NWSL: San Diego Wave FC says Snapdragon Stadium is sold out for the big Sept. 17 clash against Angel City. The capacity for soccer is roughly 32,000, which will be a new #NWSL record.— Jeff Kassouf (@JeffKassouf) September 1, 2022
Telemundo report on the future of soccer in the US: Telemundo study “The Future is Fútbol” shows that among U.S. Latinos ages 16 and older, 73% say they are soccer fans. @Telemundo, the exclusive Spanish-language home of FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™. ➡️ https://t.co/0dHfDybeRY #MundialTelemundo pic.twitter.com/9k72WEXnHR— NBC Sports Soccer (@NBCSportsSoccer) September 8, 2022 http://online.flipbuilder.com/telemundo/lqcw/
MLS Cup ratings: Viewership numbers for MLS Cup starting to roll in ...Overall: 2.155 million(2nd highest in cup history behind 2.217m in 1997)Fox: 1.487m (2nd best on Fox behind 1.571m in 2018) Univision: 668k (2nd best on a Spanish outlet behind 678k in 2014) More to come ...— Steven Goff (@SoccerInsider) November 8, 2022 Of Fox's viewership of MLS Cup, 43 percent were in the 18-49-year-old demographic, which advertisers covet. World Series is about 30 percent, NFL around 35.— Steven Goff (@SoccerInsider) November 8, 2022
Jaime Ojeda @jaimeor96 Number of viewers [in US] on TV for the soccer finals this year, according to @Nielsen 5,361m - UCL (CBS/Univ) 2,495m - LMX AL2 (Univ) 2,155m - MLS (FOX/Univ) 2,137m - LMX AL1 (Univ) 0,915m - NWSL (CBS) #MLS multiplied 2.3x to #NWSL and was in the range of #LigaMX. Very good.
I wouldn't say that the NHL has declined in popularity so much as it is much more of a local market sport at this juncture. The NHL also has a very good combined media rights deal currently.
How many kids are playing it and how much media play does it get vs how much $$$ those players are earning?
t's on TNT and ESPN 3-4 nights a week. Once the NFL season has concluded it will also be shown on ABC on weekends. The combined deal is worth north of $600M/year. With Turner paying $225M annually and ESPN paying $400M annually. According to USA Hockey: https://www.usahockey.com/membershipstats In 2021-2022: 547K which is an increase of ~100K from the year prior.
The NHL is not declining in popularity. The average revenue for an NHL team has more than doubled from 2005-2019, from $75 million to $164 million.
Ratings for this year's WC opener: Fox says its #USMNT vs. Wales broadcast drew 8,306,000 viewers, of which 563,000 watched through Fox's streaming platform.The peak viewership was 9,434,000 toward the end of the game.Top 5 ratings markets:1. Austin2. Cincinnati3. Dallas4. San Diego5. Philadelphia— Jonathan Tannenwald (@thegoalkeeper) November 22, 2022 Telemundo says:- 3.2 million viewers across all of its platforms for #USMNT vs. Wales- 1.0 million were via streaming, including Peacock- Telemundo beat Fox in Miami (which isn't too surprising)- 1.2m total for England-Iran, 1.9m total for Senegal-Netherlands— Jonathan Tannenwald (@thegoalkeeper) November 23, 2022
Ratings for the US-England game: https://deadline.com/2022/11/world-cup-ratings-usa-vs-england-fox-telemundo-1235182094/ The United States went head-to-head with England on Friday in a historic World Cup match that drew 15.4M viewers for Fox. The current record holder is still the USA’s 2-2 draw against Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal in 2014, which was watched by 24.7M people. Another 4.6M tuned in via Telemundo Deportes’ Spanish-language coverage of the match on Telemundo, Peacock and digital platforms. That’s the second most-watched World Cup Group Stage Match featuring a U.S. team in Spanish-language history — up 33% for the U.S.’ first match against Wales.
A bit of context on the USA-England ratings: England-USA on Friday had more U.S. viewers than all but one World Series game over the past five years (2019 Game 7 had more) despite it kicking off in the morning in half the country— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) November 27, 2022 20 years ago, the most-watched soccer match in U.S. history was the 1999 women's World Cup final. 17.9 million people watched it. Every game of the 1999 World Series had more viewers.https://t.co/bqSfpQl3kB— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) November 27, 2022 USA-Wales had more viewers than 13 of the last 18 World Series games.https://t.co/DxIOKmq23Y— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) November 27, 2022 More than any NBA Finals game since 2019 games six and seven. It was a good number for the world cup.— Garrett Gordon (@GarrettGordon) November 27, 2022
Morning Brew @MorningBrew Yesterday, S&P 500 trading fell below its 10-day average as investors ditched their Bloomberg Terminals for a soccer match. This has happened before. When the USMNT was playing in the 2010 World Cup, US equities trading plunged 43%.
