- Arsenal Ladies to play 5 WSL matches on the Emirates Stadium subsequent season, up from three this season
- Over 240,000 tickets have been bought to look at Arsenal Ladies on the Emirates Stadium in the course of the present season
- Arsenal CEO Vinai Venkatesham delighted with rising assist for girls’s soccer and Arsenal Ladies’s rising presence on the Emirates Stadium
Arsenal Ladies’s workforce is poised to make historical past subsequent season by taking part in an elevated variety of Barclays Ladies’s Tremendous League (WSL) matches on the Emirates Stadium.
The workforce, managed by Jonas Eidevall, will play 5 WSL matches within the iconic enviornment all through the 2023/24 season, up from three league video games this season.
This resolution follows the exceptional assist Arsenal Ladies have obtained on the Emirates, which noticed a brand new file attendance set for the WSL once they performed Tottenham Hotspur in September 2022.
Over 53,000 followers have been in attendance, making it a day to recollect for girls’s soccer.
Subsequently, matches towards Manchester United and Chelsea drew crowds of over 40,000 and 46,000 spectators respectively. This season has additionally seen the workforce play 5 UEFA Ladies’s Champions League matches on the Emirates, culminating in a historic sold-out crowd of over 60,000 for the semi-final second leg towards Wolfsburg.
In whole, greater than 240,000 tickets have been bought to look at Arsenal Ladies play on the Emirates Stadium in the course of the present season.
Arsenal CEO Vinai Venkatesham expressed his delight on the continued development of girls’s soccer and the workforce’s rising presence on the iconic stadium.
“We’re delighted to substantiate that our ladies’s first workforce will play 5 WSL video games at Emirates Stadium subsequent season,” stated Venkatesham.
“We’ve obtained incredible assist at Emirates Stadium this 12 months, setting a brand new file attendance within the WSL and attaining a memorable sell-out for our latest UEFA Ladies’s Champions League semi-final towards Wolfsburg earlier this month.”
The transfer to play extra matches on the Emirates is seen as a major step in the direction of the sustainable development of girls’s soccer, offering Arsenal Ladies with a bigger stage to showcase their abilities and attain a wider viewers.
Arsenal Ladies’s present residence floor, Meadow Park in Boreham Wooden, has change into inadequate for the rising fan base, resulting in discussions a few extra everlasting transfer to the Emirates Stadium.
In March, when requested about taking part in extra video games on the Emirates, supervisor Jonas Eidevall stated, “I feel after we speak about rising the sport, that’s completely basic for creating these moments with our supporters.”
He added, “I feel it’s been completely basic, that with out us with the ability to expertise taking part in right here so many occasions, but additionally to get supporters right here to expertise it so many occasions with us. It helps us to do that tonight.”
Eidevall expressed his hopes for the long run, stating, “I actually hope that it continues to push. I get the sense of perception that we’re seeing historical past getting created in a short time in entrance of our eyes after I see how the attendances and the tradition is right here on the Emirates Stadium.”
As preparations proceed for the subsequent season, Arsenal will supply five-game packages to supporters, guaranteeing they will safe their seats for all WSL video games on the Emirates Stadium within the coming 12 months.