Catching up on the TV ratings after going through Hurricane Laura as well as delays due to the recent Labor Day, here are the latest TV ratings since the last time the column was published.

Univision’s Saturday evening Liga MX matches are averaging 454,800 viewers through the first month and half of the 2020 Apertura, down pretty significantly from 902,083 viewers through the same time period in the 2019 Apertura. Viewership for Univision’s Sunday afternoon kickoffs is also down, averaging 406,200 viewers compared to 532,667 in 2019. Telemundo has averaged 492,500 viewers for Chivas’ four home matches of the Apertura thru August 31.

The UEFA Champions League Final on Univision averaged a Spanish-language record 2.05 million viewers and represents a 41% increase in viewership on Univision when compared to last season. Viewership of the UEFA Europa League Final also saw a large increase on UniMás, drawing 464,000 viewers, a 71% increase from last year’s final on Univision.

The MLS is Back tournament came to a conclusion way back on August 11 with Portland Timbers defeating Orlando City SC 2-0 in the final before an audience of 365,000 on ESPN, making it the 3rd most-watched match of the tournament on English-language television behind the tournaments only match on FOX and the opener between Orlando City SC and Inter Miami on ESPN. Throughout the tournament, evening matches on ESPN and ESPN2 averaged 237,318 viewers, down about 2% from what the league averaged on ESPN’s networks throughout the 2019 season.

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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.

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The Group Stage of MLS is Back has concluded, with the evening kickoffs averaging 221,957 viewers across all English-language networks. On ESPN’s networks, the Group Stage averaged 240,786 viewers, which is almost even with the 240,903 viewers that the league averaged on ESPN’s networks in 2019. The numbers were not as good on FOX’s networks, with their broadcasts down 14% from 223,294 viewers in 2019.

The Premier League on NBC averaged 820,645 viewers in 31 broadcasts over the 2019-2020 season. The league saw a slight drop in viewership following the COVID hiatus, averaging just 810,000 viewers in NBC’s final six broadcasts. The final round drew at least 1.6 million concurrent viewers on linear television across NBC, NBCSN, USA, Golf Channel, Telemundo, Universo and CNBC.

The NWSL Challenge Cup final drew a record 653,000 viewers on CBS, making it the most-watched NWSL match of all time, and just the second to draw more than 200,000 viewers. CBS’s only two soccer broadcasts in 2020 so far, the NWSL Challenge Cup opener and the NWSL Challenge Cup final, averaged 612,500 viewers, larger than MLS’s only match on FOX this summer that drew 587,000 viewers.

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MLS is Back! The league returned last week averaging 300,875 viewers on English-language ESPN, FOX and FOX Sports 1 in the 8PM ET and 10:30PM ET start times, down about 10% from the leagues average English-language audience in the first two weeks of the season back in March. Over on Spanish-language TUDN, the opening matches have averaged 53,200 viewers. ESPN averaged 337,500 viewers for their first four late MLS is Back broadcasts, down from about 391,000 in the network’s first three MLS broadcasts of 2020, but up nearly 80,000 average viewers from the network’s average in 2019. The league’s first three post-COVID hiatus broadcasts on FS1 are drawing very similar audiences to that network’s average in 2019, averaging around 157,000 viewers.

Univision’s coverage of the Copa por Mexico tournament continued this week as the group stage ended, with viewership peaking on Saturday for Club América’s match against Cruz Azul. A total of 726,000 viewers tuned in, making the friendly the third most-watched soccer match on American television last week. Univision’s coverage of 11 of the tournaments 12 matches averaged 307,182 viewers.

The Premier League on NBC drew its second-largest audience since returning last month on Saturday, drawing 945,000 viewers for Sheffield United’s 3-0 victory over Chelsea. This brings NBC’s average for the 2019-2020 Premier League season up to 831,379 viewers, running about even with the league’s average audience in the 2018-2019 season.

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Premier League viewership on NBC dropped 12% from the network’s previous Sunday Premier League broadcast on June 21, which featured Everton and Liverpool. However, viewership was up about 6% when compared to the average audience on NBC for the 2019-2020 Premier League season. The Premier League on NBC is averaging 827,321 viewers through 28 broadcasts this season.

The Copa por Mexico tournament kicked off in Mexico last week with most of the matches televised in the United States on Univision’s networks. The tournament’s first seven broadcasts averaged 263,286 viewers, peaking at 526,000 viewers for the sole broadcast on Univision to that point.

