Sunday afternoon, at the venue of this season’s Champions League Final, a 99-year-old record could be smashed as the top two teams in La Liga Iberdrola, Atletico de Madrid and FC Barcelona meet at the Wanda Metropolitano.

Not since the fabled English works team Dick, Kerr Ladies attracted an estimated 53,000 spectators to Goodison Park for a Boxing Day match with St Helen’s has such a crowd been drawn to a women’s domestic club match in Europe.

All advance tickets have been taken for the match at the 68,000-capacity stadium in Madrid. Of those, over 21,000 tickets have been purchased with the rest claimed by almost one in four of Atletico’s 127,471 socios.