Women's World Cup attendance tracker 2023 with full breakdown of fans at matches in Australia and New Zealand

The Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand set a new benchmark for all-time attendance records for the tournament.

By June, over 1 million tickets had been sold, with FIFA expecting the total attendance record to be broken as women's football enjoys an explosion of popularity. Live audience figures passed the previous best mark by the Round of 16 and that only grew in over the final rounds.

The 2023 tournament comfortably surpassed the previous record thanks in part to the expanded format with a record high 32 teams playing 64 games.

Not every game proved a huge draw. Organisers in New Zealand responded to low demand for four such matches by offering to give away 20,000 tickets, including contests featuring debutants Zambia.

The attendances at the tournament, and how they compare between the two host nations, will be an interesting point of observation, and The Sporting News tracked the 2023 attendances while also looking back at the attendance records for previous tournaments.

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2023 Women's World Cup attendance tracker

The largest attendances were at Stadium Australia in Sydney, which saw four capacity-crowd fixtures, including Australia's opening win over Republic of Ireland and the final between Spain and England. The crowd of 75,784 was a record home audience for a women's football match in Australia and the third largest in Women's World Cup history. That figure was also replicated in Australia's semifinal defeat to England, as well as the Lionesses' win over Colombia in the previous round.

It's worth noting that the 42,137 that came out to watch New Zealand's opener represented the biggest crowd in the country's football history — men's or women's.

The match with the smallest attendance was the Portugal vs Vietnam Group E match (6,645) in Waikato, New Zealand. 

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Women's World Cup attendance record for single tournament

Following the first two matches in the Round of 16, the 2023 Women's World Cup set a new record for the biggest attendance in the tournament's history. A total of 1,977,824 fans went to the 64 games in total.

The previous best attended Women's World Cup in history came in the 2015 edition in Canada, with a total attendance of 1,353,506.

At the time it was the first World Cup to have 24 teams and 52 matches, which was a factor in securing the record.

The next best-attended tournament was the 1999 World Cup hosted by the USA, which had 1,214,209 fans attend 32 matches.

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Top 10 Women's World Cup attendance records all-time

The highest attendance at a single Women's World Cup match came in 1999, when 90,185 fans turned out to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena to firstly watch the third placed playoff between Brazil and Norway, followed by the final, which saw the USA defeat China on penalties.

The next biggest crowd came in the same tournament's opening fixture, where 78,972 were in attendance at Giants Stadium for a double header of USA vs Denmark and Brazil vs Mexico.

Australia's opening match against the Republic of Ireland in 2023 went third on this list, making it the best-attended Women's World Cup fixture this century. The Matildas' match with Denmark in the Round of 16 returned the same figure, as did England vs. Colombia, Australia vs. England and the final.

2023 Women's World Cup stadium capacities

There are the total of 10 stadiums being used at the 2023 Women's World Cup, with six in Australia and four in New Zealand.

The largest stadium at the tournament is Stadium Australia in Sydney, which can hold 82,500 fans, while New Zealand's largest stadium is Auckland's Eden Park, which has a capacity of over 48,000.