Last weekend's Liga MX doubleheader on Univision averaged 871,000 viewers, peaking for the early match featuring Tigres and Atlas. This is a steep drop from the previous week that featured three of Mexico’s largest clubs in Club América, Chivas de Guadalajara and Tigres, which averaged 1.2 million viewers. Univision’s coverage of Liga MX Femenil drew […]

Liverpool’s 2-0 victory over Manchester United on Sunday was the second Premier League match of 2020 to surpass one million viewers, drawing a combined 1.202 million across NBCSN and Telemundo. Telemundo’s 382,000 viewers is the most that have watched a match on the network since Liverpool met Manchester City in November 2019. The Premier League’s […]

Arsenal’s 2-0 victory over Manchester United on the afternoon of New Years Day was the most-watched weekday match ever on NBCSN, drawing 721,000 viewers to the network. It was also the most-watched Premier League match on cable television since November 10 when Liverpool defeated Manchester City. The first Premier League match of 2020 on NBC […]

NBCSN’s Boxing Day Premier League coverage averaged 404,250 viewers across four match broadcasts, up 13% from 357,500 viewers last year and peaking at 570,000 viewers for Liverpool’s 4-0 victory over Leicester City. Manchester City’s 3-1 victory over Leicester City on December 21 was NBC’s most-watched Premier League match of the month, drawing 821,000 viewers. The […]

Understandably, the attendance numbers for the USWNT received a substantial boost because it was a Women’s World Cup year. So it would follow that the TV viewing numbers would also receive a substantial boost because of the global tournament. TV viewing numbers were up compared to 2018, 2017 and 2016. However they were down slightly […]

Monterrey’s 3-2 victory over Al Sadd in the Second Round of the 2019 FIFA Club World Cup averaged 293,000 viewers on FOX Deportes, up nearly 100,000 viewers from Chivas de Guadalajara’s 3-2 defeat against Kashima Antlers in the Second Round of the 2018 tournament on Telemundo. Monterrey's game was the most-watched FIFA Club World Cup […]

Last Saturday’s Manchester Derby on NBCSN and Telemundo averaged a combined 999,000 viewers, delivering both network’s largest audience for a Premier League match since Manchester City battled Liverpool in early November. Given it was televised on NBCSN and not the over-the-air NBC network, it was not surprisingly the least-watched Manchester Derby to be played on […]

Univision’s broadcast of the 2nd leg of the Tigres-Club América Liga MX Quarterfinal drew 2 million total viewers, enough to make it the top-rated club soccer match of 2019, and the top-rated Liga MX Quarterfinal in over 2 years. The first leg of the Liga MX Femenil final recently on TUDN averaged 180,000 viewers, making […]

The 2019 MLS Cup Final between Seattle Sounders and Toronto FC averaged 823,000 viewers on ABC and an additional 447,000 on Spanish-language Univision, both up from the last time these two teams met in an MLS Cup Final back in 2017 when the match averaged 803,000 on ESPN and 304,000 on UniMás. However, the match […]

Toronto FC’s victory over Atlanta United in the Eastern Conference Final was FOX Sports 1’s most-watched MLS match in over two years, and only the second match in 2019 to average more than 300,000 viewers on the network. Over on ESPN’s networks, the Western Conference final averaged a combined 661,000 viewers across ESPN and ESPN […]

Liverpool’s 2-1 victory over Tottenham Hotspur last Sunday was the most-watched soccer match of the week with a combined 1.251 million viewers. It was the fourth most-watched Premier League match of 2019, the third largest Premier League audience on Telemundo in 2019 and the second most-watched of Premier League match of the 2018-2019 season. The […]

NBCSN’s Sunday broadcast of Manchester United against Liverpool produced a Total Audience Delivery of 763,000, making it the most-watched Premier League match on cable since September 1. A total of 697,000 viewers watched the match on NBCSN proper, making it the most-watched soccer match on cable during the month of October. Legal streaming of the […]

Major League Soccer’s final regular season broadcast of 2019 featured the San Jose Earthquakes and Portland Timbers — both fighting for a spot in the 2019 MLS Cup Playoffs — and drew an audience of 226,000 viewers on ESPN. ESPN’s networks finished the regular season seeing a 2% increase in viewership, up to 246,000 viewers per […]

The 2019 Apertura edition of the Liga MX SuperClásico averaged 2 million viewers on Univision’s networks, making it the most-watched club soccer match of the year on any network. It was the top-rated Apertura SuperClásico since 2014 and saw a 17% increase in viewership over the 2018 Apertura edition. Arsenal and Manchester United’s 0-0 draw […]

Catching up on the TV ratings for the month of September, MLS broadcasts on ESPN are averaging just 139,000 viewers in the month so far, down from an even 200,000 from the first 4 weeks of September in 2018. Overall, MLS broadcasts on ESPN are averaging 241,400 viewers in 2019, down 2% from this same […]