Women's sport attendance record 2024

In 2023, the University of Nebraska's volleyball game against Omaha became one of the highest-attended women's sporting events in history, being watched by a crowd of over 92,000. However, the all-time record was actually set in 1971, with the final of an unofficial soccer World Cup tournament drawing an estimated crowd of 112,500.

Highest-attended women's sporting events worldwide as of 2024

Characteristic	Attendance
Denmark vs Mexico (Soccer, September 1971)*	112,500
Nebraska vs Omaha (Volleyball, August 2023)	92,003
Barcelona vs Wolfsburg (Soccer, April 2022)	91,648

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Release date

February 2024

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Worldwide

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as of February 2024

Supplementary notes

*Denmark played Mexico in the 1971 FIEFF World Cup final - an unofficial forerunner of the FIFA Women's World Cup. The first official FIFA Women's World Cup took place in 1991.

Figures were compiled by Statista using information from the Guardian and CBS.

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