Attendance at stadiums on the first day of the World Cup group stage reached an average occupancy of 94% of available seats, as reported by FIFA. In these first 16 games, more than three million seats were sold.
The attendance record for this first day was given to the Brazil-Serbia match, which had 88,103 spectators in the Lusail stand, which has an official capacity for 88,966 fans.
In the said statement, the top soccer team in the world emphasized the data registered by the television viewers of the tournament, noting for example that the opening match between Qatar and Ecuador increased the viewership of the opening match with respect to the last two Worlds. Cups, in the respective countries that held said meeting, at more than 100%.
The said clash had an average global audience of 24.36 million viewers, 6% higher than the Russia-Arabia match that opened the 2018 World Cup and had 22.86 million television viewers.
Source: La Verdad
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