No, not English women in general but the women's footie team have sold out Wembley for a friendly against Germany in November. That's brilliant.
My daughter goes to city with me but is going to the England v Germany game with a few mates, Brilliant to sell out Wembley.
15 adults 7.50 concessions £1 under 16 Not quite as free as the air but amazingly well done to sell out. Kids for a quid? What a stupid idea. The sport will fail for women with such poor business sense.
English women in general? Yes, please! English women's footie team? Fantastic that they've sold out Wembley . . . beat those Germans.
Mr Samuel as usual cuts through the bullshit Casey Stoney is right, women's game can grow, but organically At a time when the trend is to move women's football matches to huge stadiums and paper the hall with free tickets, Casey Stoney of Manchester United stands pretty much alone. She remains committed to building a loyal following at United's ground in Leigh Sports Village where, at the weekend, 4,042 watched a 2-0 win over Manchester City in the Continental Cup. The capacity is 12,000 so there is still room for improvement and until the team can fill that, Stoney doesn't see the point in trying to give tickets away at an echoing Old Trafford. When Manchester City hosted United earlier in the season, the match was switched to the Etihad with a gate of 31,000. City have never released how many got in for nothing and Stoney remained unimpressed. 'I'm very keen on starting to sell this out first, rather than doing a one-off game where there's no carry-over,' she said. 'Even with 31,000 the Etihad still felt empty and I watched City's next attendance and it didn't pay off at all. It costs a lot of money to open a stadium like that. 'I'd rather invest it in marketing and get this place sold out consistently.' Stoney is right. City's gate for their next home league match against Birmingham was 1,834, and having moved their game with Lewes to the Madjeski Stadium — capacity 24,161 — Reading's women drew a crowd of 799 on Sunday. Stoney's will not be a popular view, but good marketing leading to organic growth remains the way forward for the women's club game. Giving away the product is never the answer.
Good to hear it's a sell-out, I must say it is quite watchable now, the level of football is good, apart from the goalkeepers who generally seems poor compared to the outfield players.
That’s the truth of the matter. A pseudo interest in woman’s football despite it being peddled & massively pushed by the PC brigade. They demand wages that aren’t sustainable (was it Millwall who folded because they were paying pro wages yet attracted very low crowds?) & parity with Men’s football. It’s bullshit. It’s wrong that a smidgeon of ticket prices at the Men’s game subsidises unsustainable wages in the woman’s game. I’m all for woman playing the game & competing in Leagues but for ****’s sake give it the exposure & finance that interest demands. There’s bigger crowds in Jock Division 2 than your average woman’s game.
