The FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015 has come to an end after 52 matches played over 30 days and with a total attendance of more than 1.35 million. Plenty of records have fallen along the way – not least of which was the USA claiming a historic third title. Below is a summary of the statistical highlights.
Attendance Stats
- Total attendance: 1,353,506
- Average attendance: 26,029
- Biggest attendance: 54,027 for the Canada vs. England quarter-final in Vancouver
- Seven matches had over 50,000 spectators in attendance
- Canada 2015 set a new total attendance record for a FIFA competition other than the FIFA World Cup
Competition Stats
- Total of 146 goals scored
- Average of 2.81 goals per match compared to 2.69 in 2011
- Average of 173.7 duels per match compared to 155.5 in 2011
- Average of 374.3 short passes per match compared to 332.2 in 2011
- England achieved a historic first victory over Germany after 18 defeats and two draws.
- USA vs. Japan beat the previous record set in 2011 for the highest scoring Final in FIFA Women’s World Cup history
- Carli LLOYD (USA) scored the first ever hat-trick in a FIFA Women’s World Cup Final
- USA surpassed Germany as the top scoring team in FIFA Women’s World Cup history with 112 goals
TV stats
- Canada: CTV and RDS broke the Canadian viewing record for any FIFA Women’s World Cup match (quarter-final: average audience 3.2 million)
- USA: FOX scored its biggest ever audience for a football match (semi-final: average audience 8.4 million)
- France: W9 achieved its best figures on record and set a new French digital terrestrial viewing record (quarter-final: average audience 4.1 million)
- Japan: Fuji TV attracted more than twice the number of viewers for the semi-final than in 2011 (semi-final: 9.3 million)
- Broadcasters in the following countries beat the highest TV audience for any match from the 2011 edition of the FIFA Women’s World Cup: Australia, Brazil, China, Korea Republic and Norway
Digital Stats
- 20 million unique visitors tocom FIFA Women’s World Cup section, consuming 225 million pages and spending 7.8 billion seconds engaged
- 178% increase in daily visitors to FIFA.com FIFA Women’s World Cup section compared to 2011
- 130% increase in followers for the FIFA Women’s World CupFacebook Page to 662,000
- 81% increase in Twitter followers for@FIFAWWC to 222,000
- 37% increase in followers for FIFA onInstagram to 1.37 million
- 9 billion impressions of Tweets about the FIFA Women’s World Cup
- FIFA’s YouTubechannel smashed its all-time monthly views record in June (28 million views vs. 19 million in June 2014 during the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil)
- Canada 2015 attracted 19 million views on FIFA’s YouTube channel, with 38 million minutes of content consumed. 7 million views in the United States, 2 million in Canada and 1.75 million in Japan during the competition. Plus, 15 hours of the 6th FIFA Women’s Football Symposiumlive streamed
Fan Zones
The Fan Zone areas have been a great success for FIFA, the National Organizing Committee, and the FIFA Partners and National Supporters. All six Fan Zones were well attended, with the Vancouver site proving the most popular destination with over 100,000 fans attending over the course of the tournament.
Goal-line Technology
With goal-line technology implemented successfully for the first time at a FIFA Women’s World Cup, there were eight close calls in the 52 matches where the match officials were assisted by the Hawk-Eye watch notifying them of a ‘GOAL’ or ‘NO GOAL’ within one second:
- M12: Colombia vs. Mexico (GOAL)
- M16: Côte d’Ivoire vs. Thailand (GOAL)
- M19: USA vs. Sweden (NO GOAL)
- M22: Korea Republic vs. Costa Rica (GOAL)
- M43: Norway vs. England (GOAL)
- M50: Japan vs. England (GOAL)
- M51: Germany vs. England (NO GOAL)
- M52: USA vs. Japan (GOAL)
