Football fans urged to get public transport to FIFA Women's World Cup

The FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™ is set to kick off in Sydney, with hundreds of thousands of football fans from Australia and across the globe descending on our stadiums.

Football fever will grip Sydney as we host 11 FIFA Women’s World Cup matches between Thursday 20 July and Sunday 20 August, with five games at Stadium Australia at Sydney Olympic Park, including the Final match, and six games at Sydney Football Stadium, Moore Park.

The 64-game tournament starts this Thursday, 20 July with our Matildas taking on Republic of Ireland at Stadium Australia from 8pm.Fans are urged to plan ahead and take public transport, while Sydney motorists are asked to be mindful of potential traffic delays.

With up to 75,000 fans expected at Sydney Olympic Park matches and up to 40,000 at Moore Park we have added thousands of extra transport services and enhanced wayfinding and walking routes to help fans get around.

For fans attending matches, the public transport trip is included in your match ticket. Around 1,800 additional public transport services will run across the match dates including an extra 170 buses and 127 train services for each match at Olympic Park. An extra 20 shuttle buses and 20 light rail services will run for each of the games held at Moore Park.

On-site parking at both Sydney Olympic Park and Moore Park will be very limited. There is reduced parking available due to a significant number of additional vehicles required for an event of this scale, including coaches and event vehicles.

Significant traffic delays are expected, particularly on weeknight games during the already busy evening peak so motorists should allow plenty of extra travel time on roads approaching Olympic Park and Moore Park on match days and ticketholders should catch public transport.

For the safety and enjoyment of spectators, NSW Police will run a high-visibility policing strategy, Operation FIFA Women’s World Cup, which will see additional officers patrolling across Sydney venues - including the Moore Park, Sydney Olympic Park and Darling Harbour precincts – for the duration of the tournament.

For more information on public transport options to each match, including trip planning tools, visit transportnsw.info/fifa-wwc and use the Opal Travel app.

For details on road closures, including real-time traffic updates, visit livetraffic.com.

For more information on the event, visit fifa.com.