2018 World Cup: the final watched by at least 162.7 million viewers in 20 countries around the world

France - Croatia (4-2), the final of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, drew nearly 162.7 million viewers in 20 countries around the world, on 15/07/2018, according to Eurodata TV Worldwide, an international division of the audience measurement institute Médiamétrie, on 16/07/2018.

The final was watched by nearly 106.7 million viewers in 19 European countries (see details of the countries and TV channels concerned below).

• In France, the match also drew 1 million viewers on the pay-TV channel beIN Sports 1 (audience not taken into account by Eurodata TV Worldwide).
• In Croatia, the final of the 2018 World Cup was watched by nearly 1.55 million viewers on the public-TV channel HTV2.
  • Audience share: 89.3%

TV audiences from 20 countries for the 2018 World Cup final, according to Eurodata TV Worldwide

"Major sports events are the only shows capable of gathering such large audiences in front of a TV set" (Y. Berhoun, Eurodata TV Worldwide)

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