Ratings for this past weekend: L W Johnson @HelltownBeer Round of 16 viewership numbers, Sat and Sun: 13.6m Netherlands v USA (FOX) 5.5m Argentina v Roos (FOX) 2.6m England v Senegal (FS1) 2.5m France v Poland (FS1) Telemundo 2.3m England v Senegal 2.2m Argentina v Roos 2.1m Netherlands v USA 2.0m France v Poland
More minutes watched than NCAA March Madness: World Cup: 43.48 billion minutes viewed on FOX/FS1/TEL/UVSO through the quarterfinalsMarch Madness: 42.44 billion minutes viewed on CBS/TNT/TBS/TRU for the entire tournamentTotals according to Nielsen— Michael Mulvihill (@mulvihill79) December 14, 2022
If I did my arithmetic right, there are 56 games through the quarterfinals of the WC. There are 67 (?) for the NCAA tournament in total? So, yeah, pretty good.
TV ratings for the WC Final: World Cup final match, US viewership: 22.3 millionFox 16.8 millionTelemundo 5.5 millionAll sports: https://t.co/c8pf3qgeZk— Steven Goff (@SoccerInsider) December 20, 2022
Some history on the ratings: Partidos de Mundial con más audiencia histórica en TV 🇺🇸 (en millones):26,5m - Final 2014 (🇩🇪/🇦🇷)25,2m - 🇺🇸/🇵🇹 (GS 2014)24,9m - 🇺🇸/🇧🇪 (R16 2014)24,3m - Final 2010 (🇳🇱/🇪🇸)22,3m - Final 2022 (🇦🇷/🇫🇷)18,7m - 🇺🇸/🏴 (GS 2022)19,4m - 🇺🇸/🇬🇭 (R16 2010)19,0m - 🇺🇸/🇬🇭 (GS 2014)— Jaime Ojeda (@jaimeor96) December 20, 2022
WC finals vs. World Series: Audiencia en TV 🇺🇸World Cup Final vs. World Series:1994 ⚽️18,1m ⚾️CXLD1998 ⚽️12,9m ⚾️20,3m2002 ⚽️11,1m ⚾️19,3m2006 ⚽️17,0m ⚾️15,8m2010 ⚽️24,3m ⚾️14,3m2014 ⚽️26,5m ⚾️13,5m2018 ⚽️17,4m ⚾️14,3m2022 ⚽️22,3m ⚾️11,8mEl soccer superó al béisbol en USA🇺🇸📺📈 #Qatar2022 #MLB— Jaime Ojeda (@jaimeor96) December 20, 2022
The young'uns like soccer: Paul Kennedy @pkedit The most important number regarding Sunday’s sports viewerships is this: In the 18-49 demographic, the one advertisers most covet, World Cup final drew 10.2 million viewers on Fox & Telemundo. The most-watched NFL game in same demo: only 6.4 million. https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/skedball-weekly-sports-tv-ratings-12-12-12-18-2022.html
Tannenwald usually does the best job of capturing all the various modes of viewership: Fox's initial viewership total for the World Cup final across all platforms is 16,783,000.Telemundo's is 9,000,000.Pending more specifics (which I expect), the total is:25,783,000.The No. 3 all-time soccer broadcast audience in U.S. history.https://t.co/GB5PXy6BsB pic.twitter.com/LdklIlfXO6— Jonathan Tannenwald (@thegoalkeeper) December 20, 2022
Expect a lot more records in the "Messi era." The Messi Effect:In 24 hours, Inter Miami has gone from 1 million to more than 5 million Instagram followers.More than any NFL, MLB, NHL, or MLS team. pic.twitter.com/TAzURq80ki— Front Office Sports (@FOS) June 8, 2023
If USSF wants to grow the game even more then they need to probably not have so many matches on subscription streaming services. I mean, I have Paramount+ but it's pretty ridiculous you can't turn on one of MANY sports channels that are part of nearly every cable package to watch the matches. I mean I suppose UNI is part of most, and I actually enjoy the spanish broadcasts, but the average kid can't just be flipping channels and watch a match.