31st July, 2022
England beat Germany 2-1 in the Women’s European Championship final on Sunday to claim their first ever major title in front of a record crowd at Wembley.
England forward Ella Toone opened the scoring in the 62nd minute with a beautiful chipped finish, moments after coming on as a substitute.
However, the goal was cancelled out by Germany’s Lina Magull who fired in an equaliser from close range 17 minutes later.
The match finished 1-1 after 90 minutes to take it into extra time.
The sides could not be separated until 110th minute when England forward Chloe Kelly reacted quickest to a loose ball from a corner and poked in the winner.
The match was watched by a record crowd of 87,192, beating the highest total recorded in either the men’s or women’s editions of the tournament.
The previous attendance record for a women’s Euros match was when 68,871 fans were in the stands at Old Trafford to watch hosts England take on Austria in the opening match of the tournament earlier this month.
The record for a men’s game was in 1964 when 79,115 fans were in attendance for the final between hosts Spain and the Soviet Union at the Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid.
Last year’s men’s Euro final between England and Italy at Wembley was attended by a reduced-capacity of 67,000 spectators due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The overall attendance for the competition now stands at 574,875, more than double the previous record of 240,055 set in the Netherlands in 2017.