The Scottish Premiership made its FOX Sports 1 debut on Saturday morning averaging only 23,000 viewers for the first Old Firm clash in league play since 2012. In recent years, the Scottish Premiership has been relegated to FOX Soccer Plus and the streaming platform FOX Soccer 2GO. With these kind of numbers, we can see why. Although FOX Sports did little to promote the match, it’s unlikely that promotion would have had a large effect as the Manchester derby kicked off just 30 minutes later on NBCSN. That match averaged 623,000 viewers.

Also on FOX Sports this weekend, coverage of the Bundesliga averaged 61,800 viewers peaking with 83,000 that watched Schalke take on Bayern Munich Friday on FOX Sports 1. FOX Sports also began its coverage of the National Women’s Soccer League, featuring two matches this week and averaging 68,000 viewers between them.

As the NFL season kicked in the United States, it brought with it another poor weekend for MLS TV ratings. Only the Spanish networks saw increases in viewership this week as English-language viewership of MLS continues to decline. MLS has failed to completely recover from the huge hit to viewership the league took from the Olympics. MLS is averaging only 179,889 viewers since the start of August representing a 57% drop from 315,518 viewers in the first 19 weeks of the season. On top of all of this, despite the return of Landon Donovan to LA Galaxy, the LA Galaxy versus Orlando game this past Sunday could only muster 97,000 viewers on FOX Sports 1.

Liga MX matches averaged in excess of 830,000 viewers across 5 match windows this past weekend, the most for a Liga MX matchweek this Apertura. Viewership peaked on Saturday evening with 1.174 million watching Liga MX matches on Univision, Univision Deportes and Galavision and 1.3 million watching Chivas take on Chiapas on Univision and Univision Deportes.

Here are the TV viewing audiences:

Domestic numbers for the week:

Date Competition Start Time Home Away Network 1 Network 2 Total
9/7/16 NWSL 8:00 PM Chicago Red Stars FC Kansas City Fox Sports 1; 76,000 — 76,000
9/9/16 MLS 8:00 PM Sporting Kansas City Houston Dynamo UniMás; 184,000 — 184,000
9/10/16 NASL 7:00 PM Fort Lauderdale Strikers Indy Eleven — beIN Español; 12,000 12,000
9/11/16 MLS 1:00 PM New York Red Bulls DC United ESPN; 238,000 ESPN Deportes; Not available 238,000
9/11/16 MLS 7:00 PM Los Angeles Galaxy Orlando City SC Fox Sports 1; 97,000 Fox Deportes; 53,000 150,000
9/11/16 NWSL 9:30 PM Portland Thorns West New York Flash Fox Sports 1; 60,000 — 60,000

Foreign numbers for the week:

Date Competition Start Time Home Away Network 1 Network 2 Total
9/9/16 Bundesliga 2:30 PM Schalke 04 Bayern Munich Fox Sports 1; 83,000 — 83,000
9/9/16 La Liga 2:45 PM Real Sociedad Espanyol — beIN Español; 21,000 21,000
9/10/16 Scottish Premiership 7:00 AM Celtic Rangers Fox Sports 1; 23,000 — 23,000
9/10/16 La Liga 7:00 AM Celta Vigo Atletico Madrid — beIN Español; 22,000 22,000
9/10/16 Premier League 7:30 AM Manchester United Manchester City NBCSN; 623,000 — 623,000
9/10/16 Bundesliga 9:30 AM Bayer Leverkusen Hamburg Fox Sports 1; 26,000 Fox Deportes; 46,000 72,000
9/10/16 Bundesliga 9:30 AM Freiburg Mönchengladbach Fox Sports 2; 5,000 — 5,000
9/10/16 La Liga 10:00 AM Real Madrid Osasuna beIN Sports; 92,000 beIN Español; 141,000 233,000
9/10/16 Premier League 10:00 AM Stoke City Tottenham Hotspur CNBC; 112,000 — 112,000
9/10/16 Premier League 10:00 AM Arsenal Southampton NBCSN; 480,000 NBC Universo; 30,000 510,000
9/10/16 Serie A 12:00 PM Juventus Sassuolo beIN SPORTS; 43,000 — 43,000
9/10/16 La Liga 12:00 PM Sevilla Las Palmas — beIN Español; 84,000 84,000
9/10/16 Bundesliga 12:30 PM RB Leipzig Borussia Dortmund Fox Sports 2; 16,000 Fox Deportes; 16,000 44,000
9/10/16 Premier League 12:30 PM Liverpool Leicester City NBCSN; 502,000 NBC Universo; 62,000 564,000
9/10/16 La Liga 2:30 PM Barcelona Alaves beIN Sports; 102,000 beIN Español; 300,000 402,000
9/10/16 Liga MX 6:00 PM Cruz Azul Club América — Univision Deportes; 676,000 676,000
9/10/16 Liga MX 8:00 PM Monterrey Tijuana Univision; 670,000 Univision Deportes; 430,000 1,100,000
9/10/16 Liga MX 8:06 PM León Atlas FC — Galavision; 74,000 74,000
9/10/16 Liga MX 10:00 PM Chivas Chiapas Univision; 777,000 Univision Deportes; 523,000 1,300,000
9/11/16 Serie A 9:00 AM Roma Sampdoria beIN Sports; 26,000 — 26,000
9/11/16 Bundesliga 9:30 AM Werder Bremen Augsburg Fox Sports 1; 56,000 Fox Deportes; 7,000 63,000
9/11/16 La Liga 10:00 AM Valencia Real Betis — beIN Español; 22,000 22,000
9/11/16 Premier League 11:00 AM Swansea City Chelsea NBCSN; 406,000 — 406,000
9/11/16 Bundesliga 11:30 AM Mainz Hoffenheim Fox Sports 1; 42,000 — 42,000
9/11/16 La Liga 12:15 PM Granada Eibar — beIN Español; 34,000 34,000
9/11/16 Liga MX 1:00 PM Pumas Querétaro Univision; 544,000 Univision Deportes; 160,000 704,000
9/11/16 La Liga 2:30 PM Deportivo Athletic — beIN Español; 35,000 35,000
9/11/16 Liga MX 7:00 PM Puebla Toluca — Univision Deportes; 305,000 305,000

Major League Soccer averages:

Overall ESPN ESPN2 ESPND FOX FS1 FOXD Univision UniMás UDN
281,869 312,391 201,500 46,000 498,000 165,273 35,615 827,000 167,409 68,905

Other league averages:

League Average
Liga MX 654,595
Premier League 452,095
La Liga 138,476
Bundesliga 76,300
NWSL 68,000
Serie A 32,200
Eredivisie 27,000
Championship 16,375
Ligue 1 11,667
NASL 6,652

HT: SportsTVRatings.