A Nou record
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 professional women’s game, but the highest crowd figure 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 Than Empowerment”, was unusually displayed several 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.
The morning after FC Barcelona Femeni thrashed Real Madrid 5-2 to win their quarter-final 8-3 on aggregate, every Spanish sports daily led with the record-breaking crowd figure. Catalan devoted the first eight pages of its edition to
