Decatur FC, a semi-professional women’s soccer team in Decatur, faced the Georgia Impact on Friday, June 7, and a set a new attendance record for the Women’s Premier Soccer League. About 2,126 fans attended the game on Friday.
The team came close to setting the record at its first game on May 24, when 1,803 people attended that game. The WPSL record was 1,847 people attending a single game. Head Coach Campbell Chapman said the attendance thus far has exceeded his expectations.
Chapman and Gareth O’Sullivan, the team’s principle owners, were hoping that around 300–400 fans would attend the first game. Decatur FC was about 44 people shy of the record for the first game in May, but it has now broken the attendance record by about 279 people.
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