UEFA expects to break the 2022 women’s Euro 20 record after a 12-month delay

A year later than planned, the countdown to the European Women’s Championship will begin on Thursday when the 2022 Euro Cup draw is held in Manchester.

England will play in the tournament from 6 to 31 July, and are set to break their attendance records for women’s football as the setting for the opening match against Manchester United’s Old Trafford Wembley final.

She hopes the home advantage will help her win a major international women’s championship for the first time.

The Lions have fallen in the last two World Cups and the 2017 Euro Cup in the semi-finals.

England are confident they will start the Old Trafford tournament as organizers expect attendance to break the 41,300 record for the European Women’s Championship match.

Holder The Netherlands, France and Germany are the other seeds and main contenders for the tournament, along with the Swedish Olympic silver medalist and Spain, which is rapidly improving with the Champions League winners who play football in Barcelona.

Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Northern Ireland, Norway, Russia and Switzerland are other qualifiers for a tournament that UEFA hopes will be the biggest European women’s sporting event ever.

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Premier League stadiums in Brentford, Brighton and Southampton will host the games, along with more modest venues in Leigh, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Rotherham and Sheffield.

“It went hand in hand with the need to achieve the right balance for the tournament. Setting an ambitious goal of tickets – more than 700,000 tickets are available for fans – trying to get as many seats as possible,” said the England Football Association’s women’s football director. Sue Campbell.

“It’s a balance we think we’ve achieved in selected places and cities, because the English Lions will play all their group stage matches on Premier League pitches across the country.”

The women’s soccer coronavirus pandemic hit hard at a time when participation and popularity were growing rapidly, following the success of the 2019 French World Cup.

As government bodies made an effort to restart men’s competitions as soon as possible to ensure emission revenue gains, the elite end of the women’s game was also seen as unexpected.

The Lions didn’t play a game for nearly a year from March 2020 to February of this year, and ended the 2019/20 Women’s Super League season with nearly a quarter of the game still to play.

UEFA also postponed the women’s European Championship by a year to advance to the men’s Euro 2020 at the beginning of the year.

But UEFA women’s football leader Nadine Kessler defended the decision “with the aim of giving women footballers maximum exposure and providing the center they deserve for the tournament”.

That call was helped by a strange stretch in the men’s football calendar as the 2022 Qatar World Cup started later.

After being left in the shadows for too long, the best female players in Europe will have a stage to shine again.