Canada 2015: Canada - England quarter-final draws 1.3m TV viewers in the UK, record 3.2m in Canada

The 2015 Women's World Cup Canada - England quarter-final match (1-2, at BC Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, CAN) on Saturday 27/06/2015 (kick-off at 16:30 local time, 00:30 GMT Sunday morning) drew 1.3 million and 3.2 million TV viewers on average in the United Kingdom and Canada, respectively.

In the UK, the match was broadcast on the public TV channel the BBC1, which, including a 30-minute programme preceding the match, drew the aforementioned 1.3 million viewers on average from 00:01 to 02:25 GMT. This mark represents an audience share of 27.6% in the UK TV market. The match drew a peak TV audience of 1.6m viewers at 00:45 GMT.

In the host country, the match drew 3.2 million viewers on average combined in Canada on the free-TV channel CTV (in English) and the pay-TV channel RDS (in French, province of Quebec only). This is, again, a new record for a women's football match Canada, topping the previous Round of 16 match of the Canadian women's national team in the tournament (see below).

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