DFB-Pokal: the 2015 final, Borussia Dortmund - Wolfsburg, draws 11.97 million viewers for ARD

Borussia Dortmund - VfL Wolfsburg (1-3), the 2014-15 final of the DFB-Pokal, broadcast live in Germany on Das Erste (ARD), saw the German public broadcaster draw 11.97 million viewers on average during the match (kick-off at 20:00 CET, at the Olympiastadion in Berlin) on Saturday 30/05/2015.

This score represents a 40.7% audience share and means ARD achieved the best performance in the German TV market for the entire day. The audience of the 2014-15 final of the German national cup is 16.1% lower than the 2014 edition (Borussia Dortmund - FC Bayern Munich, 0-2), which drew a record figure of 14.25 million viewers on average on ARD (audience share 48%).

• 360,000 subscribers also followed the match live in Germany on the pay-TV channel Sky Sport 1 (audience share across all German channels: 1.2%).
• In Germany, the 2012-2016 free-to-air audiovisual rights to the DFB-Pokal are held exclusively by the public broadcaster ARD.
  
  • In the previous cycle, ARD and ZDF would broadcast the final and the competition on alternate years.