Sold out at Rose Bowl for PSG-Athletic Madrid: here are the data on the spectators present in the stadiums on the first day of the Club 2025 World Cup of FIFA
Good first, even if to get to the goal, discounts had to be applied and launch Last Minute and beyond. Pasadena’s Rose Bowl, Los Angles, practically exhausted in its majesty for the challenge between PSG and Atletico Madrid was a breath of oxygen for Fifa. It is true: elsewhere, the stadiums that hosted the first matches of the club world championship enlarged to 32 teams were more full than empty, but overall the data of the debut weekend of the new tournament on American land are positive. And above all, the image of the cathedral of Pasadena deserted under the scorching sun of the Californian afternoon was avoided.
The goal of Infantino, the Dominus of the event that launched the challenge to UEFA on the club competition market, was to equip with a frame worthy of a month in which the only certainty is that those who participate was covered with money, thanks to an overall prize pool of a billion dollars and prizes to climb for those who will be able to raise the cup in mid -July.
The question of the planetary audience has been arranged thanks to the agreement with DAZN, the only broadcaster everywhere with the transmission of the free match on television or streaming, Fifa had to focus on the public question in the stadiums. A no small feat, considering that the plants chosen for the Club World Cup are modern, beautiful but also demanding at the capacity level.
Club World Cup, the presence of spectators on the first day
Here, then, the data of the first weekend of challenges along the two coasts of the States. The inaugural match was the one between the Inter of Miami by Leo Messi and the Egyptians of the Ahly: finished without networks, but not without emotions, collected at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami (house of the Messi team) 60,927 present on a total capacity of over 65 thousand.
Following the slaughter of Bayern Munich-Aouchland Citythe challenge with the least technical consistency of the entire tournament so much that it soon turned into a sort of training for the Bavarians: 21,152 spectators at the TQL Stadium in Cincinnati who can host 26 thousand.
The Rose Bowl in Los Angeles, on the other hand, was the crash test with on the pitch PSG-Athletic Madrid. Almost a Champions League semifinal played on the other side of the ocean and seen in the presence of 80,619 people. Not all sold out (positioned at an altitude of 89 thousand), but a little less and certainly a remarkable glance that acted as a business card for the whole tournament.
It went less well for Palmeiras-porto that was played at the Metlife Stadium in New York. System comparable to the major existing in Europe with its 82 thousand seats, filled for just over half of the local, Portuguese and neutral fans: 46,275 tickets sold.
To close Botafogo-Seattle Soundersplayed at the Lumen Field Stadium in Seattle with the advantage of the field factor for the US team: 30,151 spectators on a total capacity of 68,740.
On a television level, pending Dazn data which is the Italian Broadcaster that entirely covers the Club World Cup making it available without the need for subscription to anyone who records the platform, the match between PSG and Atletico Madrid also broadcast from Italia 1 in the early evening (9 pm) has collected a listening to 1,625,000 spectators with 10.4% share.
