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Women's Asian Cup general discussion thread

Pub League Champion said:
Japan’s current foreign and against is 24-0 over four games.

There’s a lot of different conclusions I could draw from that.
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While it’s well-known that Japan are a very talented team with high-quality players and a strongly attacking style of play, they haven’t really had any challenges yet. They had the easiest group and got an easy team (the Philippines) in the quarters.
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
https://matildas.com.au/news/commba...event-sunday-22nd-march-tumbalong-park-sydney

The Matildas will be having a fan day on Sunday, March 22nd at Tumbalong Park to celebrate their Women's Asian Cup campaign, which will be the last opportunity to see the players before they're released back to their clubs until the April international window rolls around.
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We still don’t have friendlies announced for the April window. Not sure how well we’ll fair after losing in our best shot at silverware until 2032. We aren’t even guaranteed to win the 2032 Olympics but that would be 22 years without a trophy for the girls.
 
From what I saw I thought the Asian Women's Cup was an engaging and high-quality spectacle, highlighting the rapid growth of women’s football in Asia.

Obviously the traditional powers like Japan women's national football team and Australia women's national football team impressed, but sides such as South Kore and China added competitiveness. Improved crowds, broadcasting, and World Cup qualification stakes enhanced the atmosphere. While some inconsistency remains among lower-ranked teams, the overall standard and variety of playing styles made the tournament increasingly compelling and enjoyable to watch.

Interesting data on the crowd figures.

Some extraordinarily good and some not so.....

AFC Asian Cup Crowds | Austadiums

List of AFC Asian Cup crowd attendance figures, including stadium crowds, highest and lowest attendances accross current and previous AFC Asian Cup seasons.
www.austadiums.com www.austadiums.com

Although to be fair I'm not particularly someone who looks at crowd attendance figures too much.
 
Football us life said:
From what I saw I thought the Asian Women's Cup was an engaging and high-quality spectacle, highlighting the rapid growth of women’s football in Asia.

Obviously the traditional powers like Japan women's national football team and Australia women's national football team impressed, but sides such as South Kore and China added competitiveness. Improved crowds, broadcasting, and World Cup qualification stakes enhanced the atmosphere. While some inconsistency remains among lower-ranked teams, the overall standard and variety of playing styles made the tournament increasingly compelling and enjoyable to watch.

Interesting data on the crowd figures.

Some extraordinarily good and some not so.....

AFC Asian Cup Crowds | Austadiums

List of AFC Asian Cup crowd attendance figures, including stadium crowds, highest and lowest attendances accross current and previous AFC Asian Cup seasons.
www.austadiums.com www.austadiums.com

Although to be fair I'm not particularly someone who looks at crowd attendance figures too much.
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It’s not just the attendance figures but the enthusiasm of the crowd particularly the youngsters.
 
HonestSpursFan said:
It was quite diverse I must say! Lots of different people of different backgrounds, men and women, gay and straight couples, etc. Lump that in with other stuff (politics, religion, identity, etc) and it really shows that this team is Australia's team representing all of Australia.
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Not according to Pauline Hanson 🤣🤣. Sorry this should probably have been in the politics thread.
 
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libelous said:
Not according to Pauline Hanson 🤣🤣. Sorry this should probably have been in the politics thread.
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Lol but I don’t think Pauline Hanson has said anything bad about them in the Asian Cup. Doubt she watched the final though as it was on the same night as the SA state election.
 
libelous said:
Not according to Pauline Hanson 🤣🤣. Sorry this should probably have been in the politics thread.
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On the topic of politics, did the Prime Minister attend any of the tournament? I don't recall seeing it, but I noticed on the news that he attend Rugby League games and a GWS AFL game (seriously....) whilst the tournament was on. It is pretty concerning for both football and women's sport if what the Asian Cup delivered was not enough to get any meaningful attention.

And we wonder why there was no substantive investment post the women's world cup, or why nothing will follow this tournament either, yet $600 million will get thrown to a rugby league team in another country.
 
