A brand new research into habits in girls’s sport has proven attendances and viewership information had been set in 2022, with greater than two million individuals attending girls’s sport for the primary time.

Along with attendances, 2022 noticed extra individuals watching girls’s sport for greater than two hours than ever recorded.

A complete of 574,875 tickets had been offered throughout final yr’s European soccer championships, whereas the competitors reached a file world viewers of greater than 365 million individuals, with the ultimate breaking the all-time file attendance for a males or girls’s Euros remaining with 87,000 inside Wembley Stadium for England’s victory over Germany.

Over two million viewers tuned into Claressa Shields vs Savannah Marshall making it the most-watched girls’s skilled boxing present in historical past, whereas the rival world champions additionally attracted a big attendance at The O2, in one other standout occasion in 2022.

The research was launched by Two Circles and the Girls’s Sport Belief, offering new analysis into girls’s sport fandom, and was supported by UK Sport, The FA, The ECB and The RFU.

The research additionally revealed followers wish to watch extra girls’s sport, however habits are presently much less mounted. Girls’s sport was additionally proven to be turning into mainstream and the quantity and depth of consumption is rising quickly.

“We recognized that the following frontier to sort out is routine consumption of sport, which was the main target of this analysis, as this can open up a spread of income streams that can assist girls’s sport in the end grow to be sustainable and worthwhile,” mentioned Tammy Parlour, CEO of Girls’s Sport Belief.

“This research exhibits there’s a big alternative for right-holders, media and sponsors to harness this curiosity in girls’s sport.

“The following step for the business is to seek out methods to drive followers to develop a extra significant, long-term connection to girls’s sport, throughout many various sports activities, so the unbelievable development we have seen thus far doesn’t stagnate.”

As revealed in 2021’s Closing the Visibility Hole research from Girls’s Sport Belief and Two Circles, income generated by girls’s sport within the UK remains to be predicted to hit £1bn by 2030 – with feminine athletes and groups turning into extra seen key to unlocking development.

Clare Vigers, Consumer Companies Director at Two Circles, added: “Nothing beats a dwell occasion. They’re constantly one of the best, only drivers of engagement with sports activities on the prime of the fandom funnel, however for girls’s sport to develop sustainably in the long run, we have to flip these moments of breakthrough into habits, which can end in larger, extra constantly engaged audiences.

“Primarily based on our findings, it’s clear that this dwell engagement with supporters is vital to creating optimistic routine behaviours. Attendance is the bedrock of behavior.

“The scale of the potential prize stays important for girls’s sport within the UK. And to get us there, the analysis exhibits the significance of time, location, emotional state, and different individuals on routine behaviour.

“Consistency actually issues when constructing habits – from scheduling and messaging to constructing the joy. And there is loads of pleasure nonetheless to return.”