Sky Deutschland: first 17 matchdays of the 2015-16 Bundesliga draw 61.5 million total subscribers

All nine games of Matchday 17 of the 2015-16 Bundesliga, played from 18 to 20/12/2015, cumulatively drew at least 3.46 million subscribers on average on the channels of the Sky Deutschland pay-TV group, according to data from the German institutes of audience measurement AGF and GfK. This brings the number of cumulative viewers to 61.46 million for 153 matches of the first half of the Bundesliga season on Sky antennas.

The best audience for Matchday 17 was for Hannover 96 - FC Bayern Munich (0-1), which drew 673,000 subscribers on average on Sky Bundesliga HD 3 on Saturday, 19/12/2015 (15:30 CET). The lowest audience of the weekend was for FC Ingolstadt - Bayer 04 Leverkusen (0-1), which drew 22,500 subscribers on average on Sky Bundesliga HD 6, at the same time as the Hannover - Bayern match.

At mid-season, Bayern Munich dominate the cumulative audience ranking, having drawn 14.8 million subscribers on Sky Deutschland since 14/08/2015, the opening of the 2015-16 season (24.1% of total subscribers). This is nearly 2.5 million subscribers and 20% more than the second club, Borussia…