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​Women's World Cup continues to impress

Here are some key figures from the Women's World Cup group stages in Canada courtesy of FIFA.

ATTENDANCE STATS:

Total attendance: 885,369

Average attendance: 24,594

Biggest attendance: 6 June doubleheader featuring New Zealand vs. Netherlands and Canada vs. China in Edmonton - Canadian record set for any national team playing at home with 53,058 spectators.

Five of six venues had sell-outs in the group stage.

COMPETITION STATS:

Number of goals: 107

Goal average: 2.97

Marta (BRA) became top scorer in FIFA Women's World Cup history with 15 goals.

Fabienne Humm (SUI) scored the fastest hat-trick in FIFA Women's World Cup history, 3 goals in 5 Minutes.

Christie Rampone (USA) became the oldest player in FIFA Women's World Cup history.

Cameroon is the second African side to move on to the knock-out stages after Nigeria in 1999.

TV STATS

About 2.3 million viewers tuned in to CTV, TSN and RDS to watch Canada's match against New Zealand, a record for any FIFA Women's World Cup audience in Canada.

USA against Sweden was watched by 4.5 million viewers on Fox, an American viewing record for any FIFA Women's World Cup group stage match and the most popular football match ever broadcast on the channel.

Japanese audiences are also growing, with 6.1 million fans enjoying FUJI TV's coverage of their nation's game against Cameroon, beating all viewing figures from the 2007 edition of the competition and higher than all figures for 2011 except the final.


Germany's matches have been topping daily German viewing figures and more Chinese viewers are tuning in to watch the competition compared to 2011.

French broadcaster W9 recorded its highest audience on record, attracting 2.2 million viewers for the France-Mexico clash.

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