{"id":25679,"date":"2026-02-10T05:08:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T05:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/cologne-under-19s-break-record-with-50000-crowd-for-inter-milan-game\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T05:08:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T05:08:02","slug":"cologne-under-19s-break-record-with-50000-crowd-for-inter-milan-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/cologne-under-19s-break-record-with-50000-crowd-for-inter-milan-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Cologne Under-19s break record with 50,000 crowd for Inter Milan game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Cologne Under-19s have broken the attendance record for a Uefa Youth League match with 50,000 people watching the side take on Inter Milan.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The game in Germany smashed the previous highest crowd, the 40,368 who were present when Turkey&#8217;s Trabzonspor hosted Italians Inter in April 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Played at Cologne&#8217;s RheinEnergieStadion &#8211; one of the largest stadiums in the Bundesliga &#8211; tickets for Wednesday&#8217;s match sold out more than a week in advance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The home side&#8217;s supporters could not inspire them to victory though, with the Italians triumphing 3-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cologne&#8217;s senior team are 10th in the Bundesliga and last enjoyed European competition in 2022-23 when they competed in the Conference League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cologne have enjoyed the seventh highest average home attendance this season (50,000), above the likes of Werder Bremen and Bayer Leverkusen. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cwy84ve0kqxo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cologne Under-19s have broken the attendance record for a Uefa Youth League match with 50,000 people watching the side take on Inter Milan. The game in Germany smashed the previous highest crowd, the 40,368 who were present when Turkey&#8217;s Trabzonspor hosted Italians Inter in April 2025. Played at Cologne&#8217;s RheinEnergieStadion &#8211; one of the largest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25681,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25679\/revisions\/25681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}