Sports Ratings Tracker

Saturday’s UEFA Champions League Final, won by Paris-Saint Germain over Arsenal, averaged 3.09 million viewers on CBS — up 51% from last year (PSG-Inter Milan: 2.04M) — and the largest audience on record for a club soccer match of any kind on English-language television.

PSG’s win, which peaked with 3.93 million, surpassed the previous English-language high for a UCL final — 2.76 million for Real Madrid-Liverpool on CBS in 2022.

Note that changes in Nielsen methodology skew comparisons to past years, particularly those prior to 2020, when the company began including out-of-home viewing in its estimates for the first time.

The full UCL season on CBS averaged 1.71 million viewers, up 39% from last year.

Spanish-language coverage of last weekend’s UEFA Champions League Final averaged 1.1 million viewers on Univision, down from last year’s 1.3 million. Paris Saint-German won in a 5-0 rout of Inter Milan.

Figures for English-language coverage on CBS were previously reported here.

Saturday’s UEFA Champions League final between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan averaged 2.04 million viewers on CBS, down 12% from Real Madrid-Borussia Dortmund last year (2.32M) and the least-watched final on a Nielsen-measured English-language network since 2019 — when coverage aired on TNT and averaged 1.51 million.

PSG’s historic blowout still ranks seventh among UCL finals on English-language television, with five of those coming since the event began airing on CBS in 2021. (Keep in mind that period coincides with the addition of out-of-home viewing to Nielsen’s viewership estimates.)

Figures for Spanish-language coverage on Univision were not immediately available.

Tuesday’s second leg of the Inter Milan-Barcelona UEFA Champions League semifinal averaged 1.28 million viewers on CBS, making it the most-watched UCL semifinal ever on U.S. English-language TV.

On Wednesday, the second leg between Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal averaged 965,000 — down from Real Madrid-Bayern Munich last year (1.04M).

The four semifinal matches averaged 1.06 million viewers on CBS, up 4% from last year and a new record for the round on English-language TV.

The first leg of the Barcelona-Inter Milan UEFA Champions League semifinal averaged 971,000 viewers on CBS last Wednesday, up sharply from Dortmund-Paris St. Germain last year (782K). The previous day, the first leg of Arsenal-PSG averaged 938,000, down from Bayern Munich-Real Madrid a year ago (958K).