Arsenal girls plan to host 11 matches at Emirates Stadium subsequent season, the membership introduced on Tuesday, making it their predominant house floor for the 2024-25 season.
The membership plans to play eight WSL video games at Emirates, alongside three Girls’s Champions League (UWCL) fixtures in the event that they qualify for the competitors’s group stage.
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If the membership fails to qualify for a spot in Europe, all 11 WSL video games will probably be performed within the Emirates, topic to Premier League and WSL scheduling.
“The subsequent step in our journey is to make Emirates Stadium our predominant house for Arsenal girls,” chief government Vinai Venkatesham stated. “We’re wanting ahead to giving extra supporters the prospect to look at our girls’s staff play.
“That is a part of a collective drive throughout the membership to take the ladies’s sport ahead and help sustainable development of the sport so it could actually thrive in the long run,” Venkatesham added.
“For nearly 4 a long time, we have been on the forefront of the ladies’s sport. We have lately seen extraordinary development in supporters coming to Emirates Stadium for video games held right here, which embody two full sell-outs this season.”
Advancing within the UWCL would result in all home-leg knockout matches being performed on the stadium, taking the tally to 13 video games on the Emirates.
The six WSL matches hosted at Emirates this time period noticed a median crowd of 52,029, which included two sell-outs and three WSL attendance data.
“Subsequent season, Emirates Stadium turns into our predominant house, and we’re all excited to play in entrance of larger crowds each week,” Arsenal boss Jonas Eidevall stated.
Arsenal maintain the home attendance document for a WSL sport when 60,160 followers watched Arsenal defeat Manchester United 3-1 on the Emirates in February, beating the previous document additionally held by Arsenal for his or her 4-1 win over Chelsea in December that drew a crowd of 59,042.
The membership confirmed all remaining video games, together with all girls’s home cup fixtures (Girls’s FA Cup and League Cup), will probably be performed at their present stadium, Meadow Park.
Arsenal signed a brand new 10-year take care of Borehamwood in 2017, and have a median crowd of 32,618 over the 2023-24 season up to now, throughout each house venues, together with sell-outs of each Meadow Park fixture.