June 9 – Subsequent month’s Girls’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand is on observe to change into essentially the most attended standalone girls’s sporting occasion ever with a couple of million tickets bought.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino issued a press release saying 1,032,884 tickets had been bought as much as Friday morning native time in Sydney, surpassing the pre-tournament gross sales for the 2019 version in France.

The 2023 version options an expanded discipline of 32 groups, up from 24 in France.

“The momentum is constructing within the host nations and throughout the globe,” stated Infantino.

FIFA had already introduced that Australia’s opening match towards Eire will change venue to the 83,500-capacity Stadium Australia, the event’s largest stadium, resulting from excessive public demand for tickets.

The World Cup will kick off at Auckland/Tāmaki Makaurau’s Eden Park on Thursday, July 20, that includes co-hosts New Zealand going through 1995 champions Norway.

“With over one month to go earlier than kick-off, we’ve surpassed the numbers bought for France 2019, thus that means that Australia & New Zealand 2023 is on observe to change into essentially the most attended FIFA Girls’s World Cup in historical past. The long run is girls – and because of the followers for supporting what would be the biggest FIFA Girls’s World Cup ever!” stated Infantino.

“The momentum is constructing within the host nations and throughout the globe, and I sit up for seeing you there to witness the celebs of ladies’s soccer shine on the world stage,” he stated.

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