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, […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]