The 2020 German Cup final drew just 108,000 viewers on ESPN2 on Saturday, down from 126,500 average viewers for both semifinals on ESPN last month and also down from 122,000 viewers from the last DFB Pokal match to feature on ESPN2 back in 2017 when Borussia Dortmund defeated Bayern Munich in the semifinal.

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The National Women’s Soccer League Challenge Cup kicked off last weekend. Defending champions North Carolina Courage defeated Portland Thorns FC 2-1 before a television audience of 572,000 on CBS, the largest audience ever for a NWSL match. The final of the NWSL Challenge Cup is also scheduled to air on CBS on July 26.

The English FA Cup made its first appearance on American television in over two years after the property left FOX Sports and moved exclusively to ESPN+ following the 2018 final. The two FA Cup quarter-finals airing on ESPN averaged 257,000 viewers, up about 16% from what the competition averaged on FS1 in all of 2017 and 2018. Manchester United’s extra time victory over Norwich City drew 308,000 viewers, making it the eighth most-watched FA Cup match on cable television since 2016.

The Premier League averaged 275,333 viewers on NBCSN in its second week back, down 29% from 354,444 in the league’s first week back on NBCSN and also down from the league’s pre-COVID average viewership by about 100,000 viewers. However, it is worth pointing out the increased share of matches broadcast mid-week following the league’s return.

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Sunday’s Merseyside Derby between Everton and Liverpool delivered a combined audience of 1.269 million viewers on NBC and Telemundo, making it the third most-watched Premier League match of 2020.

NBCSN also delivered the third and fourth most-watched weekday Premier League matches since 2014 (excluding holidays) with June 17’s match between Manchester City and Arsenal drawing 518,000 viewers to the network and June 19’s match between Spurs and Manchester United averaging 533,000 viewers.

Overall, the Premier League averaged 533,700 viewers in its first full week back, including a few mid-week matches.

Over on ESPN, Italian soccer is really struggling to bring in viewers mid-week with the June 17’s Coppa Italia Final between Juventus and Napoli only drawing 122,000 viewers, and a Monday Serie A match on June 22 drawing only 115,000 viewers.

The Premier League’s return also contributed to a large drop in Bundesliga viewership, with last Saturday morning’s 9:30 AM kickoff on Fox Sports 1 averaging just 65,000 viewers, down 73% from what the window had averaged since the Bundesliga’s return from their COVID-19 hiatus in May.

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The Bundesliga’s period of exclusivity among the world’s top soccer leagues is over. The league averaged over 200,000 viewers when appearing on FS1 since the league’s return, very likely the highest average viewership for the league since FOX acquired the rights in 2015. The German league has also seen success on Univision’s networks, averaging 52,278 viewers across 18 matches on UniMás and TUDN, up over 44% from Univision’s first 24 Bundesliga broadcasts in the 2020 calendar year. Viewership for the period peaked fairly early on May 17 as 583,000 people tuned in to Union Berlin’s match against Bayern Munich, with 361,000 watching on FS1 and an additional 222,000 on UniMás.

Spain’s La Liga made its return last weekend with matches involving the two largest clubs, Barcelona and Real Madrid, averaging 285,500 viewers across beIN SPORTS and beIN SPORTS en Español, which is about even with what both clubs drew for their matches prior to the suspension of play in March.

German soccer also made a brief mid-week appearance on ESPN as they televised the semi-finals of the DFB Pokal. Bayern Munich defeated Eintracht Frankfurt on June 10 with an average viewing audience of 140,000 on ESPN. Meanwhile, Bayer Leverkusen cruised to victory over FC Saarbrücken before an audience of just 113,000 the day before.

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Atlético Madrid’s extra time victory over Liverpool in the second Leg of the UEFA Champions League Round of 16 averaged a combined 980,000 viewers across TNT and Univision’s networks, making it the most-watched Champions League match on American television since the 2019 final. Overall, viewership for the round was down 18% on English-language television, and down 5% from FS1’s final year of coverage in 2018. On the Spanish-language side, Univision’s networks averaged 395,167, also down about 18% from 2019.

Univision’s coverage of the first legs of the CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinals averaged 333,000 average viewers, peaking at 522,000 for Atlanta United’s match in Mexico City against Club América. This is an 82% increase in viewership from the 2019 quarterfinals, which averaged 182,000 viewers, peaking at just 222,000.

Liga MX’s final weekend of broadcasts prior to the league’s suspension due to the coronavirus saw a slight drop in viewership on Univision and UniMás from both networks’ average in 2020, with the four free-to-air matches averaging 747,000 viewers, about 9% below the average through early March. Viewership numbers for the Chivas-Monterey game on CBS Sports, ESPN Deportes, FOX Deportes and fubo Sports Network were not available.

