Although Sweden bailed out prematurely, the Swedish women and women's football there still count among the big winners. People have noticed that women play good football. The host association had bent over backwards to make this come true. More often than not the pristine little stadia were full, especially in the opening game in Helsingborg and in the final, where a new crowd record was broken for women's football in Sweden. Per Omdal, former association president of the new queens of football and a member of the FIFA Women's Football Committee, also paid tribute to this decisive breakthrough.
Football is the most popular sport in Norway.
Fifty thousand of the three hundred thousand registered players are women. Even the evening news was postponed on television because of the World Cup final - something unheard of before in Norway. The latter is a lady but not from the football world. Gro Harlem Brundtland is Norway's Prime Minister. F ACTS Sweden '95 was dominated by the Norwegian women all along the line.