The final of the World Cup in Qatar played this Sunday between Argentina was the second most watched in history because audience data is available. As the specialist website vertele advanced, the match between the albiceleste and the ‘bleu’ team featured a common audience in its first 90 minutes, between La 1 and Gol Mundial, of 9,774,000 viewers, with an audience share of 62.2%.
These numbers have increased to extension until 11,994,000 viewers and 70.9%, while the batch of penalties broke the bar of 13 million viewers. In particular, it reaches 13,005,000, with a share of 74.3%.
Because audience data was used (the first available was from 1994), it was the second most watched final in history, it was only surpassed by Spain against the Netherlands in 2010.
This is relation of all these endings.
1994: Brazil-Italy (La 1): 71% and 8,401,000
1998: Brazil-France (La 1): 67.6% and 7,892,000
2002: Germany-Brazil (Antenna 3): 71.7% and 6,853,000
2006: Italy-France (laSexta and Cuatro): 58.2% and 6,696,000
2010: Netherlands-Spain (Telecinco, Canal+ Liga, Canal+): 82.9% and 13,933,000
2018: France-Croatia (Telecinco): 57.3% and 8,247,000
2022: Argentina-France (La 1 and World Goal): 62.2% and 9,774,000.
The detailed data from yesterday’s hearing, always according to the aforementioned portal, are the following:
The 1:
Party, 57.8%, 9,082,000
Extension, 66.2%, 11,214,000
Penalties, 69.7%, 12,207,000
World Goals:
Party, 4.4%, 693,000
Extension, 4.7%, 781,000
Penalties, 4.6%, 798,000
global data
Party, 62.2%, 9,774,000
Extension, 70.9%, 11,994,000
Penatlis, 74.3% 13,005,000
The golden minute, set at 18:54, gathered before the small screen, only on La 1, on 12,493,850 viewers, representing a 70.8% share.
In Franceand despite the loss, the final also registered an audience historical. The data indicate that it was followed by 24.08 million of fans by TF1, who described this figure as “historic”. The record, until now, is held by Portugal-France in the semifinals of the 2006 World Cup, which had an audience of 22.2 million viewers.
Source: La Verdad
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