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Out of the international games being played during the past 10 days, which ones do you think were the most watched? According to our research as well as SportsTVRatings.com, the four most viewed matches were the four friendlies involving either the United States or Mexico. Mexico’s matches averaged 1.55 million viewers over the break while […]

Saturday afternoon’s Bundesliga clash between Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen on FOX Sports 2 and Fox Deportes delivered the league’s highest cable viewership so far this season. No doubt thanks in part to the lack of a Premier League match airing in the same time slot. It was also the highest viewed Bundesliga match on […]

The National Women’s Soccer League returned to the airwaves with the league’s third and final regular season match broadcast on Fox Sports 1 attracting 47,000 viewers, the lowest of the league’s three nationally televised matches. Major League Soccer on Fox Sports 1 did not fare much better either with Columbus Crew and DC United drawing […]

For the second time this season, a Major League Soccer broadcast has averaged more than one million viewers. This past weekend, the over-the-air FOX broadcast network aired two matches on the big FOX network with only one viewable in each market depending on FOX’s NFL coverage for the day. Most of the country saw Toronto […]

The Scottish Premiership made its FOX Sports 1 debut on Saturday morning averaging only 23,000 viewers for the first Old Firm clash in league play since 2012. In recent years, the Scottish Premiership has been relegated to FOX Soccer Plus and the streaming platform FOX Soccer 2GO. With these kind of numbers, we can see […]

Last Saturday's game between Minnesota United and Rayo OKC on beIN SPORTS en Español drew 21,000 viewers, the most for an NASL match since the league's debut on beIN SPORTS in April, 2016. The NASL also beat out the Conference USA college football game on the beIN SPORTS’ English-language channel, which attracted only 13,000 viewers. The […]

The vast majority of soccer leagues around the world took a break during the past 10 days, so international games were the focus. We've researched the World Cup qualifiers and international friendlies to bring you the TV viewing audiences for games that aired in the United States. The highest viewership figures of the international break […]

The final weekend of August continued the trend of low viewership for MLS broadcasts as the four MLS matches aired on the networks of ESPN, FOX Sports and Univision averaged only 197,500 viewers. Although up 22% from 155,000 viewers at the beginning of the month, the 15 MLS broadcasts during the month of August averaged […]

Serie A and La Liga both kicked off last weekend on the networks of beIN SPORTS. La Liga’s opening weekend viewership peaked Sunday afternoon when 294,000 watched Real Madrid face off against Real Sociedad on beIN SPORTS and beIN SPORTS en Español. Saturday’s match between Barcelona and Real Betis drew 238,000. The two Serie A matches […]

MLS and FOX Sports experienced another poor weekend with Sunday evening’s matchup between the Seattle Sounders and Real Salt Lake attracting only 50,000 viewers on FOX Sports 1 and an additional 6,000 on FOX Deportes. Not only are those the worst numbers for any game this season, they are also record lows for both networks. […]

Last weekend was an awful one for MLS. Broadcasts of the league averaged just 139,000 viewers on TV during weekend, the worst of the season. FOX Sports 1 delivered the two least viewed matches of the season with both games failing to break the 100,000 viewer mark. You would certainly expect more from a doubleheader featuring […]

Despite featuring a matchup between two of the MLS’s strongest fanbases (Sporting KC and Portland Timbers), the viewership for this season’s final MLS broadcast on the over-the-air FOX network was largely disappointing. The 348,000 viewers is the worst we have seen on the FOX broadcast network, and as one of only four MLS matches available free-to-air […]