The fifth round of the UEFA Champions League Group Stage saw a 20% drop in viewership from the previous round, averaging just 489,750 viewers per match window on TNT and the networks of Univision. Matches in the 3-5 PM ET window dropped 22% from 948,000 viewers in Round 4 to 743,500 in Round 5. Overall, the UEFA Champions League Group Stage is averaging 919,000 viewers in the 3-5 PM ET window through the first five Rounds in 2018.
Impressively, though, the Champions League game featuring Paris-Saint Germain against Liverpool averaged 450,000 viewers on Spanish-language television, which will help promote PSG and Liverpool to Spanish-speakers and bilinguals in the United States.
Viewership for the opening round of the Liga MX Apertura Liguilla is also down significantly, seeing a 28% drop from the 2017 Apertura Liguilla. In the 2017 edition, two matches saw viewership larger than one million with Club América’s second leg match against Cruz Azul drawing over two million viewers. This year, only Santos Laguna’s second leg match against Monterrey managed to draw more than one million viewers.
In the US domestic league, viewership for the MLS Eastern and Western Conference Championships also saw an 8% dip from the 2017 Conference Championships. Viewership for the Western Conference Final was down almost 10% dropping from 326,000 average viewers in 2017 to 295,000 average viewers in 2018. The Eastern Conference Final faired slightly better, down just 7% and 21,000 viewers from the 2017 edition.
Rank | Date | Competition | Teams | TV1 | Total |
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1 | 12/1 | Liga MX Apertura Liguilla | Santos / Monterrey | Univision: 1100000 | 1,100,000 |
2 | 12/1 | Liga MX Apertura Liguilla | Cruz Azul / Querétaro | Univision: 981000 | 981,000 |
3 | 12/1 | Premier League | Southampton / Man Utd | NBC: 863000 / Universo: 37000 | 900,000 |
4 | 12/2 | Premier League | Liverpool / Everton | NBCSN: 553000 / Telemundo: 268000 | 821,000 |
5 | 11/29 | Liga MX Apertura Liguilla | Toluca / Club América | UDN: 796000 | 796,000 |
6 | 12/2 | Liga MX Apertura Liguilla | Club América / Toluca | Univision: 796000 | 796,000 |
7 | 11/29 | Liga MX Apertura Liguilla | Tigres / Pumas | UDN: 677000 | 677,000 |
8 | 12/2 | Premier League | Arsenal / Spurs | NBCSN: 483000 / Telemundo: 164000 | 647,000 |
9 | 11/27 | UEFA Champions League | Roma / Real Madrid | TNT: 198000 / Univision: 426000 | 624,000 |
10 | 11/28 | UEFA Champions League | PSG / Liverpool | Univision: 450000 | 450,000 |
11 | 11/28 | Liga MX Apertura Liguilla | Querétaro / Cruz Azul | UDN: 444000 | 444,000 |
12 | 11/28 | Liga MX Apertura Liguilla | Monterrey / Santos | FOXD: 435000 | 435,000 |
13 | 11/29 | MLS Western Championship | Sporting Kansas City / Portland Timbers | ESPN: 353000 | 353,000 |
14 | 12/1 | Premier League | Man City / Bournemouth | NBCSN: 329000 / Universo: 22000 | 351,000 |
15 | 12/2 | Liga MX Apertura Liguilla | Pumas / Tigres | Univision: 316000 | 316,000 |
16 | 11/29 | MLS Eastern Championship | New York Red Bulls / Atlanta United | FS1: 266000 | 266,000 |
17 | 11/28 | UEFA Champions League | Atletico Madrid / Monaco | TNT: 121000 / UniMás: 124000 | 245,000 |
18 | 11/28 | UEFA Champions League | Spurs / Inter Milan | TNT: 215000 | 215,000 |
19 | 12/2 | Premier League | Chelsea / Fulham | NBCSN: 186000 / Universo | 206,000 |
20 | 11/27 | UEFA Champions League | AEK Athens / Ajax | TNT: 122000 / UniMás: 67000 | 189,000 |
21 | 11/27 | UEFA Champions League | Juventus / Valencia | UniMás: 140000 | 140,000 |
22 | 11/29 | UEFA Europa League | Standard Liège / Sevilla | UniMás: 70000 | 70,000 |
23 | 11/27 | UEFA Champions League | Lyonnais / Man City | Gala: 58000 | 58,000 |
24 | 11/29 | UEFA Europa League | Milan / Dudelange | UDN: 44000 | 44,000 |
25 | 12/1 | Bundesliga | Dortmund / Freiburg | UDN: 39000 | 39,000 |
26 | 12/1 | Bundesliga | Hoffenheim / Schalke | UDN: 32000 | 32,000 |
27 | 11/27 | UEFA Champions League | CSKA Moskva / Viktoria Plzen | Gala: 30000 | 30,000 |
28 | 12/2 | Bundesliga | RB Leipzig / Mönchengladbach | UDN: 23000 | 23,000 |
29 | 11/29 | UEFA Europa League | Astana / Dynamo Kyiv | UDN: 18000 | 18,000 |
30 | 11/29 | UEFA Europa League | Rangers / Villarreal | Gala: 18000 | 18,000 |
31 | 11/29 | UEFA Europa League | Vorskla / Arsenal | Gala: 12000 | 12,000 |
32 | 11/28 | UEFA Champions League | Lokomotiv Moskva / Galatasaray | Gala: 8000 | 8,000 |
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