The WSL attendance record is set to be smashed at the weekend with Arsenal having sold over 48,000 tickets to their North London Derby against Tottenham at the Emirates.
The current WSL attendance record of 38,262 was set in November 2019 by Tottenham when they played Arsenal in the North London Derby at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The record crowd saw Arsenal win 2-0 in what was the first meeting between the two clubs since Tottenham had been promoted to the WSL. Kim Little and Vivianne Miedema both scored in what was a vast improvement from when Tottenham and Arsenal had last met competitively where Arsenal won 10-0.
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It was the second time that the WSL attendance record had been broken that season after Manchester City had seen an attendance of 31,213 watch them beat Manchester United 1-0 at the Etihad Stadium on the opening day of the season. On the same day, 24,564 had watched Chelsea beat Tottenham 1-0 at Stamford Bridge.
Prior to the 2019/20 season, the WSL attendance record had been 5,265. This was set the Amex stadium in Brighton the year before when fans watched Arsenal secure their first WSL title in seven years against the Seagulls.
There is a separate WSL attendance record for games held at women's home grounds. That was set this season by Manchester United who had 5,315 at Leigh Sports Village for their opener against Reading. They won 4-0 thanks to goals from Maya Le Tissier, Alessia Russo, and Katie Zelem.
Following the success of England at Euro 2022, WSL attendances look set to continue to rise, and with more games at bigger stadiums, some of these records are likely to fall this season.
