The TV ratings are now in from Monday night’s Women’s World Cup thriller between the United States and Australia. The 3-1 victory by the Yanks was seen by 3.311 million viewers, breaking the record for the most-watched FIFA Women’s World Cup Group Stage match on US TV.  The previous record was a match between USA and Denmark in 1999, which drew 2.457 million people.

The massive numbers more than triple the first USA match in the 2011 Women’s World Cup Group Stage (1.074 million) against North Korea.  Not only were the ratings outstanding when taking into account previous Women’s World Cup matches, but the USA-Australia game outperformed every soccer match in the history of FOX Sports 1, and it wasn’t even close.

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Prior to the match on Monday, the cable sports channel’s highest rated soccer match was the US Men’s National Team’s game against Mexico back in April, which had an audience of just over 800,000.

Online streams of the USA-Australia game also broke FOX records as well.  The match posted 118,000 unique streams on the FOX Sports GO app, making it the most-streamed sports event ever on the device, beating out the previous record set by game seven of the 2014 World Series between the Kansas City Royals and the San Francisco Giants.

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Proving that soccer is not a regional sport, the top ten markets to view this particular game were spread out all over the country.  Washington D.C. led all markets with a 4.5 rating of the match.  Other cities to round out the top ten were:  Baltimore (3.8), St. Louis (3.7), Hartford (3.6), San Diego (3.2), Seattle (3.1), Orlando (2.9), Sacramento (2.9), Kansas City (2.9) and Los Angeles (2.8).

In fact, through the first two days of the tournament, viewership is averaging just over a million people per match, a 76% increase from the 2011 Women’s World Cup.  If this is any indication of how big this year’s Women’s World Cup is going to be, FOX will certainly be thrilled with the results.

 

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