DFB-Pokal: 13.79 million viewers for the 2015-16 final on ARD (audience share: 49.2%)

FC Bayern Munich - Borussia Dortmund (0-0, Bayern won 4-3 on penalties), the final of the 2015-16 DFB-Pokal, drew an average of 13.79 million viewers in Germany on the public television channel ARD on Saturday 21/05/2016, at 20:00 CET.

This figure represented an audience share of 49.2%, and enabled ARD to achieve the best performance of the day in the German TV market. This is a bigger audience the 2015 DFB-Pokal, Borussia Dortmund - VfL Wolfsburg (1-3) which drew an average of 11.97 million viewers on ARD, on 30/05/2015.

In addition, an average of 310,000 viewers followed the 2016 final on Sky Deutschland.

This is a record audience for football on German television since the 2014 World Cup, which recorded ratings of over at least 18 million viewers for German national team matches, which then peaked for the the World Cup final, Germany - Argentina (1-0 a.e.t. on 13/07/2014), which allowed ARD (Das Erste) to establish not only its best audience of 2014, but also the highest television rating ever recorded in Germany with 34.65 million viewers on average during the match and an…