Euro 2025 Female: Switzerland broke crowds

First there was the opening match of this Euro 2025 between Switzerland and Norway (1-2). The 34,063 present that evening at the St-Jacques Park in Basel allowed the country to beat its record in the number of spectators for a women’s football match. Tuesday, during the confrontation between Germany and Denmark (2-1), this time it is the reference mark of the number of tickets sold for part of the 1st round, without the host team concerned which fell. Still within the rhine elbow, the trifle of 34,165 people were counted.

On Wednesday, Switzerland further dropped a barrier. We were approaching the hour of play, at the Letzigrund in Zurich, when the giant screen unveiled this new record, which was followed by an ovation from some 22,000 English and Dutch supporters (4-0) present that evening in the Zurich case. This meeting allowed the total count to go to 287,438 souls who have moved to Swiss stadiums since the start of hostilities, less than a week earlier. Never has a preliminary round of the European female championship had attracted so many people. And there were still 17 games to play!

Add to this excellent cocktail the pretty audiences successful by public TVs in Switzerland and you will get a hell of a success. Last Sunday, the RTS had 218,000 viewers who followed the Swiss victory against Iceland (2-0). This means that 55.2 % of the Romans who were on their sofa, remote control in hand, decided to spend their evening with the Swiss women’s team. In German -speaking Switzerland, it came close to 60 % audience, because 833,000 people were in front of their small screen.

It is barely 50,000 people less than in the last success of Marco Odermatt on the Lauberhorn in the World Cup of skiing, a moment which is a real Swiss religion.