It was another disappointing couple of weeks for FOX Sports 1’s MLS coverage as they are averaging just 182,400 viewers through their first five broadcasts of the season despite frequently featuring some of the league’s most popular teams in each of their broadcasts this season. Overall, MLS has seen a 27% decrease in viewership to start 2019, going from 359,571 average viewers through the first three weeks of the new season in 2018 to just 263,091 average viewers in 2019.
Elsewhere, Arsenal’s 2-0 defeat of Manchester United on Sunday, March 10 averaged 1.68 million viewers across all platforms to rank as the second most-watched Premier League match in history on American television. The match saw approximately 7% of its audience watch via NBC Sports.com or the NBC Sports app. The match was far and away the Premier League’s most-watched match on television this season with a quarter of a million viewers separating it from the next most-watched game (Arsenal’s 2-0 victory over Chelsea back in January).
Last Wednesday’s Copa MX quarterfinal meeting between Mexican giants Club América and Chivas de Guadalajara delivered 2019’s highest-rated soccer match on cable as 867,000 tuned in to the Univision Deportes Network for the telecast. Three days later on Saturday, the clubs met in the league to deliver the highest-rated soccer match across any network in 2019, averaging 1.5 million viewers on Univision.
Rank | Date | Competition | Teams | TV1 | Total |
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1 | 3/10 | Premier League | Arsenal / Man Utd | NBC: 1280000 / Telemundo: 331000 | 1,611,000 |
2 | 3/16 | Liga MX Clausura | Chivas / Club América | Univision: 1500000 | 1,500,000 |
3 | 3/12 | UEFA Champions League RO16 | Juventus / Atletico Madrid | TNT: 408000 / UniMás: 525000 | 933,000 |
4 | 3/9 | Liga MX Clausura | Querétaro / Chivas | Univision: 928000 | 928,000 |
5 | 3/9 | Premier League | Man City / Watford | NBC: 818000 / Unvso: 62000 | 880,000 |
6 | 3/13 | Copa MX | Club América / Chivas | UDN: 867000 | 867,000 |
7 | 3/6 | UEFA Champions League RO16 | PSG / Man Utd | TNT: 413000 / UniMás: 334000 | 747,000 |
8 | 3/9 | Liga MX Clausura | Club América / Puebla | Univision: 743000 | 743,000 |
9 | 3/17 | Premier League | Everton / Chelsea | NBCSN: 479000 / Telemundo: 218000 | 697,000 |
10 | 3/16 | Liga MX Clausura | Cruz Azul / Pachuca | Univision: 694000 | 694,000 |
11 | 3/5 | UEFA Champions League RO16 | Real Madrid / Ajax | TNT: 291000 / UniMás: 393000 | 684,000 |
12 | 3/10 | Premier League | Chelsea / Wolves | NBCSN: 459000 / Telemundo: 157000 | 616,000 |
13 | 3/13 | UEFA Champions League RO16 | Barcelona / Lyonnais | UniMás: 562000 | 562,000 |
14 | 3/13 | UEFA Champions League RO16 | Bayern / Liverpool | TNT: 454000 / Gala: 94000 | 548,000 |
15 | 3/17 | Premier League | Fulham / Liverpool | NBCSN: 476000 / Unvso: 50000 | 526,000 |
16 | 3/10 | Liga MX Clausura | Pumas / Morelia | Univision: 510000 | 510,000 |
17 | 3/9 | Premier League | Southampton / Spurs | NBCSN: 421000 / Unvso: 56000 | 477,000 |
18 | 3/5 | Liga MX Clausura | Club América / Necaxa | UDN: 422000 | 422,000 |
19 | 3/17 | Liga MX Clausura | Toluca / Atlas | Univision: 397000 | 397,000 |
20 | 3/8 | Liga MX Clausura | Atlas / Cruz Azul | UDN: 369000 | 369,000 |
21 | 3/10 | MLS | Atlanta United / FC Cincinnati | ESPN: 354000 | 354,000 |
