Four out of the top 25 most-viewed live soccer games on US television last weekend were shown on NBC Sports, with the number one most-viewed game being Chelsea against Southampton, which netted 948,000 viewers on NBC (Saturday, 12:30-2:30pm ET).

On the heels of Chelsea-Southampton, 866,000 watched Arsenal against Manchester United on NBCSN, which is an impressive number given that the game went head-to-head with CBS’ nationally televised Jets-Dolphin NFL game. The Gunners-United match still was the 8th most-watched Premier League ever on cable.

Across all of the Premier League games shown on NBC Sports-affiliated networks this past weekend, the average viewing audience was 508,666.

Meanwhile, after Univision hit 2 million viewers for the Super Clasico last weekend between America and Chivas, the Spanish-language sports network came back down to earth with an average of 247,200 viewers for Liga MX games.

The Bundesliga finally cracked 100,000 viewers for the first time this season when 106,000 watched Bayern Munich against Dortmund on FOX Sports 2. The program that was stopping FOX from showing Der Klassiker on FOX Sports 1 was a NASCAR pre-race show, which only netted 317,000 viewers.

Out of all of the numbers below, perhaps the most eyeopening one is the 218,000 who tuned in to watch Crystal Palace against West Bromwich Albion game on NBCSN at 4:45am PT/7:45am ET on a Saturday. What that number tell me is that NBCSN has achieved the difficult task of getting soccer fans used to tuning in to watch a broadcast no matter who’s playing. Even a Crystal Palace-WBA game had more viewers than the most-watched MLS game from the weekend (featuring Seattle Sounders and LA Galaxy on a Sunday night).

Here are the soccer-viewing numbers for the weekend of October 2-4, 2015:

Top 25 most-viewed live soccer games on TV

Pos. Teams No. of viewers TV Network Game time (ET) Date
1 Chelsea vs. Southampton 948,000 NBC 12:30-2:30pm Sat., Oct 3
2 Arsenal vs. Manchester United 866,000 NBCSN 11-1pm Sun., Oct 4
3 Everton vs. Liverpool 436,000 NBCSN 8:30-10:30am Sun., Oct 4
4 Manchester City vs. Newcastle 396,000 NBCSN 10am-Noon Sat., Oct 3
5 Monterrey vs. Leon 352,000 UDN 8-10pm Sat., Oct 3
6 America vs. Chiapas FC 275,000 UDN 6-8pm Sat., Oct 3
7 Pumas vs. Guadalajara 272,000 UDN 1-3pm Sun., Oct 4
8 Crystal Palace vs. WBA 218,000 NBCSN 7:45-9:45am Sat., Oct 3
9 Seattle vs. LA Galaxy 194,000 FOX Sports 1 9:30-11:30pm Sun., Oct 4
10 Sunderland vs. West Ham 188,000 USA 10am-Noon Sat., Oct 3
11 Querétaro vs. Club Tijuana 185,000 UDN 8:30-10:30pm Fri., Oct 2.
12 Atletico Madrid vs. Real Madrid 168,000 beIN SPORTS 2:30-4:30pm Sun., Oct 4
13 Puebla vs. Monarcas 152,000 UDN 6-8pm Sun., Oct 4
14 Sevilla vs. Barcelona 115,000 beIN SPORTS 10am-Noon Sat., Oct 3
15 Bayern Munich vs. Dortmund 106,000 FOX Sports 2 11:30-1:30pm Sun., Oct 4
16 Colorado vs. Real Salt Lake 104,000 FOX Sports 1 7-9pm Sun., Oct 4
17 FC Dallas vs. Houston Dynamo 85,000 ESPN2 5-7pm Sun., Oct 4
18 Schalke vs. Cologne 58,000 FOX Sports 1 9:30-11:30am Sun., Oct 4
19 Mainz vs. Darmstadt 37,000 FOX Sports 1 2:30-4:30pm Fri., Oct 2.
20 Ajax vs. PSV 32,000 UDN 8:30-10:30am Sun., Oct 4
21 Monchengladbach vs. Wolfsburg 25,000 FOX Sports 1 9:30-11:30am Sat., Oct 3
22 Carpi vs. Torino 15,000 beIN SPORTS Noon-2pm Sat., Oct 3
23 Juventus vs. Bologna 13,000 beIN SPORTS Noon-2pm Sun., Oct 4
24 Chievo vs. Verona 10,000 beIN SPORTS 2:45-4:45pm Sat., Oct 3
25 Rotherham vs. Burnley 9,000 beIN SPORTS 2:45-4:45pm Fri., Oct 2.

Notes:
• Average TV viewing numbers are for English-language broadcasts only unless the broadcasts are only available in Spanish-language.
• Not listed above but is included in the average beIN SPORTS and Serie A numbers below is the 26th most-watched soccer game last weekend (Sampdoria vs. Inter Milan, 5,000 viewers, beIN SPORTS, 9-11am, Sun., Oct 4).

League by league comparison

Average viewers per league game  
1 EPL 508,666
2 Liga MX 247,200
3 La Liga 141,500
4 MLS 127,666
5 Bundesliga 56,000
6 Serie A 10,750

Network by network comparison

Average viewers per soccer game on network  
1 NBC Sports 508,666
2 Univision 211,333
3 FOX Sports 87,333
4 ESPN 85,000
5 beIN SPORTS 47,857