Santos Laguna knocked out Club América in the 2018 Clasura semifinal on Sunday before an audience of 2.167 million on Univision and Univision Deportes, the most for a Liguilla match so far in 2018 and the second largest audience for a Liga MX match in 2018 behind only the Super Clásico in March. Both legs of the semifinal averaged 1.82 million viewers while the other semifinal between Club Tijuana and Toluca averaged 572,000 viewers on Univision Deportes.
FC Dallas’ match against Los Angeles Galaxy drew 395,000 viewers to Univision and Univision Deportes, bringing Univision’s average viewership to 305,500 through the first 10 broadcasts of the season, up significantly from 261,800 and 246,300 average viewers for the first 10 broadcasts in 2016 and 2017.
Borussia Dortmund’s final match of the 2017-18 Bundesliga season was watched by 329,000 viewers on the FOX broadcast network, the second largest audience for a Bundesliga match this season behind March 31’s game between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich which was also broadcast on FOX to 352,000 people.
Here are the most-watched soccer games on US TV for May 7-13, 2018:
Rank | Date | Competition | Teams | TV1 | TV2 | Total |
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1 | 5/13/18 | Liga MX Liguilla | Club América / Santos | Univision; 1155000 | UDN; 1012000 | 2,167,000 |
2 | 5/10/18 | Liga MX Liguilla | Santos / Club América | Univision; 891000 | UDN; 582000 | 1,473,000 |
3 | 5/13/18 | Premier League | Liverpool / Brighton | NBC; 768000 | Telemundo; 137000 | 905,000 |
4 | 5/10/18 | Liga MX Liguilla | Tijuana / Toluca | —; — | UDN; 648000 | 648,000 |
5 | 5/13/18 | Liga MX Liguilla | Toluca / Tijuana | —; — | UDN; 496000 | 496,000 |
6 | 5/12/18 | MLS | FC Dallas / LA Galaxy | Univision; 395000 | —; — | 395,000 |
7 | 5/12/18 | Bundesliga | Hoffenheim / Dortmund | FOX; 329000 | —; — | 329,000 |
8 | 5/13/18 | MLS | Orlando City SC / Atlanta United | FS1; 285000 | FOXD; — | 285,000 |
9 | 5/13/18 | Premier League | Arsenal / Huddersfield | MSNBC; 238000 | —; — | 238,000 |
10 | 5/13/18 | MLS | Los Angeles FC / New York City FC | FS1; 233000 | FOXD; — | 233,000 |
11 | 5/13/18 | MLS | Portland Timbers / Seattle Sounders | ESPN; 231000 | ESPND; — | 231,000 |
12 | 5/13/18 | Premier League | Newcastle / Chelsea | NBCSN; 216000 | —; — | 216,000 |
13 | 5/9/18 | Premier League | Chelsea / Huddersfield | NBCSN; 170000 | —; — | 170,000 |
14 | 5/13/18 | Premier League | Watford / Man Utd | USA; 167000 | —; — | 167,000 |
15 | 5/10/18 | Premier League | West Ham / Man Utd | NBCSN; 139000 | Unvso; 17000 | 156,000 |
16 | 5/8/18 | Premier League | Swansea / Southampton | NBCSN; 134000 | —; — | 134,000 |
17 | 5/13/18 | Premier League | Southampton / Man City | Universo; 41000 | —; — | 41,000 |
18 | 5/10/18 | UEFA U17 Euro | Switzerland U17 / England U17 | —; — | UDN; 21000 | 21,000 |
19 | 5/12/18 | Bundesliga | Leverkusen / Hannover | —; — | UDN; 21000 | 21,000 |
20 | 5/11/18 | UEFA U17 Euro | Spain U17 / Germany U17 | —; — | UDN; 16000 | 16,000 |
21 | 5/8/18 | UEFA U17 Euro | Netherlands U17 / Spain U17 | —; — | UDN; 15000 | 15,000 |
22 | 5/7/18 | UEFA U17 Euro | England U17 / Italy U17 | —; — | UDN; 9000 | 9,000 |
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