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Last Sunday’s Manchester Derby averaged 1.7 million viewers on NBC and Telemundo, making it the most-watched Premier League match on American television of all time and the most-watched soccer match on American television in 2020. This brings the average audience for Premier League matches on NBC up to 823,040 during the 2019-2020 season thus far.

Univision also saw a viewership high last weekend, averaging 1.5 million viewers for Club América’s match against Pumas last Friday night. It is the largest audience for a non-SuperClásico Liga MX match since 2017, and the second most-watched soccer match on American television so far in 2020.

It has been a strong opening two-weeks of the MLS season for ESPN, last week averaging 399,000 viewers when Portland Timbers hosted expansion side Nashville SC. This beat out all but one of ESPN’s MLS broadcasts in 2019. For FS1, it was a different story entirely. Their broadcast featuring Los Angeles FC and Philadelphia Union averaged just 124,000, a bad sign for a network that averaged just 158,000 viewers for MLS matches in 2019.

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MLS returned last week with some strong numbers across the board. Early Saturday afternoon, a network season-opener record 505,000 viewers tuned in to Univision and TUDN to witness Javier “Chicharito” Hernández’s debut with the Los Angeles Galaxy in Houston. A few hours later on Saturday, Nashville SC made their MLS debut against Atlanta United before a state record-breaking home crowd of 59,069. The match was also broadcast on the FOX network to a television audience of 756,000, the largest audience for an opening round MLS match in at least a decade.

ESPN’s opening weekend MLS doubleheader averaged 387,000 viewers, up 2.5% from opening weekend last season. FS1 also saw an increase, averaging 229,000 viewers for their late Sunday broadcast featuring Portland Timbers and Minnesota United. Both of FOX Sports 1’s opening round MLS broadcasts in 2019 failed to draw more than 200,000 viewers.

Meanwhile, beIN SPORTS’ broadcast of el Clásico averaged a combined 941,418 viewers, up 72% from the first time these two teams met earlier this season, and the highest viewership for the contest since 2017.

The end to Liverpool’s “invincible” bid for the 2019/20 season at the hands of Watford was watched by 606,000 viewers on NBCSN, the third largest audience for a Saturday Premier League match on NBCSN this season. December’s Manchester Derby sits atop this list, having averaged 675,000 viewers on the network.

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TNT’s first two UEFA Champions League broadcasts of 2020 were down 22% from comparable matches in 2019. The network’s two opening broadcasts saw Atlético Madrid hosting Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur host RB Leipzig. These matches averaged just 282,500 viewers on TNT. On the Spanish-language side, UniMás, Galavision and TUDN combined for an audience of 347,500 viewers in the same window.

LaLiga ratings took a slight dip on beIN SPORTS last weekend, down from 99,943 average viewers across nine matches to 75,020 viewers across an equal number of matches this past weekend. Peak viewership for the league also saw a pretty heft drop from 363,837 for a match featuring Real Madrid on February 16 to 242,981 viewers for a clash between Barcelona and Eibar last Saturday.

The trend of MLS clubs drawing poor television numbers in the CONCACAF Champions League looks to be continuing in 2020. New York City FC’s victory in Costa Rica against San Carlos drew just 54,000 viewers to TUDN, with the Seattle Sounders’ match in Honduras against Olimpia performing slightly better at 65,000 viewers. Two days earlier, Cruz Azul’s away leg against Jamaican champions Portmore United drew 222,000 viewers to the network.

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Premier League on NBC viewership jumped over 53% last week when Liverpool returned to the airwaves for the second time in 2020 as they earned a 1-0 victory over Norwich, bringing the average viewership for the Premier League on NBC up to 878,400 in 2020.

Over in Spain, Real Madrid and Barcelona both drew beIN SPORTS’ largest audiences last week. Real Madrid’s draw with Celta Vigo was beIN’s most watched game in both English and Spanish, combining for 363,837 viewers on Sunday, the largest audience for a soccer match on beIN SPORTS’ networks in 2020. With approximately 122,000 fewer viewers on Saturday, Barcelona’s match versus Getafe ranks eighth on beIN SPORTS in 2020.

Last Saturday’s Ligue 1 match between Amiens and Paris Saint-Germain was the most-watched non-La Liga match on beIN’s networks in 2020 with 87,000 combined viewers, more than doubling the next closest, a French Cup match on January 29 also featuring Paris Saint-Germain, which drew only 35,000 viewers.

