Arsenal head coach Jonas Eidevall requires extra WSL video games at larger stadiums | Soccer Information

Arsenal head coach Jonas Eidevall is assured the brand new Barclays Ladies’s Tremendous League marketing campaign can dwell as much as expectations and ship a high-quality product on the pitch, and has referred to as for extra WSL video games to be performed at larger stadiums.

In any case English soccer fixtures had been postponed final weekend as a mark of respect following the Queen’s dying, Arsenal’s dwelling sport towards Brighton at Meadow Park will kick off the season on Friday evening.

Following England’s success in Euro 2022 this summer time, there may be extra curiosity than ever within the new WSL marketing campaign.

4 Arsenal gamers – Lionesses skipper Leah Williamson, Golden Boot winner Beth Mead, Nikita Parris (now at Manchester United) and Lotte Wubben-Moy – had been a part of Sarina Weigman’s squad who beat Germany at Wembley in entrance of a competition-record 87,192 attendance at Wembley.

On the again of that success, a number of WSL golf equipment have seen a lift in season-ticket gross sales.

Eidevall feels the followers won’t be left upset – and continued elevated curiosity might result in requires extra video games being performed at larger-capacity venues.

“I am certain that the gamers will reply in a manner that shall be glorious due to the standard on the pitch and we see that the sporting product is of top of the range,” the Arsenal boss mentioned.

“We simply have to be sure that we now discover stadiums that enable all attendances to return in and watch. I believe that would be the drawback as a result of we have now a really low variety of medium-sized stadiums within the nation.

“You both have smaller stadiums or actually large stadiums and our sport that did not go forward towards Manchester Metropolis is an ideal instance of that.

“We’re two good groups with numerous curiosity which goes to be a sell-out of their Academy stadium, so the query is: if that’s the case many extra individuals need to watch the sport, the place will we play that? So we actually can have all of the individuals who need to come to the sport and ensure they’ve entry to it.”

Arsenal have already offered greater than 40,000 tickets for the north London derby towards Tottenham on the Emirates Stadium on September 24.

That may beat the WSL document of 38,262 when the 2 groups met on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium throughout 2019.

Eidevall feels the upward pattern will proceed.

“Ultimately, it’s about making a product which means a lot to individuals that you just go there and also you watch the sport even when it’s a snowstorm, even when it’s not handy since you care a lot in regards to the workforce and also you need to be there a lot. We attempt to do our greatest on the pitch to create that,” the Swede mentioned.

“After all, if I converse nearly Arsenal, as a complete membership, we attempt to work along with all of the departments so we are able to attain out to all our potential audiences and convey them to the stadium so we are able to expertise that collectively.

“That is not a fast repair simply to do one factor, however it’s about creating that reference to individuals in order that they need to go and so they really feel that they should go as a result of it’s their first precedence – after which you do not have to fret in regards to the climate in January when you have got created that.”

Women’s Super League season to start on Friday

The Ladies’s Tremendous League season will start on Friday September 16 after final weekend’s fixtures had been postponed following the dying of Queen Elizabeth II.

The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II will happen at 11am on Monday September 19 at Westminster Abbey.

The WSL marketing campaign was attributable to begin on the weekend of September 10 and 11 however fixtures had been postponed following the Queen’s dying on Thursday.

The season will now begin on Friday when Arsenal host Brighton with kick-off at 7.30pm.

Ladies’s Tremendous League opening weekend

Friday sixteenth September

Saturday seventeenth September

• Manchester United vs Studying

Sunday 18th September

• Aston Villa vs Manchester Metropolis
• Leicester Metropolis vs Tottenham Hotspur
• West Ham vs Everton
• Liverpool vs Chelsea, dwell on Sky Sports activities

How to follow the WSL on Sky Sports…

Sky Sports activities – All 35 dwell televised video games shall be obtainable throughout Sky Sports activities’ flagship channels, together with Sky Sports activities Premier League, Sky Sports activities Soccer and Sky Sports activities Principal Occasion.

Sky Sports activities Information – Working 24 hours a day, seven days per week, Barclays FA WSL followers can take pleasure in Sky Sports activities Information (channel 409) rolling editorial protection of the league and its storylines all through the season.

Contained in the WSL – Hosted by award-winning broadcaster and journalist Jessica Creighton, Contained in the WSL is a complete round-up of all issues Barclays FA Ladies’s Tremendous League and ladies’s soccer. Airing weekly on Sky Sports activities Premier League, the half-an-hour present will overview and preview matches, together with in-depth evaluation and unique participant interviews. Viewers can anticipate gripping behind-the-scenes entry in addition to a abstract of all of the motion each on and off the pitch.

Sky Sports activities Social – Alongside protection and visibility for the league throughout all Sky Sports activities’ fundamental social media channels, the bespoke Twitter channel @SkySportsWSL will proceed to be the house of all Barclays FA WSL content material on Sky Sports activities.

New to the 2022/23 season, the Sky Sports activities WSL TikTok account shall be giving followers 360° protection of the league and granting them unique entry to their new favorite gamers. Additionally a primary for the league, a brand new Snapchat Uncover present The Dub goals to grow to be the platform’s new hub for Barclays’ WSL content material.

Sky Showcase – All Sky clients will profit from with the ability to watch the opening weekend fixtures on Sky Showcase (channel 106) with out a Sky Sports activities subscription. This channel is designed to curate a few of the high reveals, movies and sports activities from throughout Sky’s channels.

Sky Sports activities digital – Observe all the newest from the WSL throughout SkySports.com and app, together with unique options and interviews, plus devoted dwell weblog protection and in-game clips from video games dwell on Sky Sports activities. You possibly can watch free match highlights from each WSL sport this season on Sky Sports activities’ digital platforms and YouTube channel.