Most-watched soccer games on US TV for July 28-August 9 2020

Univision drew their largest Champions League audience of 2020 last Saturday with 967,000 viewers tuning in for the second leg of Barcelona and Napoli’s Round of 16 tie. Univision’s Champions League coverage over the weekend averaged 819,500 viewers, more than double the average audience for the other Round of 16 matches in February and March of this year. Meanwhile, viewing numbers for any games on CBS Sports Network will not be made available because the channel is not nationally rated by Nielsen.

The MLS is Back tournament knockout stages averaged just 199,214 viewers across FOX Sports 1, ESPN and ESPN2 without accounting for the final. Viewership dropped over 10% from 222,000 average viewers for the evening broadcasts of the Group Stage of the tournament. The league’s five Spanish-language broadcasts on Univision’s networks averaged an additional 94,000 viewers.

Liga MX’s return has averaged 283,650 viewers so far across Univision’s networks over the past three weeks, rising to 453,571 viewers for the 7 matches broadcast on the flagship channel. On FOX Deportes, home matches from Club Tijuana, Santos Laguna and Monterrey have averaged 121,250 viewers. Finally, Telemundo’s first two Chivas de Guadalajara broadcasts averaged 555,500 viewers, with Telemundo’s broadcast of Chivas’ opening match against Club León ranking as the most-watched match of the Apertura so far.

HT ShowBuzz Daily