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Brighton’s 1-1 draw with Watford on Saturday, February 8 was the least-watched Premier League match on NBC since September, and the second least-watched match on NBC during the 2019-2020 season. Through 22 broadcasts, the Premier League on NBC is averaging 796,318 viewers, down about 50,000 viewers from the first 22 broadcasts last season. 

FC Barcelona’s comeback victory against Real Betis drew a combined 353,200 viewers on beIN SPORTS’ networks, the largest audience for a match on beIN SPORTS in 2020. Broadcasts featuring FC Barcelona on beIN SPORTS are averaging 305,388 viewers this year. 

CONCACAF’s 2020 Olympic Qualifying tournament concluded last Monday for the women, with the Final match drawing 307,000 viewers to FS2, the network’s largest audience for a soccer match since the conclusion of the 2019 Women’s World Cup. Days earlier, the United States’ match against Mexico drew a combined 464,000 viewers, with 102,000 watching on Spanish-language Galavision.

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FC Juárez’ 3-1 victory over Club América on Saturday was the most-watched soccer broadcast of the week, drawing 1.1 million viewers on Univision. It became the third Liga MX match to draw an audience larger than 1 million viewers in 2020. 

Over on NBC, Manchester United and Wolves played before an American television audience of 913,000, bringing NBC’s average viewership for Premier League matches up to 807,048 for the 2019-2020 season, down at least 50,000 viewers when compared to the same time period of the 2018-2019 season. 

The United States Men’s National team drew its smallest English-language television audience in years, drawing just 141,000 viewers on ESPNews for their match against Costa Rica. On Spanish-language television the match averaged 321,000 viewers on UniMás, the fewest viewers for the USMNT on Spanish-language television since last June’s friendly against Venezuela. 

Saturday’s LaLiga broadcast featuring Barcelona and Levante was the most-watched LaLiga match of 2020 so far, drawing a combined 332,538 viewers on beIN SPORTS and beIN SPORTS en Español. 

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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 its smallest audience of 2020 so far with just 23,000 viewers watching the match between Toluca and Cruz Azul. Overall, Univision is averaging nearly 39,000 viewers per broadcast of Liga MX Femenil.

FC Barcelona’s 2-0 loss to Valencia on Saturday averaged 244,284, the highest for a match on beIN SPORTS’s networks this past week, down 16% from the network’s peak viewership last week. LaLiga matches on beIN SPORTS averaged 79,836 viewers in January 2020.

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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 second match on NBC of 2020 averaged 843,000 viewers, down nearly 30% from a week prior, but still above average for the network this season. After 20 broadcasts, the Premier League on NBC is averaging 801,750 viewers per match.

LaLiga viewership peaked at just over 291,000 this past week when Barcelona hosted Granada, down a slight 4% from the league’s peak viewership earlier this month when Barcelona traveled to Espanyol.

AC Milan’s late win against Udinese was watched by 76,000 viewers on ESPN2, the first Serie A match we have found data for in months. The highest recorded audience for Serie A available to us was 246,000 viewers for a match featuring Roma and Juventus in May 2019 that averaged 246,000 viewers.

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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 saw Liverpool earn a 1-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur as 1.189 million viewers watched on English-language TV, the largest for a match on broadcast television of the 2019-2020 season so far.

beIN SPORTS’ largest audience of this new year came on January 4 for a match featuring two Catalan clubs — Barcelona and Espanyol — with beIN’s English and Spanish networks combining to average over 304,000 viewers.

Just two weeks after the conclusion of the 2019 Liga MX Apertura, Univision kicked off its coverage of the 2020 Clausura, broadcasting five matches of the opening round on their networks. Viewership for the first round peaked at 787,000 in Saturday’s late kickoff featuring Tigres and Atlético San Luis. Univision’s networks averaged 476,800 viewers during the opening round of the Clausura, up slightly from 463,667 for the opening round of the 2019 Clausura.

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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 Premier League on NBC averaged 776,000 viewers for the month of December and has averaged 777,944 viewers through the first six months of the 2019-2020 season.

The 2nd leg of the 2019 Liga MX Apertura Final on Univision was the most-watched club soccer match of 2019 on any network, drawing a television audience in the United States of 3.3 million, more than doubling the viewership of the 1st leg, which aired on FOX Deportes and FOX Sports 1, drawing a combined 1.395 million viewers.

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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 non-Final match since 2016 when Club América last participated.

In the Premier League, Manchester City’s victory over Arsenal last Sunday afternoon averaged a combined 791,000 viewers on NBCSN and Telemundo, enough to rank as the most-watched soccer broadcast of the week. The day before, NBC’s broadcast featuring Southampton and West Ham drew 706,000 viewers, up 15% from the network’s last Premier League broadcast on November 30.

