Buoyed by the successful run that the United States made to the semi-finals of the competition, FOX Sports’ coverage of Copa America Centenario averaged 997,300 viewers per game.
The most-watched game of Copa America Centenario for FOX Sports was the 3.29 million people who tuned in to see the United States play Argentina on Tuesday, June 21 from 9-11pm ET. If the USA had beaten Argentina, FOX Sports would have probably broken their record for the most-watched soccer game on FOX Sports 1. As it was, the USA lost 0-3 to Argentina. FOX Sports 1’s most-watched soccer game still stands as the 4.7 million who saw the USA women’s team against Colombia last summer in the Women’s World Cup.
Outside of the USA games, the most-watched Copa America game on FOX Sports was the Argentina-Chile final that averaged 2.997 million. FOX Sports’ average, meanwhile, excluding USA games was 745,167 viewers per match. In comparison, ESPN is averaging 815,705 viewers per game for Euro 2016 to date.
While FOX Sports’ average of 997,300 viewers per game is impressive for the network, it paled in comparison to Univision whose average was 3.1 million per game.
Here’s the viewing numbers for every Copa America Centenario game that was televised on FOX Sports this summer:
| Teams | Channel | Viewing avg. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Game 1 | USA vs. Colombia | FS1 | 1,536,000 |
| Game 2 | Costa Rica vs. Paraguay | FOX | 731,000 |
| Game 3 | Haiti vs. Peru | FS2 | 138,000 |
| Game 4 | Brazil vs. Ecuador | FS1 | 598,000 |
| Game 5 | Jamaica vs. Venezuela | FOX | 710,000 |
| Game 6 | Mexico vs. Uruguay | FS1 | 619,000 |
| Game 7 | Panama vs. Bolivia | FS1 | 365,000 |
| Game 8 | Argentina vs. Chile | FS1 | 862,000 |
| Game 9 | USA vs. Costa Rica | FS1 | 1,600,000 |
| Game 10 | Colombia vs. Paraguay | FS1 | 739,000 |
| Game 11 | Brazil vs. Haiti | FS1 | 624,000 |
| Game 12 | Ecuador vs. Peru | FS2 | 148,000 |
| Game 13 | Uruguay vs. Venezuela | FS1 | 589,000 |
| Game 14 | Mexico vs. Jamaica | FS1 | 779,000 |
| Game 15 | Chile vs. Bolivia | FOX | Not available |
| Game 16 | Argentina vs. Panama | FOX | Not available |
| Game 17 | USA vs. Paraguay | FS1 | 2,061,000 |
| Game 18 | Colombia vs. Costa Rica | FS2 | 407,000 |
| Game 19 | Ecuador vs. Haiti | FS2 | 267,000 |
| Game 20 | Brazil vs. Peru | FS1 | 879,000 |
| Game 21 | Mexico vs. Venezuela | FS1 | 763,000 |
| Game 22 | Uruguay vs. Jamaica | FS1 | 392,000 |
| Game 23 | Chile vs. Panama | FS1 | 665,000 |
| Game 24 | Argentina vs. Bolivia | FS1 | 770,000 |
| Game 25 | USA vs. Ecuador | FS1 | 1,878,000 |
| Game 26 | Colombia vs. Peru | FS1 | 734,000 |
| Game 27 | Argentina vs. Venezuela | FX | 1,035,000 |
| Game 28 | Mexico vs. Chile | FX | 1,102,000 |
| Game 29 | USA vs. Argentina | FS1 | 3,290,000 |
| Game 30 | Colombia vs. Chile | FS1 | 971,000 |
| Game 31 | USA vs. Colombia | FX | 1,670,000 |
| Game 32 | Argentina vs. Chile | FS1 | 2,997,000 |
it’s just soccer
nobody in the u.s. cares or ever will
plus soccer is boring, un-American, and for rich white hipster douchebag losers
average income of a soccer watcher in the u.s.: $92,200
in the u.s., soccer is the sport of the 1%
the 99% watch football, baseball, basketball, hockey, and whatever other sport there is besides soccer
So why are you on this site?
Viewership on fox would have been higher if they had the games on local ota TV like fox5. Univision broadcast every game without requiring a cable subscription.