will go on sale from 9.00pm CEST on Tuesday April 5 to all remaining fans, with prices ranging from €9 to €15. Tickets can be bought through the Club's website or from the FC Barcelona ticket office. Neither Camp Nou season tickets nor children's passports will be valid for this game."
Very cheap and heavily incentivised.
Abel Tasman
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Well whatever the incentives are or the cheap cost of the tickets people in Barcelona seem to want to get off their backsides and watch woman's football. It is really good to see.
I am unsure if we will ever see an English league team say Chelsea or Arsenal sell out Stamford Bridge or the Emirates for a womens CL game. When Chelsea olayed Juventus in December they got 1300.
In the quarterfinals Arsenal played Wolfsburg in front of 5,018
I am unsure if we will ever see an English league team say Chelsea or Arsenal sell out Stamford Bridge or the Emirates for a womens CL game. When Chelsea olayed Juventus in December they got 1300.
In the quarterfinals Arsenal played Wolfsburg in front of 5,018
It's a particular shame considering that some women's games in England used to get higher crowds than the men's in the period just after WWI.
For instance, a women's game at Goodison in 1920 drew a crowd of around 53,000, with an estimated 10-15,000 more locked out. By comparison, the highest crowd in the men's 1st division that year was some 39,000 at Stamford Bridge. About a year later in 1921 the FA, in what appears to have been a fit of pique and jealousy, banned women from playing - a ban that lasted 50 years.
The Boxing Day a crowd of 53,000 descended on Goodison Park for a women's football match
The women's game has still not fully recovered from that - as can partly be seen from the crowds they get nowadays, which stand in sharp contrast to the pre-ban period.
Imagine that men had been banned from playing football for the 50 years. With no qualified referees allowed to be involved and no stadiums permitted to host men's football, so no more organised leagues, basically only kickaround, amateur games would have been possible.
What state do you think the men's game would have been in, at end of those 50 years? How long do you think it would have taken for the men's game to recover from a total lack of investment or infrastructure for such a long period?
For instance, a women's game at Goodison in 1920 drew a crowd of around 53,000, with an estimated 10-15,000 more locked out. By comparison, the highest crowd in the men's 1st division that year was some 39,000 at Stamford Bridge. About a year later in 1921 the FA, in what appears to have been a fit of pique and jealousy, banned women from playing - a ban that lasted 50 years.
The Boxing Day a crowd of 53,000 descended on Goodison Park for a women's football match
The women's game has still not fully recovered from that - as can partly be seen from the crowds they get nowadays, which stand in sharp contrast to the pre-ban period.
Imagine that men had been banned from playing football for the 50 years. With no qualified referees allowed to be involved and no stadiums permitted to host men's football, so no more organised leagues, basically only kickaround, amateur games would have been possible.
What state do you think the men's game would have been in, at end of those 50 years? How long do you think it would have taken for the men's game to recover from a total lack of investment or infrastructure for such a long period?
Rofesleg
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Are you suggesting the low crowds elsewhere are due to laziness of the fans?