80,000 tickets sold for Women’s Hockey World Cup

There have been record sales for the 2018 Women’s Hockey World Cup.

The tournament will take place in London during July and ticket sales have already reached 80,000, surpassing figures for the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup.

79,000 fans attended the cricket tournament, which England won over India at Lord’s in front of a sell-out crowd.

All three of England's Hockey World Cup group games are sold out, as well as their potential quarter-final, semi-final and final, says England Hockey, with the stadium capacity almost tripled to 10,000 from its original of 3,500.

That comes after nine million people tuned in to watch the GB team triumph at the Olympics in Brazil two years ago.

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