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 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 […]

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 […]

During the past week, Liga MX and the English Premier League have been monopolizing the headlines with their record TV ratings as can be evidenced below. Elsewhere, the English Championship had their best numbers of the season with several of the playoffs producing decent viewing figures. The anticipation is now building for the Championship Playoff […]

It was another huge weekend for European soccer on US television last weekend as many do-or-die matches were shown live across the country. Not surprisingly, there were big numbers for the Premier League and La Liga. But the Bundesliga also served up a decent number for a game shown live on the over-the-air FOX network, […]

Out of the 40 soccer games shown live across US television last weekend, the Premier League game between Manchester United and Leicester scored the most number of viewers, almost breaking the 1 million number, for the game that was shown on NBCSN. The match was also televised live on Telemundo but those viewing numbers aren't […]

It was a more interesting weekend than usual in terms of soccer TV ratings as the FA Cup returned to the airwaves as Everton-Manchester United and Crystal Palace-Watford battled to try to win their way to the final. Unfortunately for most viewers, the games were pushed to FOX Sports 2, so the lackluster TV ratings […]

The viewing figures are in for the soccer matches on US television from the weekend of April 15-18 where Chelsea against Manchester City was the biggest draw, netting almost 900,000 viewers across NBCSN and NBC Universo. Also impressive was the viewing figure of 676,000 who tuned in to watch Barcelona lose to Valencia on beIN […]

With the Premier League season heating up as well as the increasing interest in the ever popular US Women's National Team, TV ratings for soccer in the United States were better than usual last weekend. Specifically, some very interesting numbers included more people watching Sunderland versus Leicester than West Ham United against Arsenal. Who would […]

Not surprisingly, last weekend's el Clasico between Barcelona and Real Madrid ruled the roost in terms of the most number of viewers tuning in to watch a soccer match on US television. The impressive number was fewer than last spring's el Clasico, but that may possibly have something to do with the decision by the […]

The viewing figures are in for all of the soccer games shown on US TV from last weekend, and there are certainly some revealing numbers. The Manchester derby led the way with the most number of viewers. NBC's broadcast of the game was certainly helped by the United Kingdom not switching to Daylight Savings Time […]

Last weekend's US TV viewing numbers for soccer matches featured a record-breaking 2,900,000 people that watched the Super Clasico between Chivas and Club America on Univision and Univision Deportes. The game ranks as the most-watched regular season club soccer match since 2010, and outperformed the NBA on ESPN and NHL on NBC for the current […]

The viewing figures for last weekend's soccer games on TV were more varied than usual given the return of MLS. Plus there was the last minute switch by FOX Sports to move the biggest Bundesliga game of the season, between Dortmund and Bayern Munich, from FOX Soccer Plus to FX. So how did all of […]

Of the soccer games shown live on US cable and satellite channels last weekend, seven of the top 10 most-watched games were televised on NBCSN. Six of them were Premier League matches, while the seventh was the Olympic qualifying game between the United States and Mexico women's teams. It was an exceedingly good Sunday morning […]