Tickets for the Lionesses in the Women’s Euro Final are on sale for nearly a hundred times their face value, as fans rush to see what could be English football’s greatest success since 1966.
Prices that started at just £15 for a seat before the tournament started and the Lionesses started their march to Wembley are offered for just under £1,500 on resale sites and are expected to go even higher.
Sunday’s sold-out game at the national stadium, which has a capacity of 90,000, will set a record for attending a women’s match in England as excitement over the Lionesses’ journey to the final heats up.
It will also break the record for the number of people attending a match of the European Women’s Championship, which was played at the start of the tournament when 68,871 people watched England beat Austria 1-0 in the opening game at Old Trafford.
The final, against Germany, could also attract a record number of viewers as the tournament progresses.
About nine million people watched England beat Spain on TV and online in the quarter-finals, while 11.3 million people tuned in for the semi-final victory over Sweden. That’s just below the record 11.7 million that England saw against the US in the 2019 World Cup semi-finals.
England’s progress to the final continues manager Sarina Wiegman’s astonishing record of being unbeaten in all 19 games she has led the team.
Wiegman, who previously led her native Netherlands to victory at the European Championship in 2017, said the team would be ready for the final. She said: “We want to inspire the nation and make a difference. I think we do. We want to make the country proud of us.”
Hundreds of thousands of fans are expected to pack up pubs and clubs, as well as venues including Box Park Croydon. In the final, a specially larger fan zone will also be set up in Trafalgar Square. On Sunday there is free entry for 7,000 fans, 2,000 more than the film capacity of the semi-final.