TNT’s coverage of the UEFA Champions League Group Stage has averaged 267,833 viewers during the 3-5PM ET broadcast window, up a slight 4.5% from 2018. Liverpool’s home match against Napoli on November 27 of this year was TNT’s most-viewed Champions League Group Stage match ever, drawing 413,000 viewers to the network. During the same 3PM ET window, Univision’s networks averaged 454,417 viewers, down 32% from 2018.

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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 a weekend since September 10, 2016, and down 9% from 1.1 million viewers for the same fixture last season.

Univision’s broadcasts of their three Liga MX Semifinal matches averaged 1.4 million viewers, down 17% from the semifinals of last year’s Apertura which featured a matchup between Club América and Tigres. To add more context to Univision’s broadcast of the Club America-Morelia match, it made TUDN the No. 1 sports network in prime on Sunday among total viewers.

FOX Deportes also saw a drop in viewership for their one Liga MX Semifinal broadcast this Apertura from 825,000 viewers for Monterrey’s home match against Cruz Azul last year to 657,000 for Monterrey’s home match against Necaxa this year.

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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 it the most-watched Liga MX Femenil match in so far in 2019. The second leg should continue to see strong numbers, coming just before Saturday’s Liga MX Liguilla semifinals on TUDN.

NBC’s broadcast of Southampton’s 2-1 victory over Watford was the third least-watched Premier League on the network in the 2019-2020 season to this point. It was, however, the most-viewed of the three NBC broadcasts that did not feature at least one of England’s “Big Six” clubs. Matches involving at least one of the “Big Six” have averaged 744,143 viewers on NBC, while matches involving two of the “Big Six” are averaging 944,500. The three NBC broadcasts so far to feature none of the “Big Six” clubs have averaged just 570,667 viewers.

Mexico’s late collapse against Brazil in the final of the U-17 World Cup was watched by 1.45 million viewers on Telemundo, bringing the tournament’s average audience on the network to 426,909 viewers from eleven matches. Telemundo’s five broadcasts of the Mexican U-17 side averaged 672,400 viewers.

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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 is down massively from the 2016 Final, which also featured Seattle and Toronto and drew 1.411 million viewers on FOX. Plus, the viewing figure on ABC is down almost 50% compared to last year’s final on FOX. In better news, the Canadian broadcast on TSN averaged 748,000 viewers on a channel that’s only in 8 million homes.

Telemundo and the Under-17 Mexican National Team continue earning very impressive numbers for the FIFA U17 World Cup in Brazil. Through the tournament’s quarter-finals, matches involving Mexico are averaging 317,000 viewers across Telemundo and Universo. This goes up to 493,000 for when limiting to matches broadcast on Telemundo.

Liverpool’s 3-1 victory over Manchester City last Sunday was the seventh Premier League match to draw a combined audience larger than 1 million viewers this season, and is the most-watched Premier League match of the year on Telemundo with 402,000 viewers. It is also the most-watched match on NBCSN since Arsenal and Spurs played on September 1.

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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 Deportes. After ten broadcasts, the 2019 Major League Soccer playoffs averaged 260,900 viewers on English-language cable.

Telemundo’s coverage of the 2019 FIFA U17 World Cup is scoring impressive numbers, averaging 255,000 viewers through the broadcast networks first 6 group stage matches. Mexico’s 8-0 demolition of the Solomon Islands averaged a very impressive 430,000 viewers on Telemundo, the largest audience for a match on Telemundo since the Copa América.

Univision’s broadcast of Santos Laguna’s 2-1 victory over Club América averaged 1.2 million viewers, becoming the eighth Liga MX broadcast on Univision to break 1 million viewers in the 2019 Apertura and the 26th in calendar year 2019.

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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 2019 MLS Western Conference Semi-Final between Los Angeles FC and Los Angeles Galaxy on ESPN averaged 586,000 viewers, making it the most-watched MLS Cup Playoff match on English-language cable since at least 2012. Overall, the MLS Conference Semi-Final’s averaged 292,250 viewers across ESPN, ESPN2 and FS1, up 22% from both legs of the Conference Semi-Finals last year and up 50% from the opening round of the playoffs this season.

Also, on ESPN, the National Women’s Soccer League Championship was watched by 166,000 viewers, the largest audience for the Championship since the Western New York Flash defeated the Washington Spirit on penalties to win the 2016 Championship. That match aired on FOX Sports 1 and drew 180,000 viewers.