2022 World Cup qualifiers: 6.1 million viewers for Italy - Northern Ireland on RAI

Italy - Northern Ireland (2-0), the Italian national team's first qualifying match for the 2022 World Cup, drew an average of 6.129 million viewers on the Italian public TV channel RAI 1, on Thursday 25/03/2021 (kick-off at 20:45 CET).

This figure represented an audience share of 22.6%, which ranked the Italian public TV channel first in the Italian audiovisual market at prime time on 25/03/2021.

The public audiovisual group RAI acquired the broadcasting rights to matches of the Italian national team (Euro 2020 qualifiers, 2022 World Cup qualifiers, Nations League and friendlies) for the 2018-2022 cycle on 25/01/2018.

Please find below after each match of the Italian national team, the TV audiences of the 'Squadra Azzurra' in Italy, according to data recorded by News Tank Football since 03/09/2015.

• Italy (Group C) will next face Bulgaria on Sunday 28/03/2021 (kick-off at 20:45 CET Central European Time ) and Lithuania on Wednesday 31/03/2021 (kick-off at 20:45), for their second and third 2022 World Cup qualifiers.

TV audiences of the Italian national team since 03/09/2015