Coupe de France: FC Sochaux - Marseille draws 498,000 viewers in record audience for Eurosport 2

FC Sochaux-Montbéliard - Olympique de Marseille (0-1), the second semi-final of the 2015-16 Coupe de France, drew 498,000 viewers on average in France on the pay-TV channel Eurosport 2 on Wednesday 20/04/2016 (kick-off 21:00 CET).

This is a record audience for the Eurosport 2 channel, which launched in France in 2005. It is also the best audience level recorded by the Eurosport France division in over 15 months: on Friday 04/01/2015 an average of 522,000 viewers watched the Round of 64 Coupe de France match between Grenoble Foot 38 (CFA, French fourth division) and Olympique de Marseille (Ligue 1) (3-3, 5-4 on pens) on Eurosport.

The cup semi-final between FC Sochaux-Montbéliard (Ligue 2) and Olympique Marseille (Ligue 1) recorded a peak audience of 579,000 viewers at the end of the first half (around 21:45 CET). The audience share of the game was not disclosed.

• In France, Eurosport channels are only available to subscribers of CanalSat and the pay-OTT platform Eurosport Player.

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