The Record That Stood for 23 Years

Before Barcelona, the record crowd for any women's match was 90,185 at the Rose Bowl for the 1999 World Cup final between the United States and China. Brandi Chastain's winning penalty in the shootout became one of the most recognised images in American sport.

Women's Football Was Banned for Fifty Years

On Boxing Day 1920, Dick, Kerr Ladies drew 53,000 spectators to Goodison Park with thousands more locked outside. Less than a year later the English FA banned women from using its grounds entirely. The ban stood until 1971.