8 July 2022

Austria Women's National Football and TV Presenter team of the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 (6 - 31 July)

The first game England - Austria ended with 1 - 0. A very good result for the Austrians in a play with the team of a country where women's football has a long tradition and many years of support. The Austria Women's National Football Team was founded 1990. Since the team reached the semi-final at the last Women's Championship in 2017, women's football has received more attention also in Austria. The team's success is credited with words like 'Summer Tale' and 'Wonder' - which also earned them the superhero title 'Wonder-Team' in Austrian media. A wonder is also the increasing interest by the audience which can be measured via TV, Web and App audience respectively usage data of broadcasts and streaming respectively online media by the country's public service broadcaster ORF. The match in front of 70.000 people at the Old Trafford stadium in Manchester was watched in Austria on ORF TV and the public service's web and app media by around 1,7 million people. On the TV channel ORF 1 were measured 1.667 million from the start of the long football evening on 6 July from 17:55; this equates to 22% of the country's TV population aged over twelve years.

The national footballer's performance is commentated by the ORF Sport team with presenters and reporters like Kristina Inhof, Alina Zellhofer, or Anna-Theresa Lallitsch. The next game of the Austria Women's National Football Team will happen in three days on 11 July Austria vs. Northern Ireland. On 15 July, Austria will play vs. Norway (UEFA calendar with results). The Austrian Football Association ÖFB published today insights into the recharging and training of the team for the next match against Northern Ireland with the statement of Austrian team player Laura Wienroither: "We definitely want to win this game."

Image, from left: ORF sport reporters, moderators Kristina Inhof, Alina Zellhofer, and Anna-Theresa Lallitsch at the UEFA Women's Euro 2022 studio. Photo: © ORF/Roman Zach-Kiesling.

The ORF broadcasts the matches of the UEFA Women's Euro England 2022 from 6 to 31 July live in the main programme on the channel ORF 1 with commentaries by professional football athletes presented by sport reporters. Additionally, the ORF delivers information via the website sport.ORF.at, the digital ORF-TVthek (with live-streamed and archived TV broadcasts), the ORF football app and the radio channel Ö3. On occasion of the Women's Euro 2022, ORF celebrates women & sport with documentaries like 'Heimat bist du großer Töchter' about 15 young football-loving girls aged between six and twelve who speak about their wishes, goals and dreams, and 16 national players talking about their lives as professional players. The title of the documentary 'Home of great daughters' references the often discussed and several years ago changed lyrics of Austria's National Anthem as the original anthem text excluded women.