When Sweden faced Spain last Friday, 5,658 people sat in the stands at the Estadio Nuevo El Arcángel.
The last time the teams met, in January 2002, 625 people saw the match in place.
When Sweden played its first home match after the World Cup in France in 2019, 9,748 supporters came to see the match.
And when Sweden meets France on Tuesday – the first home game since the European Championships – Gamla Ullevi, with a capacity of 15,500 spectators, is completely sold out.
- It's super fun.
We have longed for football to be what it is today.
It's a completely different thing than just a few years ago.
I am incredibly happy and proud that we get to experience this.
I want and hope that it will continue, says Linda Sembrant to SVT Sport.
Sembrant, who scored the decisive goal for Sweden in the quarter-final against Belgium in the EC, says that she notices a big difference in the interest in the team after the championship.
- It's a lot when you get home.
There are even more who come forward and who have followed us.
We also feel even greater support on site at the matches and from home.
Everything has actually increased.
When we arrived with the player bus at the EC and there was an incredible amount of yellow all around.
We haven't had that before and as players to feel that support.
"What we dreamed of 15 years ago"
35-year-old Sembrant is currently the oldest in the national team and has been part of the journey that the national team has made to where it is today.
How do you feel as a player when you have contributed to this change in attention?
- You are happy.
We said it sometime when we were sitting on the bus on the way to the arena and you saw people walking with Sweden jerseys: damn we get to experience this now that we dreamed of 15 years ago.
That it has become a little more like it looked at the men's international matches.
You feel that this is how it should be and this is what we deserve.
It's so fun that football gives so much to us on the field and those outside, to be able to do something big together and contribute to everyone around.
National team defender Magdalena Eriksson agrees with Sembrant that there has been a difference after the summer championship.
- I think you feel that you are in a spin now with women's football where it just grows and grows and grows.
I could feel it even before the EC as well, when we played against Brazil at Friends in front of so many people and now we take it with us after.
It feels really good to feel that women's football is now something that the common people appreciate and respect, says Eriksson.