A crowd of 39,000 people saw the first ever game at Turin’s Allianz Stadium, where Juventus women defeated Fiorentina 1-0. The tickets for the game were free and fans filled up the stadium, breaking the previous record of 14,000 people for an Italian women’s league match.
Sofie Pedersen, the Danish midfielder, scored the winning goal for the home side with just seven minutes remaining, which resulted in moving the Bianconere ahead of Fiorentina for four points.
“It doesn’t often happen to me, to score, and today it was really incredible. It is the most important goal of my whole career,” said Pedersen.
“I’m happy all these people came to see us. We started well in the first half even though we were a bit nervous and we perhaps did not play our best game, but it was great to do it in front of this crowd.”
“It was a beautiful gift to play in this stadium,” said defender Lisa Boattin.
Earlier this month, at the Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid, there were 60 739 people watching the game between Atletico Madrid and Barcelona, which set the record for the best-attended women’s club game in history.