Song said:
On the topic of politics, did the Prime Minister attend any of the tournament? I don't recall seeing it, but I noticed on the news that he attend Rugby League games and a GWS AFL game (seriously....) whilst the tournament was on. It is pretty concerning for both football and women's sport if what the Asian Cup delivered was not enough to get any meaningful attention.

And we wonder why there was no substantive investment post the women's world cup, or why nothing will follow this tournament either, yet $600 million will get thrown to a rugby league team in another country.
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Our politicians have zero care for football and it’s sad. How many are at A-League games? Sure there’s some, e.g. Adam Crouch (the NSW Liberal MP for Terrigal) is a Mariners fan, but pollies only support soccer if they can use it as a token. They’ll say good luck when the Matildas or Socceroos play but won’t invest in the game at any level. They’ll give billions to the AFL, Cricket Australia and the NRL but nothing at all to the APL or even Football Australia.

The truth is Aussie rules could literally have zero funding and still be successful because it’s almost only played here. The AFL is the only professional Aussie rules league in the entire world. Similarly were no chance of falling behind in rugby league because we dominate it so much, most of the other countries that play are smaller countries (many with much less money) and the NRL is the top level of the game. Football is a global sport on the other hand so if you don’t invest in it, you won’t be good at it. India, the world’s most populous country, has never been to a World Cup and isn’t even close to ever making it or even out of the Asian Cup group stage, because they don’t invest in football.
 
Song said:
On the topic of politics, did the Prime Minister attend any of the tournament? I don't recall seeing it, but I noticed on the news that he attend Rugby League games and a GWS AFL game (seriously....) whilst the tournament was on. It is pretty concerning for both football and women's sport if what the Asian Cup delivered was not enough to get any meaningful attention.

And we wonder why there was no substantive investment post the women's world cup, or why nothing will follow this tournament either, yet $600 million will get thrown to a rugby league team in another country.
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Interesting?

Hadn't thought of this?

Not sure I saw Albo anywhere in the Matildas crowds?
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
It is a shame that much of the Matildas fever from the Women's Asian Cup is going to subside but hopefully it'll lead to more people following the Dub and Tillies abroad in the meantime.
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We can only hope.

The fact that nearly all football fans I know off forum are blatant Eurosnobs, extends to quite a few Matildas playing in some big UEFA clubs that Aussie Eurosnobs love so much.

The Aussie Eurosnob syndrome of adulating the big, rich UEFA clubs could be helping convert Aus Eurosnobs to follow women's football at national team level for Aus.
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
It is a shame that much of the Matildas fever from the Women's Asian Cup is going to subside but hopefully it'll lead to more people following the Dub and Tillies abroad in the meantime.
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I think it absolutely has majorly increased the interest in the Dub and Tillies abroad, but I just don’t think that major increase was major enough. People tune in whenever the Matildas play though so it’s certainly not dead, just comes and goes like support for the Socceroos when they play. I’m in the process of tryna grow the forum (men’s and women’s here) too I should say!
 
Decentric said:
We can only hope.

The fact that nearly all football fans I know off forum are blatant Eurosnobs, extends to quite a few Matildas playing in some big UEFA clubs that Aussie Eurosnobs love so much.

The Aussie Eurosnob syndrome of adulating the big, rich UEFA clubs could be helping convert Aus Eurosnobs to follow women's football at national team level for Aus.
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A lot of Arsenal/Chelsea fans don’t watch the A-League. To be fair A-League crowds aren’t as “disgraceful” as we think. The A-League actually gets a similar average turnout to the Première Ligue in France despite France being a bigger country with better teams (not all are better, some are the same or worse than ALW teams, but still Lyon are the biggest women’s football club in the world by historical success, and Paris FC and PSG have had their moments too).
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
It is a shame that much of the Matildas fever from the Women's Asian Cup is going to subside but hopefully it'll lead to more people following the Dub and Tillies abroad in the meantime.
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The APL will have to do a lot more promoting before Matildas fans become ALW supporters.
There needs to be individual player promotion so that they become household names similar to that of Kerr, Fowler, Raso et al. Individual clubs need to be freed from ‘head office’ control in terms of promoting their ‘stars’ so that fans feel much closer to them.
The fact is at the moment the ALW is a burden for the clubs and, seemingly the APL itself.
 
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