Most-watched soccer games on US TV for December 7-23, 2017

Tigres’ 3-2 aggregate victory over Monterrey in the Liga MX Apertura final averaged 2.35 million viewers across two matches on Univision and Univision Deportes, down 23% from 3.05 million average viewers across both legs of the 2016 Apertura final featuring Club América and Tigres but up 16% from 2.02 million average viewers for both legs of the 2016 Clasura final between Chivas and Tigres. Overall, Liguilla viewership fell 31% on Univision’s networks when compared to the 2016 Apertura tournament.

Premier League matches have broken the 1 million viewer mark for 5 consecutive weeks across NBC’s networks starting with Liverpool’s match against Chelsea on November 25, which averaged 1.119 million viewers and concluding with Leicester City’s 2-2 draw with Manchester United this past weekend which averaged 1.179 million viewers. Peak viewership was reached on December 10 for the Manchester Derby which averaged 1.397 million viewers across NBCSN and Telemundo.

The MLS Cup final saw a massive drop in viewership, hitting its lowest point since the 2013 final as only 1.107 million people tuned into the final on either ESPN or UniMás, down nearly 1 million viewers from last year’s final with both featuring Toronto FC and the Seattle Sounders. On the English-language side, ESPN shed 608,000 viewers from FOX’s broadcast and UniMás’ viewership was cut in half as only 304,000 tuned in versus 601,000 in 2016.

beIN SPORTS’ coverage of “El Clásico” between Real Madrid and FC Barcelona averaged more than 845,000 total viewers (P2+) across both networks, beginning with the earliest airtime for El Clásico at 6:40 a.m. ET. beIN SPORTS will continue its coverage of El Clásico, with the next match taking place in May 2018 during the afternoon – match dates and times to be announced.

Here are the most-watched soccer games on US TV for December 7-23, 2017:

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HT ShowBuzz Daily