The recent European Championship set records showing the growing interest in women’s football and the increasing quality of its game. Other historical milestones were also surpassed. Let’s see what the most popular records are.
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87, 192 viewers
Record attendance at a final at Wembley
The data, one of the most proud of the feeling and which definitely declares that women’s football can be of interest as much or more than men’s. Wembley welcomed no fewer than 87,192 spectators to the England-Germany final, making it the best-attended European final of any team. The number far exceeded the 79,115 gathered by the 1964 Euro final between Spain and the Soviet Union at the Bernabéu, resolved by Marcelino’s goal. However, the absolute record for attendance at a women’s football match is still held by the Camp Nou with the 91,648 spectators gathered by Barça-Wolfsburg in this year’s Champions League semifinals.
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Another figure that has been surpassed in terms of attendance is the total number of spectators at the tournament. Until now, the ceiling was at 240,055 compiled by the 2017 Euro, a figure that more than doubled in this recent edition: 574,875 spectators.
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164 million audience until the finale
No Euro girl has ever had such an audience
Interest in the event also grew from far and wide. In the absence of UEFA updating global viewing figures for the final, the small screen drew around 164 million viewers until the semi-finals. In England, the audience record for a match for the English women’s team was also broken with 17.4 million, which was more than the previous record of 11.4. Spain is no stranger to the phenomenon and the match between England and ‘Roja’ in the quarterfinals also broke the viewing record for a women’s match in the country with an average audience of 2.4 million and the 6.2 million it encountered in a point. .
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22 goals
England, the highest scorer in history
The chameleonic England know how to play everything and are very good at multiple styles of play themselves, so it’s no surprise that no team has ever celebrated so many goals in the same edition of the European Championship with 22. The previous record was 21 scored Germany at Euro 2009 where they defeated England in the final by an illustrative 6-2. In addition to losing the title, the German team saw how two goals in the England final snatched the record.
The goalscoring records hailed the ‘Lionesses’, who, among other records, also achieved victory by a greater goal difference in the 8-0 made in Norway in the group stage. Sarina Wiegman’s team entered the tournament with an average of 3.6 goals per game. Brutal. The
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6 points
Beth Mead, leading scorer in the final period
We are talking in this case of a record that has been leveled. But we must highlight all the merit that Beth Mead has achieved this. With his 6 goals, the English striker overtook Germany’s Inka Grings as the leading scorer in the Euro’s final phase. So did German Alexandra Popp, who missed the final due to injury. However, it was Mead who received both the Ballon d’Or and the Golden Boot this Euro. The absolute goalscoring record in the final stages is still held by Inka Grings and another German, Birgit Prinz, with 10 goals.
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4 goals
Alessia Russo, the best substitute scorer in history
Alessia Russo, who elbowed Irene Paredes, didn’t always think to wait on the bench. Replacing the Englishman in six games, the Manchester United forward knows both time to play and the goal will come. Russo celebrated up to four, becoming the player to score the most goals in history at a Euro starting from the bench. In fact, only Mead and Popp surpassed him as top scorers. The one from United impressed above all with the heel goal in the semifinals against Sweden.
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0 points
Unbeaten record in a group stage
Both Germany and England equaled another record, the fewest goals conceded in the group stage with 0 signed by the German team in 2005. The strength of the defense is, in fact, the great strength of the Voss-Tecklenburg team , which until the final he only conceded the semi-final goal against France. In the final, England scored more goals against Germany than they had conceded in the entire tournament.
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37 years
Julie Nelson, the oldest goalscorer
Northern Ireland were the only debutants in this finals, they left with three defeats and scored just one goal, but what a goal: its scorer, Julie Nelson, became the oldest player to score in a finals with the record he against Norway. The previous record was held by the iconic Italian player Patrizia Panico at Euro 2009 at the age of 34.
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sarina wiegman
The first coach to win the European Championship with two different countries
Sarina Wiegman’s method succeeded again and not only because the Dutch coach brought the first footballing joy to England since 1966. In addition to the title, Wiegman became the first coach in history to win the European Championship with two different countries after an increase in 2017 with the Netherlands. The Hague coach is also the first to win his first 11 Euro games as a coach, looking forward to the 2017 European Championship. It would be 12 if we also count the final settled in extra time as a victory.
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His counterpart on the German bench, Martina Voss-Tecklenburg, missed out on becoming the first European champion coach at national team and club level after winning the title with Duisburg in 2009. The German could also match his compatriot Silvia Neid on the milestone of having won the Euro as a player and coach.
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Germany
Two negative notes for ‘Mannschaft’
England stole several records and Germany also reaped two negative records. Although, all told, not honorable records given their status as the most successful team in Europe at the moment. Champions in 8 of the 13 editions of the Women’s Euro contested, Germany have never chained two editions without winning the title and Wembley is the first final they have lost.
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Katerina Monzul
The first Ukrainian referee in the final of a Euro
Of all the good stories that this Euro has, the referee who directed the final, Katerina Monzul, also said. The Ukrainian, who had to move to Italy to continue training at the outbreak of war, became the first college of his nationality to direct the final of the European Championship.
Source: La Verdad
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