Fifa Women’s World Cup fever sweeps across Hong Kong as ‘fully booked’ bars prepare for history-making final
- For some bars, the huge turnouts during matches for this year’s tournament were ‘unexpected’
- Many establishments across the city expecting a full house for the World Cup final
Avid football fans are not the only ones enjoying the Fifa Women’s World Cup celebrations.
With many sports bars across Hong Kong Island showing the tournament on big screens, an influx of customers on match days has caught some businesses unawares.
And England’s final against Spain on Sunday, when both sides will be chasing their first World Cup win, promises to be another big occasion.
“To be honest, I wasn’t expecting such a big crowd,” Ren Catanghal at The Globe in Central told the Post. “But we definitely had more people when the [World Cup] games were playing.”
Catanghal said the English-style pub, had one of its busiest days on Wednesday during England’s clash with Australia in the second semi-final.
“[People came] to watch the teams of where they were from,” he said. “It’s great, you know, after the men’s World Cup and you know now we also have the women’s World Cup, it [has been] a great turnout, but it was definitely a surprise.”
