First U.S. Ladies’s World Cup match attracts mixed viewers of 6.26 million on Fox, Telemundo

LOS ANGELES — America’ 3-0 victory over Vietnam within the Ladies’s World Cup drew 6.26 million viewers, making it the most-watched soccer telecast within the U.S. since final yr’s males’s World Cup last.

It’s also the most important mixed English- and Spanish-language viewers for a U.S. ladies’s group stage match.

Saturday afternoon’s match in Auckland, New Zealand — which kicked off at 9 p.m. EDT Friday evening — averaged 5,261,000 viewers on Fox, making it the second-most watched group stage telecast since Fox began overlaying it in 2015. Fox and Nielsen mentioned the viewers peaked at 6.5 million for the ultimate quarter-hour.

The biggest Ladies’s World Cup group stage broadcast on Fox stays the 2019 U.S.-Chile match, which averaged 5,337,000.

Fox and Nielsen mentioned it’s a 99% improve over the primary U.S. group stage match 4 years in the past in France in opposition to Thailand, which began at 2:30 p.m. EDT.

The Spanish-language viewers of 1 million throughout Telemundo, Peacock, Universo and Telemundo streaming platforms was the most-watched for a group-stage match and was surpassed solely by the 2015 and ’19 last. The Spanish viewers was additionally practically double what it was for the 2019 Thailand match.

Telemundo is a division of Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal.

The full viewers numbers additionally embody 307,831 who watched through streaming on English- and Spanish-language streaming.

The subsequent U.S. match is Wednesday evening in opposition to the Netherlands.

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