22 | 3/16 | Premier League | Burnley / Leicester City | NBCSN: 325000 | 325,000 |
23 | 3/10 | Premier League | Liverpool / Burnley | NBCSN: 298000 / Unvso: 24000 | 322,000 |
24 | 3/16 | Liga MX Clausura | Tigres / Querétaro | Univision: 308000 | 308,000 |
25 | 3/6 | CCL RO8 | Monterrey / Atlanta United | UDN: 287000 | 287,000 |
26 | 3/5 | SheBelieves Cup | USWNT / Brazil | FS1: 278000 | 278,000 |
27 | 3/16 | MLS | New York Red Bulls / San Jose Earthquakes | Univision: 274000 | 274,000 |
28 | 3/9 | Premier League | Crystal Palace / Brighton | NBCSN: 270000 | 270,000 |
29 | 3/15 | Liga MX Clausura | Puebla / Pumas | UDN: 257000 | 257,000 |
30 | 3/9 | MLS | FC Dallas / Los Angeles Galaxy | Univision: 244000 | 244,000 |
31 | 3/17 | Liga MX Clausura | Santos / Necaxa | UDN: 232000 | 232,000 |
32 | 3/17 | Liga MX Clausura | Club León / Veracruz | UDN: 232000 | 232,000 |
33 | 3/10 | MLS | Los Angeles FC / Portland Timbers | FS1: 221000 | 221,000 |
34 | 3/15 | Liga MX Clausura | Morelia / Lobos | UDN: 203000 | 203,000 |
35 | 3/8 | Liga MX Clausura | Veracruz / Santos | UDN: 179000 | 179,000 |
36 | 3/17 | MLS | Cincinnati / Portland Timbers | FS1: 178000 | 178,000 |
37 | 3/5 | CCL RO8 | New York Red Bulls / Santos | UDN: 173000 | 173,000 |
38 | 3/10 | Liga MX Clausura | Lobos / León | UDN: 171000 | 171,000 |
39 | 3/9 | Liga MX Clausura | Pachuca / Tijuana | UDN: 145000 | 145,000 |
40 | 3/17 | MLS | New York City FC / Los Angeles FC | FS1: 140000 | 140,000 |
41 | 3/9 | Bundesliga | Bayern / Wolfsburg | UDN: 118000 | 118,000 |
42 | 3/17 | Bundesliga | Bayern / Mainz | UDN: 116000 | 116,000 |
43 | 3/14 | Europa League RO16 | Inter Milan / Frankfurt | UniMás: 108000 | 108,000 |
44 | 3/7 | Europa League RO16 | Chelsea / Dynamo Kyiv | UniMás: 96000 | 96,000 |
45 | 3/14 | Europa League RO16 | Dynamo Kyiv / Chelsea | UniMás: 92000 | 92,000 |
46 | 3/6 | CCL RO8 | Independiente / Sporting KC | UDN: 88000 | 88,000 |
47 | 3/14 | Europa League RO16 | Arsenal / Rennes | Gala: 72000 | 72,000 |
48 | 3/6 | UEFA Champions League RO16 | FC Porto / Roma | Gala: 70000 | 70,000 |
49 | 3/5 | UEFA Champions League RO16 | Dortmund / Spurs | Gala: 68000 | 68,000 |
50 | 3/7 | Europa League RO16 | Frankfurt / Inter Milan | UniMás: 61000 | 61,000 |
51 | 3/18 | Liga MX Femenil | Tigres / Santos | UDN: 61000 | 61,000 |
52 | 3/7 | Europa League RO16 | Valenca / Krasnodar | UDN: 50000 | 50,000 |
53 | 3/14 | Europa League RO16 | Slavia Praha / Sevilla | UDN: 49000 | 49,000 |
54 | 3/9 | Bundesliga | Mainz / Mönchengladbach | UDN: 45000 | 45,000 |
55 | 3/16 | Premier League | West Ham / Huddersfield | Unvso: 43000 | 43,000 |
56 | 3/12 | UEFA Champions League RO16 | Man City / Schalke | Gala: 42000 | 42,000 |
57 | 3/7 | Europa League RO16 | Rennes / Arsenal | Gala: 34000 | 34,000 |
58 | 3/14 | Europa League RO16 | Krasnodar / Valencia | UDN: 30000 | 30,000 |
59 | 3/16 | Bundesliga | Schalke / RB Leipzig | UDN: 28000 | 28,000 |
60 | 3/7 | Europa League RO16 | Sevilla / Slavia Praha | UDN: 23000 | 23,000 |
61 | 3/7 | Europa League RO16 | Napoli / Salzburg | Gala: 22000 | 22,000 |
62 | 3/15 | Bundesliga | Mönchengladbach / Freiburg | UDN: 21000 | 21,000 |
63 | 3/11 | Bundesliga | Düsseldorf / Frankufrt | UDN: 5000 | 5,000 |
64 | 3/14 | Europa League RO16 | Salzburg / Napoli | Gala: 4000 | 4,000 |
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