Quote Originally Posted by DrPatrickBarry View Post
You could say that about a lot of sports. How many "popular" olympic sports would have very few spectators outside of the olympics. There are so many sports that the general population has no interest in except for two weeks every four years or annually (Wimbleton, British Golf Open, etc).

The BBC have managed to "manufacture" interest in Tennis, Track Cycling, Gynmastics, etc,etc. If they were not on Free to Air TV would anybody care about them?

There are so many sports I have lost interest in becasue they have gone to Pay-to-View, and I am not interested enough to do so.
The average attendance for the Women's Super League for 2018/19 was 833. The average attendance for the National League (division below the Football League) was 1,977. This division get's very little if any television coverage but still has more than double the attendance of the women's top division. I expect the blanket coverage the BBC has given to the women's world cup will boost domestic attendances next season but I suspect by not that much.