The 2016 MLS Cup final on FOX Saturday produced the league’s largest English-language television audience since at least the 2001 final on ABC. Over 1.4 million people tuned in to FOX’s broadcast with an additional 601,000 watching in Spanish on UniMás and Univision Deportes. Across the United States and Canada, FOX, UniMás, TSN and RDS combined to produce the most viewed MLS Cup final in league history with over 3 million tuning in.

Also on Saturday, NBC featured its 11th Premier League match on the broadcast network as Leicester City defeated Manchester City in front of 975,000 American viewers. The match slots in as NBC’s second most-watched match of the Premier League season thus far, drawing just 16,000 more viewers than Chelsea-Spurs on November 26 and 185,000 short of August 27’s clash between Hull City and Manchester United.

The FIFA Club World Cup began on December 8 to little fanfare on US television as just 23,000 people watched Kashima Antlers of Japan defeat Auckland City of New Zealand in the First Round. The tides changed quickly, however, when Liga MX finalists Club América took the field on November 11 as their 2-1 defeat of South Korea’s Jeonbuk Motors drew 425,000 viewers at 2am on the east coast. The match registers as our 7th most watched of the week despite its early (or late) kickoff time, beating out all UEFA Champions League, Europa League and Bundesliga matches on FOX’s networks for the week as well as all but one of beIN SPORT’s offerings. We’ll have the viewing number for the Club America-Real Madrid semi-final that was played on Thursday in next week’s column.

Here are the most-watched soccer games on US TV for December 6-12, 2016:

Rank Home Away Competition Date TV1 TV2 Total
1 Toronto FC Seattle Sounders MLS Cup 12/10/16 FOX; 1411000 UniMás; 601000 2,012,000
2 Leicester City Man City Premier League 12/10/16 NBC; 975000 Unvso; 95000 1,070,000
3 Man Utd Spurs Premier League 12/11/16 NBCSN; 643000 —; — 643,000
4 Liverpool West Ham Premier League 12/11/16 NBCSN; 587000 —; — 587,000
5 Real Madrid Deportivo La Liga 12/10/16 beIN; 123000 beIE; 407000 530,000
6 Arsenal Stoke Premier League 12/10/16 NBCSN; 456000 Unvso; 31000 487,000
7 Jeonbuk Motors América Club World Cup 12/11/16 FS1; 61000 FOXD; 364000 425,000
8 Real Madrid Dortmund Champions League 12/7/16 FS1; 259000 —; — 259,000
9 Watford Everton Premier League 12/10/16 NBCSN; 225000 —; — 225,000
10 Barcelona Mönchengladbach Champions League 12/6/16 FS2; 22000 FOXD; 186000 208,000
11 Chelsea West Brom Premier League 12/11/16 NBCSN; 184000 —; — 184,000
12 Schalke 04 Leverkusen Bundesliga 12/11/16 FS2; 15000 FOXD; 153000 168,000
13 Osasuna Barcelona La Liga 12/10/16 beIN; 39000 beIE; 92000 131,000
14 Man City Celtic Champions League 12/6/16 FS1; 126000 —; — 126,000
15 Bayern Atletico Madrid Champions League 12/6/16 ESPN2; 123000 —; — 123,000
16 Zorya Man Utd Europa League 12/8/16 FS1; 115000 —; — 115,000
17 North Carolina Stanford NCAA Soccer 12/9/16 ESPNU; 107000 —; — 107,000
18 Southampton Hapoel Europa League 12/8/16 FS1; 98000 —; — 98,000
19 Leverkusen Monaco Champions League 12/7/16 —; — FOXD; 82000 82,000
20 Swansea Sunderland Premier League 12/10/16 CNBC; 73000 —; — 73,000
21 Real Sociedad Valencia La Liga 12/10/16 —; — beIE; 72000 72,000
22 Denver Wake Forest NCAA Soccer 12/9/16 ESPNU; 71000 —; — 71,000
23 Lyon Sevilla Champions League 12/7/16 ESPN2; 67000 —; — 67,000
24 Real Betis Athletic La Liga 12/11/16 —; — beIE; 64000 64,000
25 Bayern Wolfsburg Bundesliga 12/10/16 FS1; 60000 —; — 60,000
26 Espanyol Sporting La Liga 12/11/16 —; — beIE; 58000 58,000
27 Mamelodi Sundowns Kashima Antlers Club World Cup 12/11/16 FS1; 35000 FOXD; 18000 53,000
28 Villarreal Atletico Madrid La Liga 12/12/16 —; — beIE; 51000 51,000
29 Torino Juventus Serie A 12/11/16 beIN; 48000 —; — 48,000
30 Las Palmas Leganes La Liga 12/10/16 —; — beIE; 41000 41,000
31 PSG Nice Ligue 1 12/11/16 beIN; 36000 —; — 36,000
32 Feirense Porto Primeira Liga 12/11/16 —; — UDN; 32000 32,000
33 Köln Dortmund Bundesliga 12/10/16 FS2; 12000 FOXD; 19000 31,000
34 Celta Vigo Sevilla La Liga 12/11/16 —; — beIE; 30000 30,000
35 Frankfurt Hoffenheim Bundesliga 12/9/16 FS2; 29000 —; — 29,000
36 Malaga Granada La Liga 12/9/16 —; — beIE; 29000 29,000
37 Hertha Bremen Bundesliga 12/10/16 FS2; 17000 FOXD; 9000 26,000
38 Mönchengladbach Mainz Bundesliga 12/11/16 FS1; 24000 ; — 24,000
39 Kashima Antlers Auckland City Club World Cup 12/8/16 FS1; 13000 FOXD; 10000 23,000
40 Spurs CSKA Moscow Champions League 12/7/16 FS2; 22000 —; — 22,000
41 Preston Blackburn Championship 12/10/16 beIN; 20000 ; — 20,000
42 Roma AC Milan Serie A 12/12/16 beIN; 16000 —; — 16,000
43 Huddersfield Bristol Championship 12/10/16 beIN; 10000 ; — 10,000
44 Salzburg Schalke Europa League 12/8/16 FS2; 9000 —; — 9,000
45 Villarreal Steaua Bucharest Europa League 12/8/16 FS2; 8000 —; — 8,000
46 Astra Roma Europa League 12/8/16 FS2; 6000 —; — 6,000
47 Fiorentina Sassuolo Serie A 12/12/16 beIN; 6000 —; — 6,000
48 Brighton Leeds Utd Championship 12/9/16 beIN; 5000 —; — 5,000

2016 MLS TV averages:

League Overall ESPN ESPN2 ESPND FOX FS1 FOXD UniMás/UDN
MLS 276,689 290,179 201,500 46,000 658,000 154,346 34,677 218,038
MLS Playoffs 273,000 279,167 124,000 44,500 1,411,000 191,286 73,750 289,600

Most-watched leagues on US TV

League Average
Liga MX 760,779
Premier League 449,306
UEFA CL 366,643
MLS 292,365
Club World Cup 167,000
La Liga 147,543
NWSL 88,500
Bundesliga 76,338
Primeira Liga 34,294
Serie A 26,684
Championship 16,864
Ligue 1 14,000
NASL 7,500

SEE MORE: Access our archives of US TV ratings for soccer.

HT SportsTVRatings